Bungee and Squid Router tie on score at 62; the published tie-break orders them. Bungee is ahead on trust and route clarity. Squid Router ranks #4 and Bungee #5 of 18 published bridges. The ledger below shows where each side is ahead — pick by the criterion that matters to you.
Squid Router62
vs
Bungee62
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #4 and #5 of 18
Bungee and Squid Router tie on score at 62; the published tie-break orders them. Bungee is ahead on trust and route clarity.
Squid Router #4 of 1862
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 termBungee leads on 2 of 4 published criteria; Squid Router on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermBungeeSquid RouterWeightPoints
Route coverage8/1010/106.7−3.5for Squid Router−1.8 of 32
Trust6/105/106.2+1.6for Bungee+0.8 of 32
Route clarity6/105/105.8+1.5for Bungee+0.8 of 32
Net of the terms−0.4
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap−0.3
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below62620.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
EvidenceEvidence evidence medium vs evidence high — how well each score is supported, not the score itself
Squid RouterScore 62Axelar-powered cross-chain swap and bridge aggregatorStrength: Route coverage — 10/10Watch-out: Slippage on the swap leg adds to bridge feesBungeeScore 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
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactSquid RouterBungee
Bridge feeSnapshotSquid docs, "Transaction times and fees" (docs.squidrouter.com/additional-resources/architecture/transaction-times-and-fees, fetched 30 September 2026; the page reads "Last updated 6 months ago"): "Squid currently charges no fees. The user will only pay gas fees on source and destination chains." Integrators may add their own fee: "Partners can elect a % fee they would like to charge, and Squid will receive a portion of this fee." Routes with a destination swap also pay Axelar relayer gas in the source-chain token ("This fee is paid to Axelar's relayers, who trustlessly pass messages and proofs across chains."). Squid's homepage (squidrouter.com) advertises "Avg total cost $0.02 $0.10" (Squid versus others), "Based on a $100 ETH transaction from Ethereum mainnet." The swap-leg percentage and relay-cost range the previous note carried are on neither page.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 coverageEditorialCross-asset swap and bridge across all Axelar-connected chainsAggregated bridge and DEX swap routes across Socket-supported chains
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Squid Router
62#4 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Squid Router if route coverage matters most — it scores 10/10 to Bungee's 8/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Route coverage — 10/10
Tradeoff
Slippage on the swap leg adds to bridge fees
Bungee
62#5 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Bungee if trust matters most — it scores 6/10 to Squid Router'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?
Squid Router
Choose Squid Router if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 10/10 against 8/10 for Bungee (weight 28)
Squid RouterScore 62Axelar-powered cross-chain swap and bridge aggregatorStrength: Route coverage — 10/10Watch-out: Slippage on the swap leg adds to bridge fees
Bungee
Choose Bungee if trust matters most
Trust: 6/10 against 5/10 for Squid Router (weight 26)
Route clarity: 6/10 against 5/10 for Squid Router (weight 24)
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
by 2 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Squid Router leads
Squid Router10/10 out of 10
Bungee8/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 1 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Bungee leads
Squid Router5/10 out of 10
Bungee6/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
weight 5.3 of 86Tie
Squid Router7/10 out of 10
Bungee7/10 out of 10
Trust
by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Bungee leads
Squid Router5/10 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
Squid Router14/20Bungee14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Squid Router16.4/30Bungee16.3/30
Squid Router leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Squid Router2.7/10Bungee2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Squid Router3.2/8Bungee3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Squid Router12.5/18Bungee12.5/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Same published score — pick by the criterion that matters to you.
Pick Squid Router if route coverage matters most — it scores 10/10 to Bungee's 8/10 there (weight 28).
Pick Bungee if trust matters most — it scores 6/10 to Squid Router's 5/10 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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Bungee and Squid Router tie on score at 62; the published tie-break orders them. Bungee is ahead on trust and route clarity. Published scores, out of 100: Squid Router 62 (rank 4 of 18 bridges), Bungee 62 (rank 5 of 18).
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