Wormhole scores 9 points above Symbiosis, led by trust and route clarity. Wormhole ranks #14 and Symbiosis #16 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Wormhole50
vs
Symbiosis41
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #14 and #16 of 18
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+11.7
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below5041+9.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Wormhole's lead rests on lighter criteria: Symbiosis is ahead on route coverage, which carries more weight (28) than any criterion Wormhole leads on (26).
A floor bound on one row means the criterion arithmetic does not reproduce the displayed gap exactly.
WormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridgesSymbiosisScore 41Cross-chain AMM connecting EVM, Solana, TON, Tron, and BitcoinStrength: Route coverage — 9/10Watch-out: Liquidity varies materially by chain pair — verify before size
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactWormholeSymbiosis
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.Symbiosis docs, "Symbiosis & Fees" (docs.symbiosis.finance/main-concepts/symbiosis-and-fees.md, fetched 30 September 2026): the user pays source-chain gas - "The user signs and submits this transaction on the source blockchain (where their assets are held) and covers the gas fee for this transaction." - and the gas that Symbiosis relayers spend on the S-chain and the destination chain is withheld from the swapped tokens as a stablecoin-equivalent estimate; the FAQ (docs.symbiosis.finance/faq.md) puts it as "relayers pay for the gas, which is deducted from users swaps". Octopool swap fees and slippage apply on top. No percentage fee is published on either page, so the percentage the previous note carried is not repeated.
Asset coverageEditorialMajor assets across all connected chainsCross-chain AMM swaps across heterogeneous ecosystems
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Wormhole
50#14 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Wormhole if trust matters most — it scores 7/10 to Symbiosis's 3/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Route coverage — 7/10
Tradeoff
Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Symbiosis
41#16 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Symbiosis if route coverage matters most — it scores 9/10 to Wormhole's 7/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Route coverage — 9/10
Tradeoff
Liquidity varies materially by chain pair — verify before size
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
WormholeLeads
Choose Wormhole if trust matters most
Trust: 7/10 against 3/10 for Symbiosis (weight 26)
Route clarity: 5/10 against 3/10 for Symbiosis (weight 24)
WormholeScore 50Leading cross-chain messaging protocol connecting 30+ networksStrength: Route coverage — 7/10Watch-out: Higher fees on some routes than specialized bridges
Symbiosis
Choose Symbiosis if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 9/10 against 7/10 for Wormhole (weight 28)
Transfer speed: 6/10 against 4/10 for Wormhole (weight 22)
SymbiosisScore 41Cross-chain AMM connecting EVM, Solana, TON, Tron, and BitcoinStrength: Route coverage — 9/10Watch-out: Liquidity varies materially by chain pair — verify before size
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 86Symbiosis leads
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Symbiosis9/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Wormhole leads
Wormhole5/10 out of 10
Symbiosis3/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Symbiosis leads
Wormhole4/10 out of 10
Symbiosis6/10 out of 10
Trust
by 4 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Wormhole leads
Wormhole7/10 out of 10
Symbiosis3/10 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
Wormhole14/20Symbiosis14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Wormhole14.1/30Symbiosis12.8/30
Wormhole leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Wormhole2.7/10Symbiosis2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Wormhole6.4/8Symbiosis3.2/8
Wormhole leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Wormhole6.9/18Symbiosis6.9/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Wormhole unless the term Symbiosis leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Symbiosis if route coverage matters most — it scores 9/10 to Wormhole's 7/10 there (weight 28).
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Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Scored by Trust posture · 26% (Wormhole 7/10, Symbiosis 3/10)
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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Wormhole scores 9 points above Symbiosis, led by trust and route clarity. Published scores, out of 100: Wormhole 50 (rank 14 of 18 bridges), Symbiosis 41 (rank 16 of 18).
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