Differentiators

Feature	Openflow	Cowswap
Meta dex aggregator	✅ Solver support for any number of dex aggregator integrations	✅ Solver support for any number of dex aggregator integrations
RFQ order system	✅ RFQ is a native part of the protocol	✅ RFQ is a native part of the protocol, however the number of people who can provide quotes is limited
Anyone can be a solver	✅ Completely open	❌ Pay-to-play (limits competition)
Massively-multichain	✅ Built to be massively-multichain from the start	❌ Supports only two chains
Trustless quote selection	✅ Quotes selected by end-user or delegated to use-configurable multisig	❌ Quotes are selected by centralized server (driver)
Decentralized order book	✅ On-chain/libp2p/webRTC	❌ Order book database and messaging exists on a centralized server
Resilient architecture	✅ Designed to be as resilient as possible	❌ Centralized order book, driver and API means downtime is a possibility
Decentralized messaging transport	✅ Anyone can connect to the messaging bus and listen for orders. The bus cannot be shut down	❌ Centralized API for order submission. If the API goes down the system comes to a halt
Decentralized driver	✅ User selects driver and driver itself is authenticated by multisig	❌ Centralized driver
User-defined hooks	✅ Supports pre-swap and post-swap hooks	❌ No user-defined hooks
Highly customizable swap orders with Gnosis Safe	✅ Safe users can submit smart orders (with customizable execution conditions and GAT orders) without modifying safe implementation	❌ Gnosis Safe can be used to submit simple swap orders using EIP-1271 or presign
Zap support	✅ All order types support zaps	❌ No support for zaps. Technically solvers can implement zaps for tokenized assets but this drastically limits solver competition and is not customizable
Permissionless multichain deployment	✅ Anyone can deploy on any chain using deterministic single use address	❌ Only protocol can deploy to new chains
Batch order invalidation	✅ Users can invalidate all of their pending orders simultaneously on-chain in one transaction	❌ Users can only invalidate one order a time
Conditional orders	✅ All orders types support conditional logic	❌ Only user deployed EIP-1271 smart contracts support conditional logic (no gnosis)
GAT orders	✅ All order types support GAT orders	❌ Only user deployed EIP-1271 smart contracts support GAT orders
DCA orders	✅ All order types support DCA orders	❌ Only user deployed EIP-1271 smart contracts support DCA orders
Smart orders	✅ All order types support smart orders	❌ Only user deployed EIP-1271 smart contracts support smart orders
Incremental orders	✅ All order types support incremental orders	❌ Only user deployed EIP-1271 smart contracts support incremental orders