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- Creator Mint Platforms
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- Official website
- docs.manifold.xyz
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Scored 81 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
Manifold Studio
Creator-owned NFT contract deployer
Creator Mint Platforms
#2 Overall
Ranked #2 of 9 creator mint platforms in the published ranking
81
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Manifold Studio right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it?9/10, the category best
- When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there?8/10, the category best
- Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone?9/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down?6/10 here; Art Blocks Engine scores 8
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best creator mint platform shows where it lands for you.
What will Manifold Studio cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is Manifold Studio?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Manifold Studio
Compare all 4- 1Art Blocks EngineLevel on score · stronger on abandonment record (8 against 6)81
- 3Transient Labs3 points below · stronger on abandonment record (7 against 6)78
- 4Scatter13 points below · weaker on art still loads (5 against 8)68
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Find out if Manifold Studio fits you
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Why this rank
Why Manifold Studio ranks #2
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (25.5 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 3 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
329+9.227.09#1/9Loading evidence…
268+6.666.08#1/9Loading evidence…
266+4.993.08#3/9Loading evidence…
169+4.616.09#1/9Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
MarginLevelbehind Art Blocks Engine, #1
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 79–81 and ranks #1–#2
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Manifold Studio’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it? 9 → 10 on its ladder · passes Art Blocks Engine+181#2 → #1
When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there? 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Art Blocks Engine+181#2 → #1
Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down? 6 → 7 on its ladder · passes Art Blocks Engine+181#2 → #1
Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone? 9 → 10 on its ladder · passes Art Blocks Engine+181#2 → #1
If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it? 9 → 7 on its ladder · Transient Labs passes it−277#2 → #3
When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there? 8 → 6 on its ladder · Transient Labs passes it−278#2 → #3
Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down? 6 → 4 on its ladder · Transient Labs passes it−278#2 → #3
Smallest climb: “If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it?” 9 → 10 passes Art Blocks Engine, #1.
Strengths
3 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it? — 9/10, the category best
- When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there? — 8/10, the category best
- Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone? — 9/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
1 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down? — 6/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- The thing that would most annoy a buyer who chose Manifold on the strength of its sovereignty story: the contract you deploy is genuinely yours and genuinely unupgradeable, but the codebase behind it is the least-maintained part of the stack. @manifoldxyz/creator-core-solidity has not shipped an npm release since 22 March 2023 and the repo has not been pushed since 25 November 2024, while the extensions repo, the client SDK and the help centre all moved in 2026 — and every creator-contract page in the docs sits inside a space Manifold itself titles 'Manifold Developer Guide (Deprecated)'. Nothing in the Terms promises anything about your deployed contract if Manifold stops: the only relevant clause says Manifold may 'modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Services ... at any time, with or without notice.'
Competitive position
Where Manifold Studio leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 914.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#2 / 919.1 of 30 · best 19.2
Friction#1 / 92.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 93.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Manifold Studio leads
- If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it?#1 / 9
- When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there?#1 / 9
- Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down?#3 / 9
- Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone?#1 / 9
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Art Blocks Engine#1 of 9 · score 81 · same score
Manifold Studio leads on
- If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it?9 vs 8
- Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone?9 vs 8
Art Blocks Engine leads on
- Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down?8 vs 6
Largest single reason Art Blocks Engine is ahead: published criteria (+0.3 display points).Scenario cost: Art Blocks Engine has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Transient Labs#3 of 9 · score 78 · 3.0 points behind
Manifold Studio leads on
- When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there?8 vs 6
- Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone?9 vs 8
Transient Labs leads on
- Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down?7 vs 6
Largest single reason Manifold Studio is ahead: published criteria (+2.6 display points).Scenario cost: Transient Labs has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Scatter#4 of 9 · score 68 · 13.0 points behind
Manifold Studio leads on
- If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it?9 vs 7
- When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there?8 vs 5
- Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone?9 vs 5
Scatter leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Manifold Studio is ahead: published criteria (+12.7 display points).Scenario cost: Scatter has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 81 · gap 0.0Why Art Blocks Engine ranks above Manifold Studio
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 0.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisArt Blocks EngineGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight19.119.2−0.3, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisArt Blocks EnginePoints
If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it? · w3298+1.02, better
Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down? · w2668−1.66, worse
Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone? · w1698+0.51, better
Net81810
Your scenario
Manifold Studio is not priced for this scenario
Marketplace fee on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 9 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
9 of 9 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 28 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #1 to #2 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 28 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it?strength 9 · weight 32Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there?strength 8 · weight 26Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down?strength 6 · weight 26Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone?strength 9 · weight 16Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure (Manifold Studio 9/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by If this company vanishes tomorrow, is the contract still mine — and can anyone else drive it? · 32%
- Liveness failure (Manifold Studio 8/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by When their servers go dark, does the artwork still load — and who is paying to keep it there? · 26%
- Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Have they already walked away from a contract line creators shipped on — and what have they promised if they shut down? · 26% (Manifold Studio 6/10)Scored by Do my royalties keep resolving when the platform that set them is gone? · 16% (Manifold Studio 9/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Manifold publishes its fees only in the help-centre article "5. How do Manifold fees work?" (https://
help .manifold .xyz /en /9574010 -5-how-do-manifold-fees-work). That route is a JavaScript shell; the article text is served from https:// help .manifold .xyz /help-content .json (HTTP 200, fetched 28 September 2026, record updated 16 April 2025): "Manifold Studio is free for creators to use. A small fee will be charged on the delivery of the media to collectors." Claims: "0.0005 ETH" and "0.0008 ETH for exclusive mints (allowlisted mints)"; Burns: "0.00069 ETH"; Serendipity: "0.0005 ETH"; Physicals: "0.0005 ETH". These are collector-side fees charged per token delivered; the article names no creator-side fee. https:// manifold .xyz /pricing returned HTTP 404 on 28 September 2026, so this article is the only published price sheet.Manifold Studio — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDManifold Studio — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- ethereum, base, optimism, shape, apechain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- No market restriction and — unusually — not even the standard OFAC/sanctions representation. The full Terms of Use at https://
manifold .xyz /tos (Last updated: 26 February 2025, read 17 August 2026) names no country, no restricted-jurisdiction list and no sanctions clause; the only eligibility language is "You must comply with all applicable laws when using the Services." and, under Rules of Conduct, "Engage in fraud, illegal activities, or money laundering." Governing law is jurisdictional, not a footprint: "These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada. Disputes shall be resolved under the jurisdiction of British Columbia courts." The operator is "Manifold Technologies Ltd." Scored as global.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category 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.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
8 methodology entries
- 28 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 81, #2 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt creator_mint_platforms:manifold-studio:2026.10.18:f48d40b56b96
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