The score, by dimension
- the same for all 8
- #6 of 8 · best 15.1
- the same for all 8
- the same for all 8
- the same for all 8
Tick: the best in this ranking · Methodology v2026.11.1
AltLayer
Rollups as a service with restaked services
#6 of all 8 worldwide51
- Rank
- #6 of all 8 worldwidere-runs: scores 49–53 and ranks #6–#7
- Your cost
- Not priced on this basis
- Evidence
- High4 of 4 criteria sourced
- Licence
- No MiCA record on file
- Freshness
- Read September 2026checked · re-read in progress
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The verdict
AltLayer is #6 of 8 published rollup-as-a-service; it scores 3/10 on exit path documented, where the category best is 9. Its widest gap is key custody onchain: 1/10, where Caldera scores 4. Choose Caldera if key custody onchain matters most.
Is AltLayer right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Who can change your chain1/10 here; Caldera scores 4
- A price you can act on before you talk to sales1/10 here; the category best is 9
- The documented way out3/10 here; the category best is 9
- Independently counted live chains3/10 here; the category best is 8
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to test where you can use it.
The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best rollup-as-a-service provider shows where it lands for you.
What will AltLayer cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is AltLayer?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Entity: not verified. No hand-confirmed record on file ties AltLayer to the company that runs it, so this page cannot say which other products that company operates. Read the legal entity in its terms before you deposit. How we read the evidence
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Compare all 4- 5CalderaIf key custody onchain matters most: 44 points above · stronger on key custody onchain (4 against 1)55
- 7Gelato RaaSIf key custody onchain matters most: 31 point below · stronger on key custody onchain (3 against 1)50
- 8Ankr RaaSIf key custody onchain matters most: 23 points below · stronger on key custody onchain (2 against 1)48
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Rollup-as-a-Service
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- altlayer.io
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 51 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
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Find out if AltLayer fits you
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Why this rank
Why AltLayer ranks #6
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (5.8 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
351+1.123.07#8/8
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-25251+0.801.09#4/8
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-09-25203+1.923.09#3/8
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-09-25203+1.923.08#4/8
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-25Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−4behind Caldera, #5 of all 8 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 49–53 and ranks #6–#7
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of AltLayer’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Who can change your chain 1 → 3 on its ladder · passes Caldera+255#6 → #5
A price you can act on before you talk to sales 1 → 4 on its ladder · passes Caldera+356#6 → #5
The documented way out 3 → 6 on its ladder · passes Caldera+355#6 → #5
Independently counted live chains 3 → 6 on its ladder · passes Caldera+355#6 → #5
Who can change your chain 1 → 0 on its ladder · Gelato RaaS passes it−149#6 → #7
A price you can act on before you talk to sales 1 → 0 on its ladder · Gelato RaaS passes it−149#6 → #7
The documented way out 3 → 2 on its ladder · Gelato RaaS passes it−150#6 → #7
Smallest climb: who can change your chain 1 → 3 passes Caldera, #5.
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Who can change your chain — 1/10 against a category best of 7/10
- A price you can act on before you talk to sales — 1/10 against a category best of 9/10
- The documented way out — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Independently counted live chains — 3/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- AltLayer's own documentation attacks the model AltLayer operates — "Most rollups today operate with centralised sequencers operated by the entity that developed the protocol", and RaaS providers "are encouraged to lock their clients for as long as possible" — while on-chain, three AltLayer EOAs hold a signing majority of both admin multisigs on both of its live OP Stack chains and every seat on Swell's sequencer multisig. Buy the restaked-rollup AVS story if you believe in it; do not buy the decentralisation claim without checking those three addresses.
Competitive position
How AltLayer places on each criterion
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Against the leader
79 vs 51 · gap 28.0Why Karnot ranks above AltLayer
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 28.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisKarnotGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight4.315.1−28.1, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisKarnotPoints
Who can change your chain · w3517−6.72, worse
A price you can act on before you talk to sales · w2519−6.40, worse
The documented way out · w2034−0.64, worse
Independently counted live chains · w2034−0.64, worse
Net5179−28.0
Your scenario
AltLayer is not priced for this scenario
Metered usage beyond whatever the plan includes, for a year. Excludes egress, support tiers and enterprise minimums. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Usage per month · your input10
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 25 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDTypical costNot statedFewer than 5 priced rows: no typical cost is named · 0 of 8 rows priced
Lowest fee, priced rowsNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
8 of 8 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the typical, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 25 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #6 to #7 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 10 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 25 September 2026.
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Who can change your chainstrength 1 · weight 35Report an errorThird-party page25 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.A price you can act on before you talk to salesstrength 1 · weight 25Report an errorProvider's own page25 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.The documented way outstrength 3 · weight 20Report an errorProvider's own page25 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Independently counted live chainsstrength 3 · weight 20Report an errorThird-party page25 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure (AltLayer 1/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by Who can change your chain · 35%
- Exit failure (AltLayer 3/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by The documented way out · 20%
- Information failure (AltLayer 3/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Independently counted live chains · 20%
Not assessed by this ranking: Liveness 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: A price you can act on before you talk to sales (25%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Mainnet price: not published, and the one hard number AltLayer used to publish is gone. The docs were restructured since August: docs.altlayer.io/altlayer-documentation/rollup-launchpad/creating-rollup-dev-tier — the page that stated the free-tier deposit of 0.3 ETH and 0.3 ALT — returns HTTP 404 on 25 September 2026, and the new docs index (docs.altlayer.io/llms.txt, HTTP 200) has no rollup-launchpad or dev-tier page. Its RaaS section now carries a Pricing Model page (docs.altlayer.io/rollup-as-a-service/pricing-model/, HTTP 200) whose entire content is: "We offer two different service packages." "Please feel free to contact us to discuss package pricing." — no package names, no figures, no billing period. altlayer.io/raas (re-fetched 25 September 2026, HTTP 200) shows no price, tier or plan; its calls to action are 'Book A Demo' and its only SLA language is the bare phrase 'Enterprise SLA', now alongside SOC 2 Type I & II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification claims. The Arbitrum FAQ (docs.altlayer.io/rollup-as-a-service/raas-onboarding-guide/arbitrum-rollup-faq/, HTTP 200) discloses one third-party cost: L2 Orbit deployment requires a 10% sequencer fee sharing agreement with Arbitrum Foundation. AltLayer still does not disclose its own revenue share, and nothing on any page read states what a mainnet chain costs per month, so there is no figure to normalise against Karnot's published 5,000 a month on 25 September 2026.AltLayer — official page at docs.altlayer.io ↗ · 25 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDAltLayer — official page at docs.altlayer.io ↗ · 25 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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Reviewed Methodology v2026.11.1
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The published cadence is 45 days; this page's next read was due on 9 November 2026.How this page is reviewed
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 25 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 51, #6 of 8. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.11.1, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt rollup_as_a_service:altlayer:2026.11.1:b05dc5478b3f
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