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Privy vs Turnkey
Every row read live from the directory · updated 2026-09-12
This is the wallet-infrastructure decision most agent builders hit on day two: something has to hold a key and sign, and it should not be a hot key in an environment variable. Both are listed here as wallet infrastructure, and both are used underneath production agents.
The table compares them on what the directory tracks for both — chains, interfaces, openness, maintenance and what evidence we hold. It deliberately does not rank them on security, because security is not a row this site is entitled to fill in.
Privy is an infrastructure by Privy, partly open source, last active 2026-09-09 (active), Sato Score 83 of 100 as of 2026-09-12, on Ethereum, Base, Solana, Multichain.
Turnkey is an infrastructure by Turnkey, partly open source, last active 2026-09-10 (active), Sato Score 83 of 100 as of 2026-09-12, on Ethereum, Base, Solana, Multichain.
Privy
ActiveEmbedded and server wallet infrastructure used to give agents secure key management.
Turnkey
ActiveSecure key management infrastructure with policy controls, commonly used for agent wallets.
On the same axes
| Privy | Turnkey | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Wallet Infrastructure | Wallet Infrastructure |
| Chains | Ethereum, Base, Solana, Multichain | Ethereum, Base, Solana, Multichain |
| Interfaces | rest-api | rest-api |
| Standards | — | — |
| Open source | Partial | Partial |
| Listing status | Active | Active |
| Last activity | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-10 |
| Last release | — | — |
| Install proofA reproduced install means the documented setup was actually run, not that the project is safe. | Reproduced install | Reproduced install |
| VerificationSelf-reported is not verified. Only Verified and Audited are earned states. | Unverified | Unverified |
| Sato ScoreHow open, active and verifiable the project is — not a safety, quality or returns grade. | 83 | 83 |
| GitHub starsA popularity signal, not a quality one. Listed last for that reason. | — | — |
Pick Privy if
- ·Your agent has human users behind it and you want embedded wallets and the login flow from one vendor.
- ·You are starting from a consumer-shaped app and adding agent behaviour to it.
- ·You want the shortest path from a signed-in user to a wallet that can act.
Pick Turnkey if
- ·The signer is the product: you want a key-management surface with explicit policy over what may be signed.
- ·You need programmatic signing for an agent that has no human sitting behind each action.
- ·You would rather express who may sign what as policy than enforce it in your own application code.
Questions this comparison answers
- Is Privy or Turnkey more actively maintained?
- Privy is an infrastructure by Privy, partly open source, last active 2026-09-09 (active), Sato Score 83 of 100 as of 2026-09-12, on Ethereum, Base, Solana, Multichain. Turnkey is an infrastructure by Turnkey, partly open source, last active 2026-09-10 (active), Sato Score 83 of 100 as of 2026-09-12, on Ethereum, Base, Solana, Multichain. Activity is a recency signal from public commits, releases and posts, not a quality judgment.
- Which one is open source?
- Privy: Partial. Turnkey: Partial. "Unknown" means Sato Hub found no license statement.
- Does Sato Hub declare a winner?
- No. Every row is read live from the directory and the page names what the data cannot settle. The single most important axis here — how each one custodies and protects keys — is the one this table cannot settle. Sato Hub has not audited either, holds no security assessment of either, and a Sato Score measures how open, active and verifiable a project is, not how well it protects a key. Whatever either vendor publishes about its own key handling is self-reported until someone independent checks it. If an agent will sign with real funds, read both vendors' security documentation and their own third-party audits directly.
Sources — both projects' repositories and docs
What this cannot tell you
The single most important axis here — how each one custodies and protects keys — is the one this table cannot settle. Sato Hub has not audited either, holds no security assessment of either, and a Sato Score measures how open, active and verifiable a project is, not how well it protects a key. Whatever either vendor publishes about its own key handling is self-reported until someone independent checks it. If an agent will sign with real funds, read both vendors' security documentation and their own third-party audits directly.
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Sato Hub. "Privy vs Turnkey." Sato Hub, updated 2026-09-12, accessed 2026-09-12. https://satohub.ai/compare/privy-vs-turnkeyThis page is refreshed daily. Citations include the date so a reader can tell which snapshot a claim came from.
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