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Data Availability Layers

Data Availability Layers evaluated across a verifiable published cost per MB, what actually secures the data, live sampling and how long data stays retrievable, and the blast radius if it halts, with documented uptime.

Ranked here: data availability layers that secure a rollup's data and keep it retrievable, for anyone moving that data off Ethereum to cut costs. Not ranked here: products that are not data availability layers for rollup data moved off Ethereum.

#1 of 7published ranking
Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)
82ChainChoice Score
Why it leads
Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its published cost per mb and its das and retention.
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Best in this ranking on published cost per mb and das and retention
Cost
Not priced · No comparable price is published
Reviewed Next review by Published Methodology v2026.11.1
How this page is reviewed

Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.

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No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links carry a referral code, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking v2026.11.1 · 4 criteria · 7 products · same inputs, same order

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Data Availability Layers ranked comparison

No comparable price is published; ranking still uses verified product evidence.

RankProviderBest fitScore
1
Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)Native L1 blobspace, sampled since Fusa...Top ranked
Verifiable published cost per MB — 9/10Trade-off: 'As safe as Ethereum' is true for the attestation and false for the archive: consensu...
82score
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Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) · eips.ethereum.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

2
Ethereum L1 CalldataThe security ceiling: longest retention...
What actually secures the data — 10/10Trade-off: Almost nobody should pay this today, but it is the honest ceiling every 'as safe as E...
71score
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Ethereum L1 Calldata · eips.ethereum.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

3
CelestiaSovereign DA chain with light-client sa...
Verifiable published cost per MB — 7/10Trade-off: The 7-day light-node sampling window is shorter than Ethereum's ~18-day blob window,...
68score
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Celestia · celestia.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

4
Avail DASubstrate NPoS DA chain with KZG light-...
What actually secures the data — 5/10Trade-off: Avail is the only layer here that combines live light-client DAS with a completely un...
51score
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Avail DA · docs.availproject.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

5
EigenDARestaked-ETH DA from Eigen Labs, disper...
Verifiable published cost per MB — 4/10Trade-off: Three things compound against small rollups. Min blob size is 128 KiB, so a 4 KB batc...
46score
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EigenDA · docs.eigencloud.xyz. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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6
NEAR DABlob store on NEAR receipts, pruned fro...
Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime — 4/10Trade-off: Read the retention line literally: your rollup's data leaves NEAR consensus after rou...
41score
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NEAR DA · docs.near.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

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1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranking blindCommercial terms excludedDated primary sources

Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/30/25/15, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18 (constant here), ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.

How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
    Scored by What actually secures the data · 30% (Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) 9/10, Ethereum L1 Calldata 10/10, Celestia 6/10)
    Scored by Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable · 25% (Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) 8/10, Ethereum L1 Calldata 6/10, Celestia 6/10)
  • Liveness failure: the operator stops, censors you or loses data.
    Scored by Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime · 15% (Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) 9/10, Ethereum L1 Calldata 10/10, Celestia 7/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Verifiable published cost per MB (30%).
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.11.1
published 10 November 2026
Providers tracked
860+
across 121 categories
Last verified
22 October 2026
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Decision guide

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on verifiable published cost per MB (30), what actually secures the data (30), live sampling and how long data stays retrievable (25), and the blast radius if it halts, with documented uptime (15). The heaviest is verifiable published cost per MB: Can a buyer read a real price per MB off a public page or on-chain parameter today, and what is it when converted to USD at spot?

Can you read a real price per MB off a public page or on-chain parameter today, or does it require a sales conversation?
How many days is your data guaranteed retrievable before you depend on archival nodes or your own snapshots?
If the layer halts, does sequencing stop and can the L1 bridge still verify the attestation?
Current engine lead

The #1 overall and the scoring weights

Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)Data checked Oct 2026
Native L1 blobspace, sampled since Fusaka, pruned after about 18 days

Native L1 blobspace, sampled since Fusaka, pruned after about 18 days. Strongest on verifiable published cost per MB (9/10): Blob pricing is a protocol rule in EIP-4844 and EIP-7918, reproducible to the wei from any block header. At the 22 October 2026 median it is about $0.0116 per MiB, with a same-day range of $0.0048 to $0.0355, because blobs trade on a spot fee market. Weakest on sampling live + how long data stays retrievable (8/10): PeerDAS (EIP-7594) is live on mainnet since December 2025: nodes sample and custody columns instead of downloading every blob. Blob data is kept for 4,096 epochs, about 18 days, then pruned; after that a rollup depends on archives or its own copies. Published price: EIP-4844 (Final, fetched 22 October 2026): GAS_PER_BLOB 2**17 (131,072); MIN_BASE_FEE_PER_BLOB_GAS 1.

Best forVerifiable published cost per MB — 9/10
Main tradeoff'As safe as Ethereum' is true for the attestation and false for the archive: consensus clients are only required to serve blob sidecars for 4096 epochs, about 18 days. After that the data is gone from the protocol and you need your own archive or a third-party blob indexer. Also, the price you see is a spot price on a volatile fee market — the $0.0145/MiB measured here is the median of blocks 25,982,517-25,983,541 on 15 September 2026 (5,748,814 wei per blob gas, ETH at $2,402.28); within that window block 25,983,538 reached $0.163/MiB, and the later blocks 25,983,956-25,984,979 had a median of $0.0321/MiB.
Verify before signupEIP-4844 (Final, fetched 22 October 2026): GAS_PER_BLOB 2**17 (131,072); MIN_BASE_FEE_PER_BLOB_GAS 1. EIP-7918 (Final, live since Fusaka; fetched 22 October 2026) adds a reserve price: "the reserve blob base fee becomes BLOB_BASE_COST * base_fee_per_gas / GAS_PER_BLOB" with BLOB_BASE_COST 2**13, a ratio that "is 1/16". Live mainnet, 2026-10-22: eth_config (ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com) current blobSchedule {"baseFeeUpdateFraction":11684671,"max":21,"target":14}, no next fork scheduled. eth_feeHistory (ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com) over blocks 26,245,860-26,246,883 gives a blob base fee of min 1,896,597 / median 4,583,621 / max 14,019,988 wei and an execution base fee median of 81,733,558 wei; in 999 of the 1,024 blocks the blob base fee was at or below 1.05x the EIP-7918 reserve (execution base fee / 16), so the blob price now tracks execution gas. Latest block 26,246,887 (08:13:23 UTC): excessBlobGas 0xb5a0102 = 190,447,874, which fake_exponential(1, 190,447,874, 11,684,671) turns into 11,982,412 wei per blob gas, against a reserve of 12,545,257 wei (baseFeePerGas 0xbf6ce96 = 200,724,118 / 16). DERIVED (arithmetic) at ETH $2,416.88 (CoinGecko 22 October 2026): at the median, 131,072 x 4,583,621 wei = $0.00145 per 128 KiB blob = $0.0116/MiB raw, $0.0120/MiB on the 126,976 usable bytes; window min $0.0048/MiB, max $0.0355/MiB. This is a spot price on a fee market, not a fixed rate.
Weighted criteria
Verifiable published cost per MB30%
What actually secures the data30%
Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable25%
Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime15%
Methodology

How this category is reviewed

Reviewed on published cost per MB, what actually secures the data, sampling and retention, and blast radius if the layer halts.

The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
Frequently asked

Questions people ask before choosing DA layers

Is Ethereum blobspace really much more expensive than alternative DA layers?
Not by the margin the category claims. Measured on 2026-08-05 with every price taken from the parameter or page that sets it and converted the same day, Ethereum blobs came to $0.0177/MiB and Celestia — the cheapest verified layer in this comparison — to $0.0121/MiB. That is roughly a 1.5x gap, not the 25x or more that alternative-DA marketing typically cites, because those figures were written when blob base fees were at a different level. EigenDA is the sharpest example: its own payments documentation quotes 0.015 ETH/GB, which works out to $0.0274/MiB, making it more expensive than the Ethereum blobs it is sold as an alternative to.
How long does my rollup data actually stay available?
Every layer in this category prunes, including Ethereum, and the guaranteed windows differ by more than an order of magnitude. Ethereum consensus clients are only required to serve blob sidecars for 4096 epochs — around 18 days. Celestia light nodes sample a 7-day window as of celestia-app v6 under CIP-36, and its docs warn that archival nodes serving historical data for free is not guaranteed. NEAR DA prunes from consensus after roughly 36 to 60 hours. Only Ethereum L1 calldata is permanent, and it measured 334x the cost of blobs. If a rollup node can go offline for a long weekend, that retention window is a real operational constraint, not a footnote.
Which DA layers actually run data availability sampling today?
Sampling lets a light client establish that data was published without downloading all of it. Celestia runs it in production, with light nodes sampling a share matrix and gossiping verified shares. Avail runs it light-client-side, sampling cells against per-row KZG commitments to compute a confidence score. Ethereum began sampling with PeerDAS at the Fusaka upgrade, with each full node holding a fraction of the data. EigenDA has none — validators hold disjoint erasure-coded shards sized to their stake — and what 0G describes as sampling is a node-side workload optimisation rather than the trust-minimising kind a rollup user runs.
Reviewed22 October 2026Method4 criteriaCategorydata_availability
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