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Intent Networks

Intent Networks evaluated across bid set visibility, solver admission, network fee disclosure, and fallback when nobody fills.

CoW Protocol
#1 of 7 · published ranking
CoW Protocol
82ChainChoice Score
Why it leads
Best in the pool on bid visibility (10/10; next 7/10)
Cost
Not priced · No comparable price is published
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Personal comparison

Intent Networks ranked comparison

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RankProviderBest fitScore
1
CoW ProtocolCoW ProtocolBatch auction in which authorised solve...Top ranked
Bid set visibility — 10/10Trade-off: The transparency is real but the competition behind it is uneven. Corrected during ve...
82score
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2
deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN)Cross-chain order book where the maker...
Solver admission — 9/10Trade-off: The flat fee is invisible in the fee-structure page's prose and dominant on small ord...
70score
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3
NEAR IntentsMessage bus broadcasts a signed request...
Network fee disclosure — 8/10Trade-off: The 0.0001% headline is the smallest fee in this comparison and almost nobody pays on...
69score
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4
UniswapXUniswapXOff-chain request-for-quote awards a sh...
Solver admission — 8/10Trade-off: Chain support here means a reactor is deployed, not that a quoter will answer. Queryi...
67score
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5
Across ProtocolCross-chain intent settlement where a n...
Fallback when nobody fills — 9/10Trade-off: The buyer's funds sit with the relayer far longer than the fill suggests. docs.across...
65score
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6
Relay ProtocolRelay ProtocolSigned request filled immediately by a...
Network fee disclosure — 9/10Trade-off: Relay is the cleanest test of whether a buyer is buying transparency or competition,...
47score
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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 34/20/22/24, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20, evidence depth 18, ease of use 10, institutional trust 8. Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.

Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.09.15
published 2026-09-16
Providers tracked
980+
across 119 categories
Last verified
2026-08-11
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
Named on the roster
2 people
managing directors · 6 automated processes
Decision guide

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on whether you can see the bids you did not win (34), what happens when nobody fills (24), what the network takes and says it takes (22), and who is allowed to fill at all (20). Bid visibility leads because it is the only thing that makes the rest checkable: when the competition is published you can tell whether an auction had fifteen participants or two, and at an opaque venue those two cases look identical from the outside. Fee disclosure is scored separately from fee level, and separately again from execution quality — the venue with the most precise published fee schedule in this pool also states that it runs no auction at all.

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on whether you can see the bids you did not win (34), what happens when nobody fills (24), what the network takes and says it takes (22), and who is allowed to fill at all (20). Bid visibility leads because it is the only thing that makes the rest checkable: when the competition is published you can tell whether an auction had fifteen participants or two, and at an opaque venue those two cases look identical from the outside. Fee disclosure is scored separately from fee level, and separately again from execution quality — the venue with the most precise published fee schedule in this pool also states that it runs no auction at all.

Can you see the bids that lost, or only the one that won?
Who is allowed to fill your order, and did anyone have to be approved to do it?
If no solver fills, what happens to your order, and what have you paid by then?
Current editor lead

Expert review and scoring weights

CoW Protocol
CoW ProtocolData checked Aug 2026
Batch auction in which authorised solvers submit competing settlements and the highest-scoring solution executes the batch.

Batch auction in which authorised solvers submit competing settlements and the highest-scoring solution executes the batch. Strongest on bid set visibility (10/10): The public endpoint for a named auction returns the whole ladder, and it is stable enough to re-fetch.

Best forBid set visibility — 10/10
Main tradeoffThe transparency is real but the competition behind it is uneven. Corrected during verification: across auction ids 13537943 to 13537952 on 2026-08-08 the six that resolved returned 2, 15, 17, 13, 14 and 14 solutions — the draft reported a count of 8 in this window that re-fetching does not reproduce. Auction 13537943 drew two bids from two distinct solvers. A buyer landing in a thin auction still gets a published, auditable record; what the record shows is that on that batch the network was a duopoly. Separately, the rewards page (docs.cow.fi/cow-protocol/reference/core/auctions/rewards) sets the solver reward on "Ethereum mainnet, Arbitrum, and Base chain" at a 50% fraction of the protocol fee with a downside cap of "0.010 ETH", so solver participation is economically rationed and cannot be assumed constant across pairs.
Verify before signupdocs.cow.fi/governance/fees, fetched 2026-08-08, sets the protocol's take as a surplus component and a volume component: "50% of surplus on out-of-market limit orders, capped at 0.98% of the total volume of the order" and "50% of positive quote improvement on market orders (aka swaps), capped at 0.98% of the total volume of the order", plus a tiered volume fee of "2 basis points (bps)" on Standard Assets and "0.3 basis points (bps)" on "Correlated Assets (Stables/RWAs)", with the arithmetic spelled out as "Standard : Volume * 0.0002" and "Correlated: Volume * 0.00003". The page adds that "All protocol fees are charged in the surplus token, i.e. in the buy token for sell orders and the sell token for buy orders."
Methodology

How this category is reviewed

Reviewed on bid set visibility, solver admission, network fee disclosure, and fallback when nobody fills.

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 intents

Can I see the competition for my order?
At one venue, yes, in full. Querying ten consecutive auction ids on 2026-08-08 returned solution counts of 2, 15, 17, 13, 14 and 14 for the six that resolved, with four returning HTTP 404 and the body "solver competition not found". That transparency cuts both ways and is more useful for it: one of those auctions drew two solutions from two distinct solvers. Publishing the bid set did not make the auction deep — it made the shallowness legible, and at the six opaque venues an auction with two participants and one with seventeen are indistinguishable from outside. Everywhere else you get the winner: an opaque quote id and the winning filler, a nominated relayer emitted in a deposit event, or an order feed carrying no losing bids at all.
What does the network actually take?
Normalised to a $10,000 swap on one date, and counting only the cut each network publishes for itself, the spread is three orders of magnitude — and the venue that discloses the most charges more than one that discloses nothing. UniswapX takes $0.00, with Labs fees set to zero; NEAR Intents takes $0.01 through an API key holder but $20.01 for a buyer arriving through its own front end, because a 0.2% charge sits on top; CoW Protocol takes $0.30 on correlated assets or $2.00 standard. deBridge documents a 4 bps headline and never numbers the charge that actually bites a small order — its fee page describes only "a fixed amount in the source-chain native token paid to deBridge validators", and calling the contract settles it at globalFixedNativeFee() = 1000000000000000 wei, a flat 0.001 ETH. One caveat on the zero: the same proposal that sets those fees to zero also lists UniswapX among the products where "fees can be turned on". A buyer comparing on today's rate is comparing a governance decision, not a schedule.
Does a clear fee page mean good execution?
No, and this category contains the cleanest possible demonstration. Relay publishes the most precise schedule here — 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.06% and 0.15% by transaction class, plus a flat charge described as "always included", broken out as discrete API fields — while its own protocol overview states that "There is no orderflow auction or solver competition window. Solvers receive orders and fill immediately." Fee transparency and execution competition are orthogonal properties, and a buyer who reads the first as evidence of the second has drawn the wrong conclusion from a genuinely good disclosure. That is why they are scored as two separate criteria rather than rolled into one.
Who is allowed to fill my order?
It varies from anyone to an approved list, and the venue that restricts the most publishes the least. 1inch Fusion requires an operator-approved KYC/KYB process before anyone may fill — its resolver documentation describes access being granted when "Your Access NFT(s) will be minted, granting access to Order fulfillment" — and publishes no per-order resolver record, no roster and no Fusion fee number. Three admission rules could not be established at all and are scored at the midpoint rather than guessed: whether registering as a solver on the NEAR Intents message bus requires approval, a stake or an identity check, and whether Relay admits solvers permissionlessly. Both sets of pages were re-read and neither states a rule. Separately worth knowing that deployment is not liquidity: one network is listed on a chain whose newest filled order was created in October 2023, and three of its listed chains have never filled one.
REVIEWEDAugust 8, 2026METHOD4 criteriaCATEGORYintents
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