Kusama live benchmarks

kusama.network

Polkadot canary relay chain providing a fast-paced environment for experimentation with parachain slots, shared security and on-chain governance before features graduate to Polkadot mainnet. Below, every OpenChainBench measurement that touches Kusama, grouped by category, with a direct link to the chain scoped bench page when one exists.

RPC

Fastest public RPC on Kusama

Fastest · 24h p50

OnFinality

51 ms

3 live providers measured

US East

OnFinality

51 ms

EU West

OnFinality

52 ms

Singapore

OnFinality

50 ms

The fastest public RPC endpoint on Kusama right now is OnFinality at 51 ms p50 over the last 24 hours, counting successful calls only, across 3 live providers measured from 3 probe regions.

Full Kusama RPC benchmarkData as of 2026-08-12 00:11 UTC

Every metric is reproducible from the methodology and the open harness source. Numbers refresh within 60 seconds of each measurement.