Rankings

Every product we have tested, highest score first. Scores weigh fees, withdrawals, custody and security history before features.

6 reviews

018.4/10

Uniswap review: what a swap actually costs once gas and slippage are added

Uniswap remains the deepest, most battle-tested venue for swapping on-chain, and Uniswap Labs dropped its own interface fee in December 2025. That does not make swapping free: the pool fee…

DEXs and On-Chain TradingBest for: Traders who already hold a self-custody wallet and want to swap mainstream tokens without an exchange account
Price
Free to use; pool and network fees apply
Standard pool fee tiers
0.01%, 0.05%, 0.30%, 1.00%
Uniswap Labs interface fee
None, removed December 2025
027.8/10

Hyperliquid review: an on-chain perp exchange that trades like a centralized one

Hyperliquid genuinely matches a centralized exchange on order book speed and undercuts most of them on fees, and self-custody removes exchange-insolvency risk. Its March 2025 validator vote…

DEXs and On-Chain TradingBest for: Active traders who want CEX-grade execution without giving up custody of collateral
Price
Free to use; trading fees apply
Consensus
HyperBFT, ~0.07 second block time
Throughput
Up to ~200,000 transactions per second (Hyperliquid Labs claim)
037.6/10

Curve review: still the deepest stablecoin pools on Ethereum

Curve remains the cheapest place to move large stablecoin amounts on Ethereum, but its interface still assumes you already understand pools, and its lending arm has not built the same…

DEXs and On-Chain TradingBest for: Traders moving five and six-figure stablecoin amounts who already understand liquidity pools
Price
Free to use; pool and network fees apply
Typical stablecoin swap fee
0.01% to 0.04% per trade
DEX TVL (week 32, 2026)
About $1.44 billion, per DefiLlama
047.5/10

Jupiter review: the best Solana swap price, and a buyback that isn't working

Jupiter earns its dominance honestly: the router checks fifty-plus Solana venues and, in Manual Mode, passes on the result for nothing beyond the pool's own spread. Perps and limit orders…

DEXs and On-Chain TradingBest for: Solana traders who want the best routed swap price and are willing to skip the wallet and token prompts
Price
Free to use; network and platform fees apply
Manual Mode swap fee
0% Jupiter fee; DEX spread (0.05%-0.30%) and network fee apply
Ultra Mode swap fee
0% to 0.5%, MEV-protected routing
057.0/10

PancakeSwap review: cheap swaps on BNB Chain, and the scam tokens that come with them

PancakeSwap earns its reputation as the cheapest practical place to swap tokens on BNB Chain: a 0.25% fee on V2 pools plus $0.05-0.30 gas makes a $20 trade viable in a way it rarely is on…

DEXs and On-Chain TradingBest for: BNB Chain traders who want low fees on established pairs and are willing to verify new tokens themselves before swapping
Price
Free to use; 0.25% V2 swap fee plus network gas
V2 swap fee
0.25% (0.17% to LPs, 0.03% treasury, 0.05% burned)
V3 fee tiers
0.01%, 0.05%, 0.25%, 1%
066.0/10

dYdX review: a pioneer perpetuals DEX now trading at a fraction of Hyperliquid's volume

dYdX v4 works as designed: self-custody trading on its own Cosmos chain, maker rebates, taker fees from 3 basis points, and 123 markets up to 50x leverage. What changed is the room around…

DEXs and On-Chain TradingBest for: Traders who specifically want dYdX's Cosmos app-chain architecture and are not chasing the deepest order book available
Price
Free to use; trading fees apply
Architecture
Cosmos app-chain, off-chain order book, on-chain settlement
Maker fee
-1.1 bps (rebate) at base tier