Best Galxe Alternatives in 2026: What Each One Actually Costs

Short answer: every "best Galxe alternatives" page we could find still recommends Intract. Intract's quest product closed on 12 January 2026, and intract.io is now a cross-border payments company. Among the platforms still running, published entry prices go from $29 a month at Guild.xyz to $1,200 at QuestN, against Galxe's $999 — and Galxe is the only one that charges the person completing the quest a platform fee of its own.

Disclosure: Zealy publishes this page and Zealy is one of the platforms on it. The list is not ranked. Zealy appears first because Zealy wrote it, which is a disclosure rather than a placement. Every price below links to the page it came from, including competitors' own pricing and help pages, and each platform section names one thing that platform does better than Zealy.

Last verified: 12 August 2026. Seven pricing pages read in one sitting, so nothing here is averaged across months. Prices move; re-check any figure that matters to a budget.

Intract's quest product shut down on 12 January 2026

Intract's quest product is gone. The page at quest.intract.io reads "Intract Quest is Sunsetting" and gives a final day of 12 January 2026. The intract.io domain now belongs to a cross-border payments company whose homepage says "Move Money Across Global Markets, In Real Time". Intract is not a Galxe alternative any more.

This matters because Intract appears on essentially every listicle that ranks for this query. Those pages describe a working product with a signup flow. A reader following that advice today lands on a sunset notice or on a payments company.

The confusion is easy to understand. docs.intract.io still serves the old quest documentation, so a crawler — or a language model — reading the docs alone would conclude the product is alive. It is not. The quest site itself is the source that settled it.

Intract published farewell figures of 12M+ questers, 5,000+ partnerships and $10M+ in rewards. Those are Intract's own numbers, unaudited, and they are history either way.

What Galxe itself costs, deposit included

Galxe's free Basic plan requires a 300 USDT or USDC deposit to create a space, refundable only by request after three months and at Galxe's discretion. Paid plans start at $999 a month billed annually. Optional space verification costs a non-refundable $350 a year. Members pay a base fee of $0.08 per claim unless the project covers it.

Galxe's getting-started guide is explicit about the deposit: "A 300 USDT/USDC deposit is required for 'Basic' Business+ plan ($0/month) space creation. This deposit is not applicable when choosing Essentials, Growth, or Enterprise plans." The same page sets the refund terms: "You can request a refund for your Galxe deposit 3 months after creation. Cancellations are not allowed within the first three months," with Galxe holding "final discretion over refund eligibility."

The subscription tiers, from Galxe's business overview: Basic is free, Essentials is $999 a month billed annually ($11,988 a year) or $1,166 a month quarterly, Growth is $1,699 a month billed annually ($20,388 a year), and Enterprise is custom. There is no monthly-only option — Galxe states that payments for Business+ are accepted on a quarterly or annual basis.

Two costs sit outside the subscription. The Verified Space Program is 350 USDC or USDT per year, non-refundable and optional. And the member pays a base claim fee of $0.08, discounted at higher loyalty levels but only on the Gravity network, and waived if the project makes the quest gasless or funds a Gas Station. Publishing that number is to Galxe's credit — nobody else in this comparison publishes a comparable one.

One recent change is worth knowing before you compare analytics. Galxe retired Starboard, its real-time contributor insights layer, on 3 August 2026; existing dashboards stay viewable but the data is frozen (Galxe help centre). Our capability-by-capability comparison of Zealy and Galxe covers what that removes and what it does not.

What every live Galxe alternative costs

Published prices among live Galxe alternatives run from $29 a month at Guild.xyz to $1,200 at QuestN, against Galxe's $999. Only Zealy publishes a genuine free tier; QuestN is free in the sense that posting quests is permissionless. Galxe is the only platform here charging the participant a fee of its own per claim — on Layer3 and QuestN the participant pays network gas, which goes to the chain rather than to the platform. Layer3 and Domino publish no price at all.

Sources, all read on 12 August 2026: Zealy pricing, Guild.xyz pricing, TaskOn pricing, QuestN, Layer3 builder docs, Domino pricing, Galxe business overview and Galxe claim fees, and quest.intract.io.

Entry paid tiers as published by each platform on 12 August 2026, except QuestN, whose premium subscription is the only figure it publishes. Layer3 and Domino publish no figure and so have no bar. Subscription only — Galxe's 300 USDT space deposit and $350-a-year verification fee, Zealy's claim credits, and the member-side claim fee are all excluded.

Read the last two columns before the price column. A $29 plan that charges members nothing and a $999 plan that charges each member $0.08 a claim are not the same purchase, and a campaign aimed at 50,000 claims moves that $0.08 into real money — money paid by the people you are trying to win over, not by you.

How this comparison was made, and what it does not cover

Every price here came from the platform's own pricing page, help centre or documentation, all read on 12 August 2026. Nothing was measured, benchmarked or paid for. User counts are excluded from the comparison entirely, because every figure in this category is self-reported and none is audited. Several things could not be checked at all, and they are listed below.

What was checked. For each platform: the published price page, whether a free tier exists, whether the participant pays a per-claim fee, and which sign-up methods are offered. For liveness: the most recent dated content each site publishes, copyright years, and whether the live statistics on the marketing pages render real numbers.

What the liveness check found. Zealy's most recent blog post is dated 11 August 2026. Galxe's help articles are marked "Updated this week". Guild.xyz's old era.guild.xyz domain now redirects to guild.xyz, and guild.xyz/blog returns a 404 — Guild publishes case studies on Paragraph instead. Layer3's builder documentation says "Last updated 2 months ago". TaskOn is the mixed one: the site carries a 2026 copyright, but its newest blog post is dated 04/07/2026, its documentation footer still reads "Copyright © 2023" over unmodified Docusaurus boilerplate, and every link in the footer of both taskon.xyz and its business landing page has no destination attached. QuestN's footer reads "QUESTN PTE.LTD. 2025" and its live counters render "0+ Total Users" and "0+ Total Communities"; scrolling them into view and waiting does not change them. Those are observations about websites, not verdicts on companies.

What could not be checked. Whether Domino requires a wallet to sign up. What TaskOn, QuestN and Domino charge per claim, because none publishes a figure. How much L3 Layer3 requires, because Layer3 publishes no amount. And any claim about relative size, for the reason above.

Platforms left out on purpose. RabbitHole, Quest Protocol, DappRadar Quests, Magic Eden Rewards, PREMINT, Earn Alliance, Wonderverse and On3App appear in third-party listicles, but their sites were not opened for this survey, so including them would mean repeating someone else's summary as though it were checked. Enable3 was opened and left out on the merits: it is alive, but it is Shopify-oriented loyalty software and a weak substitute for Galxe.

On self-reported numbers. Galxe states 22 million users. Layer3's site says 3M+ while its documentation cites $35M in rewards, 70M CUBEs and 545M actions. QuestN claims 19,000 projects, Guild.xyz "1000+ teams", Domino 25M+ quests completed. TaskOn contradicts itself across two of its own pages, giving both 2,000+ and 57K+ projects and both $50M+ and $3.9M+ in rewards distributed. Zealy publishes no user count at all. So this post cannot tell you which platform is biggest, and does not try.

Zealy — free tier, no wallet, and the project pays the claim fee

Zealy is free at $0 a month with 5,000 claim credits and unlimited members, and the entry paid plan is $149 a month billed annually. The project pays for claims in credits; the member pays nothing. No wallet is needed to sign up, and a member can finish a whole campaign without one.

The shape of a Zealy campaign is a questboard with a leaderboard and a time-boxed sprint attached, paying out in XP, Zaps, USDC, Discord roles or a project's own token (Zealy rewards). Anything open-ended lands in a review queue in front of community moderators (creating quests); AI-assisted review starts on the Plus plan (reviews). Zealy's Tweet, Tweet Reaction and Quote Tweet tasks can each carry a minimum-likes, impressions, replies or retweets threshold before a claim counts (X tasks), which is the mechanic behind paying for what a post achieved rather than for the post. Zealy also ships an MCP server with 125 tools, which no other platform in this survey documents. If you want the mechanics before the pitch, our guide to Zealy walks through how a member actually gets paid.

Three honest limits. Zealy's free plan does not include X tasks, so the mechanic above starts at $149 a month. Zealy verifies what a wallet holds but not what it did — no contract queries, no governance votes — so a campaign that rewards people for swapping, bridging or voting cannot be built on Zealy at all. And Zealy's own documentation says that for a project's own token, organisers "need to distribute the rewards manually after winners have been decided" (rewards). Layer3 automates that step. Zealy does not.

Guild.xyz — $29 a month, and roles that keep re-checking

Guild.xyz costs $29 a month, or $290 a year, on its pricing page — the cheapest published paid plan here, and a thirty-fourth of Galxe's Essentials tier. No free tier is listed. Nobody pays a per-claim fee, and members and roles are unlimited on every plan. Sign-up needs no wallet: X, Email, Discord, GitHub and others all work.

Guild.xyz solves a different problem from the rest of this list, and solves it better than Zealy does. Guild's documentation describes access as continuously enforced: "Members automatically gain or lose roles when they meet or stop meeting requirements" (how Guild works). That is the opposite of how a quest platform behaves. Zealy grants a reward when someone claims it and does not take the entitlement back when they sell the token an hour later.

So, plainly: if what you need is gated access that keeps checking — a Discord role that survives only as long as the holding does — Guild.xyz at $29 a month is a better buy than Zealy, and you should go and buy it. It is the cheapest thing on this page and the only one built for that job. If what you need is campaigns, rewards, review queues and leaderboards, Guild.xyz is not the tool.

TaskOn — white-label, but no free tier and no published claim fee

TaskOn has no free tier, only a seven-day trial, and its entry plan is $199 a month, billed as $1,194 for six months up front (TaskOn pricing). TaskOn does not publish a per-claim fee, so the member-side cost is unknown. Signing up works with a wallet or with X, Discord, Telegram or email, so no wallet is required.

The thing TaskOn does that Zealy does not is white-label. TaskOn offers an SDK that runs the growth engine on your own domain under your own branding. Zealy publishes no white-label product at all. If the requirement is that members never see a third-party platform, TaskOn is the answer on this page and Zealy is not.

Two caveats, both observations. TaskOn's site carries a 2026 copyright, but its most recent blog post is dated 04/07/2026, its documentation footer still reads "Copyright © 2023", and one pricing link in the consumer footer has no destination attached. Separately, TaskOn's own pages disagree with each other about its size: two of them give both 2,000+ and 57K+ projects, and both $50M+ and $3.9M+ in rewards distributed. Take neither figure to a planning meeting.

QuestN — mobile apps, à-la-carte promotion, and some stale signals

QuestN says posting quests is "permissionless", and publishes no fee for doing it. Its premium plan is $1,200 a month, marked down from a $2,000 list price. Promotion is sold à la carte: $200 a recommended spot, $500 a banner, $500 a tweet, $300 to export quester data. A wallet address is the one account field QuestN says cannot be changed.

QuestN's advantage over Zealy is distribution on phones. QuestN's iOS app is live on the App Store, checked on 12 August 2026. QuestN's site also links an Android build, but the Google Play listing it points at returned a 404 on the same day, so treat Android as unconfirmed. Zealy has no native app on either store. If your audience completes quests on a phone, that is a real difference.

Some signals on the site are stale, and they should be reported rather than interpreted. QuestN's footer reads "QUESTN PTE.LTD. 2025", and the live statistics on its marketing page render "0+ Total Users" and "0+ Total Communities" instead of numbers — scrolled into view and given time to animate, they stay at zero. The iOS app is real but its last release is version 1.0.39, dated July 2024. None of that proves QuestN has stopped operating, and plenty of working software has a stale footer. It is a reason to ask QuestN direct questions about support and roadmap before committing $1,200 a month.

Layer3 — automated token payouts, wallet required, no published price

Layer3 publishes no price. To unlock a Community Space you "will need to stake the L3 token on Ethereum Mainnet for at least 12 months", and Layer3 states no amount (Layer3 builder docs). That is a year of locked capital, not a subscription. Layer3 is also the only platform here that requires a wallet to sign up.

Layer3 beats Zealy on one thing that matters more than it sounds: getting the tokens out of the door. Layer3's token-reward configuration docs say users "claim tokens from this contract alongside their CUBE mint (single transaction)" — the payout is part of the claim. On Zealy, a project's own token has to be sent by hand after the fact. For a campaign with 5,000 winners, that difference is somebody's week.

The wallet requirement is the decision point, though. A consumer brand, a game studio or any project whose audience will not install a wallet cannot use Layer3 at all. Our three-way breakdown of Zealy, Galxe and Layer3 has the full fee and reward-type comparison for the three of them.

Domino — free to start, priced per active claiming member

Domino publishes no price. Its pricing page shows one tier, "White-glove, Custom", and the free offer sits on the homepage behind a trial button. Domino charges per monthly active community member — "any member who claimed a quest during the billing period" — without publishing a rate. That beats a flat subscription if you run one campaign a quarter.

Domino also wrote the most detailed "Galxe alternatives" article currently ranking for this query — published 13 December 2025, covering 12 platforms — and it ranks Domino first and Zealy second. That is worth knowing before you read it, and it does not make the piece useless: it is better researched than the affiliate blogs around it, and it is generous about Zealy rather than dismissive. It also still recommends Intract, which is the whole reason this page exists.

Whether Domino requires a wallet to sign up was not checked for this survey, so that cell in the table above is blank rather than guessed.

Which Galxe alternative should you pick?

Decide on three things before price: whether your members will install a wallet, who you want paying the per-claim fee, and whether you need continuous access checks or one-off task completion. Budget separates this field less than it appears. The published range runs from $29 a month to $1,699 across all tiers, and two platforms publish nothing at all.

• Gated access that re-checks itself. Guild.xyz, at $29 a month. Roles are granted and revoked automatically as holdings change. Nothing else here does that, Zealy included.
• A campaign for people who do not hold crypto. Zealy. Sign-up by Discord or email, XP and Discord roles as rewards, no wallet at any point.
• Eligibility that depends on a contract call or a governance vote. Galxe, still. That is what Galxe is built for, and paying $999 for it is a defensible decision — see our Zealy vs Galxe comparison for what each can actually verify.
• Token payouts you do not want to send by hand. Layer3, provided every member already has a wallet.
• Your own branding, your own domain. TaskOn's white-label SDK, at $199 a month with no free tier.
• Paying only when people participate. Domino, if you can get a rate out of them.
• A budget of zero. Zealy's free plan, or Galxe's Basic — remembering that Basic asks for a 300 USDT/USDC deposit first, and that Zealy's free plan excludes X tasks.

And one that is not on the list: if a comparison you are reading recommends Intract, it was written before January 2026 and nobody has checked it since. That is the fastest way to date any page in this category.

If your campaign is social work, Discord and submissions that need a human to read them, Zealy's free plan costs nothing to test — and if you are trying to buy reach on X specifically, our breakdown of what that actually costs per thousand views is the more useful page.