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Scored 81 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in August 2026.
Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets)
Server wallets in secure enclaves from Coinbase
Relayers
#1 Overall
Ranked #1 of 7 relayers in the published ranking
81
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the address9/10; the category best is 10
- Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery7/10, the category best
- What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices10/10, the category best
- Where the gas float sits and how you get it back8/10; the category best is 9
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What will Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets)?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read August 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets)
Compare all 4- 2Privy server wallets3 points below · weaker on credential blast radius (9 against 10)78
- 3OpenZeppelin Relayer8 points below · stronger on relayer authority and key custody (10 against 9)73
- 4Sequence Transactions API (Relayer)8 points below · weaker on credential blast radius (6 against 10)73
For your setup
Find out if Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) fits you
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Why it leads
Why Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) ranks #1
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (27.2 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 2 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
329+9.229.010#2/7Loading evidence…
267+5.826.07#1/7Loading evidence…
2210+7.046.010#1/7Loading evidence…
208+5.127.09#2/7Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin+3over Privy server wallets, #2
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 81–82 and stays #1
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 Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets)’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.
What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the address 9 → 7 on its ladder · Privy server wallets passes it−280#1 → #2
Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery 7 → 5 on its ladder · Privy server wallets passes it−280#1 → #2
What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices 10 → 8 on its ladder · Privy server wallets passes it−281#1 → #2
Strengths
4 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the address — 9/10, category best 10/10
- Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery — 7/10, the category best
- What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices — 10/10, the category best
- Where the gas float sits and how you get it back — 8/10, category best 9/10
Tradeoffs
0 from the score dataWhere it trails
No scored criterion trails the category best by two points or more, so no tradeoff can be stated from the data.
Record watch-outs
- CDP does publish replacement semantics — a replaced original "will never land onchain" and fires a `failed` event — but it never uses the word nonce, and there is no cancel or nonce-reset endpoint anywhere in the v2 API. After 30 seconds it hands your backend the stuck transaction's gas parameters and expects you to build the replacement yourself. The X-Idempotency-Key that would protect you cannot be reused: the API "Returns an error if the same key is used with different request parameters", so a higher-gas payload needs a NEW key — and if you then omit the optional nonce field, "the API will assign a nonce to the transaction based on the current state of the account." A fresh nonce makes it a second transaction, not a replacement, and both can land. Pin the nonce yourself or the same intent can be mined twice.
Competitive position
Where Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) leads and where it trails
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.
Availability#1 / 714.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#1 / 720.4 of 30 · pool best
Friction#1 / 72.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 73.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 78.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) leads
- What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the address#2 / 7
- Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery#1 / 7
- What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices#1 / 7
- Where the gas float sits and how you get it back#2 / 7
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Privy server wallets#2 of 7 · score 78 · 3.0 points behind
Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) leads on
- What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices10 vs 9
- Where the gas float sits and how you get it back8 vs 7
Privy server wallets leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) is ahead: published criteria (+2.6 display points).Scenario cost: Privy server wallets has no verified pricing for this scenario.
OpenZeppelin Relayer#3 of 7 · score 73 · 8.0 points behind
Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) leads on
- Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery7 vs 6
- What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices10 vs 3
OpenZeppelin Relayer leads on
- What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the address10 vs 9
- Where the gas float sits and how you get it back9 vs 8
Largest single reason Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) is ahead: published criteria (+8.1 display points).Scenario cost: OpenZeppelin Relayer has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Sequence Transactions API (Relayer)#4 of 7 · score 73 · 8.0 points behind
Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) leads on
- Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery7 vs 6
- What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices10 vs 6
- Where the gas float sits and how you get it back8 vs 7
Sequence Transactions API (Relayer) leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) is ahead: published criteria (+8.3 display points).Scenario cost: Sequence Transactions API (Relayer) has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against #2
81 vs 78 · gap 3.0Why Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) ranks above Privy server wallets
DimensionThisPrivy server walletsGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight20.419.4+2.6, better
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisPrivy server walletsPoints
What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices · w22109+0.70, better
Where the gas float sits and how you get it back · w2087+0.64, better
Net8178+3.0
Your scenario
Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) 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 28 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 · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 7 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone 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 median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 11 August 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 #1 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 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 11 August 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the addressstrength 9 · weight 32Report an error—11 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recoverystrength 7 · weight 26Report an error—11 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.What a stolen API credential can do before anyone noticesstrength 10 · weight 22Report an error—11 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Where the gas float sits and how you get it backstrength 8 · weight 20Report an error—11 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Liveness failure (Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) 7/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by Exactly-once execution and stuck-queue recovery · 26%
- Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by What the relayer is authorised to do, and whether you can keep the address · 32% (Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) 9/10)Scored by What a stolen API credential can do before anyone notices · 22% (Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) 10/10)Scored by Where the gas float sits and how you get it back · 20% (Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) 8/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- "CDP non-custodial wallets use a pay-as-you-go model with no contracts or minimum commitments." / "Wallet usage is billed in wallet operations. A wallet operation is consumed by write actions such as wallet creation, message signing, transaction signing, transaction broadcasting, and policy evaluation." / "Read operations are not billed." / table rows: "Send a transaction (sign + broadcast) | 2" and "Policy evaluation (API key auth workflows) | 1" / "Each wallet operation costs $0.005." / "The first 5,000 wallet operations per month are free." / "Usage is billed at the beginning of each calendar month for the previous month." (Coinbase Developer Platform wallet pricing page, https://
docs .cdp .coinbase .com /wallets /pricing, fetched 28 September 2026; the per-operation price, free tier and send/policy rows match the 11 August 2026 read, and the same table also lists "Create EIP-7702 delegation | 2"). Recorded for the record only — this page publishes no cost ranking for relayers; per-transaction price is scored on account_abstraction_infra and cost-per-call on rpc_nodes, and no criterion here touches this figure. The unit is a "wallet operation", not a transaction: a relayed send consumes 2, and 3 when an API-key policy is evaluated. The gas itself is not priced here — on the EOA path it is paid from the buyer's own account balance, so no markup or premium is published for it.Coinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) — official pricing page ↗ · 28 October 2026 - Prices published in
- USDCoinbase CDP Server Wallets (API-key wallets) — official pricing page ↗ · 28 October 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, World Chain, Solana
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
Legal entity on file: Coinbase, placed in 21 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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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
- 11 August 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 81, #1 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 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt relayers:coinbase_cdp_server_wallets-relayer:2026.10.18:fbde30e17776
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