Realms vs Surfpool

Overview

Realms Realms is the leading DAO governance platform on Solana, providing infrastructure for decentralized organizations to create proposals, vote on decisions, and manage treasuries on-chain. Built and main... Surfpool Surfpool is a developer tool that replaces Solana's standard test validator with a more powerful local simulation environment. Instead of running a blank local chain, Surfpool fetches live mainnet acc...

Community Ratings

Surfpool is rated higher by the MadeOnSol community with 5.0/5 stars across 1 review, compared to 4.0/5 for Realms (2 reviews). That said, ratings only tell part of the story — what matters most is which tool fits your specific workflow.

Pricing & Value

Realms uses a free model — Completely free to use. Standard Solana transaction fees apply for creating proposals and voting. No platform fees., while Surfpool is free. Both tools are free, so cost isn't a deciding factor — focus on features and reliability instead.

Key Features

Realms offers 8 features including DAO creation with customizable governance rules, thresholds, and voting periods, Token-weighted voting, council governance, and hybrid models for any org structure, On-chain treasury management with governance-approved token transfers, and 5 more. Surfpool counters with 5 features including Drop-in test validator replacement, Live mainnet account fetching for realistic testing, Infrastructure-as-Code configuration, and 2 more. The right choice depends on which specific features matter for your use case — check the individual review pages for full breakdowns.

Reliability & Health

We monitor both tools around the clock for uptime, SSL validity, and response times. Realms currently has a healthy health status with 100.0% uptime over the last 30 days. Surfpool is rated healthy with 100.0% uptime. For any tool you trust with your funds, trades, or yield, uptime and speed are non-negotiable.

Strengths

Realms's key strengths include standard governance platform for solana — used by hundreds of daos including major protocols, built on spl governance program with strong solana foundation team involvement, extremely flexible — supports everything from small nft community daos to billion-dollar protocols.