Cow leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Kyberswap on 1. Kyberswap wins on Fastest EVM swap quote API (200 ms vs 3.46 s).
CoW Protocol settles trades via batch auctions with coincidence-of-wants matching, MEV protection, and solver competition. CoW Swap is the reference frontend; the protocol settles flow from many integrators.
EVM DEX aggregator by Kyber Network. Pathfinder routes across 420+ liquidity sources on 17+ EVM chains, splitting trades atomically for best net output after gas.
Cow
Trails3.46 s
Kyberswap
Leads200 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | US East | EU West | Singapore | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | Cow | 3.50 s | 3.50 s | 3.41 s | 3.47 s |
| Kyberswap | 369 ms | 368 ms | 352 ms | 363 ms | |
| Base | Cow | 3.50 s | 3.50 s | 3.41 s | 3.47 s |
| Kyberswap | 384 ms | 395 ms | 353 ms | 377 ms | |
| Arbitrum | Cow | 3.48 s | 3.48 s | 3.35 s | 3.44 s |
| Kyberswap | 36 ms | 37 ms | 22 ms | 31 ms |
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.