Wormhole vs Base Bridge Base Bridge leads by 11 points.
Base Bridge scores 11 points above Wormhole, led by trust and route clarity. Wormhole ranks #14 and Base Bridge #6 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Wormhole50
vs
Base Bridge61
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #14 and #6 of 18
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6150+11.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Base Bridge's lead rests on lighter criteria: Wormhole is ahead on route coverage, which carries more weight (28) than any criterion Base Bridge leads on (26).
Base BridgeScore 61Native canonical bridge for Ethereum ↔ BaseStrength: Trust — 9/10Watch-out: Direct withdrawals to Ethereum wait out a 5-day window, or 1 day on the fast path when a TEE proof and a ZK proof back the same proposalWormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactWormholeBase Bridge
PricingSnapshotWormhole Connect docs, "Routes" (wormhole.com/docs/ai/pages/products-connect-concepts-routes.md, fetched 30 September 2026): automatic routes deliver in one user transaction "for a small fee" - "Trustless relayers can execute the second transaction on the user's behalf, so the user only needs to perform one transaction on the origin chain to have the tokens delivered to the destination automatically - for a small fee." - while manual routes need a second, destination-chain transaction whose gas the user pays. No relayer fee amount is published on that page, so the dollar range the previous note carried is not repeated. Portal Bridge (portalbridge.com), Wormhole's consumer front end, renders client-side, so no live Portal quote was read.Base docs (fetched 30 September 2026): the canonical deposit path pays gas only - "They buy their L2 gas on L1 and, as such, the L2 gas is not refundable." (docs.base.org/specifications/base-protocol/bridging/deposits). Base no longer runs its own bridge interface: its "Bridge to Base" page (docs.base.org/base-chain/network-information/ecosystem-bridges) sends Ethereum users to "Superbridge or Brid.gg" and Coinbase-account holders to "Withdraw directly to Base (no bridge)". The previous pricing page, docs.base.org/use-base/bridge, now returns HTTP 404. No bridge fee is stated on the pages read.
Asset coverageEditorialMajor assets across all connected chainsETH and registered ERC-20s
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Wormhole
50#14 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Wormhole if route coverage matters most — it scores 7/10 to Base Bridge's 2/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Route coverage — 7/10
Tradeoff
Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Base Bridge
61#6 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Base Bridge if trust matters most — it scores 9/10 to Wormhole's 7/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Trust — 9/10
Tradeoff
Direct withdrawals to Ethereum wait out a 5-day window, or 1 day on the fast path when a TEE proof and a ZK proof back the same proposal
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
Wormhole
Choose Wormhole if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 7/10 against 2/10 for Base Bridge (weight 28)
WormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Base BridgeLeads
Choose Base Bridge if trust matters most
Trust: 9/10 against 7/10 for Wormhole (weight 26)
Route clarity: 8/10 against 5/10 for Wormhole (weight 24)
Base BridgeScore 61Native canonical bridge for Ethereum ↔ BaseStrength: Trust — 9/10Watch-out: Direct withdrawals to Ethereum wait out a 5-day window, or 1 day on the fast path when a TEE proof and a ZK proof back the same proposal
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 5 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Wormhole leads
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Base Bridge2/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 3 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Base Bridge leads
Wormhole5/10 out of 10
Base Bridge8/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
weight 5.3 of 86Tie
Wormhole4/10 out of 10
Base Bridge4/10 out of 10
Trust
by 2 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Base Bridge leads
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Base Bridge9/10 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
Wormhole14/20Base Bridge14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Wormhole14.1/30Base Bridge13.7/30
Wormhole leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Wormhole2.7/10Base Bridge2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Wormhole6.4/8Base Bridge5.6/8
Wormhole leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Wormhole6.9/18Base Bridge12.5/18
Base Bridge leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Base Bridge unless the term Wormhole leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Wormhole if route coverage matters most — it scores 7/10 to Base Bridge's 2/10 there (weight 28).
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Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Scored by Trust posture · 26% (Wormhole 7/10, Base Bridge 9/10)
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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Base Bridge scores 11 points above Wormhole, led by trust and route clarity. Published scores, out of 100: Wormhole 50 (rank 14 of 18 bridges), Base Bridge 61 (rank 6 of 18).
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