DAO Governance Tools evaluated across whether the vote itself moves the money, who can still touch the funds after it passes, whether the price is published, and what you keep if the vendor disappears.
Ranked here: DAO governance platforms, where a DAO holds the votes that are supposed to move its treasury. Not ranked here: governance products that are no longer a separate purchase, such as a platform acquired and folded into its buyer.
#1 of 7 · published ranking
Realms
82ChainChoice Score
4199
Why it leads
Realms scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its enforceable execution and its published price.
Show the arithmetic
Best in this ranking on enforceable execution and published price
Cost
Not priced· Only 2 of 7 publish a comparable price
ReviewedNext review by Published Methodology v2026.11.1
How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links carry a referral code, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking v2026.11.1 · 4 criteria · 7 products · same inputs, same order
How we review · 7 ranked of 9 assessed · 4 criteria · 0 sponsor weight
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Personal comparison
DAO Governance Tools ranked comparison
Only 2 of 7 providers publish a comparable price; ranking still uses verified product evidence.
RankProviderBest fitScore
1
RealmsSolana DAO platform built on the SPL Go...Top ranked
Does the vote itself move the money — 10/10Trade-off: Realms is Solana-only, so it is not on the same shortlist as the EVM products here un...
82score
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Realms · realms.today. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
Does the vote itself move the money — 9/10Trade-off: The safety of an Aragon DAO is entirely a function of who holds EXECUTE_PERMISSION, a...
76score
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Aragon (OSx + Aragon App) · aragon.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
3
DAOhaus (Moloch v3 / Baal)No-code interface to the Moloch v3 (Baa...
Who can still touch the funds after the vote — 9/10Trade-off: This is the only product in the pool that lets a losing minority take its money out b...
73score
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DAOhaus (Moloch v3 / Baal) · daohaus.club. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
4
Cactus (formerly Tally)OpenZeppelin Governor and Governor Brav...
Does the vote itself move the money — 9/10Trade-off: The 0.25% is not an invoice, it is a haircut on the DAO's own executed transfers, so...
71score
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Cactus (formerly Tally) · tally.xyz. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
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Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
5
AgoraDeployed OpenZeppelin Governor stack wi...
Does the vote itself move the money — 9/10Trade-off: You cannot find out what Agora costs without talking to sales, which means the DAO's...
67score
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Agora · agora.xyz. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
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What you keep if the vendor disappears — 10/10Trade-off: The thing Snapshot is famous for is the thing it is weakest at: a standard Snapshot v...
65score
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Snapshot · snapshot.box. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
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1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 35/25/20/20, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18 (constant here), ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.
How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
Control failure: a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.
Scored by Does the vote itself move the money · 35% (Realms 10/10, Aragon (OSx + Aragon App) 9/10, DAOhaus (Moloch v3 / Baal) 8/10)
Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
Scored by Who can still touch the funds after the vote · 25% (Realms 8/10, Aragon (OSx + Aragon App) 8/10, DAOhaus (Moloch v3 / Baal) 9/10)
Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.
Scored by What you keep if the vendor disappears · 20% (Realms 8/10, Aragon (OSx + Aragon App) 8/10, DAOhaus (Moloch v3 / Baal) 6/10)
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Whether you can learn the price without a sales call (20%).
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.11.1
published 10 November 2026
Providers tracked
860+
across 121 categories
Last verified
10 November 2026
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
Named on the roster
2 people
managing directors · 6 automated processes
Decision guide
What matters most before choosing in this category
Decide first whether your votes have to be enforceable, because that single answer splits this category in half. An off-chain signature vote is cheap, gasless and reversible by whoever controls execution — it records what members wanted, and something else has to act on it. An on-chain vote binds the treasury directly and costs gas to cast. Neither is wrong, but a treasury governed by signatures is governed by whoever holds the multisig, and that should be a choice rather than a surprise. Then ask what stands between a passed vote and funds moving: a timelock is only protection if it is set above zero, and at least one platform documents recommending a delay of zero for treasury-only governors. Price and exit come last, and both are thinner here than the category suggests.
Does a passing vote execute against the treasury, or does a human still have to act on it?
Is there a timelock between the vote and the funds moving, and what is it actually set to?
If the vendor shut down tomorrow, could you still run your own governance?
Current engine lead
The #1 overall and the scoring weights
RealmsData checked Nov 2026
Solana DAO platform built on the SPL Governance program, where a passed proposal's instructions execute against treasury accounts the governance program owns.
Solana DAO platform built on the SPL Governance program, where a passed proposal's instructions execute against treasury accounts the governance program owns. Strongest on does the vote itself move the money (10/10): The SPL Governance documentation describes "creating proposals containing blockchain instructions that DAO members may vote upon, and on successful voting, the instructions may be executed". The proposal itself carries the instructions the program executes. Weakest on who can still touch the funds after the vote (8/10): The SPL Governance documentation names the "Realm's authority address" and council members as able to create governance instances, and says the community "may veto the proposal (when permitted in configuration)". No right for a losing minority to withdraw is documented on the page. Published price: "Realms does not charge any additional fees for platform usage." and the published deployment table: "DAO Creation ~2 SOL* | Metadata ~0.5 SOL*º | Treasury Accounts ~0.2 SOL* | Voter Account ~0.1 SOL* | Delegation Hub Profile ~0.1 SOL*", with "ºMetadata set…
Best forDoes the vote itself move the money — 10/10
Main tradeoffRealms is Solana-only, so it is not on the same shortlist as the EVM products here unless the treasury is already on Solana. Its costs are also denominated in SOL rather than fixed in dollars, which means the published "~2 SOL" deployment figure moves with the token: the $174.86 above is a 6 August 2026 13:23 UTC conversion at SOL/USD 72.86, not a price the vendor quotes in USD, and it will be a different number on the day you read this.
Verify before signup"Realms does not charge any additional fees for platform usage." and the published deployment table: "DAO Creation ~2 SOL* | Metadata ~0.5 SOL*º | Treasury Accounts ~0.2 SOL* | Voter Account ~0.1 SOL* | Delegation Hub Profile ~0.1 SOL*", with "ºMetadata set up is free during DAO creation" and ongoing costs listed as "Voting: SPL ~ 0.0015 SOL", "NFT ~ 0.00167 SOL (Reclaimable)" and "Proposal Creation: min ~ 0.0020 SOL" (docs.realms.today/introduction/costs.md, fetched 10 November 2026). NORMALISED 10 November 2026 — a worked example: the dollar figures that follow are this note’s arithmetic on the vendor’s published rate, not figures printed on the page — on the common scenario of a DAO that passes and executes 24 treasury proposals in a year moving $2,000,000 in total: platform fee = 0% x $2,000,000 = $0 for the year. One-time setup, taking creation + treasury + voter + delegate profile and excluding metadata because the vendor states it is free at creation: 2 + 0.2 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 2.4 SOL. Converted on 10 November 2026, CoinGecko simple/price returned SOL/USD 85.24, so 2.4 x 85.24 = $204.58 one-time (it was $242.35 at SOL/USD 100.98 on 28 October 2026; the SOL figures did not change, the token price did). This figure must be re-derived on the day it is shown. Twenty-four proposals plus their votes are a rounding error at these rates and are not padded into a figure here.
Weighted criteria
Does the vote itself move the money35%
Who can still touch the funds after the vote25%
Whether you can learn the price without a sales call20%
What you keep if the vendor disappears20%
Methodology
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on does the vote itself move the money, who can still touch the funds after the vote, whether you can learn the price without a sales call, and what you keep if the vendor disappears.
The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
Frequently asked
Questions people ask before choosing governance
Is an off-chain vote real governance?
It is real signalling, and whether that is governance depends on what happens next. A standard off-chain vote is a signed message that costs no gas and touches nothing — the most widely used platform in this category says so in its own FAQ, reassuring voters that signing does not affect their assets. That is a genuine feature for polls and sentiment, and a genuine problem if the treasury is expected to follow, because execution then rests with whoever holds the multisig. If your DAO needs a vote to be binding, that is the criterion carrying the most weight here, and it is the one to settle before comparing anything else.
What still stands between a passed vote and the money moving?
Usually a timelock, and usually less of one than you would assume. A delay is what gives members time to exit or object between a vote passing and funds moving, so its value is entirely in the number it is set to — and one platform in this pool documents recommending a delay of zero for governors that only manage a treasury, which removes that window by design. Check the configured delay rather than the presence of the feature, and check who holds the keys that can bypass it, because a timelock with an emergency role beside it protects less than it appears to.
What happens to our governance if the vendor shuts down?
This is not hypothetical in this category. The most-used on-chain platform, serving several hundred DAOs, announced it was winding down during the period a buyer would have been evaluating it. What protects you is an open-source codebase you can actually deploy and a treasury that is governed by contracts you control rather than by a hosted interface. Several products here do publish self-hostable code under permissive licences, including one whose documentation actively recommends running your own deployment — that is worth more than a roadmap, because it is exercisable today.
Reviewed10 November 2026Method4 criteriaCategorygovernance_tools
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