NEAR Intents vs Socket Protocol

Socket Protocol leads on both live benchmarks. Socket Protocol wins on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking (1.50 s vs 3.50 s), Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional (0.012% vs 0.037%).

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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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Socket Protocol

Cross-chain interoperability protocol and bridge aggregator. The Socket API routes bridging and swap transactions across major EVM chains via underlying bridges including Across, Stargate, and CCTP.

Side by side measurements

Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking

Bridges

NEAR Intents

Trails

3.50 s

p99
172 ms
rank
#8
samples
286

Socket Protocol

Leads

1.50 s

p99
2.00 s
rank
#7
samples
287

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestAggregate
Base to ArbNEAR Intents3.50 s3.50 s
Socket Protocol1.50 s1.50 s

Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional

Bridges

NEAR Intents

Trails

0.037 %

p99
0.041%
rank
#3
samples
12,220

Socket Protocol

Leads

0.012 %

p99
0.014%
rank
#2
samples
2,894

Per chain · per region

ChainProviderEU-WestAggregate
Base to ArbNEAR Intents0.0095%0.0095%
Socket Protocol0.012%0.012%

Frequently asked questions

NEAR Intents vs Socket Protocol: which one is better?

NEAR Intents and Socket Protocol are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Socket Protocol 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 Socket Protocol?

On the Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking benchmark, Socket Protocol leads at 1.50 s versus NEAR Intents at 3.50 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the NEAR Intents vs Socket Protocol 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

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.