{"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":38.2536,"leader":{"name":"Story Foundation","slug":"story-official","value":38.2536},"rankings":[{"name":"Story Foundation","slug":"story-official","ms":{"p50":38.2536,"p90":47.1792,"p99":72.9357,"mean":40.0387},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4315.77},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":50.8148,"p90":66.3394,"p99":181.086,"mean":58.8383},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.77},{"name":"Ankr","slug":"ankr","ms":{"p50":93.053,"p90":121.624,"p99":262.868,"mean":90.5695},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4320.77},{"name":"Stakely","slug":"stakely","ms":{"p50":274.13,"p90":493.722,"p99":1340.93,"mean":340.715},"successRate":93.50500000000001,"sampleSize":4311.77}],"sparkline":[43.6945,44.758,44.4128,45.612,51.8152,52.0156,52.5786,47.1096,47.1338,45.4242,44.3734,42.2854,41.5826,40.3662,40.9485,41.3746,41.3826,40.4649,39.8711,40.0396,41.5954,41.0025,41.303,40.0862,40.2255,40.1154,40.7988,41.3558,41.4584,41.6753,41.681,42.0361,41.8511,42.0192,41.5054,41.0183,41.0335,41.5117,41.6485,41.8189,41.414,42.2392,42.0195,41.8429,42.7043,41.5605,40.4038,36.9286,36.1104,35.932,36.0305,36.0366,36.0394,36.193,36.2635,35.8778,35.408,35.4889,35.2188,35.0397,34.8444,35.0267,35.3816,34.9919,35.0564,34.8474,35.1424,35.4509,35.8799,36.1552,36.4111,36.7959,36.9286],"sampleSize":17265.08,"asOf":"2026-09-18T03:40:32.737Z","headline":"Story Foundation posts the lowest rpc latency at 38 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency.","quote":"Story Foundation posts the lowest rpc latency at 38 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 2026-09-18. 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 2026-09-18}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Retrieved September 18, 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  - 2026-09-18\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"}