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 Use	CL 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 Use	CL 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