Provider at a glance
- Category
- Crypto Gift Cards
- Entity
- All 2 CoinGate products
- Official website
- coingate.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 61 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
CoinGate Gift Cards
Gift cards from the CoinGate processor
Crypto Gift Cards
#5 Overall
Ranked #5 of 8 crypto gift cards in the published ranking
61
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is CoinGate Gift Cards right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Reach and identity cost8/10; the category best is 9
Look elsewhere if these come first
- What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you3/10 here; CryptoRefills scores 6
- Can you see the number before you commit7/10 here; the category best is 9
- What happens when the code will not redeem2/10 here; SpendCrypto scores 6
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best crypto gift card service shows where it lands for you.
What will CoinGate Gift Cards cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Payments per month
- 500
- Average payment
- $100
How safe is CoinGate Gift Cards?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
- On the registersMiCA: authorised, UAB "Decentralized" (LT, since 2025-12-16). Read 3 November 2026. Open the register
Alternatives to CoinGate Gift Cards
Compare all 4- 3CryptoRefills10 points above · stronger on anchor cost (6 against 3)71
- 4Coinsbee1 point above · stronger on failure recourse (5 against 2)62
- 6SpendCrypto8 points below · stronger on failure recourse (6 against 2)53
For your setup
Find out if CoinGate Gift Cards fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where CoinGate Gift Cards lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why CoinGate Gift Cards ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (15.5 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
403+3.843.59#5/8Loading evidence…
257+5.605.09#3/8Loading evidence…
208+5.127.59#2/8Loading evidence…
152+0.964.57#6/8Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−1behind Coinsbee, #4
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 58–63 and ranks #4–#5
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 CoinGate Gift Cards’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.
What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you 3 → 4 on its ladder · passes Coinsbee+163#5 → #4
Can you see the number before you commit 7 → 8 on its ladder · passes Coinsbee+162#5 → #4
Reach and identity cost 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Coinsbee+162#5 → #4
What happens when the code will not redeem 2 → 3 on its ladder · passes Coinsbee+162#5 → #4
Can you see the number before you commit 7 → 1 on its ladder · SpendCrypto passes it−651#5 → #6
Reach and identity cost 8 → 1 on its ladder · SpendCrypto passes it−752#5 → #6
Smallest climb: what a $100 Amazon card actually costs you 3 → 4 passes Coinsbee, #4.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Reach and identity cost — 8/10, category best 9/10
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Can you see the number before you commit — 7/10 against a category best of 9/10
- What happens when the code will not redeem — 2/10 against a category best of 7/10
Record watch-outs
- CoinGate's help centre states "CoinGate Gift Cards does not add a service fee or markup on top of the listed gift card price" while its own product page prices a $5.00 Amazon card at $5.27. Both are true at once: the spread is built into the listed price rather than added at checkout, which is precisely why a buyer comparing 'fees' rather than face-value spread will conclude this vendor is free. The EUR 700 KYC trigger is also the lowest here — roughly two-thirds of Coinsbee's guest limit.
Competitive position
Where CoinGate Gift Cards 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 / 814.0 of 20 · pool best
Published criteria#5 / 811.6 of 30 · best 19.4
Friction#1 / 82.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 83.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 88.3 of 18 · constant here
Where CoinGate Gift Cards leads
- Can you see the number before you commit#3 / 8
- Reach and identity cost#2 / 8
Where it trails
- What happens when the code will not redeem#6 / 8
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.
Coinsbee#4 of 8 · score 62 · 1.0 point ahead
CoinGate Gift Cards leads on
- Can you see the number before you commit7 vs 4
Coinsbee leads on
- What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you4 vs 3
- What happens when the code will not redeem5 vs 2
Largest single reason Coinsbee is ahead: published criteria (+0.8 display points).Scenario cost: Coinsbee has no verified pricing for this scenario.
SpendCrypto#6 of 8 · score 53 · 8.0 points behind
CoinGate Gift Cards leads on
- What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you3 vs 2
- Can you see the number before you commit7 vs 2
- Reach and identity cost8 vs 7
SpendCrypto leads on
- What happens when the code will not redeem6 vs 2
Largest single reason CoinGate Gift Cards is ahead: published criteria (+7.8 display points).Scenario cost: SpendCrypto has no verified pricing for this scenario.
CryptoRefills#3 of 8 · score 71 · 10.0 points ahead
CoinGate Gift Cards leads on
- Can you see the number before you commit7 vs 6
CryptoRefills leads on
- What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you6 vs 3
- Reach and identity cost9 vs 8
- What happens when the code will not redeem5 vs 2
Largest single reason CryptoRefills is ahead: published criteria (+10.1 display points).Scenario cost: CryptoRefills has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 61 · gap 20.0Why Bitrefill ranks above CoinGate Gift Cards
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 20.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisBitrefillGap share
Availability · 23% weight14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight11.619.4−20.3, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisBitrefillPoints
What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you · w4038−6.40, worse
Can you see the number before you commit · w2579−1.60, worse
What happens when the code will not redeem · w1527−2.40, worse
Net6181−20.0
Your scenario
CoinGate Gift Cards is not priced for this scenario
Percentage and fixed legs on each payment, for a year. Excludes chargebacks, FX markup and settlement fees priced separately. 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
Payments per month · your input500
Average payment · your input$100
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 24 September 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 medianNot priced0 of 8 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
8 of 8 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 24 September 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 #4 to #5 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 24 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
What a $100 Amazon card actually costs youstrength 3 · weight 40Report an error—24 September 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.Can you see the number before you commitstrength 7 · weight 25Report an error—24 September 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.Reach and identity coststrength 8 · weight 20Report an error—24 September 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.What happens when the code will not redeemstrength 2 · weight 15Report an error—24 September 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
- Execution failure (CoinGate Gift Cards 2/10): you get a worse price, later, or nothing.Scored by What happens when the code will not redeem · 15%
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Insolvency failure, Regulatory 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: What a $100 Amazon card actually costs you (40%), Can you see the number before you commit (25%), Reach and identity cost (20%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- \"denomination\":{\"denomination\":5,\"price\":5.3,\"price_no_discount\":5.3,\"label\":\"5 - 2000 USD\",\"discount\":0} for the Amazon US card, alongside \"gift_card_id\":275233,\"out_of_stock\":false,\"type\":\"range\",\"min_denomination\":5,\"max_denomination\":2000,\"custom_denomination_step\":0.01,\"currency\":\"USD\",\"label\":\"5 - 2000 USD\",\"discount\":0,\"instant_delivery\":false, fetched 24 September 2026. A second Amazon US denomination entry, \"gift_card_id\":16959,\"out_of_stock\":true, \"label\":\"1 - 2000 USD\", is listed out of stock. Only the minimum denomination is priced server-side; no $100 quote is rendered. On 6 August 2026 the $5 rung was priced 5.27 (+5.4%); it is now 5.3 (+6.0%); both percentages are computed from the $5 rung, and any $100 figure is derived from that ratio, not quoted. In the served page these strings are backslash-escaped inside a Next.js flight payload and are reproduced in that escaped form here.CoinGate Gift Cards — official pricing page ↗ · 24 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDCoinGate Gift Cards — official pricing page ↗ · 24 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
Legal entity on file: CoinGate, placed in 2 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
- 24 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 61, #5 of 8. 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 gift_cards:coingate_gift_cards:2026.10.18:d03318491f8f
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