Relay scores 40 points above deBridge, led by route coverage, route clarity, and transfer speed. deBridge ranks #15 and Relay #1 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
deBridge46
vs
Relay86
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #15 and #1 of 18
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+39.8
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8646+40.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
RelayScore 86Cleaner bridge path for users who want low-friction multichain movementStrength: Speed — 9/10Watch-out: Relay's chain list on 2026-09-30 had no Sui, Stellar or Cosmos chains; Squid's chain data covers all threedeBridgeScore 46Cross-chain bridge for users who want faster execution with broader route reachStrength: Speed — 8/10Watch-out: Less low-noise than the clearest mainstream bridge defaults
Quick facts
At a glance
FactdeBridgeRelay
Bridge feeSnapshotRe-read 28 October 2026 (docs.debridge.com/dln-details/overview/fee-structure): "Flat fee – a fixed amount in the source‑chain native token paid to deBridge validators for processing the eventual unlock message."; "Taker margin (≈ 4 bps) – the solver’s profit."; worked example "Flat fee: 0.001 ETH Variable fee: 0.04 % × 1 000 = 0.40 USDC Taker margin: 0.40 USDC Operating expenses: ≈ 0.03 USDC". Earlier read: deBridge docs, "Fee Structure" (docs.debridge.com/dln-details/overview/fee-structure, fetched 30 September 2026): two order-creation fees - "Flat fee - a fixed amount in the source-chain native token paid to deBridge validators for processing the eventual unlock message." and "Variable protocol fee (4 bps) - deducted from the input token." - plus runtime costs built into the spread, "Taker margin (≈ 4 bps) - the solver's profit." and the solver's gas for fulfil, unlock and claim; "Both fees are fully refunded if the order is cancelled." The per-chain table (docs.debridge.com/dln-details/overview/fees-supported-chains.md) lists a flat fee of "0.001 ETH" on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and Linea and warns "Protocol fees can be changed." On-chain the same day: eth_call DlnSource 0xeF4fB24aD0916217251F553c0596F8Edc630EB66 globalFixedNativeFee() at Ethereum block 26,086,358 returned 1000000000000000 wei (0.001 ETH) and globalTransferFeeBps() returned 4.Relay docs, "Cost & Fee Structure" (docs.relay.link/references/api/api_core_concepts/fees, fetched 30 September 2026): four components - Execution Cost ("$0.02 flat fee - always included" plus a destination fill-gas estimate), Swap Cost (payments to liquidity providers, DEX fees and solver rebalancing; no rate published), Platform Fees, and integrator App Fees. The Platform Fee table reads "Token Bridge & Same-Chain Wrap/Unwrap Stablecoin Swap Major Swap Minor Swap Platform Fees charged to end users 0.00% 0.01% 0.06% 0.15%", so a same-token bridge carries a 0.00% platform fee. "For regular (non-gasless) transactions, the user pays origin gas directly from their own wallet to the network".
Asset coverageEditorialFaster cross-chain movement across supported token and route pairsLower-friction cross-chain token movement across supported routes
Region fitSnapshotglobalus, europe, global
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
deBridge
46#15 of 18
Pick it when
deBridge leads Relay 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
Speed — 8/10
Tradeoff
Less low-noise than the clearest mainstream bridge defaults
Relay
86#1 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Relay if route coverage matters most — it scores 8/10 to deBridge's 7/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Speed — 9/10
Tradeoff
Relay's chain list on 2026-09-30 had no Sui, Stellar or Cosmos chains; Squid's chain data covers all three
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Which one is actually for you?
deBridge
deBridge leads Relay on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
deBridgeScore 46Cross-chain bridge for users who want faster execution with broader route reachStrength: Speed — 8/10Watch-out: Less low-noise than the clearest mainstream bridge defaults
RelayLeads
Choose Relay if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 8/10 against 7/10 for deBridge (weight 28)
Route clarity: 7/10 against 6/10 for deBridge (weight 24)
Transfer speed: 9/10 against 8/10 for deBridge (weight 22)
RelayScore 86Cleaner bridge path for users who want low-friction multichain movementStrength: Speed — 9/10Watch-out: Relay's chain list on 2026-09-30 had no Sui, Stellar or Cosmos chains; Squid's chain data covers all three
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 86Relay leads
deBridge7/10 out of 10
Relay8/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 1 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Relay leads
deBridge6/10 out of 10
Relay7/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 1 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Relay leads
deBridge8/10 out of 10
Relay9/10 out of 10
Trust
weight 6.2 of 86Tie
deBridge5/10 out of 10
Relay5/10 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
deBridge20/20Relay20/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
deBridge15.5/30Relay17.3/30
Relay leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
deBridge2.7/10Relay2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
deBridge3.2/8Relay5.6/8
Relay leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
deBridge1.4/18Relay12.5/18
Relay leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Relay unless the term deBridge leads on is the one you are buying.
deBridge leads Relay 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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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% (deBridge 5/10, Relay 5/10)
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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Relay scores 40 points above deBridge, led by route coverage, route clarity, and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: deBridge 46 (rank 15 of 18 bridges), Relay 86 (rank 1 of 18).
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