OKX Wallet vs Sparrow Wallet Sparrow Wallet leads by 2 points.
Sparrow Wallet scores 2 points above OKX Wallet, led by account recovery. OKX Wallet ranks #10 and Sparrow Wallet #7 of 11 published wallets. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
OKOKX Wallet66
vs
SPSparrow Wallet68
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #10 and #7 of 11
Sparrow Wallet scores 2 points above OKX Wallet, led by account recovery.
OKOKX Wallet #10 of 1166
SPSparrow Wallet #7 of 1168
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termSparrow Wallet leads on 1 of 4 published criteria; OKX Wallet on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermSparrow WalletOKX WalletWeightPoints
Incident record5/106/105.8−1.5for OKX Wallet−0.8 of 32
Account recovery9/106/104.3+3.4for Sparrow Wallet+1.7 of 32
Net of the terms+1.9
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+1.8
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6866+2.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Sparrow Wallet's lead rests on lighter criteria: OKX Wallet is ahead on incident record, which carries more weight (24) than any criterion Sparrow Wallet leads on (18).
A row-above bound on one row means the criterion arithmetic does not reproduce the displayed gap exactly.
Sparrow WalletScore 68A Bitcoin-only desktop wallet built for coin control, multisig and hardware signers: BIP-39 with the derivation path shown, every input and output decoded before signing, no bounty and no audit.Strength: Recovery exit — 9/10Watch-out: Sparrow is desktop-only and Bitcoin-only, and it is built for users who want to see every input and output: a newcomer should expect a transaction editor, not a one-tap send. No Sparrow page documents exporting a single private key (read 2026-10-28), and its security policy says "There is currently no bug bounty programme for Sparrow." It has published no security advisory and no fund-loss incident was found.OKX WalletScore 66The self-custody multichain wallet of the OKX group: seed and private-key export, a funded HackerOne bounty and a public audit library, a named in-house scanner but no documented pre-signing simulation.Strength: Key export — 6/10Watch-out: Two OKX Wallet set-ups behave differently. The seed-phrase wallet keeps keys on your device. The Social Login wallet (Google, Apple or email) keeps keys "in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)" run by OKX, recovers through the social account, and has Auto-Confirm on by default, so market and limit orders are signed with no prompt (okx.com/en-eu/help/social-login-faq and what-is-auto-confirm-in-okx-wallet, read 2026-10-28). Exporting its seed permanently unlinks the social account. Swaps through OKX DEX carry an interface fee of 0% to 0.5% by token group.
Quick facts
At a glance
3 of 4 rows read the same for both.
FactOKX WalletSparrow Wallet
PricingSnapshot"OKX DEX charges users a flat user interface fee for using the OKX DEX interface to access and conduct transactions on third-party DEXs." The published rates are 0% (Others <> Others), 0.1% (Group 1 <> Group 1), 0.25% (Group 1 <> Group 2) and 0.5% (Group 2 <> Group 2), and "No interface fee is charged on certain transactions, such as native-token wrap/unwrap, liquid staking, and protocol deposits/withdrawals from Aave protocol" (web3.okx.com/dex-fees, rendered 28 October 2026). Which group ETH and USDC fall in is set on a separate token-group page not read here. The wallet app itself carries no price, and network fees go to the chain: "OKX wallet doesn't charge this network fee and is unable to refund it." (okx.com/help/okx-wallet-faqs, fetched 28 October 2026)."Sparrow is licensed under the Apache 2 software licence." (sparrowwallet.com/download/, fetched 28 October 2026). The download page lists installers for Windows, macOS and Linux with no price, and the site asks for donations. The features page lists no in-app swap or purchase; the only cost of a payment is the network fee, chosen against the fee chart Sparrow shows.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
Custody modelEditorialSelf-custody: the vendor cannot move funds without your keySelf-custody: the vendor cannot move funds without your key
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
OK
OKX Wallet
66#10 of 11
Pick it when
Pick OKX Wallet if incident record matters most — it scores 6/10 to Sparrow Wallet's 5/10 there (weight 24).
Strength
Key export — 6/10
Tradeoff
Two OKX Wallet set-ups behave differently. The seed-phrase wallet keeps keys on your device. The Social Login wallet (Google, Apple or email) keeps keys "in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)" run by OKX, recovers through the social account, and has Auto-Confirm on by default, so market and limit orders are signed with no prompt (okx.com/en-eu/help/social-login-faq and what-is-auto-confirm-in-okx-wallet, read 2026-10-28). Exporting its seed permanently unlinks the social account. Swaps through OKX DEX carry an interface fee of 0% to 0.5% by token group.
SP
Sparrow Wallet
68#7 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Sparrow Wallet if account recovery matters most — it scores 9/10 to OKX Wallet's 6/10 there (weight 18).
Strength
Recovery exit — 9/10
Tradeoff
Sparrow is desktop-only and Bitcoin-only, and it is built for users who want to see every input and output: a newcomer should expect a transaction editor, not a one-tap send. No Sparrow page documents exporting a single private key (read 2026-10-28), and its security policy says "There is currently no bug bounty programme for Sparrow." It has published no security advisory and no fund-loss incident was found.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
OKOKX Wallet
Choose OKX Wallet if incident record matters most
Incident record: 6/10 against 5/10 for Sparrow Wallet (weight 24)
OKX WalletScore 66The self-custody multichain wallet of the OKX group: seed and private-key export, a funded HackerOne bounty and a public audit library, a named in-house scanner but no documented pre-signing simulation.Strength: Key export — 6/10Watch-out: Two OKX Wallet set-ups behave differently. The seed-phrase wallet keeps keys on your device. The Social Login wallet (Google, Apple or email) keeps keys "in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)" run by OKX, recovers through the social account, and has Auto-Confirm on by default, so market and limit orders are signed with no prompt (okx.com/en-eu/help/social-login-faq and what-is-auto-confirm-in-okx-wallet, read 2026-10-28). Exporting its seed permanently unlinks the social account. Swaps through OKX DEX carry an interface fee of 0% to 0.5% by token group.
SPSparrow WalletLeads
Choose Sparrow Wallet if account recovery matters most
Account recovery: 9/10 against 6/10 for OKX Wallet (weight 18)
Sparrow WalletScore 68A Bitcoin-only desktop wallet built for coin control, multisig and hardware signers: BIP-39 with the derivation path shown, every input and output decoded before signing, no bounty and no audit.Strength: Recovery exit — 9/10Watch-out: Sparrow is desktop-only and Bitcoin-only, and it is built for users who want to see every input and output: a newcomer should expect a transaction editor, not a one-tap send. No Sparrow page documents exporting a single private key (read 2026-10-28), and its security policy says "There is currently no bug bounty programme for Sparrow." It has published no security advisory and no fund-loss incident was found.
Criterion by criterion
Scorecard
Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology
Key export
weight 6.7 of 86Tie
OKX Wallet6/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet6/10 out of 10
Clear signing
weight 7.2 of 86Tie
OKX Wallet5/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet5/10 out of 10
Incident record
by 1 of 10weight 5.8 of 86OKX Wallet leads
OKX Wallet6/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet5/10 out of 10
Account recovery
by 3 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Sparrow Wallet leads
OKX Wallet6/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet9/10 out of 10
Score dimensions
weights sum to 86
The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.
Availabilityweight 20 of 86 · constant here
OKX Wallet14/20Sparrow Wallet14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
OKX Wallet13.7/30Sparrow Wallet14.4/30
Sparrow Wallet leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
OKX Wallet2.7/10Sparrow Wallet2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
OKX Wallet3.2/8Sparrow Wallet3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
OKX Wallet8.3/18Sparrow Wallet8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Sparrow Wallet unless the term OKX Wallet leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick OKX Wallet if incident record matters most — it scores 6/10 to Sparrow Wallet's 5/10 there (weight 24).
The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .
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Key failure: your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.
Scored by Can I export my own keys and use them elsewhere? · 28% (OKX Wallet 6/10, Sparrow Wallet 6/10)
Scored by Can I see exactly what I am signing? · 30% (OKX Wallet 5/10, Sparrow Wallet 5/10)
Scored by What has gone wrong, and did they publish it? · 24% (OKX Wallet 6/10, Sparrow Wallet 5/10)
Scored by If I lose my device, how do I get back in? · 18% (OKX Wallet 6/10, Sparrow Wallet 9/10)
Sparrow Wallet scores 2 points above OKX Wallet, led by account recovery. Published scores, out of 100: OKX Wallet 66 (rank 10 of 11 wallets), Sparrow Wallet 68 (rank 7 of 11).
ReviewedRe-read in progressOverdue; re-read by 10 November 2026.Methodology v2026.10.18
How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means both products compared here 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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