Uniswap scores 36 points above Aave, led by job fit, confidence, and ecosystem. Uniswap ranks #1 and Aave #8 of 10 published Web3 apps. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Uniswap87
vs
AAAave51
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #1 and #8 of 10
Uniswap scores 36 points above Aave, led by job fit, confidence, and ecosystem.
Uniswap #1 of 1087
AAAave #8 of 1051
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termUniswap leads on 4 of 4 published criteria; Aave on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermUniswapAaveWeightPoints
Job fit10/109/107.2+1.9for Uniswap+1.0 of 32
Confidence9/107/105.8+3.0for Uniswap+1.5 of 32
Ecosystem10/108/105.8+3.0for Uniswap+1.5 of 32
Operating style8/103/105.3+6.9for Uniswap+3.5 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension201420+15.6for Uniswap
FrictionScore dimension4.72.710+5.2for Uniswap
Net of the terms+35.5
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+35.6
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8751+36.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
UniswapScore 87Mainstream onchain app for swapping and first-step DeFi useStrength: Job fit — 10/10Watch-out: Less aligned if your real activity is Solana-nativeAaveScore 51Onchain lending and borrowing — supply assets, borrow against themStrength: Job fit — 9/10Watch-out: Borrowing carries liquidation risk if collateral value falls; rates are variable
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactUniswapAave
PricingSnapshotUniswap Labs' help-centre article "What are Uniswap Labs' fees?" (read through its Zendesk API on 30 September 2026, updated 23 September 2026) says: "As of December 27, 2025 Uniswap Labs does not charge interface fees." Its table lists the Interface + Wallet interface fee as "0%". What a swapper still pays is the pool's swap fee, per the developers.uniswap.org Fees page (fetched 30 September 2026): "In Uniswap v2, every pool charges a flat 0.30% fee"; "The standard v3 tiers are 0.05%, 0.30%, and 1%" (the same page also tables a 0.01% v3 tier); in v4 "Pool creators can set any fee from 0% to 100%". Since the December 2025 UNIfication vote a protocol fee of about 1/6 of the swap fee is carved out of that pool fee on v2 and select v3 pools; it is not charged on top. Network gas applies.Aave's FAQ (aave.com/faq, fetched 30 September 2026): suppliers earn and borrowers pay variable, per-asset rates shown in the Markets tab of the V3 Interface or Aave Pro (V4). "Each borrowable reserve in an Aave market has a parameter called reserve factor, which is the percentage of borrow interest accumulated to the treasury and is determined on a per-asset basis by Aave Governance." Transactions "may incur gas fees", which are "typically highest on Ethereum, and significantly cheaper on all other networks". A liquidated borrower pays a penalty that "depends on the asset used as collateral". The FAQ lists no separate platform or access fee.
Asset coverageEditorialOnchain swap assets and mainstream DeFi executionSupplied and borrowed assets across supported money markets
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalus, europe, global
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Uniswap
87#1 of 10
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Uniswap if job fit matters most — it scores 10/10 to Aave's 9/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Job fit — 10/10
Tradeoff
Less aligned if your real activity is Solana-native
AA
Aave
51#8 of 10
Pick it when
Aave leads Uniswap 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
Job fit — 9/10
Tradeoff
Borrowing carries liquidation risk if collateral value falls; rates are variable
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
UniswapLeads
Choose Uniswap if job fit matters most
Job fit: 10/10 against 9/10 for Aave (weight 30)
Ecosystem: 10/10 against 8/10 for Aave (weight 24)
Confidence: 9/10 against 7/10 for Aave (weight 24)
UniswapScore 87Mainstream onchain app for swapping and first-step DeFi useStrength: Job fit — 10/10Watch-out: Less aligned if your real activity is Solana-native
AAAave
Aave leads Uniswap on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
AaveScore 51Onchain lending and borrowing — supply assets, borrow against themStrength: Job fit — 9/10Watch-out: Borrowing carries liquidation risk if collateral value falls; rates are variable
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
Job fit
by 1 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Uniswap leads
Uniswap10/10 out of 10
Aave9/10 out of 10
Ecosystem
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Uniswap leads
Uniswap10/10 out of 10
Aave8/10 out of 10
Operating style
by 5 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Uniswap leads
Uniswap8/10 out of 10
Aave3/10 out of 10
Confidence
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Uniswap leads
Uniswap9/10 out of 10
Aave7/10 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
Uniswap20/20Aave14/20
Uniswap leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Uniswap22.4/30Aave16.7/30
Uniswap leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86
Uniswap4.7/10Aave2.7/10
Uniswap leads
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Uniswap6.4/8Aave6.4/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Uniswap6.9/18Aave6.9/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Uniswap unless the term Aave leads on is the one you are buying.
Aave leads Uniswap on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .
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None of this ranking's criteria scores a way of losing money; the families that apply are listed below as not assessed.
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control 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: Use-case fit (30%), Ecosystem fit (24%), Operating style (22%), Confidence signal (24%).
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Uniswap scores 36 points above Aave, led by job fit, confidence, and ecosystem. Published scores, out of 100: Uniswap 87 (rank 1 of 10 web3 apps), Aave 51 (rank 8 of 10).
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