The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #6 of 7 · best 21.8
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
Tick: the best in this ranking · Methodology v2026.11.1
Snapshot
Off-chain signature voting
#6 of all 7 worldwide65
- Rank
- #6 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 63–67 and ranks #6–#7
- Your cost
- Not priced on this basis
- Evidence
- High4 of 4 criteria sourced
- Licence
- No MiCA record on file
- Freshness
- Read November 2026checked · re-read due
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The verdict
Snapshot is #6 of 7 published DAO governance tools; it scores 10/10 on exit path, the category best. Its widest gap is enforceable execution: 5/10, where Cactus (formerly Tally) scores 9. Choose Cactus (formerly Tally) if enforceable execution matters most.
Is Snapshot right for you?
Suits you if
- Whether you can learn the price without a sales call9/10; the category best is 10
- What you keep if the vendor disappears10/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if
- Does the vote itself move the money5/10 here; Cactus (formerly Tally) scores 9
- Who can still touch the funds after the vote3/10 here; Cactus (formerly Tally) scores 6
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What will Snapshot cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is Snapshot?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read November 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Entity: not verified. No hand-confirmed record on file ties Snapshot to the company that runs it, so this page cannot say which other products that company operates. Read the legal entity in its terms before you deposit. How we read the evidence
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Compare all 4- 4Cactus (formerly Tally)If enforceable execution matters most: 96 points above · stronger on enforceable execution (9 against 5)71$30 a year · read
- 5AgoraIf enforceable execution matters most: 92 points above · stronger on enforceable execution (9 against 5)67
- 7ColonyIf post vote treasury control matters most: 61 point below · stronger on post vote treasury control (6 against 3)64
Provider at a glance
- Category
- DAO Governance Tools
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- snapshot.box
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 65 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in November 2026.
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Why this rank
Why Snapshot ranks #6
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (20.2 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
355+5.609.010#7/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10253+2.406.09#7/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10209+5.767.010#2/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-102010+6.408.010#1/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−2behind Agora, #5 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 63–67 and ranks #6–#7
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 Snapshot’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.
Does the vote itself move the money 5 → 7 on its ladder · passes Agora+269#6 → #5
Who can still touch the funds after the vote 3 → 5 on its ladder · passes Agora+268#6 → #5
Does the vote itself move the money 5 → 4 on its ladder · Colony passes it−163#6 → #7
Who can still touch the funds after the vote 3 → 2 on its ladder · Colony passes it−163#6 → #7
Whether you can learn the price without a sales call 9 → 8 on its ladder · Colony passes it−163#6 → #7
Smallest climb: does the vote itself move the money 5 → 7 passes Agora, #5.
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Whether you can learn the price without a sales call — 9/10, category best 10/10
- What you keep if the vendor disappears — 10/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Does the vote itself move the money — 5/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Who can still touch the funds after the vote — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- The thing Snapshot is famous for is the thing it is weakest at: a standard Snapshot vote is a signature with no on-chain effect, and binding it to your treasury requires separately enabling a Zodiac module on your Safe. Also budget for two costs the headline hides — an ENS domain to create a space at all, and, if you need delegation, a Pro subscription that the vendor prices nowhere and that "cannot be canceled once activated".
Competitive position
How Snapshot places on each criterion
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.
Against the leader
82 vs 65 · gap 17.0Why Realms ranks above Snapshot
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 17.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisRealmsGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight15.121.8−17.4, 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 criterionThisRealmsPoints
Does the vote itself move the money · w35510−5.60, worse
Who can still touch the funds after the vote · w2538−4.00, worse
Whether you can learn the price without a sales call · w20910−0.64, worse
What you keep if the vendor disappears · w20108+1.28, better
Net6582−17.0
Your scenario
Snapshot is not priced for this scenario
Trading 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 10 November 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 · USDTypical cost and lowest feeNot statedOnly 1 of 7 rows publish a comparable price; a typical cost and a lowest fee need at least 3.
5 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the typical, not counted as free.
1 of 7 quote a zero fee that leaves costs out, so they are absent from the typical and the lowest fee, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 10 November 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 #6 to #7 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.CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Does the vote itself move the moneystrength 5 · weight 35Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Who can still touch the funds after the votestrength 3 · weight 25Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Whether you can learn the price without a sales callstrength 9 · weight 20Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.What you keep if the vendor disappearsstrength 10 · weight 20Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure (Snapshot 5/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by Does the vote itself move the money · 35%
- Custody failure (Snapshot 3/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Who can still touch the funds after the vote · 25%
- Exit failure (Snapshot 10/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by What you keep if the vendor disappears · 20%
Not assessed by this ranking: Liveness failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Whether you can learn the price without a sales call (20%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Snapshot’s own FAQ: "Yes, Snapshot itself is free to use and does not charge any fees for setting up a space, creating proposals, casting votes, or executing decisions. However, to create a space, you need an ENS domain, which you must purchase from [ens.domains](https://
ens .domains). While Snapshot's core features are offchain and do not require gas fees, deploying a Snapshot X space may involve paying gas fees. If you decide to sponsor gas costs for users on Snapshot X, you will also need to cover those fees. Despite these extra costs arising from external factors, Snapshot itself remains free." (docs.snapshot.box/faq.md, fetched 10 November 2026). The paid plans now carry published prices. From "Upgrade your space" (https:// docs .snapshot .box /user-guides /spaces /upgrade .md, fetched 10 November 2026, HTTP 200; the old Snapshot Pro URL redirects here), two plans "with the same features": Snapshot Plus, "pay as you go with ETH credits, no commitment", priced "0.008 ETH per proposal, plus 0.00016 ETH per vote"; Snapshot Pro, "a monthly or yearly subscription", priced "$600 per month, or $500 per month billed yearly". "Prices are subject to change." Plus mechanics: "Each proposal costs 0.008 ETH. Each new vote on a proposal created with Plus costs 0.00016 ETH. Changing a vote is free." and "Credits are not refundable."; Pro: "A Pro subscription paid in crypto cannot be canceled once activated." The paid features include any network, delegation and other premium strategies, higher proposal limits, a custom domain and a delegation dashboard. NORMALISED 10 November 2026 — a worked example: the figures that follow are this note’s arithmetic on the vendor’s published prices, 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: free tier = 0% x $2,000,000 = $0 for the year plus an ENS domain and any Snapshot X deployment gas, neither of which Snapshot quantifies; Pro billed yearly = 12 x $500 = $6,000 for the year, independent of treasury size (billed monthly, 12 x $600 = $7,200); Plus = 24 x 0.008 ETH = 0.192 ETH for the proposals plus 0.00016 ETH for every vote cast on them, not converted to dollars here. THE GOVERNING STATEMENT: for any DAO that needs delegation, a custom domain or premium strategies, the Plus or Pro price governs and the FAQ’s "does not charge any fees" does not.Snapshot — official page at docs.snapshot.box ↗ · 10 November 2026 - Prices published in
- USDSnapshot — official page at docs.snapshot.box ↗ · 10 November 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Snapshot Terms of use (https://
snapshot .box / # /terms-of-use, "Last updated: 4 March 2025", Snapshot AG, Zug), read 10 November 2026 from the text the app itself loads: by using Snapshot a user represents that they "are not accessing Snapshot from one of the countries embargoed or restricted by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), including, but not limited to: Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, DPRK (North Korea), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar (Burma), Republic of South Sudan, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, or Zimbabwe". The terms add that the company "reserves the right to technically restrict access to Snapshot and the content provided thereon based on your geographical location."
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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.
9 methodology entries
- 10 November 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 65, #6 of 7. 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 2026.11.1, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt governance_tools:snapshot:2026.11.1:693886cf32d5
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