Provider at a glance
- Category
- Intent Networks
- Entity
- All 3 Relay products
- Official website
- relay.link
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Details
Scored 47 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
Relay Protocol
Solver-filled requests with batched settlement
Intent Networks
#6 Overall
Ranked #6 of 7 intent networks in the published ranking
47
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Relay Protocol right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Network fee disclosure8/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Bid set visibility0/10 here; NEAR Intents scores 6
- Fallback when nobody fills3/10 here; NEAR Intents scores 6
- Solver admission2/10 here; deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN) scores 9
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best intent network shows where it lands for you.
What will Relay Protocol cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is Relay Protocol?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Relay Protocol
Compare all 4- 4NEAR Intents18 points above · stronger on bid visibility (6 against 0)65
- 5deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN)17 points above · stronger on solver admission (9 against 2)64
- 71inch Fusion2 points below · stronger on bid visibility (2 against 0)45
For your setup
Find out if Relay Protocol fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Relay Protocol 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 Relay Protocol 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 (9.2 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
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Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−17behind deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN), #5
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 46–50 and stays #6
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 Relay Protocol’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.
Bid set visibility 0 → 8 on its ladder · passes deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN)+864#6 → #5
Solver admission 2 → 0 on its ladder · 1inch Fusion passes it−245#6 → #7
Network fee disclosure 8 → 6 on its ladder · 1inch Fusion passes it−245#6 → #7
Fallback when nobody fills 3 → 1 on its ladder · 1inch Fusion passes it−245#6 → #7
Smallest climb: bid set visibility 0 → 8 passes deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN), #5.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Network fee disclosure — 8/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Bid set visibility — 0/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Fallback when nobody fills — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Solver admission — 2/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- Relay is the clearest test of whether a buyer is buying transparency or competition, and it separates them: it publishes the most precise fee schedule of any venue here while stating in its own documentation (docs.relay.link/references/protocol/overview) that "There is no orderflow auction or solver competition window." A buyer who reads only the fee page will conclude this is the most honest venue in the category, and on price disclosure they will be right; on execution they are accepting a quote from a counterparty, priced at a published margin, with no mechanism that forces that margin down. Chain list re-verified from api.relay.link/chains on 2026-08-08, which returned 68 chains, none of them flagged testnet; the 30 named above were each matched against that response by name and are a verified subset, not the full list.
Competitive position
Where Relay Protocol 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#6 / 76.9 of 30 · best 19.8
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 Relay Protocol leads
- Network fee disclosure#1 / 7
Where it trails
- Bid set visibility#7 / 7
- Solver admission#5 / 7
- Fallback when nobody fills#7 / 7
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.
1inch Fusion#7 of 7 · score 45 · 2.0 points behind
Relay Protocol leads on
- Network fee disclosure8 vs 2
1inch Fusion leads on
- Bid set visibility2 vs 0
- Fallback when nobody fills4 vs 3
Largest single reason Relay Protocol is ahead: published criteria (+2.3 display points).Scenario cost: 1inch Fusion has no verified pricing for this scenario.
deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN)#5 of 7 · score 64 · 17.0 points ahead
Relay Protocol leads onNo scored criterion
deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN) leads on
- Bid set visibility3 vs 0
- Solver admission9 vs 2
- Fallback when nobody fills4 vs 3
Largest single reason deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN) is ahead: published criteria (+16.6 display points).Scenario cost: deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN) has no verified pricing for this scenario.
NEAR Intents#4 of 7 · score 65 · 18.0 points ahead
Relay Protocol leads onNo scored criterion
NEAR Intents leads on
- Bid set visibility6 vs 0
- Fallback when nobody fills6 vs 3
Largest single reason NEAR Intents is ahead: published criteria (+17.2 display points).Scenario cost: NEAR Intents has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 47 · gap 34.0Why CoW Protocol ranks above Relay Protocol
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 34.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisCoW ProtocolGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight6.919.8−33.5, 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 criterionThisCoW ProtocolPoints
Bid set visibility · w34010−10.88, worse
Solver admission · w2027−3.20, worse
Fallback when nobody fills · w2437−3.07, worse
Net4781−34.0
Your scenario
Relay Protocol is not priced for this scenario
Transfer fee on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. 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
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 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 · 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 28 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 #6 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 28 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Bid set visibilitystrength 0 · weight 34Report an error—28 September 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.Solver admissionstrength 2 · weight 20Report an error—28 September 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.Network fee disclosurestrength 8 · weight 22Report an error—28 September 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.Fallback when nobody fillsstrength 3 · weight 24Report an error—28 September 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
- Execution failure: you get a worse price, later, or nothing.Scored by Bid set visibility · 34% (Relay Protocol 0/10)Scored by Solver admission · 20% (Relay Protocol 2/10)Scored by Fallback when nobody fills · 24% (Relay Protocol 3/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure, Regulatory failure, Exit 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: Network fee disclosure (22%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- docs.relay.link/references/api/api_core_concepts/fees (the former docs.relay.link/how-it-works/fees now redirects here), fetched 28 September 2026, publishes the Platform Fee, "A flat basis point fee charged for using the Relay API gateway and related services, including via the Relay.link frontend.", as a rate card charged to end users: Token Bridge & Same-Chain Wrap/Unwrap "0.00%", Stablecoin Swap "0.01%", Major Swap "0.06%", Minor Swap "0.15%". Execution Cost adds a "$0.02 flat fee — always included" plus a destination (fill) gas estimate; Swap Cost (DEX fees, DEX swap impact and solver cross-chain rebalancing fees) is not published as a rate. The page adds that "In certain cases, such as route-specific campaigns or promotions, different fees may apply." and that GET /requests/v3 returns each request's fees "with quoted (estimated at quote time) and actual (computed at fill time) values".Relay Protocol — official page at docs.relay.link ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDRelay Protocol — official page at docs.relay.link ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, BNB, Avalanche, Linea, Scroll, Sei, Solana, Bitcoin, TON, Tron, XRP, zkSync Era, Unichain, Ink, Blast, Mantle, Mode, Zora, Monad, HyperEVM, Berachain, Celo, Gnosis, World Chain, Soneium, Sonic
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
Legal entity on file: Relay, placed in 3 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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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
- 28 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 47, #6 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 intents:relay-intents:2026.10.18:dc470144c3be
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