Provider at a glance
- Category
- Tax Software
- Official website
- cointracker.com
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Details
Scored 76 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
CoinTracker
Crypto tax and portfolio software
Tax Software
#6 Overall
Ranked #6 of 11 tax software in the published ranking
76
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is CoinTracker right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing?8/10; the category best is 9
- Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires?8/10, the category best
- My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one?8/10; the category best is 9
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me?4/10 here; Divly scores 6
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global.
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What will CoinTracker cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Transactions per year
- 1k
How safe is CoinTracker?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to CoinTracker
Compare all 4- 4Divly2 points above · stronger on record portability (6 against 4)78€99
- 5Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)1 point above · stronger on complex transactions (9 against 8)77$99
- 7Waltio1 point below · stronger on your tax form (9 against 8)75€99
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Find out if CoinTracker fits you
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Why this rank
Why CoinTracker ranks #6
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (23.0 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
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Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−1behind Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator), #5
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 74–78 and ranks #4–#7
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 CoinTracker’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.
Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing? 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+178#6 → #4
Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires? 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+178#6 → #4
My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one? 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+177#6 → #5
Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me? 4 → 6 on its ladder · passes Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+278#6 → #3
Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing? 8 → 7 on its ladder · Waltio passes it−174#6 → #7
Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires? 8 → 7 on its ladder · Waltio passes it−175#6 → #7
My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one? 8 → 7 on its ladder · Waltio passes it−175#6 → #7
Smallest climb: “Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing?” 8 → 9 passes Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator), #5.
Strengths
3 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing? — 8/10, category best 9/10
- Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires? — 8/10, the category best
- My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one? — 8/10, category best 9/10
Tradeoffs
1 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me? — 4/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- UPHELD IN FULL, and better sourced than submitted. You cannot get your money back once you look at your data, and you cannot get your data back once you stop paying — both halves are in writing on served pages. The refund dies at the first download, including a plain transaction file: the Terms (https://cointracker.io/terms → https://www.cointracker.com/terms, 'Last updated: March 10, 2026') state 'Refunds are not possible once you have downloaded any of the tax forms or CSV files (including Transaction History CSV).', and the help centre states the operational consequence on https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/38104390028945-Available-reports-on-CoinTracker (updated 2026-08-14): 'Please note: Downloading a report counts as downloading a tax form for refund-eligibility purposes. Once you've downloaded any report, your CoinTracker plan is treated as used for the tax year.' So the 30-day 'money-back guarantee' survives only for a buyer who never opens the thing they bought. The other half: this is an auto-renewing ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, and on lapse (https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/46693057775761-How-to-cancel-auto-renewal-on-your-CoinTracker-plan, updated 2026-08-14) 'Once canceled, your plan remains active until the end of your current billing period. After that date, your account moves to the free subscription. Your CoinTracker account and data will not be deleted.' — while the plans page shows the Free tier labelled 'No tax filing' with an empty cell in the 'Download tax forms (8949, Schedule D and others)' row. CoinTracker states the consequence for an ALREADY-FILED year on https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/31572739238417-Switching-to-Per-Wallet-tracking-after-missing-IRS-Safe-Harbor (updated 2026-08-14): 'You may need to renew your subscription plan to access your tax reports for 2024.' NEW EVIDENCE this pass, which the submitted record did not have and which hardens the caveat: the vendor's own regional-deadline table (https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/38071402566417-Regional-tax-extension-deadlines-observed-by-CoinTracker) spells the renewal toll out per region — the UK row reads 'Renewal is required before downloading 2025 tax forms.' and the Australia row 'Renewal is required before downloading your 2025 tax forms.'. The reports carrying the IRS safe-harbour position under Rev. Proc. 2024-28 are explicitly not retained for you: 'CoinTracker cannot save these reports for you, it is your responsibility to make sure that you keep all reports provided to you indefinitely.' And the migration is irreversible in place: 'Important: After you select Migrate now, CoinTracker locks all your data prior to 2025. You won't be able to edit pre-2025 transactions or tax reports afterward.' — preceded by the warning 'Ensure there are no Review suggested transactions remaining. Once you've made the allocation, you cannot go back to fix any issues.' Secondary, worth knowing before filing: the default lot-matching method is HIFO, not FIFO — 'Note: CoinTracker defaults all wallets to HIFO, as it tends to lower the tax bill.' — a Specific-ID subset the same page says the product cannot perform at unit level, on a page that also states Specific ID may no longer be applied retroactively for 2025-onward US returns. Changing it per year is an Ultra-tier ($599) feature: 'Changing your cost basis method will apply to all years unless you have an Ultra plan, which will allow you to set a different method for each tax year.'
Competitive position
Where CoinTracker 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 / 1114.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#6 / 1117.3 of 30 · best 19.2
Friction#1 / 112.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 113.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 118.3 of 18 · constant here
Where CoinTracker leads
- Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing?#4 / 11
- Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires?#1 / 11
- My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one?#2 / 11
Where it trails
- Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me?#9 / 11
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.
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)#5 of 11 · score 77 · 1.0 point ahead
CoinTracker leads onNo scored criterion
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads on
- My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one?9 vs 8
Largest single reason Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) is ahead: published criteria (+1.3 display points).Scenario cost: CoinTracker has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Waltio#7 of 11 · score 75 · 1.0 point behind
CoinTracker leads on
- Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires?8 vs 7
- My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one?8 vs 7
Waltio leads on
- Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing?9 vs 8
Largest single reason CoinTracker is ahead: published criteria (+1.0 display points).Scenario cost: CoinTracker has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Divly#4 of 11 · score 78 · 2.0 points ahead
CoinTracker leads on
- Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires?8 vs 7
- My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one?8 vs 7
Divly leads on
- Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing?9 vs 8
- Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me?6 vs 4
Largest single reason Divly is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: CoinTracker has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 76 · gap 5.0Why Koinly ranks above CoinTracker
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 5.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisKoinlyGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight17.319.2−4.9, 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 criterionThisKoinlyPoints
Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me? · w2048−2.56, worse
Net7681−5.0
Your scenario
CoinTracker is not priced for this scenario
The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded. 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
Transactions per year · your input1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 29 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 median$1346 of 11 rows priced
Cheapest priced$99 · KoinlyDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Koinly
2 of 11 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
3 of 11 quote a zero fee that leaves costs out, so they are absent from the median and the cheapest row, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 29 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 #7 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 29 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing?strength 8 · weight 32Report an error—29 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.Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires?strength 8 · weight 26Report an error—29 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.My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one?strength 8 · weight 22Report an error—29 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 my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me?strength 4 · weight 20Report an error—29 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
- Regulatory failure (CoinTracker 8/10): no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.Scored by Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing? · 32%
- Exit failure (CoinTracker 4/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Can my accountant take this without redoing it — and if I stop paying, does my per-lot basis still leave with me? · 20%
- Information failure: the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Which lot did it decide I sold, and does that method match what my tax authority actually requires? · 26% (CoinTracker 8/10)Scored by My history has DeFi, staking, NFTs, a rug and ten transfers between my own wallets — what does it do with each one? · 22% (CoinTracker 8/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- https://
www .cointracker .com /plans — fetched 29 September 2026; plain curl returns HTTP 403 (bot challenge), rendered in headless Chrome (HTTP 200). Cards: "Free" "$0" ("No tax filing"); "Base" "Starting at" "$59" "/year" ("2025 tax forms and all past years", "Up to 100 transactions per year"); "Prime" "Best value" "Starting at" "$199" "/year" ("Up to 1,000 transactions per year"); "Ultra" "Starting at" "$599" "/year" ("Change cost basis method by year", "Up to 10,000 transactions per year"); "Full Service" "Starting at" "$3499" "/year" ("Up to 300,000 transactions per year", "Up to 15 hours of hands-on support to manage CSVs, fix errors, and reconcile accounts for the current tax year"). Comparison table, columns Free | Base/Base+ | Prime/Prime+ | Ultra/Ultra+: "Yearly transaction limit for tax forms" "100 | 250", "1,000 | 2,500", "10,000 | 50,000"; "Lifetime transactions limit for tax forms" "200,000" on each paid tier; pricing row "$0 per year", "$59 / $99 per year", "$199 / $299 per year", "$599 / $1999 per year". Counting rules: "We only count transactions from your current tax year — not your entire history." | "File for any prior year at no extra cost — one plan covers all your past tax years." Purchase shape, from https:// support .cointracker .com /hc /en-us /articles /4413049695249 -CoinTracker-Personal-plan-pricing (rendered 29 September 2026): "CoinTracker subscriptions auto-renew annually on the original purchase date." and "CoinTracker offers a 100% money-back guarantee within 30 days of purchase, provided that no tax forms have been downloaded." https:// www .cointracker .com /pricing is not the pricing page; /plans is. Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.CoinTracker — official pricing page ↗ · 29 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDCoinTracker — official pricing page ↗ · 29 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- The US rule is implemented, named and made the DEFAULT: 'Important: Starting 1 January 2025, the Per-Wallet tracking option is the only acceptable solution for cost basis tracking for US taxpayers.' and 'To align with anticipated regulatory changes, CoinTracker automatically defaults to per-wallet tracking for U.S. users.'
- Supported chains
- Not published
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
Legal entity on file: CoinTracker, placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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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
- 29 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 76, #6 of 11. 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
2026.10.6A 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.
- 1 October 2026
2026.10.0Layer-2 chains are ranked on whether you can leave with your funds- added Four l2_chains criteria with published band ladders: proof system (18), withdrawals if the operator stops (18), rollup stage (14) and exit window before an upgrade (6). EVM equivalence moves 40 to 17, Ethereum data availability 25 to 15 and maturity 35 to 12. Every chain's emergency exit window reads None, so the exit-window ladder also reads L2BEAT's regular, non-emergency upgrade path (Arbitrum One 10 days, Starknet and Arbitrum Nova 7, zkSync Era 4 days 3 hours); data availability separates full transaction data (10) from state diffs only (9, L2BEAT: Onchain (SD)). A stage L2BEAT marks Under review keeps its last score for at most one 45-day cycle and is never interpolated.
- changed l2_chains ranks through scoreCriterionObjective on fitStrength, like the other criterion-ranked categories; the hand-written structural scorer is deleted. All 105 criterion scores across 15 rows carry a quote and source in research-pending/rereads/2026-10-01-l2_chains.json; 131 of 135 quotes re-fetched verbatim on the read date, and the four behind a bot wall or a JavaScript shell were read by the adversarial model run.
- fixed Four facts corrected on the read: Scroll, Mantle and Blast are EVM-compatible, not equivalent (their own documentation, and for Blast live RPC probes); Starknet's public mainnet opened to users in 2022, not 2021. Arbitrum Nova's data has gone to Ethereum as blobs since 31 August 2026, and the row now leads with the Arbitrum DAO's decision to minimise it.
- fixed The old scorer credited Ethereum data availability whenever the data-availability text contained the word "ethereum", so Arbitrum Nova's committee ("…Ethereum L1 rollup fallback") and Polygon zkEVM's off-chain data ("…Ethereum L1 before the sunset") both scored full marks. Data availability is now a quoted L2BEAT reading.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt tax_software:cointracker:2026.10.18:1bf07a0203ab
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