Solflare vs Sparrow Wallet Solflare leads by 7 points.
Solflare scores 7 points above Sparrow Wallet, led by clear signing and key export. Solflare ranks #5 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.
Solflare75
vs
SPSparrow Wallet68
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #5 and #7 of 11
Solflare scores 7 points above Sparrow Wallet, led by clear signing and key export.
Solflare #5 of 1175
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 termSolflare leads on 2 of 4 published criteria; Sparrow Wallet on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermSolflareSparrow WalletWeightPoints
Clear signing7/105/107.2+3.7for Solflare+1.9 of 32
Key export10/106/106.7+7.0for Solflare+3.6 of 32
Incident record2/105/105.8−4.5for Sparrow Wallet−2.3 of 32
Net of the terms+6.2
Reproduced gap+6.2
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7568+7.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
SolflareScore 75Solana-only self-custody wallet that documents seed AND per-account private-key export on both extension and mobile in printed steps, and whose named in-house scanner is described only in prose — no audit, no bug bounty, no advisory archive exists on any Solflare surface.Strength: Key export — 10/10Watch-out: Solflare tells you what its protection does, never what your screen shows, and publishes nothing a security engineer can check. Its scanner is named and described in prose — "Every time you go to sign a transaction, Solflare Guards step in to" … "They simulate the transaction behind the scenes" (solflare.com/crypto-101/crypto-wallet-security-101-how-solflare-protects-your-assets/) — but no Solflare page renders a balance-change diff or a decoded human-readable action, so "What You See Is What You Sign" is a claim about a screen the vendor has never documented. Behind it: solflare.com/security/ names no audit, no auditor and no bug-bounty programme; /.well-known/security.txt is HTTP 404; none of the eight sitemaps (page 94, blog 31, crypto-101 54, glossary 120, guide 18, ecosystem 5, job 6, blog-author 12) contains an advisory or disclosure page; there is no SECURITY.md and no GitHub advisory; and the client is closed source. The sharpest tell is the vendor's own FAQ telling Ledger users to "make sure that Blind Signing is enabled in Ledger Live" — that turns the paired device's screen into a hash and leaves the undocumented Solflare screen as the only human-readable view of what you are signing. Where Solflare is genuinely strong is the exit: seed and per-account private key both export in printed steps on extension and mobile, no login exists, and "Any Solana recovery phrase works, regardless of which wallet it was created in." Buy the custody model, not the security assurance.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.
Quick facts
At a glance
3 of 4 rows read the same for both.
FactSolflareSparrow Wallet
PricingSnapshotNo price is published for the wallet software in the body copy of any solflare.com page, but the vendor calls it free in the head of the page cited here: solflare.com/download/ carries <title>Download Solflare: Free Solana Wallet Extension & Mobile App</title> and <meta name="description" content="Download Solflare, the free Solana wallet browser extension and mobile app. Trade, stake and store crypto on Chrome, Firefox, iOS & Android."> (both re-read 28 October 2026). The page's visible commercial line is "Get the Solflare browser extension to trade, stake, and hold Solana with full self-custody in seconds." The only in-wallet fee mechanic the vendor publishes is a network-fee fallback, not a Solflare take: help.solflare.com/en/articles/9271735-understanding-transaction-fees-on-solana (re-read 28 October 2026) states "Gasless Send: If you try to send a token but don't have enough SOL to cover the network fee, Solflare automatically covers it for you. The fee is simply deducted from the token you're sending instead." — no Solflare swap or trading fee percentage appears in that article. Real prices exist only for adjacent products: the Shield hardware card, where solflare.com/hardware-wallet/ (fetched 28 October 2026) renders "Order Origin $49" while its carousel shows Signature variants at "$59", "$69" and "$79" and a customised "Unique" card at "$79". The Solflare Card's FX-fee article (help.solflare.com/en/articles/12890985) now returns HTTP 404, and the card is paused: "Solflare Cards, both virtual and physical, have temporarily stopped working." (help.solflare.com/en/articles/17335647-solflare-card-pauses-july-28th-and-returns-with-apple-pay-higher-limits-and-cashback, read 28 October 2026), so no card price is carried."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?
Solflare
75#5 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Solflare if clear signing matters most — it scores 7/10 to Sparrow Wallet's 5/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Key export — 10/10
Tradeoff
Solflare tells you what its protection does, never what your screen shows, and publishes nothing a security engineer can check. Its scanner is named and described in prose — "Every time you go to sign a transaction, Solflare Guards step in to" … "They simulate the transaction behind the scenes" (solflare.com/crypto-101/crypto-wallet-security-101-how-solflare-protects-your-assets/) — but no Solflare page renders a balance-change diff or a decoded human-readable action, so "What You See Is What You Sign" is a claim about a screen the vendor has never documented. Behind it: solflare.com/security/ names no audit, no auditor and no bug-bounty programme; /.well-known/security.txt is HTTP 404; none of the eight sitemaps (page 94, blog 31, crypto-101 54, glossary 120, guide 18, ecosystem 5, job 6, blog-author 12) contains an advisory or disclosure page; there is no SECURITY.md and no GitHub advisory; and the client is closed source. The sharpest tell is the vendor's own FAQ telling Ledger users to "make sure that Blind Signing is enabled in Ledger Live" — that turns the paired device's screen into a hash and leaves the undocumented Solflare screen as the only human-readable view of what you are signing. Where Solflare is genuinely strong is the exit: seed and per-account private key both export in printed steps on extension and mobile, no login exists, and "Any Solana recovery phrase works, regardless of which wallet it was created in." Buy the custody model, not the security assurance.
SP
Sparrow Wallet
68#7 of 11
Pick it when
Pick Sparrow Wallet if incident record matters most — it scores 5/10 to Solflare's 2/10 there (weight 24).
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?
SolflareLeads
Choose Solflare if clear signing matters most
Clear signing: 7/10 against 5/10 for Sparrow Wallet (weight 30)
Key export: 10/10 against 6/10 for Sparrow Wallet (weight 28)
SolflareScore 75Solana-only self-custody wallet that documents seed AND per-account private-key export on both extension and mobile in printed steps, and whose named in-house scanner is described only in prose — no audit, no bug bounty, no advisory archive exists on any Solflare surface.Strength: Key export — 10/10Watch-out: Solflare tells you what its protection does, never what your screen shows, and publishes nothing a security engineer can check. Its scanner is named and described in prose — "Every time you go to sign a transaction, Solflare Guards step in to" … "They simulate the transaction behind the scenes" (solflare.com/crypto-101/crypto-wallet-security-101-how-solflare-protects-your-assets/) — but no Solflare page renders a balance-change diff or a decoded human-readable action, so "What You See Is What You Sign" is a claim about a screen the vendor has never documented. Behind it: solflare.com/security/ names no audit, no auditor and no bug-bounty programme; /.well-known/security.txt is HTTP 404; none of the eight sitemaps (page 94, blog 31, crypto-101 54, glossary 120, guide 18, ecosystem 5, job 6, blog-author 12) contains an advisory or disclosure page; there is no SECURITY.md and no GitHub advisory; and the client is closed source. The sharpest tell is the vendor's own FAQ telling Ledger users to "make sure that Blind Signing is enabled in Ledger Live" — that turns the paired device's screen into a hash and leaves the undocumented Solflare screen as the only human-readable view of what you are signing. Where Solflare is genuinely strong is the exit: seed and per-account private key both export in printed steps on extension and mobile, no login exists, and "Any Solana recovery phrase works, regardless of which wallet it was created in." Buy the custody model, not the security assurance.
SPSparrow Wallet
Choose Sparrow Wallet if incident record matters most
Incident record: 5/10 against 2/10 for Solflare (weight 24)
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
by 4 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Solflare leads
Solflare10/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet6/10 out of 10
Clear signing
by 2 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Solflare leads
Solflare7/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet5/10 out of 10
Incident record
by 3 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Sparrow Wallet leads
Solflare2/10 out of 10
Sparrow Wallet5/10 out of 10
Account recovery
weight 4.3 of 86Tie
Solflare9/10 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
Solflare14/20Sparrow Wallet14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Solflare16.8/30Sparrow Wallet14.4/30
Solflare leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Solflare2.7/10Sparrow Wallet2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Solflare3.2/8Sparrow Wallet3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Solflare8.3/18Sparrow Wallet8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Solflare unless the term Sparrow Wallet leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Sparrow Wallet if incident record matters most — it scores 5/10 to Solflare's 2/10 there (weight 24).
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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% (Solflare 10/10, Sparrow Wallet 6/10)
Scored by Can I see exactly what I am signing? · 30% (Solflare 7/10, Sparrow Wallet 5/10)
Scored by What has gone wrong, and did they publish it? · 24% (Solflare 2/10, Sparrow Wallet 5/10)
Scored by If I lose my device, how do I get back in? · 18% (Solflare 9/10, Sparrow Wallet 9/10)
Solflare scores 7 points above Sparrow Wallet, led by clear signing and key export. Published scores, out of 100: Solflare 75 (rank 5 of 11 wallets), Sparrow Wallet 68 (rank 7 of 11).
ReviewedRe-read in progressOverdue; re-read by 10 November 2026.Methodology v2026.10.18
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