Zealy vs Galxe: What Each Platform Can Actually Do

Short answer: Zealy and Galxe both let a project publish tasks and reward the people who finish them, and both verify on-chain holdings. The split is what happens either side of that. Galxe goes further into on-chain actions — contract calls and governance votes. Zealy goes further into social performance, Discord, and work a human has to read and judge. Choose on that, not on the feature count.

Disclosure: Zealy publishes this comparison and Zealy is one of the two platforms in it. Every capability below comes from a current documentation page — Galxe's own docs and help centre for Galxe, Zealy's docs for Zealy — and each row links to the page it came from. Where Galxe is better, this post says so and names five.

Last verified: 12 August 2026. Both companies change their documentation; the links go to the pages that will change with them.

What is Galxe?

Galxe is a Web3 platform that lets projects publish quests and verify what a user has done, on-chain and on social platforms. Galxe's documentation describes Galxe as "a decentralized super app and web3's largest onchain distribution platform". Quest is the campaign product most people mean; Passport, Score, Alva and the Gravity blockchain sit alongside it.

Projects use Galxe to run reward campaigns aimed at wallets. A project creates a Space, publishes a quest with a mix of on-chain and social tasks, and members who satisfy the tasks claim a reward — an OAT, an NFT, points, a Discord role or tokens.

The rest of the Galxe suite, in Galxe's own words: Passport is "a secure identity solution", Score is "your web3 reputation score" derived from "onchain achievements, engagement, expertise, and assets", Alva is "an AI copilot" for research and trading, and Gravity is "a Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption and an omnichain future". A product called Compass is named but not detailed. Galxe's Quest documentation states Galxe serves "over 22 million users", a self-reported figure with no published methodology behind it.

What is Zealy?

Zealy is a community engagement platform run by Freyja Labs, previously called Crew3. Communities publish quests; members sign in with Discord, email or a wallet and earn XP, Zaps, USDC, Discord roles or a project's own token. Leaderboards and time-boxed sprints rank participants. No wallet is needed to take part in a Zealy campaign.

The design assumption is different from Galxe's. Zealy assumes the interesting behaviour happens where people already are — in a Discord server, in a reply thread, in a piece of work someone made — rather than in a transaction log. Our full guide to Zealy covers the payout mechanics in detail.

Galxe retired Starboard on 3 August 2026

Galxe shut down Starboard on 3 August 2026. Galxe's help centre states plainly: "Galxe Starboard is no longer active as of August 3, 2026." Eligible spaces can still open existing dashboards, but the data is frozen — no new social or on-chain activity is tracked or indexed. Every comparison written before August still lists Starboard as a live feature.

Starboard was Galxe's real-time insights layer: social and on-chain activity tracking, contributor leaderboards, and a goal-based campaign engine. It is also still a selectable task type in Galxe's quest builder, operating on historic data only. Galxe's note on the retirement gives the reason: "As community growth in Web3 continues to move deeper onchain, Galxe is focusing more of its resources on the products that support real user acquisition, retention, credentials, and identity at scale." Galxe names Quest, Passport, Loyalty Points, Smart Balance and the Rewards Hub as the products that continue.

Products get retired. That is normal, and Galxe was clear about it. The practical consequence is narrow and worth stating: if contributor analytics inside Galxe was your reason for choosing Galxe, that reason expired nine days before this post was published, and no ranking listicle has caught up yet.

Zealy vs Galxe, capability by capability

Both Zealy and Galxe verify on-chain holdings. Galxe reaches further into on-chain history — contract calls and Snapshot votes — and filters X accounts by age and follower count. Zealy reaches further into what a post achieved, into Discord, and into work that needs a human opinion. Neither replaces the other.

Sources, all accessed 12 August 2026. Zealy: X tasks, NFT task, Token task, API task, X Premium task, Proof of Humanity task, Telegram task, TikTok task, reward methods, rewards, creating quests, reviews, Discord integration, leaderboard, MCP server, billing and plans. Galxe: quest tasks and settings, claim fees, Gas Station, luck-based token reward, Galxe accounts, Starboard, business plans, getting started and the Space deposit, quest rewards, identity protocol.

Two rows deserve a second look, because they sound like the same idea and are not. Zealy measures the post: a task can require a member's tweet to reach a minimum number of likes, impressions, replies or retweets before the claim counts. Galxe measures the account before it posts anything — age, follower count, blue check. Both platforms screen accounts to some degree; only Galxe screens on age and follower count, and only Zealy prices the result of the post. If a campaign needs a hard follower floor and payment on outcomes, it currently has to choose which one to give up.

Five things Galxe does that Zealy cannot

Galxe beats Zealy on on-chain history, on account-quality filtering, and on published member-side economics. Five capabilities have no Zealy equivalent: contract and governance queries, a no-code eligibility list, follower and account-age floors, a per-claim price a member can read in advance, and token rewards escrowed before the quest opens.

1. On-chain actions, not just balances. Both platforms check what a wallet holds. Only Galxe checks what a wallet did: Contract Query and Snapshot Voter are ordinary task types in the Galxe quest builder. If your qualifying action is "swapped on this contract" or "voted in this Snapshot proposal", Galxe answers it in a dropdown. Zealy's NFT and Token tasks cannot see either.
2. An eligibility list with no code behind it. Galxe accepts a CSV or a Google Sheet that auto-syncs every 12 hours as the source of truth for who qualifies. Zealy's API task covers the same ground only if someone stands up an endpoint and keeps it running. For a marketer with a spreadsheet and no engineer, that is the difference between shipping today and filing a ticket.
3. Follower and account-age floors as settings. Zealy checks X Premium and runs a Proof of Humanity score, so this is narrower than it first looks — but Galxe alone turns account age (1, 3, 6 or 12 months) and a follower floor (20, 50, 100 or 500) into toggles on the task. On Zealy, filtering on those two attributes falls to reviewers, which costs time.
4. A per-claim price a member can read in advance. Galxe charges the member $0.08 on a base claim — discounted at higher loyalty levels, though only on the Gravity network — and nothing at all if the project runs the quest gasless or funds a Gas Station. Zealy charges members no per-claim fee, so this is not a cost Zealy imposes and hides. What Galxe does better is publish the number, which is a transparency choice most of this category avoids.
5. Token rewards funded before the quest opens. Galxe requires a project to "deposit tokens with a total value of at least $10 to publish quests", and publishes the refund conditions and a 15-day claim window for raffles (Galxe quest rewards). Zealy's own rewards documentation says the opposite for a project's own token: "You need to distribute the rewards manually after winners have been decided." Zealy's USDC rewards are automatic and guaranteed by Zealy — but if you are paying in your own token, on Galxe the money is already in escrow when a member starts work, and on Zealy it is a promise the project has to keep by hand.

Point 1 is the one that should decide a real campaign. Zealy can tell you what a wallet holds and for how long. Zealy cannot tell you what a wallet did. If your qualifying action is a swap, a bridge or a vote, no amount of Discord depth makes up for that, and you should use Galxe.

What Zealy does that Galxe does not

Zealy handles the parts of a campaign that no on-chain query can see. Zealy sets engagement thresholds on a member's own X post, routes open-ended submissions to human reviewers, treats Discord roles as first-class rewards, picks winners by community vote, and exposes the whole product to AI agents through an MCP server.

• Engagement requirements on the tasks that produce a post. Zealy's Tweet, Tweet Reaction and Quote Tweet tasks can each require a minimum number of likes, impressions, replies or retweets before a claim is valid. Follow and Twitter Space cannot, because neither produces a post to measure. That threshold is the mechanic behind paying for reach instead of paying for posts.
• Winners ranked on what a post did. Zealy's Top reward method ranks participants by "views or interactions, depending on how you configure the reward method". The Vote method hands the decision to the community. Neither has an equivalent in the Galxe pages checked.
• A review queue for work that needs an opinion. Open-ended submissions land in front of community moderators who accept, reject or send feedback (Zealy quest docs). AI-assisted review starts on the Plus plan (Zealy review docs), so it is not included at $149. A design contest, a thread, a piece of translation — no contract query grades any of those.
• Discord as a real integration rather than a task. Role rewards, quests gated behind a role, server notifications for new quests and pending reviews, and bot commands for admins (Zealy Discord docs). Galxe documents joining a server and granting a role.
• A cash reward with a custodian behind it. Zealy's rewards documentation calls USDC payouts "managed and guaranteed by Zealy", so the member is not relying on a project to remember to send anything. Claiming costs the member nothing, and a balance is withdrawable from $1 — checked in the product on 7 August 2026. Zealy publishes no withdrawal fee or daily limit on any page, which is a real gap: Galxe's $0.08 has its own help-centre article, and an undocumented cost is worse for trust than a documented one.
• An MCP server. Zealy ships 125 tools at mcp.zealy.io/mcp, so an AI agent can build a campaign, read the leaderboard and clear a review queue. Galxe documents no equivalent, and neither did Layer3, TaskOn or QuestN when their documentation was checked on 12 August 2026.

What each one costs, briefly

Zealy's entry paid plan is $149 a month billed annually; Galxe's Essentials is $999. Both have a free tier, though Galxe's wants a 300 USDT or USDC Space deposit first, refundable after three months. Treat those two numbers as orientation, not analysis: usage billing, the optional $350-a-year Verified Space fee and the member-side claim fee all move the real cost.

Two structural differences matter more than the gap between the two prices. Zealy bills claim credits on top of the subscription, so a busy campaign costs more than a quiet one. Galxe bills a flat subscription with no monthly-only option: Galxe's business page states that "payments for Business+ are accepted on a quarterly or annual basis". Our three-way cost breakdown of Zealy, Galxe and Layer3 has the full pricing table, the per-claim fees and the reward-type comparison.

How to choose between Zealy and Galxe

Choose Galxe if the qualifying action is something a wallet did — a swap, a bridge, a governance vote. Choose Zealy if your community lives on Discord, if you want to pay on what a post achieved, or if some members will never install a wallet. A plain token or NFT holding check is not a tiebreaker: both platforms do it.

A few cases where the answer is not close:

• Rewarding wallets that interacted with your contract, or voted in your DAO. Galxe. Contract Query and Snapshot Voter do it in a dropdown and Zealy cannot do it at all.
• A creator campaign paid on the reach a post achieved. Zealy. Engagement thresholds on X tasks are the whole mechanic.
• A Discord community with a role hierarchy you want quests to respect. Zealy.
• An eligibility list that lives in a spreadsheet. Galxe. A Google Sheet on a 12-hour sync needs nobody to build anything. If the list lives behind an internal API instead, either platform works — Zealy's API task calls your endpoint and takes its answer.
• A game or consumer brand whose audience does not hold crypto. Zealy. Members can complete an entire campaign — quests, XP, Discord roles, Zaps — without a wallet.
• A budget under $999 a month. Zealy's free plan or its $149 Standard tier. Galxe's Basic tier is also free, but it wants a 300 USDT or USDC Space deposit before you publish anything, which is a different kind of "free" if your working capital is the constraint.

If neither fits, the field is wider than these two names: our survey of the best Galxe alternatives compares the rest of the category on published prices and member-side fees.

Running a campaign that mixes social work, Discord and human-judged submissions? Start on Zealy's free plan and see whether the review queue earns its keep before you pay anything.