Alternatives to Erigon
An Ethereum execution client focused on efficiency, for running your own Ethereum node. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Erigon
An Ethereum execution client focused on efficiency, for running your own Ethereum node.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Erigon.
Geth
The official Go implementation of Ethereum, used as an execution client to run a node.
Geth is the official, long-established Go Ethereum execution client, trading Erigon's efficiency focus for maturity, and it needs a separate consensus client for a full node.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Eclair
A Scala implementation of the Lightning Network for running a Bitcoin Lightning node.
Lightning Network Daemon (LND)
A reference implementation of a Lightning Network node that you run yourself as a daemon.
Core Lightning
A modular Lightning Network node implementation written in C and Rust with a plugin system.
