NEAR Intents vs Relay

NEAR Intents leads on 1 of 2 shared benchmarks, Relay on 1. NEAR Intents wins on Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional (1.19% vs 2.60%). Relay wins on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking (905 ms vs 2.02 s).

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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

Trails

2.02 s

p99
5.31 s
rank
#8
samples
5,176

Relay

Leads

905 ms

p99
4.03 s
rank
#5
samples
12,920

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestUS-EastSingaporeAggregate
Sol to BaseNEAR Intents3.51 s3.52 s3.55 s3.53 s
Relay1.05 s1.04 s1.04 s1.05 s
Arb to HyperCoreNEAR Intents42 ms360 ms367 ms285 ms
Relay779 ms813 ms821 ms803 ms

Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional

Bridges

NEAR Intents

Leads

1.19 %

p99
1.19%
rank
#5
samples
103,422

Relay

Trails

2.60 %

p99
2.78%
rank
#6
samples
206,844

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestUS-EastSingaporeAggregate
Sol to BaseNEAR Intents0.027%0.027%0.027%0.027%
Relay0.18%0.18%0.18%0.18%
Arb to HyperCoreNEAR Intents2.35%2.35%2.35%2.35%
Relay8.93%8.93%8.93%8.93%

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 Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional. Relay 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 cheapest cross-chain bridge for usdc at $300 notional, NEAR Intents or Relay?

On the Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional benchmark, NEAR Intents leads at 1.19% versus Relay at 2.60%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

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

On the Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking benchmark, Relay leads at 905 ms versus NEAR Intents at 2.02 s. 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.

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.