{"slug":"story-rpc","title":"Story RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)` method against every free, no-key public Story EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":35.9826,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":35.9826},"leaders":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":35.9826}],"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":35.9826,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":35.9826,"p90":68.6597,"p99":118.088,"mean":46.0952},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4322.75},{"name":"Story Foundation","slug":"story-official","value":38.8681,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":38.8681,"p90":48.8085,"p99":72.8794,"mean":42.6705},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4314.75},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":68.2756,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":68.2756,"p90":117.617,"p99":364.005,"mean":83.9904},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4314.75},{"name":"Stakely","slug":"stakely","value":209.338,"unit":"ms","ms":{"p50":209.338,"p90":305.283,"p99":743.811,"mean":235.391},"successRate":99.9536,"sampleSize":4312.75}],"sparkline":[46.2573,49.9769,53.2327,48.1846,45.2922,45.0031,49.1872,51.8184,49.958,46.5277,41.8461,40.0407,40.9185,41.6962,44.4515,48.8533,47.8031,44.9072,40.5316,41.2806,40.1072,40.4375,40.3469,40.4186,40.0154,39.0811,39.811,39.1047,40.4353,40.0599,41.7172,43.5381,48.0787,50.0153,58.3979,57.3363,55.9353,49.2919,50.0859,52.2282,51.8934,53.2117,52.3223,53.1715,51.023,51.2505,52.1261,52.6245,54.9465,53.5872,52.9591,52.0061,48.5911,47.0201,43.6997,42.1893,40.7605,39.9988,41.1028,42.5066,40.953,39.7948,37.4084,39.0238,40.8546,41.5961,40.7215,42.9785,49.4074,54.083,51.4332,47.1628,45.8015],"sampleSize":17265,"asOf":"2026-11-02T10:05:21.097Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-02T10:05:21.097Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":4,"ranked":4,"headline":"Ankr has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Story RPC endpoints measured, 36 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"Ankr has the lowest median latency of the 4 free public Story RPC endpoints measured, 36 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Story RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-11-02. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_story_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Story RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-02}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Story RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Story RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-11-02\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/story-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities","methodology":["Cadence: every 60 seconds per provider, from each of 3 probe regions (us-east Virginia, eu-west Amsterdam, sgp Singapore). Headline p50/p90/p99 aggregate across all 3 regions via Prometheus `avg(quantile_over_time(...))`; per-region breakdowns are first-class on this page via the region tabs.","Payload: `{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"eth_getBlockByNumber\",\"params\":[\"latest\", false]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request. The request id rotates, but that does not guarantee a cache miss: many caches normalise `id` away. Measured 2026-10-08, fixed and rotating ids answer within 2 to 4 percent of each other.","Latency measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the Story-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"story\"`. Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}