Relay leads on 0 of 2 shared benchmarks, Squid Router on 2. Squid Router wins on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking (354 ms vs 953 ms), Cheapest cross-chain bridge for USDC at $300 notional (0.011% vs 2.61%).
Cross-chain intent network from Reservoir. Users sign an intent, relayers compete to fill on the destination, settlement is typically sub-30 seconds.
Cross-chain swap and liquidity routing built on Axelar. The Squid Router API sources routes across EVM chains via Axelar GMP, covering swaps and bridges in a single call.
Relay
Trails953 ms
Squid Router
Leads354 ms
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | EU-West | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base to Arb | Relay | 713 ms | 764 ms |
| Squid Router | 354 ms | 354 ms |
Relay
Trails2.61 %
Squid Router
Leads0.011 %
Per chain · per region
| Chain | Provider | EU-West | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base to Arb | Relay | 0.21% | 0.22% |
| Squid Router | 0.011% | 0.011% |
Relay and Squid Router are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Squid Router leads on Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest cross-chain bridge quote API, live ms ranking benchmark, Squid Router leads at 354 ms versus Relay at 953 ms. 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.