LI.FI vs NEAR Intents

LI.FI leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks, NEAR Intents on 0. LI.FI wins on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking (1.63 s vs 2.02 s), Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional (0.94% vs 1.19%).

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LI.FI

Cross-chain bridge and DEX aggregator. Routes swaps across bridges and liquidity sources via a single API, with EVM and Solana support.

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NEAR Intents

Cross-chain intent layer from NEAR Protocol. The 1Click API runs a solver auction bus, signed quotes are settled by the winning market maker. Quote latency reflects bid arrival, not route search across LPs.

Side by side measurements

Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking

Bridges

LI.FI

Leads

1.63 s

p99
4.98 s
rank
#6
samples
12,956

NEAR Intents

Trails

2.02 s

p99
5.31 s
rank
#8
samples
5,176

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestUS-EastSingaporeAggregate
Sol to BaseLI.FI1.53 s2.34 s2.38 s1.85 s
NEAR Intents3.51 s3.52 s3.55 s3.53 s
Arb to HyperCoreLI.FI1.24 s1.49 s1.48 s1.42 s
NEAR Intents42 ms360 ms367 ms285 ms

Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional

Bridges

LI.FI

Leads

0.94 %

p99
3.37%
rank
#4
samples
206,844

NEAR Intents

Trails

1.19 %

p99
1.19%
rank
#5
samples
103,422

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestUS-EastSingaporeAggregate
Sol to BaseLI.FI0.62%0.62%0.62%0.62%
NEAR Intents0.027%0.027%0.027%0.027%
Arb to HyperCoreLI.FI1.35%1.35%1.35%1.35%
NEAR Intents2.35%2.35%2.35%2.35%

Frequently asked questions

LI.FI vs NEAR Intents: which one is better?

LI.FI and NEAR Intents are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. LI.FI leads on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on fastest cross-chain bridge quote api, live ms ranking, LI.FI or NEAR Intents?

On the Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking benchmark, LI.FI leads at 1.63 s versus NEAR Intents at 2.02 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the LI.FI vs NEAR Intents 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.

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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.