Relay vs Jumper Exchange Relay leads by 23 points.
Relay scores 23 points above Jumper Exchange, led by transfer speed. Relay ranks #1 and Jumper Exchange #3 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Relay86
vs
Jumper Exchange63
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #1 and #3 of 18
Relay scores 23 points above Jumper Exchange, led by transfer speed.
Relay #1 of 1886
Jumper Exchange #3 of 1863
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 1 of 4 published criteria; Jumper Exchange on 2. The terms sum to the gap.
TermRelayJumper ExchangeWeightPoints
Route coverage8/109/106.7−1.7for Jumper Exchange−0.9 of 32
Route clarity7/108/105.8−1.5for Jumper Exchange−0.8 of 32
Transfer speed9/106/105.3+4.1for Relay+2.1 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension201420+15.6for Relay
Trust recordScore dimension5.63.28+6.2for Relay
Net of the terms+22.7
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.2
Reproduced gap+22.9
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8663+23.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Relay's lead rests on lighter criteria: Jumper Exchange is ahead on route coverage, which carries more weight (28) than any criterion Relay leads on (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 threeJumper ExchangeScore 63LI.FI-powered bridge + DEX aggregator with route comparisonStrength: Route coverage — 9/10Watch-out: Quality of the underlying bridges varies — Jumper aggregates, it doesn't guarantee
Quick facts
At a glance
FactRelayJumper Exchange
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".Jumper's own terms page (jumper.exchange/legal/terms, now jumper.xyz) answered HTTP 403 on 30 September 2026, so the price is read from LI.FI, the routing layer Jumper runs on. LI.FI's FAQ (docs.li.fi/faqs/fees-monetization, fetched 30 September 2026) states "LI.FI charges a 0.25% service fee on each transaction." and "LI.FI also offers volume-based commercial discounts."; bridge, DEX and gas costs are separate ("Fee structures vary by bridge or DEX."). A same-day LI.FI quote requested with integrator=jumper.exchange for USDC Ethereum to Arbitrum (fromAmount=1000000000, six decimals) returned "toAmount":"1000000000", "feeCosts":[] and route "polymerStandard" (li.quest/v1/quote), i.e. no service fee was applied on the Jumper integrator for that route; gas is extra.
Asset coverageEditorialLower-friction cross-chain token movement across supported routesCross-chain bridge aggregation across all LI.FI-supported routes
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Relay
86#1 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Relay if transfer speed matters most — it scores 9/10 to Jumper Exchange's 6/10 there (weight 22).
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
Jumper Exchange
63#3 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Jumper Exchange if route coverage matters most — it scores 9/10 to Relay's 8/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Route coverage — 9/10
Tradeoff
Quality of the underlying bridges varies — Jumper aggregates, it doesn't guarantee
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
RelayLeads
Choose Relay if transfer speed matters most
Transfer speed: 9/10 against 6/10 for Jumper Exchange (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
Jumper Exchange
Choose Jumper Exchange if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 9/10 against 8/10 for Relay (weight 28)
Route clarity: 8/10 against 7/10 for Relay (weight 24)
Jumper ExchangeScore 63LI.FI-powered bridge + DEX aggregator with route comparisonStrength: Route coverage — 9/10Watch-out: Quality of the underlying bridges varies — Jumper aggregates, it doesn't guarantee
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 86Jumper Exchange leads
Relay8/10 out of 10
Jumper Exchange9/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 1 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Jumper Exchange leads
Relay7/10 out of 10
Jumper Exchange8/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 3 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Relay leads
Relay9/10 out of 10
Jumper Exchange6/10 out of 10
Trust
weight 6.2 of 86Tie
Relay5/10 out of 10
Jumper Exchange5/10 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
Relay20/20Jumper Exchange14/20
Relay leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Relay17.3/30Jumper Exchange16.9/30
Relay leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Relay2.7/10Jumper Exchange2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Relay5.6/8Jumper Exchange3.2/8
Relay leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Relay12.5/18Jumper Exchange12.5/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Relay unless the term Jumper Exchange leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Jumper Exchange if route coverage matters most — it scores 9/10 to Relay's 8/10 there (weight 28).
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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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Relay scores 23 points above Jumper Exchange, led by transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Relay 86 (rank 1 of 18 bridges), Jumper Exchange 63 (rank 3 of 18).
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