{"id":980,"date":"2026-05-08T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/?p=980"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:00:17","slug":"kwala-vs-competitors-complete-web3-automation-comparison-guide-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/2026\/05\/08\/kwala-vs-competitors-complete-web3-automation-comparison-guide-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwala\u00a0vs Competitors: Complete Web3 Automation Comparison Guide (2026)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kwala\u00a0is an event-driven workflow automation platform for Web3. It listens to on-chain events, runs conditional logic, and executes follow-up actions \u2014 across EVM chains, without a backend. Moralis (backend APIs),\u00a0Thirdweb\u00a0(contract deployment and SDKs), and Tatum (blockchain APIs) solve adjacent problems. If\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0comparing all four,\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0probably trying\u00a0to figure out which layer of the stack you need.\u00a0That&#8217;s\u00a0the right question.\u00a0And this is the honest answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1012\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-65.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-65.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-65-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-65-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>The\u00a0Real Question Behind\u00a0&#8220;Kwala\u00a0vs Moralis vs\u00a0Thirdweb&#8221;\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people searching &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/\" title=\"\">Kwala\u00a0vs Moralis<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; are not actually trying to pick between\u00a0Kwala\u00a0and Moralis.\u00a0They&#8217;re\u00a0trying to figure out what layer of the Web3 stack they need to solve a problem they\u00a0haven&#8217;t\u00a0fully framed yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">That&#8217;s&nbsp;a more useful place to start than a feature matrix, so&nbsp;let&#8217;s&nbsp;start there.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/2026\/04\/02\/evm-workflow-automation-the-web3-trends-redefining-how-you-build-in-2026\/\" title=\"\">Web3 applications<\/a><\/strong> have a predictable shape.\u00a0There&#8217;s\u00a0a smart contract layer (the on-chain logic),\u00a0a deployment layer (how you get contracts onto a chain and manage them)\u00a0and\u00a0a data layer (reading on-chain state, indexing events, serving it to your frontend).\u00a0There&#8217;s\u00a0also\u00a0an RPC layer (talking to the chain), and\u00a0an automation layer \u2014 the part that watches for things to happen on-chain and triggers other things in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/docs\" title=\"\">Kwala\u00a0<\/a>lives at the automation layer. Moralis lives at the data layer.\u00a0Thirdweb\u00a0lives at the deployment and SDK layer. Tatum lives at the RPC-and-APIs layer. They are not substitutes for each other.<\/strong>\u00a0A production Web3 team\u00a0probably uses\u00a0at least two of them, and sometimes three.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;piece will tell you where each of these&nbsp;tools&nbsp;wins, where they overlap enough to cause confusion, and how to figure out which one you need for the problem you have.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where&nbsp;Each Tool Sits&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Stack&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the individual comparisons,\u00a0here&#8217;s\u00a0the shape of the space. This is the frame everything else in this piece is built on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Stack layer<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>What it does<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Primary tool<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Automation &amp; workflows&nbsp;<\/td><td>Listen to on-chain events, run conditional logic, trigger actions&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Kwala<\/strong>, Gelato,&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Smart contract SDK &amp; deployment&nbsp;<\/td><td>Deploy contracts, manage them, provide frontend SDKs&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Thirdweb<\/strong>,&nbsp;OpenZeppelin&nbsp;Defender&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Data &amp; indexing&nbsp;<\/td><td>Read on-chain state, index events, serve to frontend&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Moralis<\/strong>, The Graph, Alchemy&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Blockchain APIs &amp; RPC&nbsp;<\/td><td>Talk to the chain, broadcast transactions, read blocks&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Tatum<\/strong>, Alchemy,&nbsp;Infura,&nbsp;QuickNode&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Smart contract language&nbsp;<\/td><td>Write the on-chain logic itself&nbsp;<\/td><td>Solidity,&nbsp;Vyper&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things to notice. First, some tools span multiple layers \u2014 Alchemy shows up in both data and RPC,&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;has expanded into some data territory with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.thirdweb.com\/insight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Insight<\/a>, Moralis has pieces of RPC. The layers are real, but the vendors&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;stay in their lanes. Second,&nbsp;Kwala&#8217;s&nbsp;layer is crowded if you include the real automation competitors: Gelato and&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation.&nbsp;We&#8217;ll&nbsp;come back to them. Third, the reason&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;probably reading&nbsp;this piece is that nobody tells you which layer you need \u2014 they just tell you about their tool. So,&nbsp;you end up comparing a data platform to a workflow platform and wondering why the feature lists&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;match.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s&nbsp;how to think about it:&nbsp;<strong>if the core thing you need is &#8220;something happens on-chain, and I need other things to happen in response,&#8221; you need automation. That&#8217;s&nbsp;Kwala&#8217;s&nbsp;layer. Everything else is a different problem.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With that frame&nbsp;established, the comparisons.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kwala&nbsp;vs Moralis&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/\" title=\"\">Moralis is a Web3 data platform<\/a>. Its core job is reading on-chain state<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 balances, NFTs, transaction history, token metadata \u2014 and serving it through clean APIs so your frontend\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0have to deal with RPC calls directly.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0good at this. A lot of\u00a0dApp frontends use Moralis for exactly this reason: the alternative is writing your own indexer, and writing your own indexer is a six-month project that nobody enjoys.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where the confusion starts: Moralis also offers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/moralis.com\/streams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streams<\/a>, which watches on-chain activity and sends webhooks when something happens. On the surface, that sounds like&nbsp;Kwala. In practice, it&nbsp;isn&#8217;t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moralis Streams&nbsp;notifies you&nbsp;that something happened. It&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;then do the next thing.<\/strong>&nbsp;If you want to react to the event \u2014 call another smart contract, post to Discord, trigger a cross-chain action \u2014 you need to build that logic yourself, in your own backend, with your own retry and failure handling. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moralis.com\/streams\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streams documentation<\/a>&nbsp;is explicit about this: Streams &#8220;pushes on-chain activity to you the moment it happens,&#8221; with delivery handled by Moralis. What happens after that is your problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/\" title=\"\">Kwala\u00a0is the workflow engine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>You define the trigger (an on-chain event), the conditions (what\u00a0must\u00a0be true for the workflow to fire), and the actions (what happens when it does \u2014 including on-chain transactions, cross-chain calls, and Web2 API calls).\u00a0<strong>Kwala\u00a0handles the execution, the retries, the finality checks, and the orchestration.<\/strong>\u00a0You\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0need a backend in the middle.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When Moralis is the right answer:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Your primary need is reading on-chain data and serving it to a frontend. You want token balances, NFT metadata, and transaction history without building your own indexer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When\u00a0Kwala\u00a0is the right answer:\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Your primary need is reacting to on-chain events with logic that runs across chains, calls other contracts, or integrates with Web2 services \u2014 and you&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;want to&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;the backend for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When you need both:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re&nbsp;building a&nbsp;dApp&nbsp;that shows users their activity (Moralis for the frontend)&nbsp;and&nbsp;automates things in response to that activity (Kwala&nbsp;for the workflow). This is the common case for any non-trivial application.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kwala&nbsp;vs&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thirdweb\u00a0is a smart contract toolkit. Its core job is making it fast to deploy and manage contracts on EVM chains<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 pre-audited templates for NFTs, tokens, marketplaces, and so on, plus SDKs for integrating those contracts into frontends. If\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0launching an NFT collection this weekend,\u00a0Thirdweb\u00a0is\u00a0probably how\u00a0you do it without writing Solidity from scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirdweb&nbsp;has expanded well beyond contract deployment. Over the past couple of years,&nbsp;they&#8217;ve&nbsp;added in-app wallets (<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.thirdweb.com\/connect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Connect<\/a>), payment bridging (<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.thirdweb.com\/payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Payments<\/a>), on-chain data (<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.thirdweb.com\/insight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Insight<\/a>), and a transactions product originally called Engine (now rebranded as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.thirdweb.com\/engine\/v3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transactions<\/a>). Transactions is the piece that overlaps with&nbsp;Kwala\u2019s&nbsp;space, so&nbsp;that&#8217;s&nbsp;where the comparison gets interesting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transactions is a backend service for executing blockchain transactions with features like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.thirdweb.com\/engine\/v3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nonce management, gas sponsorship, and automatic retries<\/a>.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;useful. It solves a real problem: sending transactions reliably from a server. But Transactions is a transaction primitive, not a workflow engine. You still&nbsp;must&nbsp;decide when to call it, based on what trigger, with what conditions. That decision-making logic \u2014 the &#8220;if this happens, then do that&#8221; layer \u2014 is what&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put differently:&nbsp;<strong>if you use&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;Transactions, you still need something to tell it when to send transactions.<\/strong>&nbsp;In a lot of teams, that something is a custom backend service running event listeners.&nbsp;<strong>In a&nbsp;Kwala-based architecture,&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;is that layer.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;is the right answer:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re\u00a0deploying smart contracts, managing NFT collections, or building a\u00a0dApp\u00a0that needs strong wallet and SDK primitives. Thirdweb&#8217;s contracts library and Connect SDK are excellent for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When\u00a0Kwala\u00a0is the right answer:\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You have the contracts deployed (with&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;or otherwise) and now you need to orchestrate workflows around them \u2014 cross-chain actions, event-driven triggers, multi-step on-chain logic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When you need both:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You use&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;to ship the contracts and the frontend, and&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;to automate what happens when users interact with them. These are genuinely complementary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kwala vs Tatum&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tatum is a blockchain APIs platform. Its core job is giving developers unified API access to a large set of blockchains&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 reading data, sending transactions, managing wallets \u2014 without needing to integrate with each chain&#8217;s native tooling individually. Per Tatum&#8217;s own documentation, they support&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tatum.io\/blog\/v4-data-api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">130+ chains<\/a>&nbsp;including EVM chains, UTXO chains like Bitcoin and Litecoin, and emerging ecosystems.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;the most general-purpose of the four tools&nbsp;we&#8217;re&nbsp;comparing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overlap with\u00a0Kwala\u00a0is narrower than the other comparisons. Tatum has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.tatum.io\/reference\/notifications-supported-chains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notifications API<\/a>\u00a0that watches for on-chain activity and sends webhooks \u2014 similar in spirit to Moralis Streams. Same limitation applies: Tatum tells you something happened. Acting on it is your problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s\u00a0a bigger architectural difference worth naming. Tatum&#8217;s core design is chain-agnostic breadth \u2014 the whole product exists to smooth over the differences between\u00a0very different\u00a0chain models (EVM, UTXO, and others) behind a unified API. That breadth is the feature and the constraint.\u00a0Kwala\u00a0supports EVM and non-EVM networks, but the depth of its abstractions is in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/2026\/04\/02\/evm-workflow-automation-the-web3-trends-redefining-how-you-build-in-2026\/\" title=\"\">EVM layer<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 gas management, nonce ordering, ERC-4337 smart wallets, cross-chain messaging between L2s.\u00a0<strong>If your application is EVM-focused and you care about those nuances,\u00a0Kwala\u00a0will feel more native. If your application spans EVM and UTXO chains and you want one unified API surface, Tatum is the better fit.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When Tatum is the right answer:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re&nbsp;building a multi-chain application that spans EVM and UTXO chains (Bitcoin, Litecoin, and similar) and you want one API to talk to all of them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;is the right answer:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re&nbsp;EVM-focused (even if occasionally branching into non-EVM), you need workflow automation rather than just API access, and you care about the depth of the abstraction over the breadth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When you need both:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unusual. If your application is truly multi-chain in the Bitcoin-plus-Ethereum sense, Tatum is your infrastructure layer and&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;is your EVM-side automation layer. In most real-world builds, teams pick one of the two based on which chain strategy&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;committed to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What about Gelato and&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fair question, and worth answering honestly: Gelato and&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation are the tools that compete with&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;in the automation layer. They&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;show up in the &#8220;<strong>Kwala&nbsp;vs Moralis<\/strong>&#8221; search because they occupy the same mental category as&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;\u2014 most people searching that phrase&nbsp;are&nbsp;earlier in the evaluation, still figuring out what kind of tool they need. By the time&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;comparing&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;to Gelato,&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;already decided you need automation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick version for readers who are further along:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gelato<\/strong>&nbsp;is the most established automation network. Per their own site, Gelato infrastructure&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gelato.network\/web3-functions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">powers 500+ Web3 apps<\/a>&nbsp;including&nbsp;MakerDAO, Beefy Finance, and&nbsp;Instadapp. Strong ecosystem integrations and a mature developer experience. Gelato&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gelato.network\/web3-services\/web3-functions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Web3 Functions<\/a>&nbsp;let you write automation logic in TypeScript, stored on IPFS and executed by Gelato nodes. Where&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;wins is the YAML-based declarative workflow model and the built-in cross-chain orchestration. Where Gelato wins&nbsp;is&nbsp;ecosystem maturity \u2014 if&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;looking for social proof, Gelato has years of production deployments at major protocols.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chainlink&nbsp;Automation<\/strong>&nbsp;(formerly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.chain.link\/chainlink-automation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keepers<\/a>) has the strongest decentralization story and the deepest&nbsp;cryptoeconomic&nbsp;security guarantees. It runs on the same node network that secures&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chainlinktoday.com\/optimism-to-accelerate-ecosystem-growth-with-chainlink-automation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over $7 trillion in transaction value<\/a>&nbsp;across other&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;services, with verifiable compute provided via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chain.link\/automation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OCR3 consensus<\/a>. If your automation is security-critical in a way that needs oracle-network-level trust \u2014 think&nbsp;Aave&nbsp;liquidations \u2014&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;is hard to beat. For most workflows \u2014 the &#8220;react to this event, call that contract, notify Discord&#8221; kind \u2014 the security model is overkill, and the integration surface is heavier than it needs to be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll\u00a0write a full\u00a0kwala-vs-Gelato and\u00a0kwala-vs-Chainlink-Automation piece separately. They deserve their own treatment. For the reader who came in via &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/\" title=\"\">Kwala\u00a0vs Moralis<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; the short answer\u00a0is:\u00a0once\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0decided you need automation, come\u00a0back\u00a0and compare\u00a0Kwala\u00a0to Gelato and\u00a0Chainlink. Those are the relevant comparisons.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature matrix\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pulling it together into one table. This is the reference version \u2014 the nuance is in the prose above, but this is what you skim if&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;in a hurry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Feature<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Kwala<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Moralis<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Thirdweb<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Tatum<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Primary job&nbsp;<\/td><td>Workflow automation&nbsp;<\/td><td>On-chain data &amp; APIs&nbsp;<\/td><td>Contract deployment &amp; SDKs&nbsp;<\/td><td>Multi-chain APIs&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stack layer&nbsp;<\/td><td>Automation&nbsp;<\/td><td>Data&nbsp;<\/td><td>Deployment \/ SDK&nbsp;<\/td><td>APIs \/ RPC&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Event-driven triggers&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes (native)&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes (webhooks only, via Streams)&nbsp;<\/td><td>Partial (via Transactions)&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes (webhooks only, via Notifications)&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>On-chain action execution&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes (built in)&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><td>Via Transactions&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cross-chain workflows&nbsp;<\/td><td>Native&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><td>Limited&nbsp;<\/td><td>Limited&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Web2 API calls from workflows&nbsp;<\/td><td>Native&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>No-backend deployment&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes&nbsp;<\/td><td>Partial&nbsp;<\/td><td>Partial&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>EVM-focused or multi-chain&nbsp;<\/td><td>EVM deep + non-EVM&nbsp;<\/td><td>EVM + some non-EVM&nbsp;<\/td><td>EVM only&nbsp;<\/td><td>130+ chains (EVM + UTXO + others)&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ERC-4337 smart wallet&nbsp;<\/td><td>Native (workflows run through user&#8217;s own ERC-4337 wallet)&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes&nbsp;<\/td><td>Limited&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pre-audited contract templates&nbsp;<\/td><td>No (not the job)&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes&nbsp;<\/td><td>No&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Managed RPC&nbsp;<\/td><td>Uses chain RPC&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes&nbsp;<\/td><td>Yes&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Typical reader&nbsp;<\/td><td>Eng&nbsp;lead&nbsp;building workflows&nbsp;<\/td><td>Frontend&nbsp;eng&nbsp;reading chain data&nbsp;<\/td><td>Dev shipping contracts fast&nbsp;<\/td><td>Eng team building multi-chain&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The row that matters most here:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/2026\/03\/13\/blockchain-events-explained-how-triggers-automate-on-chain-actions\/\" title=\"\">on-chain action execution.<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong>\u00a0Kwala\u00a0is the only tool in this comparison whose primary job is executing on-chain actions in response to on-chain events, as a managed service. Moralis and Tatum\u00a0notify you.\u00a0Thirdweb, via Transactions, will send transactions \u2014 but you still must decide when. If you need something that closes the loop end-to-end,\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0what the automation layer is for. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/docs\/workflow-builder\/configure-workflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">workflow builder docs<\/a>\u00a0walk through what defining a trigger, conditions, and actions\u00a0looks\u00a0like \u2014 worth a look if\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0gotten this far and the architecture makes sense to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which one should you&nbsp;pick?&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than a ranking,&nbsp;here&#8217;s&nbsp;a decision framework. Answer the question your problem is most shaped like, and the right tool falls out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I need to show users their on-chain activity in my app.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need data infrastructure. Start with Moralis, or The Graph if you want more control over indexing. This is not a&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I need to launch smart contracts and integrate them into a frontend.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need deployment tooling. Start with&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;for the contracts and the SDK. If&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;later going to automate workflows around those contracts, that&#8217;s when&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;enters the picture \u2014 but not first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I need API access to many chains, including non-EVM ones.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need a multi-chain API provider. Start with Tatum or, for EVM-only, Alchemy or&nbsp;Infura.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Something happens on-chain, and I need other things to happen in response \u2014 reliably, across chains, without maintaining a backend.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;problem.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;also the Gelato and&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation problem. Pick&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;if you want declarative YAML workflows, native cross-chain orchestration, and built-in Web2 API calls. Pick Gelato if ecosystem maturity matters most. Pick&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation if your workflow is security-critical in a way that needs oracle-network trust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure yet.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the answer is probably &#8220;you need at least two of these.&#8221; Most production Web3 teams end up with a data layer (Moralis or similar), a deployment layer (Thirdweb&nbsp;or similar), an automation layer (Kwala&nbsp;or similar), and an RPC layer (Alchemy or similar). These are not&nbsp;competing.&nbsp;They&#8217;re&nbsp;a stack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Closing&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1012\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2-52.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2-52-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2-52-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/\" title=\"\">Kwala\u00a0vs Moralis<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; is a common search\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0that these tools are interchangeable.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0that the Web3 stack is young enough that nobody has drawn the map clearly, so teams end up comparing layers that\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0compete and getting confused about why the feature lists\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0line up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The layer you need is&nbsp;determined&nbsp;by the problem&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;trying to solve, not by the vendor&#8217;s category. If your problem is &#8220;react to on-chain events with logic that executes actions across chains,&#8221; you need automation.&nbsp;Kwala, Gelato, and&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation are the three serious options in that layer. Moralis,&nbsp;Thirdweb, and Tatum are solving different problems \u2014 good problems, real problems, but not this one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pick the layer first. The vendor second.&nbsp;That&#8217;s&nbsp;the order that saves you the rewrite at month six.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;decided the automation layer is the layer you need,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>start with the kwala docs<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/inc-word-edit.officeapps.live.com\/we\/wordeditorframe.aspx?ui=en-US&amp;rs=en-US&amp;wopisrc=https%3A%2F%2Fp2epl-my.sharepoint.com%2Fpersonal%2Fsmriti_shreya_mai_io%2F_vti_bin%2Fwopi.ashx%2Ffiles%2F83d8b1c3aba643158192ea219ff0cc38&amp;wdexp=TEAMS-TREATMENT&amp;wdenableroaming=1&amp;mscc=1&amp;wdodb=1&amp;hid=5E9C562A-98FA-4778-9C98-1807232CD627.0&amp;uih=sharepointcom&amp;wdlcid=en-US&amp;jsapi=1&amp;jsapiver=v2&amp;corrid=146f7639-8cc7-a66e-a8f4-fc9ef8eba3f5&amp;usid=146f7639-8cc7-a66e-a8f4-fc9ef8eba3f5&amp;newsession=1&amp;sftc=1&amp;uihit=docaspx&amp;muv=1&amp;ats=PairwiseBroker&amp;cac=1&amp;sams=1&amp;mtf=1&amp;sfp=1&amp;sdp=1&amp;hch=1&amp;hwfh=1&amp;dchat=1&amp;sc=%7B%22pmo%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fp2epl-my.sharepoint.com%22%2C%22pmshare%22%3Atrue%7D&amp;ctp=LeastProtected&amp;rct=Normal&amp;wdorigin=TEAMS-MAGLEV.p2p_ns.rwc.Sharing.ServerTransfer&amp;wdhostclicktime=1777272344974&amp;afdflight=82&amp;csiro=1&amp;instantedit=1&amp;wopicomplete=1&amp;wdredirectionreason=Unified_SingleFlush#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>book a 20-minute walkthrough<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;with the team.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQs:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;a replacement for Moralis?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No. Moralis reads on-chain data and serves it to your frontend through APIs \u2014 token balances, NFT metadata, transaction history.&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;reacts to on-chain events and executes workflows in response. They sit at different layers of the stack, and most production&nbsp;dApps&nbsp;that use one would&nbsp;benefit&nbsp;from also using the other. If&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;choosing between them,&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;probably misidentified&nbsp;the problem&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;solving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can I use&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;and&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;together?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes \u2014 and most teams that use both do exactly that.&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;is the strongest tool for deploying smart contracts and building frontends with wallet integrations.&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;is the workflow layer that runs on top of those deployed contracts: triggering actions when events fire, orchestrating cross-chain logic, calling Web2 APIs.&nbsp;Thirdweb&nbsp;gets your contracts live;&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;automates what happens once&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;being used.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s&nbsp;the difference between&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;and Gelato?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Both are\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/blogs\/2026\/03\/27\/web3-dev-automation-how-lean-startup-teams-ship-faster-with-kwala\/\" title=\"\">Web3 automation platforms<\/a><\/strong>. The main differences are the developer model and the orchestration depth.\u00a0Kwala\u00a0uses declarative YAML to define workflows \u2014 you describe triggers, conditions, and actions, and the platform handles execution. Gelato&#8217;s Web3 Functions are TypeScript-based, stored on IPFS, run by Gelato&#8217;s node network.\u00a0Kwala\u00a0has native cross-chain workflow orchestration; Gelato has more years of production deployments and a larger ecosystem of integrations. Pick based on whether you value the declarative model or the ecosystem maturity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;support non-EVM chains?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwala.network\/\" title=\"\">Kwala\u00a0supports EVM<\/a><\/strong> and non-EVM networks. That said, the depth of\u00a0kwala&#8217;s\u00a0abstractions \u2014 gas management, nonce ordering, ERC-4337 smart wallets, cross-chain messaging \u2014 is built primarily for the EVM ecosystem. If\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0EVM-focused with occasional non-EVM needs,\u00a0kwala\u00a0fits well. If your application is fundamentally multi-chain across\u00a0very different\u00a0chain models (Bitcoin and Ethereum, for example), Tatum&#8217;s chain-agnostic API surface is\u00a0probably a\u00a0better foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which is better for DeFi automation \u2014&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;or&nbsp;Chainlink?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Depends on what kind of DeFi automation. For security-critical workflows that need oracle-network-level trust \u2014 the&nbsp;canonical&nbsp;example is&nbsp;Aave&#8217;s&nbsp;liquidation engine \u2014&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation is the right call. The&nbsp;cryptoeconomic&nbsp;security and OCR3 consensus model is hard to match for workflows where wrong execution means real losses. For everything else \u2014 DAO treasury automation, reward distribution, vault rebalancing, dynamic NFT logic, cross-chain triggers \u2014&nbsp;kwala&#8217;s&nbsp;lighter-weight workflow model is faster to ship and easier to iterate on. The honest framing:&nbsp;Chainlink&nbsp;Automation for the workflows where&nbsp;you&#8217;d&nbsp;lose sleep over a node failure;&nbsp;kwala&nbsp;for the workflows where you&nbsp;wouldn&#8217;t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do I need a backend to use&nbsp;kwala?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No. That&#8217;s the design point. Triggers, conditions, and actions are all defined in the workflow itself.&nbsp;Kwala&nbsp;handles execution, retries, finality checks, and orchestration.&nbsp;There&#8217;s&nbsp;no server to provision, no event listener to&nbsp;maintain, no retry logic to write. 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