edgeX leads on 2 of 3 shared benchmarks, Lighter on 1. edgeX wins on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues (292 vs 203), Perp DEX cost invariance: all-in bps at $1M vs $1k, live slope ranked (1.099x vs 5.26x). Lighter wins on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL (0.0032% vs 0.039%).
zkSync-based perp DEX with low taker fees and a documented public REST API.
Onchain perp DEX with a fully onchain orderbook on a zkSync rollup. ZK proofs verify matching, no off-chain sequencer for trade execution.
edgeX
Trails0.039 %
Lighter
Leads0.0032 %
Per chain
| Chain | edgeX | Lighter |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.043% | 0.0038% |
| BTC | 0.039% | 0.0032% |
| SOL | 0.060% | 0.0041% |
edgeX
Leads292
Lighter
Trails203
edgeX
Leads1.099x
Lighter
Trails5.26x
Per chain
| Chain | edgeX | Lighter |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 1.080x | 4.97x |
| BTC | 1.099x | 5.24x |
| SOL | 1.178x | 13.8x |
edgeX and Lighter are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. edgeX leads on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues. Lighter leads on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues benchmark, edgeX leads at 292 versus Lighter at 203. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL benchmark, Lighter leads at 0.0032% versus edgeX at 0.039%. 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.
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.