Across scores 29 points above Wormhole, led by route clarity and transfer speed. Across ranks #2 and Wormhole #14 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Across79
vs
Wormhole50
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #14 of 18
Across scores 29 points above Wormhole, led by route clarity and transfer speed.
Across #2 of 1879
Wormhole #14 of 1850
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 2 of 4 published criteria; Wormhole on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermAcrossWormholeWeightPoints
Route clarity9/105/105.8+6.0for Across+3.1 of 32
Transfer speed10/104/105.3+8.2for Across+4.2 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension201420+15.6for Across
Net of the terms+29.8
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.2
Reproduced gap+29.6
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7950+29.0
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 optionsWormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Quick facts
At a glance
FactAcrossWormhole
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).Wormhole Connect docs, "Routes" (wormhole.com/docs/ai/pages/products-connect-concepts-routes.md, fetched 30 September 2026): automatic routes deliver in one user transaction "for a small fee" - "Trustless relayers can execute the second transaction on the user's behalf, so the user only needs to perform one transaction on the origin chain to have the tokens delivered to the destination automatically - for a small fee." - while manual routes need a second, destination-chain transaction whose gas the user pays. No relayer fee amount is published on that page, so the dollar range the previous note carried is not repeated. Portal Bridge (portalbridge.com), Wormhole's consumer front end, renders client-side, so no live Portal quote was read.
Asset coverageEditorialCross-chain token transfers across supported bridge routesMajor assets across all connected chains
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 clarity matters most — it scores 9/10 to Wormhole's 5/10 there (weight 24).
Strength
Speed — 10/10
Tradeoff
Less specialist than some bridge-native power-user options
Wormhole
50#14 of 18
Pick it when
Wormhole leads Across on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
Strength
Route coverage — 7/10
Tradeoff
Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
AcrossLeads
Choose Across if route clarity matters most
Route clarity: 9/10 against 5/10 for Wormhole (weight 24)
Transfer speed: 10/10 against 4/10 for Wormhole (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
Wormhole
Wormhole leads Across on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
WormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
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
weight 6.7 of 86Tie
Across7/10 out of 10
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 4 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Across leads
Across9/10 out of 10
Wormhole5/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 6 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Across leads
Across10/10 out of 10
Wormhole4/10 out of 10
Trust
weight 6.2 of 86Tie
Across7/10 out of 10
Wormhole7/10 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
Across20/20Wormhole14/20
Across leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Across19.5/30Wormhole14.1/30
Across leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Across2.7/10Wormhole2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Across6.4/8Wormhole6.4/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Across6.9/18Wormhole6.9/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Across unless the term Wormhole leads on is the one you are buying.
Wormhole leads Across on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
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Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Scored by Trust posture · 26% (Across 7/10, Wormhole 7/10)
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 29 points above Wormhole, led by route clarity and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Across 79 (rank 2 of 18 bridges), Wormhole 50 (rank 14 of 18).
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