Orbiter Finance vs Optimism Gateway Orbiter Finance leads by 6 points.
Orbiter Finance scores 6 points above Optimism Gateway, led by route coverage and transfer speed. Orbiter Finance ranks #7 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.
Orbiter Finance61
vs
Optimism Gateway55
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #7 and #9 of 18
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+5.7
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6155+6.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Orbiter FinanceScore 61Maker-filled bridge across EVM chains and ten other chain types, including Solana, Tron, Starknet and TONStrength: Speed — 8/10Watch-out: Deposits go to a Maker's externally owned address, not a contract; the payout is backed by an arbitration process and the Maker's margin deposit, not a verified cross-chain messageOptimism 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
FactOrbiter FinanceOptimism Gateway
PricingSnapshotOrbiter docs, "Maker System" (docs.orbiter.finance/welcome/maker-system.md, fetched 30 September 2026): each Maker sets its own charges - "Withholding Fee: A one-time charge to cover the cost of gas for transfers to the destination network." and "Trading Fee: Makers can choose a percentage of the trading value they wish to get from the per-transaction amount." - and "the minimum transaction value is 0.005 ETH". No percentage is published on that page or on the Bridge Protocol page, so the percentage range the previous note carried is not repeated. Orbiter's quote API (api.orbiter.finance, and the openapi.orbiter.finance mirror) did not answer on 30 September 2026, so no live quote was read.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 coverageEditorialToken transfers paid out by a Maker across EVM and non-EVM routes, with a documented minimum of 0.005 ETH per transactionETH and registered ERC-20s
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Orbiter Finance
61#7 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Orbiter Finance if route coverage matters most — it scores 7/10 to Optimism Gateway's 1/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Speed — 8/10
Tradeoff
Deposits go to a Maker's externally owned address, not a contract; the payout is backed by an arbitration process and the Maker's margin deposit, not a verified cross-chain message
Optimism Gateway
55#9 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Optimism Gateway if trust matters most — it scores 10/10 to Orbiter Finance's 4/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Trust — 10/10
Tradeoff
7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)
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Which one is actually for you?
Orbiter FinanceLeads
Choose Orbiter Finance if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 7/10 against 1/10 for Optimism Gateway (weight 28)
Transfer speed: 8/10 against 3/10 for Optimism Gateway (weight 22)
Orbiter FinanceScore 61Maker-filled bridge across EVM chains and ten other chain types, including Solana, Tron, Starknet and TONStrength: Speed — 8/10Watch-out: Deposits go to a Maker's externally owned address, not a contract; the payout is backed by an arbitration process and the Maker's margin deposit, not a verified cross-chain message
Optimism Gateway
Choose Optimism Gateway if trust matters most
Trust: 10/10 against 4/10 for Orbiter Finance (weight 26)
Route clarity: 9/10 against 7/10 for Orbiter Finance (weight 24)
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 86Orbiter Finance leads
Orbiter Finance7/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway1/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Optimism Gateway leads
Orbiter Finance7/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway9/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 5 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Orbiter Finance leads
Orbiter Finance8/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway3/10 out of 10
Trust
by 6 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Optimism Gateway leads
Orbiter Finance4/10 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
Orbiter Finance20/20Optimism Gateway14/20
Orbiter Finance leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Orbiter Finance15.5/30Optimism Gateway13.7/30
Orbiter Finance leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Orbiter Finance2.7/10Optimism Gateway2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Orbiter Finance3.2/8Optimism Gateway3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Orbiter Finance6.9/18Optimism Gateway12.5/18
Optimism Gateway leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Orbiter Finance 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 Orbiter Finance's 4/10 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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Orbiter Finance scores 6 points above Optimism Gateway, led by route coverage and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Orbiter Finance 61 (rank 7 of 18 bridges), Optimism Gateway 55 (rank 9 of 18).
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