LI.FI leads on the only live benchmark. LI.FI wins on Fastest EVM swap quote API (706 ms vs 2.61 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.
Cross-chain bridge and DEX aggregator. Routes swaps across bridges and liquidity sources via a single API, with EVM and Solana support.
CoW Protocol
Trails2.61 s
LI.FI
Leads706 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | US East | EU West | Singapore | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | CoW Protocol | 1.77 s | 1.42 s | 993 ms | 1.40 s |
| LI.FI | 785 ms | 784 ms | 697 ms | 755 ms | |
| Base | CoW Protocol | 3.04 s | 2.97 s | 2.83 s | 2.95 s |
| LI.FI | 798 ms | 772 ms | 752 ms | 774 ms | |
| Arbitrum | CoW Protocol | 3.50 s | 3.50 s | 3.43 s | 3.48 s |
| LI.FI | 631 ms | 601 ms | 480 ms | 571 ms |
CoW Protocol and LI.FI are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. LI.FI leads on Fastest EVM swap quote API. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest EVM swap quote API benchmark, LI.FI leads at 706 ms versus CoW Protocol at 2.61 s. 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.