Two of the best-known options here are free, one of them is the Arbitrum DAO's own choice, and we sell a paid product. So: every number below comes from the competitor's own published documentation, linked, and the arithmetic is laid out so you can check where we win and where we plainly don't.
Who actually operates on Arbitrum?
Four serious platforms plus us: UNCX (locks and vesting, the direct like-for-like competitor), Hedgey (free vesting and lockups, and the Arbitrum DAO's incumbent), Sablier (streaming vesting, recipient-paid so effectively free to issuers), and Magna (enterprise SaaS with compliance reporting), with Superfluid covering streaming payments. There are also a couple of Arbitrum-native minnows — NitroLocker and Arbploy — whose current vitality we'd want to confirm before recommending either; treat unverified small lockers the way you'd treat any single-operator infrastructure holding your liquidity for two years.
How do the fees actually compare?
Here's the arithmetic, at ETH around $1,885 (August 2026), from each platform's own docs:
| Team Finance | UNCX (Arbitrum) | Hedgey | Sablier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vesting | $100 flat, 0% of tokens | ~$94 + 0.1% of vested tokens | Free | ~$0.99/withdrawal, paid by recipient |
| LP lock (v2-style) | $150 flat, 0% | ~$94 + 1% of locked LP | — | — |
| LP lock (v3 position) | $150 flat, 0% | $0 flat + 0.5% of liquidity + 2% of collected fees | — | — |
| Team/token locks | $150 flat | Included in vesting products | Free | — |
| Business model | Flat fee, no percentage | Small/zero flat + percentage | Free | Recipient-paid micro-fee |
Fees from each platform's published documentation, verified August 2026. These change — check the linked sources before deciding.
Where we lose, stated plainly: on small positions, and against free. Arbitrum is UNCX's cheapest flat tier — v3 locks carry no flat fee there at all — so a team locking a $10,000 position pays them roughly $50 in percentage terms against our $150. Hedgey is free across the board. Sablier costs the issuer nothing. If your token operations are small or your budget is zero, those are real answers and you should take them.
Where flat pricing wins, and by how much: the percentage models scale with your treasury and ours doesn't. A $4 million vesting deployment costs about $4,094 with UNCX and $100 with us — the crossover is around $6,000 vested. LP locks cross over around $5,600 for classic pools and around $30,000 of liquidity for v3 positions, where the 2% cut of collected fees also keeps charging for the life of the lock. For a funded DeFi team on Arbitrum — which is most teams on Arbitrum — the positions are well past those thresholds, and the gap is measured in thousands of dollars per deployment.
What should you check in any provider, free or paid?
Four things, and they matter more than price at any size: contract custody and audit history (whose contract holds your tokens, who reviewed it, and how long has it been running unmodified), operational track record under stress, whether the lock or schedule is legible to third parties without the provider's website, and what happens if the provider disappears. On the second point, and stated as a matter of record rather than a talking point: Hedgey suffered a $44 million exploit in April 2024, subsequently remediated — an incident documented in the Arbitrum DAO's own security review of Hedgey's batch planner, after which the DAO continued using the platform and remains its most prominent user. That history is neither disqualifying nor irrelevant; it's exactly the kind of thing you should be able to find and weigh for any provider you're about to hand a multi-year treasury commitment, including us. The right question isn't "has anything ever gone wrong" — it's "what happened, what changed, and can I verify the current state myself."
On the fourth point, the practical mitigation is the same regardless of who you choose: make sure the lock or schedule is verifiable directly on Arbiscan rather than only through a dashboard, so your proof survives any provider's website going down.
Which should you choose?
Free for small or simple, flat-fee for treasury scale, SaaS if compliance reporting is the requirement. Concretely: Hedgey if you want free vesting and you're comfortable with the DAO-incumbent choice — it's the path of least resistance for an Arbitrum-native project and nobody will question it. Sablier if streaming release fits your model and you're fine with recipients paying micro-fees. UNCX if your positions are small enough that percentages beat $150, or if you need a venue we haven't confirmed. Magna if you need tax and compliance reporting wrapped around the vesting. Team Finance when the numbers are large enough that percentage fees hurt, when you want locks and vesting from one provider with one dashboard across multiple chains, and when you want a portable on-chain certificate rather than only a dashboard entry.
One thing worth knowing regardless of choice: on Arbitrum, Uniswap v3 and SushiSwap v3 positions lock successfully — that's observable on-chain, not a claim from a features page. Concentrated-liquidity coverage is where locker capability actually varies between chains, so confirm it for your specific venue before committing, whoever you pick.
FAQ
What's the cheapest way to lock or vest on Arbitrum? Free — Hedgey for vesting and lockups, Sablier if recipient-paid streaming suits you. Cheapest and best-fitting aren't the same question, but on price the answer is unambiguous and we're not going to pretend otherwise.
When does Team Finance's flat fee actually save money? Above roughly $6,000 vested, $5,600 of classic LP, or $30,000 of v3 liquidity, against UNCX's percentage models. A $4M vest is ~$4,094 there versus $100 here.
Who can lock Uniswap v3 positions on Arbitrum? Team Finance and UNCX both handle v3 positions on Arbitrum. Team Finance's coverage is verifiable on-chain — Uniswap v3 and SushiSwap v3 positions are held in the locker today.
Does the Arbitrum DAO use any of these? Hedgey is the DAO's incumbent for grant disbursement and was reviewed by OpenZeppelin at the DAO's request. That's a genuine credential and we'd rather tell you than have you find it later.
How do I verify whatever I choose? On Arbiscan — check the contract holding your tokens, the unlock date, and the coverage. The walkthrough works for any provider, ours included.
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Arbitrum is developed by Offchain Labs and governed by the Arbitrum DAO; ARB is the governance token of the Arbitrum ecosystem. TrustSwap is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Offchain Labs, the Arbitrum Foundation, or the Arbitrum DAO. Hedgey, Sablier, UNCX, Magna, and Superfluid are third-party platforms unaffiliated with TrustSwap. All product and company names are trademarks of their respective holders; their use here is for identification purposes only.
This article is for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. Competitor fees and platform facts verified against the official documentation linked above as of August 2026 — always re-verify before committing funds.