The score, by dimension
- the same for all 8
- #5 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
Caldera
Managed rollups and interop network
#5 of all 8 worldwide55
- Rank
- #5 of all 8 worldwidere-runs: scores 52–57 and stays #5
- 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
Caldera is #5 of 8 published rollup-as-a-service; it scores 4/10 on key custody onchain, where the category best is 7. Its widest gap is published price: 0/10, where AltLayer scores 1. Choose AltLayer if published price matters most.
Is Caldera right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Who can change your chain4/10 here; Zeeve scores 6
- A price you can act on before you talk to sales0/10 here; AltLayer scores 1
- The documented way out2/10 here; Zeeve scores 3
- Independently counted live chains3/10 here; the category best is 8
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global.
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 Caldera cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Caldera?
- 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 Caldera 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- 4ZeeveIf key custody onchain matters most: 65 points above · stronger on key custody onchain (6 against 4)60
- 6AltLayerIf published price matters most: 14 points below · stronger on published price (1 against 0)51
- 7Gelato RaaS5 points below · weaker on key custody onchain (3 against 4)50
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Rollup-as-a-Service
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- caldera.xyz
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 55 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
For your setup
Find out if Caldera fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Caldera lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why Caldera ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (7.7 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
354+4.483.07#3/8
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-25250+0.001.09#6/8
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-09-25202+1.283.09#6/8
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−5behind Zeeve, #4 of all 8 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 52–57 and stays #5
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 Caldera’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 4 → 7 on its ladder · passes Zeeve+361#5 → #3
A price you can act on before you talk to sales 0 → 4 on its ladder · passes Zeeve+461#5 → #3
The documented way out 2 → 7 on its ladder · passes Zeeve+561#5 → #3
Independently counted live chains 3 → 8 on its ladder · passes Zeeve+561#5 → #3
Who can change your chain 4 → 2 on its ladder · AltLayer passes it−250#5 → #6
Independently counted live chains 3 → 0 on its ladder · AltLayer passes it−351#5 → #6
Smallest climb: who can change your chain 4 → 7 passes Zeeve, #4.
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 — 4/10 against a category best of 7/10
- A price you can act on before you talk to sales — 0/10 against a category best of 9/10
- The documented way out — 2/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Independently counted live chains — 3/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- You will not see a number until you are on a call — caldera.xyz/pricing is a 404 and the 47-page docs index has no commercial page at all — and you will not see the multisig threshold protecting your chain until you look it up on L2BEAT, where Caldera's own Safe governs Appchain at 3 of 6 while the security page assures you funds stay safe "even in the unlikely event that our systems are compromised" without naming a threshold. Thirteen of the 22 chains L2BEAT credits to Caldera are archived, the most recent the day before this was counted. The redeeming detail the marketing never mentions: four of Caldera's nine live chains have no Caldera-held key at all, so a customer-held configuration is clearly available if you insist on it.
Competitive position
How Caldera 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 55 · gap 24.0Why Karnot ranks above Caldera
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 24.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisKarnotGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight5.815.1−24.2, 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 · w3547−3.36, worse
A price you can act on before you talk to sales · w2509−7.20, worse
The documented way out · w2024−1.28, worse
Independently counted live chains · w2034−0.64, worse
Net5579−24.0
Your scenario
Caldera 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.RobustnessHoldsrank #5 across every one-point re-run
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 4 · 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 0 · 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 2 · 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 (Caldera 4/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by Who can change your chain · 35%
- Exit failure (Caldera 2/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by The documented way out · 20%
- Information failure (Caldera 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
- No price is published in any form. caldera.xyz/pricing and www.caldera.xyz/pricing both returned HTTP 404 on 25 September 2026; www.caldera.xyz/status also returned HTTP 404 and status.caldera.xyz has no address record. The homepage (www.caldera.xyz → caldera.xyz, HTTP 200) carries no dollar figure, no tier, and not even a contact-for-pricing line — its calls to action are "Book A Call", "Get Started" and "Explore Chains". The complete published documentation index at docs.caldera.xyz/llms.txt (re-fetched 25 September 2026, HTTP 200) still enumerates 47 pages and contains no pricing, billing, ownership or commercial-terms page of any kind; the Quickstart (docs.caldera.xyz/rollup-engine/quickstart.md, HTTP 200) routes mainnet buyers to 'Book a demo' on a Calendly link. Caldera's price is not published anywhere a buyer can load it, so no monthly figure can be placed alongside Karnot's published 5,000 a month on 25 September 2026.Caldera — official pricing page ↗ · 25 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDCaldera — official pricing page ↗ · 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
Reviewed means this product in this category 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.
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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 55, #5 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:caldera:2026.11.1:b05dc5478b3f
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