Relay scores 24 points above Bungee, led by route clarity and transfer speed. Relay ranks #1 and Bungee #5 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Relay86
vs
Bungee62
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #1 and #5 of 18
Relay scores 24 points above Bungee, led by route clarity and transfer speed.
Relay #1 of 1886
Bungee #5 of 1862
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termRelay leads on 2 of 4 published criteria; Bungee on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermRelayBungeeWeightPoints
Trust5/106/106.2−1.6for Bungee−0.8 of 32
Route clarity7/106/105.8+1.5for Relay+0.8 of 32
Transfer speed9/107/105.3+2.7for Relay+1.4 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension201420+15.6for Relay
Trust recordScore dimension5.63.28+6.2for Relay
Net of the terms+24.5
Reproduced gap+24.4
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8662+24.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
EvidenceEvidence evidence high vs evidence medium — how well each score is supported, not the score itself
Relay's lead rests on lighter criteria: Bungee is ahead on trust, which carries more weight (26) than any criterion Relay leads on (24).
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 threeBungeeScore 62Trading app with cross-chain swaps into any token, routed through SocketStrength: Route coverage — 8/10Watch-out: Default route selection is automatic — power users may want to override
Quick facts
At a glance
FactRelayBungee
Bridge feeSnapshotRelay 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".Bungee's documentation link (docs.bungee.exchange) now resolves to Socket's docs. Socket, "Fees & Monetization" (docs.socket.tech/about/fees-monetization, fetched 30 September 2026): "For users, Socket does not charge any additional fees. All onchain execution costs are covered within the quoted fees. Socket does not add any markup or hidden fees to transactions." Integrators may charge their own fee ("integrations are free to implement fee charging for their own services"). The Bungee front end (bungee.exchange) renders client-side and now titles itself "Bungee | Infinite ways to play the market", so no live Bungee quote was read.
Asset coverageEditorialLower-friction cross-chain token movement across supported routesAggregated bridge and DEX swap routes across Socket-supported chains
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Relay
86#1 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Relay if route clarity matters most — it scores 7/10 to Bungee's 6/10 there (weight 24).
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
Bungee
62#5 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Bungee if trust matters most — it scores 6/10 to Relay's 5/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Route coverage — 8/10
Tradeoff
Default route selection is automatic — power users may want to override
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
RelayLeads
Choose Relay if route clarity matters most
Route clarity: 7/10 against 6/10 for Bungee (weight 24)
Transfer speed: 9/10 against 7/10 for Bungee (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
Bungee
Choose Bungee if trust matters most
Trust: 6/10 against 5/10 for Relay (weight 26)
BungeeScore 62Trading app with cross-chain swaps into any token, routed through SocketStrength: Route coverage — 8/10Watch-out: Default route selection is automatic — power users may want to override
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
Relay8/10 out of 10
Bungee8/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 1 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Relay leads
Relay7/10 out of 10
Bungee6/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Relay leads
Relay9/10 out of 10
Bungee7/10 out of 10
Trust
by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Bungee leads
Relay5/10 out of 10
Bungee6/10 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
Relay20/20Bungee14/20
Relay leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Relay17.3/30Bungee16.3/30
Relay leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Relay2.7/10Bungee2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Relay5.6/8Bungee3.2/8
Relay leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Relay12.5/18Bungee12.5/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Relay unless the term Bungee leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Bungee if trust matters most — it scores 6/10 to Relay's 5/10 there (weight 26).
The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .
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Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Scored by Trust posture · 26% (Relay 5/10, Bungee 6/10)
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 24 points above Bungee, led by route clarity and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Relay 86 (rank 1 of 18 bridges), Bungee 62 (rank 5 of 18).
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