The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #2 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
Ethereum L1 Calldata
Data posted as Ethereum calldata
#2 of all 7 worldwide71
- Rank
- #2 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 68–72 and stays #2
- 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
Ethereum L1 Calldata is #2 of 7 published data availability layers; it scores 10/10 on security model actual, the category best. Its widest gap is published cost per mb: 3/10, where Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) scores 9. Choose Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) if published cost per mb matters most.
Is Ethereum L1 Calldata right for you?
Suits you if
- What actually secures the data10/10, the category best
- Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime10/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if
- Verifiable published cost per MB3/10 here; Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) scores 9
- Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable6/10 here; Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) scores 8
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best data availability layer shows where it lands for you.
What will Ethereum L1 Calldata cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Ethereum L1 Calldata?
- 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 Ethereum L1 Calldata 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 published cost per mb matters most: 911 points above · stronger on published cost per mb (9 against 3)82
- 3CelestiaIf published cost per mb matters most: 73 points below · stronger on published cost per mb (7 against 3)68
- 4Avail DA20 points below · weaker on security model actual (5 against 10)51
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Data Availability Layers
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- eips.ethereum.org
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 71 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in October 2026.
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Find out if Ethereum L1 Calldata fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Ethereum L1 Calldata 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 Ethereum L1 Calldata ranks #2
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (22.1 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
303+2.883.09#4/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-223010+9.605.010#1/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-22256+4.805.08#2/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-221510+4.804.010#1/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-10-22Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−11behind Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS), #1 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 68–72 and stays #2
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 Ethereum L1 Calldata’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 3 → 10 on its ladder · passes Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)+782#2 → #1
Verifiable published cost per MB 3 → 1 on its ladder · Celestia passes it−267#2 → #3
What actually secures the data 10 → 8 on its ladder · Celestia passes it−267#2 → #3
Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable 6 → 4 on its ladder · Celestia passes it−267#2 → #3
Smallest climb: verifiable published cost per MB 3 → 10 passes Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS), #1.
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- What actually secures the data — 10/10, the category best
- Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime — 10/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Verifiable published cost per MB — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable — 6/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- Almost nobody should pay this today, but it is the honest ceiling every 'as safe as Ethereum' claim should be measured against — and the entry whose data stays retrievable longest: post-Merge block bodies are still served, though EIP-4444 (Draft) says clients 'SHOULD NOT serve headers, block bodies, and receipts that are older than HISTORY_PRUNE_EPOCHS' (33,024 epochs, about 147 days), and all execution clients already support partial history expiry for pre-Merge data. If your rollup carries assets where long-horizon state reconstruction matters more than a 267x cost multiple, this is still the answer.
Competitive position
How Ethereum L1 Calldata 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 71 · gap 11.0Why Ethereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS) ranks above Ethereum L1 Calldata
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 11.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisEthereum Blobs (EIP-4844 / PeerDAS)Gap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight16.621.0−11.4, 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 · w3039−5.76, worse
What actually secures the data · w30109+0.96, better
Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable · w2568−1.60, worse
Blast radius if it halts + documented uptime · w15109+0.48, better
Net7182−11.0
Your scenario
Ethereum L1 Calldata 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 #2 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 3 · 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 10 · 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 10 · 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% (Ethereum L1 Calldata 10/10)Scored by Sampling live + how long data stays retrievable · 25% (Ethereum L1 Calldata 6/10)
- Liveness failure (Ethereum L1 Calldata 10/10): 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
- EIP-2028 (Final, fetched 22 October 2026): "The gas per non-zero byte is reduced from 68 to 16. Gas cost of zero bytes is unchanged." EIP-7623 (Final, live since Pectra; fetched 22 October 2026) adds a floor for data-posting transactions: STANDARD_TOKEN_COST 4, TOTAL_COST_FLOOR_PER_TOKEN 10, "Let tokens_in_calldata = zero_bytes_in_calldata + nonzero_bytes_in_calldata * 4.", so a transaction that mostly posts data pays 10 x 4 = 40 gas per non-zero byte, not 16. Live Ethereum mainnet, 2026-10-22: eth_feeHistory (ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com) over blocks 26,245,860-26,246,883 gives baseFeePerGas min 32,106,018 / median 81,733,558 / max 243,824,884 wei; latest block 26,246,887 had baseFeePerGas 0xbf6ce96 = 200,724,118 wei. DERIVED (arithmetic) at ETH $2,416.88 (CoinGecko 22 October 2026): 1 MiB of non-zero calldata at the EIP-7623 floor = 4,194,304 tokens x 10 = 41,943,040 gas. At the median base fee that is 0.00343 ETH = $8.29/MiB, 713x Ethereum blobs at their median over the same window ($0.0116/MiB); at the old 16 gas/byte rule, which the note published before this read used, it would be $3.31/MiB. Base fee only; priority fees excluded.Ethereum L1 Calldata — official documentation ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDEthereum L1 Calldata — 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
- Base-layer protocol with no operator and no terms of its own: the EIPs that set the calldata gas cost name no eligibility rule. The ethereum.org Terms of Use (read 22 October 2026) govern only the website: "The owner of the Websites is based in Switzerland. We make no claims that the Websites or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of Switzerland. Access to the Websites may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries." They name no country.
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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 71, #2 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:ethereum_calldata_da:2026.11.1:0e1a49bc18a0
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