Why thirdweb?

The thirdweb SDK comes with all the features you need to build production-grade client-side applications. Here's a comparison with other popular libraries.

Feature Comparison

	thirdweb	Wagmi + Viem	Ethers@6
Type safe contract API	✅	✅	✅
Type safe wallet API	✅	✅	✅
EVM utils	✅	✅	✅
RPC for any EVM	✅	⚠️ public RPC only	❌
Automatic ABI Resolution	✅	❌	❌
IPFS Upload/Download	✅	❌	❌
In-app wallet (email/ social login)	✅	⚠️ via 3rd party	❌
Account abstraction (ERC4337) support	✅	⚠️ via 3rd party	❌
Web3 wallet connectors	✅	✅	❌
Local wallet creation	✅	✅	✅
Auth (SIWE)	✅	✅	❌
Extensions functions for common standards	✅	✅	❌
React Hooks	✅	✅	❌
React UI components	✅	❌	❌
React Native Hooks	✅	✅	❌
React Native UI Components	✅	❌	❌
CLI (codegen)	✅	✅	❌

Bundle Size

The thirdweb SDK is designed to be as small as possible leveraging tree shaking. Here's a comparison of the bundle size to perform a simple RPC call on mainnet with other popular libraries:

Performance Benchmarks

Performance is the biggest focus of the thirdweb SDK. Here are some runtime benchmarks for encoding, RPC calls, reading contract state and sending a transaction:

To run your own benchmarks or see results in detail, check out our instructions to run them.

Last updated: March 14, 2024