{"slug":"story-rpc","title":"Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint 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":70.3333,"leader":{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","value":70.3333},"rankings":[{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":70.3333,"p90":89.1333,"p99":536,"mean":91.5759},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":705.611},{"name":"Story Foundation","slug":"story-official","ms":{"p50":76.6667,"p90":78.6667,"p99":94.6667,"mean":77.1973},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":691.602},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":239,"p90":600.2,"p99":750.333,"mean":327.018},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":465.604},{"name":"Stakely","slug":"stakely","ms":{"p50":368,"p90":945.333,"p99":1921.33,"mean":509.355},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":688.602}],"sparkline":[288.575,168.275,132.232,73.6311,73.9624,75.8379,79.4254,79.1292,80.0639,81.2792,82.1361,83.0243],"sampleSize":2551.419,"asOf":"2026-08-04T01:48:10.231Z","headline":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 70 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"Ankr leads rpc latency at 70 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-04. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_story_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-04}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved August 4, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/story-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-04\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. Non-cacheable by design: the rotating id defeats edge caches that would answer a bare head query without touching a node.","Latency: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms → 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: `ok` (HTTP 200 + non-empty result with a parsable hex block number), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err` (HTTP 200 carrying an error body), `stale` (more than 20 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities) benchmark; the identical harness, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"story\"`. Provider coverage: 4 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}