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Bridging Ethereum: routes and measured costs

Snapshot 3 Nov 2026, 11:35 UTCData gate passed

Key findings

As of 3 Nov 2026, 11:35 UTC (run #540), upswap samples 18 routes that touch Ethereum: 12 leaving it and 6 arriving. At $200 the cheapest quote on these routes came from Eco (8), Across (4), Layerswap (2), Chainflip (2), Celer (1), NEAR Intents 1Click (1). When Ethereum is the source chain, the source-gas estimate (upswap gas basis v1, same for every bridge) ranged $0.0389–$0.0670 per route, shown separately from bps. Real-money tests: none yet.

Source: upswap.io snapshot #540 · CC BY 4.0

How have bridge costs on Ethereum routes changed over time?

Not enough data · 8/14 days

Over the last 336 runs (8 UTC days), the lines show each bridge's median cheapest $200 quote across the 18 routes that touch Ethereum, in bps excluding gas. Every route had at least one rankable quote in 336 of 336 runs; the share of quote requests answered never fell below 84.3%. With under 14 days of history this is shown, not called a trend.

Median $200 cost by bridge, routes touching Ethereum

Each line: one bridge's cheapest rankable $200 quote per route, median over the 18 routes touching Ethereum, per run (bps, log scale, excl. gas; Across gas never counted). Dashed grey: median of each route's cheapest quote. Top 5 bridges by top-3 finishes. x axis = runs in order; amber hatching = gaps over 45 min.

Quote availability and success rate

Solid: % of this chain's routes sampled in the run with at least one rankable $200 quote in the run. Dashed: % of all quote requests on these routes (all sources, all tiers) that returned a quote. Paused sources (Socket / Bungee) are not requested and do not count as failures.

Chart data by day (8 days, 336 runs)

Daily medians behind the charts above (bps, excl. gas) and mean availability (%)
Day (UTC)	Runs	Across bps	Relay bps	NEAR Intents 1Click bps	Mayan FAST_MCTP bps	Eco bps	cheapest per route (median) bps	routes with a rankable quote	quote requests answered
2026-11-03	24	1.29	3.10	2.36	23.40	0.00	0.68	100%	96.8%
2026-11-02	48	1.29	3.39	2.42	23.18	0.00	0.65	100%	95.9%
2026-11-01	48	1.30	3.24	2.42	23.71	0.00	0.47	100%	96.8%
2026-10-31	48	1.30	3.44	2.36	21.72	0.00	1.28	100%	98.0%
2026-10-30	48	1.30	6.03	2.36	25.07	—	1.30	100%	99.0%
2026-10-29	48	1.31	3.41	2.35	23.95	—	1.32	100%	98.3%
2026-10-28	48	1.31	3.05	2.32	24.95	—	1.32	100%	99.6%
2026-10-27	24	1.32	3.67	2.31	25.02	—	1.32	100%	99.7%

Leaving Ethereum

Leaving Ethereum · $200
Route	Cheapest at $200	bps	Ranked	Gas est.†
→ Arbitrum One ETH	Layerswap	0.16	19	$0.0389
→ Base ETH	Across	1.17	16	$0.0389
→ OP Mainnet ETH	Layerswap	0.35	17	$0.0389
→ Arbitrum One USDC	Eco	0.00	27	$0.0670
→ Base USDC	Eco	0.00	23	$0.0670
→ OP Mainnet USDC	Eco	0.00	24	$0.0670
→ Solana USDC	Across	1.00	16	$0.0670
→ Polygon PoS USDC	Eco	0.00	23	$0.0670
→ BNB Chain USDT	Across	1.20	13	$0.0661
→ Arbitrum One USDT	Celer	1.36	20	$0.0661
→ Avalanche C-Chain USDC	NEAR Intents 1Click	0.40	24	$0.0670
→ Solana ETH→SOL	Chainflip	12.57	9	$0.0389

† Gas est. = upswap gas basis v1: one source-chain estimate per run, source chain and token — the median of each quote API's own estimates (APIs weighted equally), applied to every bridge on the route. Shown beside cost, never ranked; Across gas is never counted.

Arriving on Ethereum

Arriving on Ethereum · $200
Route	Cheapest at $200	bps	Ranked	Gas est.†
Arbitrum One → ETH	Eco	1.53	18	$0.0065
Arbitrum One → USDC	Eco	0.00	25	$0.0105
Base → ETH	Eco	1.70	17	$0.0019
Base → USDC	Eco	0.00	22	$0.0032
Solana → USDC	Across	1.00	15	$0.0072
Solana → SOL→ETH	Chainflip	14.87	9	$0.0072

Connected chains

What this page does not claim

Chain security, finality and RPC reliability for Ethereum are not rated here (待核实). Gas is an estimate (upswap gas basis v1, from the quote APIs at quote time), not a measured fee. See the glossary and methodology.