Fastest free Story RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency
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.
TL;DR. As of , 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.
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Story is a purpose-built L1 blockchain (chain 1514) for on-chain intellectual property, combining an EVM execution layer with CometBFT consensus, IP asset primitives (PIL licensing, royalty modules), and native IP NFT support. Backed by a16z, Polychain Capital, and Samsung NEXT, Story mainnet launched February 2025. The 2026-08-04 audit confirms 4 clean keyless providers: the Story Foundation official endpoint (mainnet.storyrpc.io), Ankr (rpc.ankr.com/story_mainnet), Stakely (story-json-rpc.stakely.io), and PublicNode (story-rpc.publicnode.com). Excluded: Alchemy (key required), Infura (no story route), QuickNode (key required).
Methodology
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to Story. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical JSON-RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)`) against every no-key public Story endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 4 providers measured, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The harness classifies every response (ok / http_err / jsonrpc_err / stale / timeout) with a Story-scaled staleness gap (20 blocks at Story's ~2 s block time). The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the Story-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free Story RPC right now?
Ankr currently leads at 70 ms (`eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` p50 over the last 24h), measured against 4 no-key providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples. Use the region tabs to see the leader from the origin closest to your deployment.
Which Story RPCs work without an API key?
4 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing: Story Foundation (https://mainnet.storyrpc.io), Ankr (https://rpc.ankr.com/story_mainnet), Stakely (https://story-json-rpc.stakely.io), and PublicNode (https://story-rpc.publicnode.com). Every listed endpoint was live-verified with a `eth_getBlockByNumber` POST returning a parsable response before inclusion.
Does the fastest Story RPC change by region?
Often. Public infra concentrates in specific regions; a gateway that wins from Amsterdam can lose from Singapore by multiples. The region tabs at the top of the page re-scope every number to a single origin; pick the one closest to where your requests originate.
How is Story RPC latency measured here, technically?
One identical `eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` POST every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions, using the same plain HTTP client the rest of the RPC cluster uses. Wall-clock round-trip is recorded at millisecond precision; p50/p90/p99 are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over 24 hours. Responses are classified (`ok` / `http_err` / `jsonrpc_err` / `stale` / `timeout`) so an endpoint stuck on an old head or returning errors behind HTTP 200 is never ranked as fastest.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities