NEAR Intents vs Relay

NEAR Intents leads on both live benchmarks. NEAR Intents wins on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking (40 ms vs 471 ms), Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional (0.044% vs 0.095%).

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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.

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Relay

Cross-chain intent network from Reservoir. Users sign an intent, relayers compete to fill on the destination, settlement is typically sub-30 seconds.

Side by side measurements

Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking

Bridges

NEAR Intents

Leads

40 ms

p99
106 ms
rank
#1
samples
282

Relay

Trails

471 ms

p99
2.89 s
rank
#6
samples
576

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestAggregate
Sol to BaseNEAR Intents3.50 s3.51 s
Relay475 ms350 ms
Base to ArbNEAR Intents3.50 s3.50 s
Relay150 ms199 ms
Arb to SolNEAR Intents3.50 s3.50 s
Relay351 ms340 ms
Arb to HyperCoreNEAR Intents40 ms40 ms
Relay721 ms564 ms

Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional

Bridges

NEAR Intents

Leads

0.044 %

p99
0.048%
rank
#3
samples
20,154

Relay

Trails

0.095 %

p99
0.12%
rank
#5
samples
34,548

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestAggregate
Sol to BaseNEAR Intents0.016%0.016%
Relay0.030%0.030%
Base to ArbNEAR Intents0.015%0.015%
Relay0.024%0.043%
Arb to SolNEAR Intents0.019%0.019%
Relay0.038%0.053%
Arb to HyperCoreNEAR Intents-0.12%
Relay-0.20%

Frequently asked questions

NEAR Intents vs Relay: which one is better?

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

Which is faster, NEAR Intents or Relay?

On the Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking benchmark, NEAR Intents leads at 40 ms versus Relay at 471 ms. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the NEAR Intents vs Relay 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.

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How this pair was selected

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.

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