# Disk Usage by Execution / Consensus Client

### 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.

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<summary>Mainnet tldr</summary>

**Least disk space use:** Besu/Teku 577GB

**Most disk space use**: Erigon/Lodestar 1.6TB

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<summary>Testnet Goerli tldr</summary>

**Least disk space use:** Besu/Prysm

**Most disk space use**: Erigon/Nimbus

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### Mainnet

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

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