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Marketplaces ranked on custody of assets, fee clarity and royalty policy. Every score below is the weighted mean of the rubric marks, not an editor's gut feel.
Magic EdenBest for: Multi-chain NFT trading including Bitcoin and Solana8.1/10
OpenSeaBest for: The broadest collection coverage across chains8.1/10
ManifoldBest for: Creators who want to own their contract7.8/10
objkt.comBest for: Tezos art collecting with royalties intact7.7/10
TensorBest for: Solana NFT trading with pro tooling7.6/10
Immutable MarketplaceBest for: Gaming NFTs with gas-free trading7.4/10| # | Service | Score | Best for | Fees | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magic EdenStrong | 8.1/10 | Multi-chain NFT trading including Bitcoin and Solana | ||
| 2 | OpenSeaStrong | 8.1/10 | The broadest collection coverage across chains | ||
| 3 | ManifoldSolid | 7.8/10 | Creators who want to own their contract | ||
| 4 | objkt.comSolid | 7.7/10 | Tezos art collecting with royalties intact | ||
| 5 | TensorSolid | 7.6/10 | Solana NFT trading with pro tooling | ||
| 6 | Immutable MarketplaceSolid | 7.4/10 | Gaming NFTs with gas-free trading | ||
| 7 |  ZoraSolid | 7.4/10 | Open-edition minting and creator-first distribution | ||
| 8 |  BlurSolid | 7.3/10 | Professional traders and collection bidding | ||
| 9 |  FoundationSolid | 7.3/10 | Curated single-edition digital art | ||
| 10 |  RaribleSolid | 7.3/10 | Multi-chain listing and white-label marketplaces | ||
| 11 |  MintifySolid | 7.1/10 | Trading terminal-style NFT execution | ||
| 12 |  SuperRareSolid | 7.1/10 | High-end curated crypto art | ||
| 13 |  OKX NFT MarketplaceSolid | 7.0/10 | Aggregated trading inside an exchange account | ||
| 14 |  Element MarketMixed | 6.7/10 | Cheap aggregated buying across chains | ||
| 15 |  LooksRareMixed | 6.5/10 | Little that its competitors do not do better |
The most genuinely multi-chain marketplace, covering Solana, Bitcoin ordinals and EVM chains from one interface.
Still the default venue by coverage and still the one whose Seaport approvals attackers target most often.
Not a marketplace at all: tools that let an artist deploy and keep their own contract, with no fee and no lock-in.
The Tezos art market's home, where royalties are still paid and the fees are stated without games.
Blur's playbook applied to Solana: AMM pools, fast execution, and creators left to hope.
Purpose-built for game assets, with enforced royalties and no gas — inside one ecosystem you have to commit to.
More a minting protocol than a marketplace, and one of the few platforms whose incentives genuinely favour creators.
Built for traders, with the deepest bid liquidity in the market and an explicit choice to make creators optional.
A serious art platform with enforced royalties and almost no secondary liquidity, which is roughly how galleries work.
Broad chain coverage and a genuine royalty stance, on a venue most traders no longer visit.
An NFT terminal for people who think in charts, aggregating liquidity from everywhere else.
The most selective art platform in the space, with the highest fees and enforced royalties to match.
An aggregator bolted onto an exchange: convenient reach across venues, with the exchange's own risk attached.
A low-fee aggregator with wide reach and thin native liquidity — useful for sweeping, not for selling.
The original vampire attack on OpenSea: enormous wash-traded volume, then a long decline into irrelevance.
Score = Σ (mark × weight), rounded to 0.1. A criterion with nothing published scores 0.
Listing an NFT means granting a contract permission to move it. That approval is the single largest risk in this category — it is how most NFT theft actually happens, through a signature the owner did not understand on a site they thought was a marketplace. So approval and custody safety carries the most weight in this rubric.
Volume is the metric these platforms compete on and the one we trust least. Wash trading has been endemic here for years, inflated by token incentives that paid users to trade with themselves. We score liquidity by whether a listed item actually sells near its stated floor, not by reported turnover.
The market moved from enforced royalties to optional ones because traders preferred cheaper trades, and most platforms obscured that shift rather than announcing it. We score the honesty of the disclosure as much as the policy itself — creators are entitled to know what a venue will actually pay them.
We do not judge collections, predict floor prices or assess whether an NFT is worth buying. This category rates the venue: whether it settles trades safely, charges what it says, and lets you exit.
