The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #3 of 7 · best 21.0
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
Tick: the best in this ranking · Methodology v2026.11.1
Celestia
Modular data availability chain
#3 of all 7 worldwide68
- Rank
- #3 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 66–70 and stays #3
- Your cost
- Not priced on this basis
- Evidence
- High4 of 4 criteria sourced
- Licence
- No MiCA record on file
- Freshness
- Read October 2026checked · re-read due
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The verdict
Celestia is #3 of 7 published data availability layers; it scores 7/10 on published cost per mb, where the category best is 9. Its widest gap is security model actual: 6/10, where Ethereum L1 Calldata scores 10. Choose Ethereum L1 Calldata if security model actual matters most.
Is Celestia right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Verifiable published cost per MB7/10 here; Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) scores 9
- What actually secures the data6/10 here; Ethereum L1 Calldata scores 10
- Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable6/10 here; Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) scores 8
- Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime7/10 here; Ethereum L1 Calldata scores 10
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What will Celestia cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Celestia?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Entity: not verified. No hand-confirmed record on file ties Celestia 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- 1Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)If security model actual matters most: 914 points above · stronger on security model actual (9 against 6)82
- 2Ethereum L1 CalldataIf security model actual matters most: 103 points above · stronger on security model actual (10 against 6)71
- 4Avail DA17 points below · weaker on published cost per mb (2 against 7)51
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Data Availability Layers
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- celestia.org
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 68 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in October 2026.
For your setup
Find out if Celestia fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Celestia 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 Celestia ranks #3
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (20.6 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
307+6.723.09#2/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-22306+5.765.010#3/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-22256+4.805.08#2/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-22157+3.364.010#3/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-22Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−3behind Ethereum L1 Calldata, #2 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 66–70 and stays #3
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 Celestia’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.
Verifiable published cost per MB 7 → 9 on its ladder · passes Ethereum L1 Calldata+271#3 → #2
What actually secures the data 6 → 8 on its ladder · passes Ethereum L1 Calldata+271#3 → #2
Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable 6 → 8 on its ladder · passes Ethereum L1 Calldata+271#3 → #2
Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime 7 → 10 on its ladder · passes Ethereum L1 Calldata+371#3 → #2
Smallest climb: verifiable published cost per MB 7 → 9 passes Ethereum L1 Calldata, #2.
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
- Verifiable published cost per MB — 7/10 against a category best of 9/10
- What actually secures the data — 6/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable — 6/10 against a category best of 8/10
- Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime — 7/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- The 7-day light-node sampling window is shorter than Ethereum's ~18-day blob window, and Celestia's own docs warn that after that you are on your own: 'archival nodes serving requests for historical data for free is not guaranteed.' Budget for a paid archival provider or your own snapshot infrastructure before you model the $0.0118/MiB as your all-in cost.
Competitive position
How Celestia 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
82 vs 68 · gap 14.0Why Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) ranks above Celestia
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 14.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisEthereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)Gap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight15.521.0−14.3, 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 criterionThisEthereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)Points
Verifiable published cost per MB · w3079−1.92, worse
What actually secures the data · w3069−2.88, worse
Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable · w2568−1.60, worse
Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime · w1579−0.96, worse
Net6882−14.0
Your scenario
Celestia 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 22 October 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 7 rows priced
Lowest fee, priced rowsNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
7 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the typical, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 22 October 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 #3 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 22 October 2026.
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Verifiable published cost per MBstrength 7 · weight 30Report an errorProvider's own page22 October 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.What actually secures the datastrength 6 · weight 30Report an errorProvider's own page22 October 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Sampling live + how long data stays retrievablestrength 6 · weight 25Report an errorProvider's own page22 October 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Blast radius if it halts + documented uptimestrength 7 · weight 15Report an errorProvider's own page22 October 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
- Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.Scored by What actually secures the data · 30% (Celestia 6/10)Scored by Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable · 25% (Celestia 6/10)
- Liveness failure (Celestia 7/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime · 15%
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%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- celestia-app parameters v10 spec (raw.githubusercontent.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/main/specs/src/parameters_v10.md, fetched 22 October 2026; the latest mainnet block header, height 15,182,637, read from a Celestia node reports app version 10, up from 9 on 15 September 2026): blob.GasPerBlobByte 8; auth.TxSizeCostPerByte 10; minfee.NetworkMinGasPrice 0.000001 utia; MaxTxSize 8 MiB. v10 adds fibre.* parameters (fibre.ShardRetention 4h, fibre.WithdrawalDelay 24h) for the Fibre fast path, which has no published price. Submit-data docs (fetched 22 October 2026): fixed cost "has a default value of 65,000 gas"; "the first sparse share has 478 bytes, while all subsequent sparse shares have 482 bytes". Live gas price, 2026-10-22: Celenium API {"slow":"0.004003","median":"0.004003","fast":"0.004003"} utia/gas, matched on-chain by the MsgPayForBlobs transactions in blocks 15,182,634-15,182,637 read from a Celestia node (fee / gas limit 0.004000-0.004012 utia, e.g. "amount":"6367" utia for "gas_limit":"1591560"). DERIVED (arithmetic), 1 MiB blob: 2,176 shares x 512 bytes x 8 gas + 65,000 = 8,977,896 gas x 0.004003 utia = 35,939 utia = 0.03594 TIA = $0.0205/MiB at TIA $0.570654 (CoinGecko 22 October 2026). That is 1.77x Ethereum blobs at their median over blocks 26,245,860-26,246,883 ($0.0116/MiB) and 0.58x blobs at that window's maximum ($0.0355/MiB); on 15 September 2026 it was 0.81x, the change is the TIA price (then $0.3285). At the protocol floor of 0.000001 utia it would be $0.000005/MiB.Celestia — official documentation ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDCelestia — official documentation ↗ · 22 October 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
- Submitting blobs to the network is permissionless. The Celestia Terms of Service (celestia.org/tos, read 22 October 2026) cover "the Celestia website and documentation accessible at https://
celestia .org /" operated on behalf of Strange Loop Labs AG, and exclude Prohibited Persons, including anyone "located or organized in any U.S. embargoed countries or any country that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country (currently, the Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic)". Those Terms govern the website and docs, not use of the chain.
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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.
8 methodology entries
- 22 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 68, #3 of 7. 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 data_availability:celestia_da:2026.11.1:0e1a49bc18a0
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