# Agent Vault by Self vs Turnkey Agentic Wallets (slim)

> Turnkey Agentic Wallets scores 76 (BB) to Agent Vault by Self's 52.4 (D) for wallet spend limits. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Turnkey Agentic Wallets scores 76 (BB) on agent readiness against Agent Vault by Self's 52.4 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do wallet spend limits.

- Agent Vault by Self: D 52.4, rank #823 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/self-agent-vault.min.md
- Turnkey Agentic Wallets: BB 76, rank #45 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/turnkey-agentic-wallets.min.md
- Agent Vault by Self, good for A person or developer who wants an agent to buy and sign in on ordinary websites with the holder's own card and logins, without the agent seeing them. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- Turnkey Agentic Wallets, good for A company that wants agents to sign from its own wallets under rules checked in an enclave, with a person co-approving large transactions, across EVM, Solana, Bitcoin, Tron and other chains. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 40; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 66; Security & auth, 85 against 76; Payments & pricing, 58 against 30; Maintenance & community, 83 against 48; Transparency & trust, 72 against 47. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Agent Vault by Self loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Agent Vault by Self | Turnkey Agentic Wallets |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 76 | 85 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 58 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 48 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 47 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agent Vault by Self | Turnkey Agentic Wallets |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | SocialConnect Labs, Inc. (Self Labs) | Turnkey Global, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.agentvault.io/mcp` | `https://api.turnkey.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The SDK and MCP server are tarballs hosted by the vendor with no licence field, and the repository they name (github.com/selfxyz/agent-vault) is not public. The checkout recipe registry, selfxyz/agent-checkout-skill, is MIT | Proprietary service under Turnkey's terms of service. The SDKs, the CLI and the agent skills on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-08-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | none | 304k npm/wk, 12k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |