Across vs Optimism Gateway Across leads by 24 points.
Across scores 24 points above Optimism Gateway, led by route coverage and transfer speed. Across ranks #2 and Optimism Gateway #9 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Across79
vs
Optimism Gateway55
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #9 of 18
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+24.4
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7955+24.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
AcrossScore 79Fast route-led bridge for mainstream cross-chain movementStrength: Speed — 10/10Watch-out: Less specialist than some bridge-native power-user optionsOptimism GatewayScore 55Native canonical bridge for Ethereum ↔ Optimism / OP Stack chainsStrength: Trust — 10/10Watch-out: 7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)
Quick facts
At a glance
FactAcrossOptimism Gateway
PricingSnapshotAcross Docs, "Fees in the System" (docs.across.to/introduction/fees, fetched 30 September 2026): the whole fee is the spread, "totalFee = inputAmount - outputAmount", split into an LP Fee (utilization-based, Aave-style two-slope curve, per route) and a Relayer Fee covering destination gas, capital opportunity cost and capital at risk; "If the relayer takes repayment on the origin chain (same chain as the deposit), no crosschain rebalancing is needed, so LP fees are zero." No headline percentage is published. Integrators may add an app fee on top ("Set appFee (a decimal from 0 to 1 , e.g. 0.01 = 1%) and appFeeRecipient on your Swap API request."). Measured the same day on app.across.to/api/suggested-fees for 1000000000 USDC base units (six decimals) Ethereum to Arbitrum: "outputAmount":"999892297", "capitalFeeTotal":"100000", "relayGasFeeTotal":"7703", "lpFeePct":"0", "estimatedFillTimeSec":2 (arithmetic: 1000000000 - 999892297 = 107703 base units, about 1.08 bps of the amount sent, plus origin-chain gas that the endpoint does not return).OP docs, "Using the Standard Bridge" (docs.optimism.io/app-developers/guides/bridging/standard-bridge, fetched 30 September 2026): no bridge fee is stated on that page; the cost is gas, set per transfer as "_minGasLimit : Gas to use to complete the transfer on the receiving side." Deposits "are usually completed within 1-3 minutes" and withdrawals "are completed in 7 days as a result of the withdrawal challenge period", with a prove and a finalize transaction on Ethereum. No dollar cost is published on the page, so the dollar ranges the previous note carried are not repeated.
Asset coverageEditorialCross-chain token transfers across supported bridge routesETH and registered ERC-20s
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Across
79#2 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Across if route coverage matters most — it scores 7/10 to Optimism Gateway's 1/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Speed — 10/10
Tradeoff
Less specialist than some bridge-native power-user options
Optimism Gateway
55#9 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Optimism Gateway if trust matters most — it scores 10/10 to Across's 7/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Trust — 10/10
Tradeoff
7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
AcrossLeads
Choose Across if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 7/10 against 1/10 for Optimism Gateway (weight 28)
Transfer speed: 10/10 against 3/10 for Optimism Gateway (weight 22)
AcrossScore 79Fast route-led bridge for mainstream cross-chain movementStrength: Speed — 10/10Watch-out: Less specialist than some bridge-native power-user options
Optimism Gateway
Choose Optimism Gateway if trust matters most
Trust: 10/10 against 7/10 for Across (weight 26)
Optimism GatewayScore 55Native canonical bridge for Ethereum ↔ Optimism / OP Stack chainsStrength: Trust — 10/10Watch-out: 7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)
Criterion by criterion
Scorecard
Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology
Route coverage
by 6 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Across leads
Across7/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway1/10 out of 10
Route clarity
weight 5.8 of 86Tie
Across9/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway9/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 7 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Across leads
Across10/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway3/10 out of 10
Trust
by 3 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Optimism Gateway leads
Across7/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway10/10 out of 10
Score dimensions
weights sum to 86
The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.
Availabilityweight 20 of 86
Across20/20Optimism Gateway14/20
Across leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Across19.5/30Optimism Gateway13.7/30
Across leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Across2.7/10Optimism Gateway2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Across6.4/8Optimism Gateway3.2/8
Across leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Across6.9/18Optimism Gateway12.5/18
Optimism Gateway leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Across unless the term Optimism Gateway leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Optimism Gateway if trust matters most — it scores 10/10 to Across's 7/10 there (weight 26).
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Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Regulatory failure, Execution 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: Route coverage (28%), Route clarity (24%), Execution speed (22%).
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Across scores 24 points above Optimism Gateway, led by route coverage and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Across 79 (rank 2 of 18 bridges), Optimism Gateway 55 (rank 9 of 18).
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