Send Bitcoin out of Lightning — nobody holds it.
Every operator still running is asked live, and the cheapest one that will take the size is offered. No account, on either end.
Send Lightning to an on-chain address
You pay an invoice, the operator locks the coins in a contract, and this page opens it with a secret only your browser holds. Nothing is held by anybody in between.
btcLIGHTNINGsatoshi
btcBITCOINsatoshi, after their fee
Only the browser that made the swap can open the contract. The secret is saved and read back before an invoice is shown, and offered as a file to keep. This is new — send a small amount first.
Who is answering now
Asked live when you load this. A backend here is somebody's node, so refusals are listed beside the prices rather than hidden, with what each one said.
Asking every operator…
What a column of prices leaves out
Cheapest inverts with size
A percentage fee and a flat chain fee cross over. Five times the percentage can still be cheaper on a small swap.
Liquid costs a fraction
At 2,000 sats, exiting to Bitcoin measured about 15% and to Liquid about 2.75% — same swap, same operator.
Floors differ 250-fold
One reverses from 100 sats where another starts at 25,000. A swap refused as too small was refused by an operator, not by Lightning.
Check an invoice first
The common failure has nothing to do with the operator or the fee: an invoice that expires while the deposit waits for a confirmation. None of these operators credits an unconfirmed deposit.
Read in this browser. It is not sent anywhere, including to us.
Why there is a list here at all: in August the operator almost everybody used suspended its swaps, and four wallets lost the feature the same day. What happened, and what it cost.
Last reviewed 28 October 2026.