The problem with “best rate” claims
Every aggregator claims the best rate. Almost none show you the rates that lost. Without the losers, “best” is unfalsifiable — you're trusting a label, not reading a result.
So the comparison stays open: the winning quote and the runner-up, side by side, fees included. When only one provider quotes a pair, you see that too, plainly labeled — a race of one is a fact worth knowing.
What showing it costs us
Publishing the runner-up means we can never nudge you toward a route that pays us more, because you'd see the better number sitting right there. That constraint is deliberate. It converts a marketing claim into a checkable receipt, and it keeps our incentives pointed the same way as yours.
How the race actually works
When you enter an amount, every configured provider that supports the pair is asked for a live quote. Valid responses are normalized and ranked by quoted output, readiness, rate mode, and operational health. Providers that don't respond to the live scan simply aren't shown — absence over invention, as everywhere else on the site.