Disk Usage by Execution / Consensus Client

EL and CL combinations ranked by disk usage

Summary

As of late 2022, here is a sampling of EL/CL combinations and their disk space usage. Sorted by highest to lowest disk usage, from a glance you can determine relatively how much space each client combination required at that time and hopefully help you make better informed decisions.

Mainnet tldr

Least disk space use: Besu/Teku 577GB

Most disk space use: Erigon/Lodestar 1.6TB

Testnet Goerli tldr

Least disk space use: Besu/Prysm

Most disk space use: Erigon/Nimbus

Mainnet

Execution and consensus layer data usage numbers as of 2022.12.19 by barnabas

Disk UseCL EL Combination

1.6T

erigon-lodestar

1.6T

erigon-prysm

1.5T

erigon-nimbus

1.5T

erigon-lighthouse

1.4T

erigon-teku

1.2T

nethermind-lodestar

1.1T

nethermind-nimbus

1.1T

nethermind-lighthouse

1.1T

nethermind-prysm

1.0T

nethermind-teku

1.0T

geth-lodestar

947G

geth-lighthouse

946G

geth-prysm

923G

geth-nimbus

886G

geth-teku

688G

besu-lodestar

645G

besu-prysm

604G

besu-nimbus

631G

besu-lighthouse

577G

besu-teku

Testnet Goerli

Execution and consensus layer data usage numbers as of 2022.12.19 by Sea Monkey

Disk UseCL EL Combination

643G

nimbus-erigon

639G

lighthouse-erigon

431G

lodestar-erigon

390G

teku-erigon

344G

lighthouse-nethermind

330G

prysm-nethermind

329G

prysm-erigon

318G

nimbus-nethermind

312G

teku-nethermind

304G

lighthouse-geth

288G

lodestar-nethermind

281G

nimbus-geth

273G

lodestar-besu

270G

teku-geth

268G

lighthouse-besu

248G

lodestar-geth

241G

nimbus-besu

239G

teku-besu

218G

prysm-geth

142G

prysm-besu

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