Squid Router leads on both live benchmarks. Squid Router wins on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking (327 ms vs 342 ms), Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional (0.027% vs 0.057%). Data as of 2026-10-26 UTC.
Optimistic cross-chain bridge by Risk Labs. Intents are filled by relayers who front liquidity on the destination, repaid from a canonical hub pool. Settlement is typically sub-30 seconds on liquid corridors.
Cross-chain swap and liquidity routing built on Axelar. The Squid Router API sources routes across EVM chains via Axelar GMP, covering swaps and bridges in a single call.
Across
Trails342 ms
Squid Router
Leads327 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | EU-West | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base to Arb | Across | 355 ms | 355 ms |
| Squid Router | 328 ms | 328 ms |
Across
Trails0.057 %
Squid Router
Leads0.027 %
Per chain
| Chain | Across | Squid Router |
|---|---|---|
| Base to Arb | 0.10% | 0.027% |
Across and Squid Router are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Squid Router leads on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking benchmark, Squid Router leads at 327 ms versus Across at 342 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.