Cow vs Openocean: which one is better?

Cow and Openocean are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. See the live table on this page for every metric.

How is the Cow vs Openocean comparison measured?

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.

Cow vs Openocean

Cow vs Openocean on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmark, awaiting live measurements.

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:01:20 UTCWindow: rolling 24h1 shared benchmark

Cow

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.

Openocean

Multi-chain DEX aggregator. v4 swap API quotes and routes across EVM chains and Solana, aggregating across multiple AMMs with gas-aware path selection.

Side by side measurements

Fastest EVM swap quote API

Aggregators

Cow

Trails

3.46 s

p99: 4.97 s
rank: #6
samples: 3,462

Openocean

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How this pair was selected

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.