Wormhole vs Squid Router Squid Router leads by 12 points.
Squid Router scores 12 points above Wormhole, led by route coverage and transfer speed. Wormhole ranks #14 and Squid Router #4 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Wormhole50
vs
Squid Router62
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #14 and #4 of 18
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+12.2
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6250+12.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Squid RouterScore 62Axelar-powered cross-chain swap and bridge aggregatorStrength: Route coverage — 10/10Watch-out: Slippage on the swap leg adds to bridge feesWormholeScore 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.
FactWormholeSquid Router
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.Squid 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.
Asset coverageEditorialMajor assets across all connected chainsCross-asset swap and bridge across all Axelar-connected chains
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Wormhole
50#14 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Wormhole if trust matters most — it scores 7/10 to Squid Router's 5/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Route coverage — 7/10
Tradeoff
Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Squid Router
62#4 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Squid Router if route coverage matters most — it scores 10/10 to Wormhole's 7/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Route coverage — 10/10
Tradeoff
Slippage on the swap leg adds to bridge fees
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
Wormhole
Choose Wormhole if trust matters most
Trust: 7/10 against 5/10 for Squid Router (weight 26)
WormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Squid RouterLeads
Choose Squid Router if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 10/10 against 7/10 for Wormhole (weight 28)
Transfer speed: 7/10 against 4/10 for Wormhole (weight 22)
Squid RouterScore 62Axelar-powered cross-chain swap and bridge aggregatorStrength: Route coverage — 10/10Watch-out: Slippage on the swap leg adds to bridge fees
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 3 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Squid Router leads
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Squid Router10/10 out of 10
Route clarity
weight 5.8 of 86Tie
Wormhole5/10 out of 10
Squid Router5/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 3 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Squid Router leads
Wormhole4/10 out of 10
Squid Router7/10 out of 10
Trust
by 2 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Wormhole leads
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Squid Router5/10 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
Wormhole14/20Squid Router14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Wormhole14.1/30Squid Router16.4/30
Squid Router leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Wormhole2.7/10Squid Router2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Wormhole6.4/8Squid Router3.2/8
Wormhole leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Wormhole6.9/18Squid Router12.5/18
Squid Router leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Squid Router unless the term Wormhole leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Wormhole if trust matters most — it scores 7/10 to Squid Router'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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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
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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Squid Router scores 12 points above Wormhole, led by route coverage and transfer speed. Published scores, out of 100: Wormhole 50 (rank 14 of 18 bridges), Squid Router 62 (rank 4 of 18).
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