What is the lowest latency Solana data feed available?

A raw shred feed, which observes transactions during the slot they land in. The only thing faster is being the leader validator yourself.

Is Geyser gRPC low latency?

Relative to an RPC websocket, yes — typically 80–120 ms against 200–400 ms. Relative to shreds, no, because it taps after the validator has processed the entry.

How much does low-latency Solana data cost?

Dedicated RPC nodes run a few hundred dollars a month, commercial gRPC endpoints several hundred to a couple of thousand, and our shred feed is 0.3 SOL per day — 8.55 SOL monthly or 97.2 SOL yearly, with no metering.

Comparison

Low-latency Solana data, compared

Five ways to get Solana data, ordered by how close they sit to the wire. Pick the cheapest one that is fast enough, not the fastest one you can afford.

The five options

Every Solana data product is one of these. The differences in marketing are large; the differences in architecture are what determine your latency.

Option	Lag	Monthly cost	You operate
Public RPC	300–800 ms	Free	An HTTP client
Dedicated RPC node	200–400 ms	$250–1,000	An HTTP/WS client
Geyser / Yellowstone gRPC	80–120 ms	$500–2,000	A gRPC client
ShredStream (UDP)	~1 ms	8.55 SOL	A UDP socket
Your own validator	~1 ms	Stake + hardware + staff	Everything

Choosing honestly

If you are being rate limited, buy a dedicated node. That is the highest-return change available and it costs a fraction of anything else here.

If you need decoded account and transaction updates and can live with roughly a tenth of a second, buy gRPC. It is the most productive developer experience of the five and there is no shame in it being fast enough.

If you lose races by milliseconds and have measured that the loss is in your data path, move to shreds. If you are not sure, do not — buy a day of it and find out before buying a year.

If you need shred-level latency and also need to submit transactions as leader, run a validator. It is the only option that beats a shred feed, and it costs incomparably more.

Why the physical location still decides it

Software cannot beat the speed of light in fibre. New York to Frankfurt is roughly 40 milliseconds round trip on a good path — larger than every processing step in a well-built pipeline combined.

This is why we run in exactly two places, and why they are the two they are. Solana's stake concentrates in a small number of metros, and being cross-connected inside them is the part of the latency budget you cannot recover in code.

What we sell, precisely

Raw shreds over UDP from New York and Frankfurt, pushed to an IP and port you control. Full FEC sets, nothing sampled or filtered, no rate limits, flat daily pricing. You give us a socket; we give you the wire.

0.3 SOL per day. 8.55 SOL for a month, five percent off. 97.2 SOL for a year, ten percent off. Terms stack rather than overlap, so renewing early never costs you a day.

Frequently asked

What is the lowest latency Solana data feed available?: A raw shred feed, which observes transactions during the slot they land in. The only thing faster is being the leader validator yourself.
Is Geyser gRPC low latency?: Relative to an RPC websocket, yes — typically 80–120 ms against 200–400 ms. Relative to shreds, no, because it taps after the validator has processed the entry.
How much does low-latency Solana data cost?: Dedicated RPC nodes run a few hundred dollars a month, commercial gRPC endpoints several hundred to a couple of thousand, and our shred feed is 0.3 SOL per day — 8.55 SOL monthly or 97.2 SOL yearly, with no metering.

Measure it against your own bot

Twenty-four hours of raw shreds from New York and Frankfurt for 0.3 SOL. All we need is an IP and a port.

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