Provider at a glance
- Category
- Crypto Offramps
- Entity
- All 21 Coinbase products
- Official website
- coinbase.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 58 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Coinbase
Cash-out through Coinbase
Crypto Offramps
#3 Overall
Ranked #3 of 7 crypto offramps in the published ranking
58
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Coinbase right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Verified licences and regulated footprint8/10; the category best is 9
Look elsewhere if these come first
- All-in cost of a representative sale4/10 here; the category best is 9
- Spread disclosure and quote binding3/10 here; Banxa scores 7
- Payout rails speed and coverage6/10 here; the category best is 9
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best offramp shows where it lands for you.
What will Coinbase cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is Coinbase?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): authorised by CSSF (Luxembourg) since 20 June 2025. Passported: All 27 EU member states + EEA. The register record
- On the registersMiCA: authorised, Coinbase Luxembourg S.A. (LU, since 2025-06-20). Read 3 November 2026. Open the registerNYDFS BitLicense: authorised, Coinbase, Inc. (US-NY, since 2017-01). Read 3 November 2026. Register
Alternatives to Coinbase
Compare all 4- 4TransakLevel on score · stronger on price transparency (6 against 3)58
- 5Banxa5 points below · stronger on price transparency (7 against 3)53$240
- 6MoonPay5 points below · stronger on licence depth (9 against 8)53
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Find out if Coinbase fits you
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Why this rank
Why Coinbase ranks #3
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (15.2 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
404+5.124.09#4/7Loading evidence…
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158+3.847.09#3/7Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−18behind Ramp Network, #2
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 56–61 and ranks #3–#4
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Coinbase’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
All-in cost of a representative sale 4 → 3 on its ladder · Transak passes it−156#3 → #4
Spread disclosure and quote binding 3 → 2 on its ladder · Transak passes it−157#3 → #4
Payout rails speed and coverage 6 → 5 on its ladder · Transak passes it−157#3 → #4
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Verified licences and regulated footprint — 8/10, category best 9/10
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- All-in cost of a representative sale — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Spread disclosure and quote binding — 3/10 against a category best of 8/10
- Payout rails speed and coverage — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- The published price is incomplete: Coinbase's fee disclosure says simple buy and sell orders include a spread ("You can see the spread in the order preview screen") but states no percentage, cash-out fees apply "depending on the payment method you select" and are not listed, and the 10-K says "Generally, Simple trading fees are higher than those on Advanced trading". Assume you are paying the expensive route unless you deliberately switch.
Competitive position
Where Coinbase leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 714.0 of 20 · pool best
Published criteria#5 / 711.4 of 30 · best 20.5
Friction#1 / 72.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 73.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 79.7 of 18 · pool best
Where Coinbase leads
- Payout rails speed and coverage#3 / 7
- Verified licences and regulated footprint#3 / 7
Where it trails
- Spread disclosure and quote binding#6 / 7
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Transak#4 of 7 · score 58 · same score
Coinbase leads on
- Payout rails speed and coverage6 vs 4
- Verified licences and regulated footprint8 vs 5
Transak leads on
- Spread disclosure and quote binding6 vs 3
Largest single reason Coinbase is ahead: published criteria (+0.5 display points).Scenario cost: Transak has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Banxa#5 of 7 · score 53 · 5.0 points behind
Coinbase leads on
- All-in cost of a representative sale4 vs 2
- Verified licences and regulated footprint8 vs 7
Banxa leads on
- Spread disclosure and quote binding7 vs 3
Largest single reason Coinbase is ahead: availability (+5.2 display points).Scenario cost: Coinbase has no verified pricing for this scenario.
MoonPay#6 of 7 · score 53 · 5.0 points behind
Coinbase leads on
- All-in cost of a representative sale4 vs 3
MoonPay leads on
- Verified licences and regulated footprint9 vs 8
Largest single reason Coinbase is ahead: measured data (+3.6 display points).Scenario cost: MoonPay has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
82 vs 58 · gap 24.0Why Kraken ranks above Coinbase
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 24.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisKrakenGap share
Availability · 23% weight14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight11.420.5−23.7, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight9.79.7same
Published criterionThisKrakenPoints
All-in cost of a representative sale · w4049−6.40, worse
Spread disclosure and quote binding · w2538−4.00, worse
Payout rails speed and coverage · w2068−1.28, worse
Verified licences and regulated footprint · w1589−0.48, worse
Net5882−24.0
Your scenario
Coinbase is not priced for this scenario
Sale spread on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 22 October 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median$1194 of 7 rows priced
Cheapest priced$96 · KrakenDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Kraken
3 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 22 October 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #3 to #4 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 22 October 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
All-in cost of a representative salestrength 4 · weight 40Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Spread disclosure and quote bindingstrength 3 · weight 25Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Payout rails speed and coveragestrength 6 · weight 20Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Verified licences and regulated footprintstrength 8 · weight 15Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Regulatory failure (Coinbase 8/10): no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.Scored by Verified licences and regulated footprint · 15%
- Execution failure: you get a worse price, later, or nothing.Scored by Spread disclosure and quote binding · 25% (Coinbase 3/10)Scored by Payout rails speed and coverage · 20% (Coinbase 6/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Insolvency failure, Exit failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: All-in cost of a representative sale (40%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Coinbase help centre, "Coinbase pricing and fees disclosures" (rendered in a browser and read 22 October 2026; curl is refused): "When you place simple buy and sell orders, Coinbase includes a spread in the quoted price." No spread percentage is published; "You can see the spread in the order preview screen" and "the spread may vary for similar transactions". Limit orders carry "a separate limit order execution fee equal to 1% of the amount you trade", and "Coinbase may also charge a 1.875% Coinbase fee (varies by payment method)". "No spread is included for Coinbase Advanced because you're interacting directly with the order book"; the Advanced maker/taker schedule is shown only after sign-in. Cash-out: "When you add cash or cash out, you may be charged a fee depending on the payment method you select"; no cash-out fee is listed. "The fees disclosed in this article are not applicable in all regions."Coinbase — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDCoinbase — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Licences held
- United Kingdom: Registration / authorisation, European Union: Registration / authorisation, United States: Registration / authorisation
- Compliance level
- full
- Regulatory note
- Coinbase, Inc. — NYDFS BitLicense (Virtual Currency Business Activity) and NYDFS-chartered limited purpose trust company; Louisiana Virtual Currency Business License; state money transmitter licences in the states requiring them plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Electronic Money Institutions authorised by the UK FCA and the Central Bank of Ireland.
- Supported chains
- Not published
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Coinbase's US User Agreement (rendered, read 22 October 2026): "To be eligible to use the Coinbase Services, you must be at least 18 years old, and reside in the United States." Other countries are served under local agreements and entities. Cash-out rails by region (help centre payment-method articles, read 22 October 2026): US Bank Account (ACH) "1-5 business days", "Instant Cashouts to bank accounts", debit card and PayPal instant, wire "1-3 business days"; Canada Interac e-transfer "Up to 5 minutes (longer if the network is busy)", EFT and PayPal; Brazil Pix instant; EU SEPA "1-3 business days", card and PayPal instant; UK Faster Payments and SEPA 1-3 business days, card instant, PayPal 1 business day; UAE USD bank account (SWIFT) "3-4 business days". No named country exclusion list was found on these pages.
Legal entity on file: Coinbase, placed in 21 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
11 methodology entries
- 22 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 58, #3 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt offramps:coinbase_offramp:2026.10.18:e7aeff96beb3
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