Across scores 28 points above Stargate, led by trust, route clarity, and transfer speed. Across ranks #2 and Stargate #12 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Across79
vs
Stargate51
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #12 of 18
Across scores 28 points above Stargate, led by trust, route clarity, and transfer speed.
Across #2 of 1879
Stargate #12 of 1851
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termAcross leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; Stargate on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermAcrossStargateWeightPoints
Route coverage7/108/106.7−1.7for Stargate−0.9 of 32
Trust7/104/106.2+4.9for Across+2.5 of 32
Route clarity9/103/105.8+9.0for Across+4.6 of 32
Transfer speed10/104/105.3+8.2for Across+4.2 of 32
Trust recordScore dimension6.43.28+8.3for Across
Net of the terms+28.7
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+28.6
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7951+28.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Across's lead rests on lighter criteria: Stargate is ahead on route coverage, which carries more weight (28) than any criterion Across leads on (26).
AcrossScore 79Fast route-led bridge for mainstream cross-chain movementStrength: Speed — 10/10Watch-out: Less specialist than some bridge-native power-user optionsStargateScore 51Omnichain liquidity bridge for broader route coverageStrength: Route coverage — 8/10Watch-out: Less purely mainstream than a simpler route-led bridge default
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactAcrossStargate
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).Stargate user docs, "Fees" (stargateprotocol.gitbook.io/stargate/v2-user-docs/whats-new-in-stargate-v2/fees.md, fetched 30 September 2026): "In V1, Stargate charged a flat 6 bps fee for all transactions via V1 pools. In V2, with the help of the AI Planning Module (AIPM) Stargate V2 enables dynamic fees." The fee "refers to the difference between the input by the user on the source chain and the received amount on the destination chain", and on a depleted pathway "a rebate is offered to help rebalance the liquidity in the system." Gas is paid separately in the source-chain native token for "LayerZero's execution fee" and the "Fee to the DVN for verifying the message between LayerZero endpoints". The V2 page publishes no rate, so the flat figure the previous note carried is the V1 rate, not a V2 price. Stargate's own quote API (stargate.finance/api/v1) answered HTTP 410 and points to LayerZero's Value Transfer API.
Asset coverageEditorialCross-chain token transfers across supported bridge routesBroader route and liquidity coverage across supported token and chain pairs
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalus, europe, global
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Across
79#2 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Across if trust matters most — it scores 7/10 to Stargate's 4/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Speed — 10/10
Tradeoff
Less specialist than some bridge-native power-user options
Stargate
51#12 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Stargate if route coverage matters most — it scores 8/10 to Across's 7/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Route coverage — 8/10
Tradeoff
Less purely mainstream than a simpler route-led bridge default
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
AcrossLeads
Choose Across if trust matters most
Trust: 7/10 against 4/10 for Stargate (weight 26)
Route clarity: 9/10 against 3/10 for Stargate (weight 24)
Transfer speed: 10/10 against 4/10 for Stargate (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
Stargate
Choose Stargate if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 8/10 against 7/10 for Across (weight 28)
StargateScore 51Omnichain liquidity bridge for broader route coverageStrength: Route coverage — 8/10Watch-out: Less purely mainstream than a simpler route-led bridge default
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 1 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Stargate leads
Across7/10 out of 10
Stargate8/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 6 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Across leads
Across9/10 out of 10
Stargate3/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 6 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Across leads
Across10/10 out of 10
Stargate4/10 out of 10
Trust
by 3 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Across leads
Across7/10 out of 10
Stargate4/10 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
Across20/20Stargate20/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Across19.5/30Stargate11.7/30
Across leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Across2.7/10Stargate2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Across6.4/8Stargate3.2/8
Across leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Across6.9/18Stargate6.9/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Across unless the term Stargate leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Stargate if route coverage matters most — it scores 8/10 to Across's 7/10 there (weight 28).
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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Scored by Trust posture · 26% (Across 7/10, Stargate 4/10)
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 28 points above Stargate, led by trust, route clarity, and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Across 79 (rank 2 of 18 bridges), Stargate 51 (rank 12 of 18).
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