Banxa scores 27 points above Koywe, led by purchase cost, quote honesty, and named licence. Banxa ranks #5 and Koywe #13 of 16 published onramps. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
BABanxa68
vs
Koywe41
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #5 and #13 of 16
Banxa scores 27 points above Koywe, led by purchase cost, quote honesty, and named licence.
BABanxa #5 of 1668
Koywe #13 of 1641
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termBanxa leads on 4 of 4 published criteria; Koywe on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermBanxaKoyweWeightPoints
Purchase cost6/103/108.2+6.4for Banxa+3.3 of 32
Quote honesty6/105/106.2+1.6for Banxa+0.8 of 32
Named licence8/106/105.3+2.7for Banxa+1.4 of 32
KYC and speed7/103/104.3+4.5for Banxa+2.3 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension14620+20.8for Banxa
Measured dataScore dimension6.58.318−4.7for Koywe
Net of the terms+31.3
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+31.5
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6841+27.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
A floor bound on one row means the criterion arithmetic does not reproduce the displayed gap exactly.
BanxaScore 68The onramp that publishes its worst case: 1.99% card fee plus a 2-4% typical spread with contractual maxima, riding its own numbered licences in AU, CA, NL (MiCA), UK and 30+ US states - now private under OSL Group since 2026-01-02.Strength: Licence identity — 8/10Watch-out: The honest disclosure cuts both ways: the 'typical 2-4%' Banxa spread carries a contractual maximum of 15% (plus 10% partner-spread max), and the 'locked-in' Final Price is guaranteed only if you send proof of payment 'immediately' - on a 1-3-business-day SEPA/ACH rail the number on the confirm button can lawfully move before settlement.KoyweScore 41Chilean-anchored LATAM payments and treasury API (Koywe SpA, CMF register N°196; Alerce Argentina SRL, CNV PSAV N°24) whose ONRAMP product converts local-rail fiat (PIX, SPEI, PSE, Khipu) to crypto delivered to merchant-registered external wallets — register-verified licences, but zero public end-user pricing.Strength: Licence identity — 6/10Watch-out: You cannot see a price before you onboard: Koywe is a KYB-gated B2B API, the pricing pages 404, the fee schedule lives 'informadas en la Plataforma' behind login, and the only public number is a non-binding '0.5% - 2%' typical range in the developer docs — a buyer commits to merchant onboarding before learning what the PIX-to-USDC conversion actually costs.
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactBanxaKoywe
PricingSnapshotBanxa help article "How does Banxa set the price of cryptocurrency?" (https://support.banxa.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44002465167-how-does-banxa-set-the-price-of-cryptocurrency-, "Modified on Thu, 15 May, 2025"), fetched 28 September 2026, HTTP 200. Processing fee: BUY "Cards & Apple Pay" "1.99%", "Other payment methods" "0%". Spread table (buy): Banxa Spread "Typical: 2-4%" "Min: 0%" "Max: 15%"; Partner Spread (Optional) "Typical: 0-1%" "Max: 10%"; Recovery Spread "Typical: €0-1" "Max: €5". Network fee is a separate buy-side line item ("Market price"). Banxa's own worked example: "if you purchase €1,000 of Litecoin using SEPA" with Banxa spread "3%", Affiliate Fee "1%" and Recovery Fee "$1" ("0.1%") gives "Total Spread" "4.1%". The EU entity's identical article (44002625876, "How does EU Internet Ventures B.V (EUIV) set the price of cryptocurrency?") carries the same table. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Banxa figure): a EUR 200 SEPA purchase at the typical spreads costs roughly 2 to 5 percent plus network fee; by card add the 1.99 percent processing fee, roughly 4 to 7 percent. The spread benchmark ("reputable, independent third-party pricing providers") is not named.No end-user fee schedule is published. Koywe developer docs "Quotes and exchange rates" (https://docs.koywe.com/en/core-concepts/quotes-and-exchange-rates), fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, give only an integrator-facing typical range: Processing Fee, "All transactions", "0.5% - 2%"; Network Fee "Variable (blockchain fees)"; country-specific taxes on amount and on fee. The spread is acknowledged in the docs' example ("Slightly lower than buy rate (spread)") but not quantified or benchmarked. The pricing routes www.koywe.com/en/pricing and /es/precios still return HTTP 404 (29 September 2026). The Terms ("Fecha de última actualización: 18 de mayo de 2026") put actual fees behind login or contract: "El uso de los Servicios estará sujeto al pago de las Comisiones y tipo de cambio vigentes informadas en la Plataforma o establecidas en la documentación contractual aplicable." No representative purchase can be reconstructed: the quote API needs KYB-gated credentials and there is no public widget.
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From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
BA
Banxa
68#5 of 16
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Banxa if purchase cost matters most — it scores 6/10 to Koywe's 3/10 there (weight 34).
Strength
Licence identity — 8/10
Tradeoff
The honest disclosure cuts both ways: the 'typical 2-4%' Banxa spread carries a contractual maximum of 15% (plus 10% partner-spread max), and the 'locked-in' Final Price is guaranteed only if you send proof of payment 'immediately' - on a 1-3-business-day SEPA/ACH rail the number on the confirm button can lawfully move before settlement.
Koywe
41#13 of 16
Pick it when
Koywe leads on no published criterion; its edge is measured data (8.3 vs 6.5 points). Pick it if that term is what you are buying.
Strength
Licence identity — 6/10
Tradeoff
You cannot see a price before you onboard: Koywe is a KYB-gated B2B API, the pricing pages 404, the fee schedule lives 'informadas en la Plataforma' behind login, and the only public number is a non-binding '0.5% - 2%' typical range in the developer docs — a buyer commits to merchant onboarding before learning what the PIX-to-USDC conversion actually costs.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
BABanxaLeads
Choose Banxa if purchase cost matters most
Purchase cost: 6/10 against 3/10 for Koywe (weight 34)
Quote honesty: 6/10 against 5/10 for Koywe (weight 26)
Named licence: 8/10 against 6/10 for Koywe (weight 22)
BanxaScore 68The onramp that publishes its worst case: 1.99% card fee plus a 2-4% typical spread with contractual maxima, riding its own numbered licences in AU, CA, NL (MiCA), UK and 30+ US states - now private under OSL Group since 2026-01-02.Strength: Licence identity — 8/10Watch-out: The honest disclosure cuts both ways: the 'typical 2-4%' Banxa spread carries a contractual maximum of 15% (plus 10% partner-spread max), and the 'locked-in' Final Price is guaranteed only if you send proof of payment 'immediately' - on a 1-3-business-day SEPA/ACH rail the number on the confirm button can lawfully move before settlement.
Koywe
Koywe leads Banxa on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
KoyweScore 41Chilean-anchored LATAM payments and treasury API (Koywe SpA, CMF register N°196; Alerce Argentina SRL, CNV PSAV N°24) whose ONRAMP product converts local-rail fiat (PIX, SPEI, PSE, Khipu) to crypto delivered to merchant-registered external wallets — register-verified licences, but zero public end-user pricing.Strength: Licence identity — 6/10Watch-out: You cannot see a price before you onboard: Koywe is a KYB-gated B2B API, the pricing pages 404, the fee schedule lives 'informadas en la Plataforma' behind login, and the only public number is a non-binding '0.5% - 2%' typical range in the developer docs — a buyer commits to merchant onboarding before learning what the PIX-to-USDC conversion actually costs.
Criterion by criterion
Scorecard
Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology
Purchase cost
by 3 of 10weight 8.2 of 86Banxa leads
Banxa6/10 out of 10
Koywe3/10 out of 10
Quote honesty
by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Banxa leads
Banxa6/10 out of 10
Koywe5/10 out of 10
Named licence
by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Banxa leads
Banxa8/10 out of 10
Koywe6/10 out of 10
KYC and speed
by 4 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Banxa leads
Banxa7/10 out of 10
Koywe3/10 out of 10
Score dimensions
weights sum to 86
The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.
Availabilityweight 20 of 86
Banxa14/20Koywe6/20
Banxa leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Banxa15.9/30Koywe10/30
Banxa leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Banxa2.7/10Koywe2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Banxa3.2/8Koywe3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Banxa6.5/18Koywe8.3/18
Koywe leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Banxa unless the term Koywe leads on is the one you are buying.
Koywe leads on no published criterion; its edge is measured data (8.3 vs 6.5 points). Pick it if that term is what you are buying.
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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
Regulatory failure: no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.
Scored by Whose money-transmission licence is my money riding — and is that entity my counterparty? · 22% (Banxa 8/10, Koywe 6/10)
Execution failure: you get a worse price, later, or nothing.
Scored by Is the number on the widget the number that settles? · 26% (Banxa 6/10, Koywe 5/10)
Information failure: the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.
Scored by How much identity do I surrender before the coins land in my wallet, and how long does that take? · 18% (Banxa 7/10, Koywe 3/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Insolvency failure, Exit 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 does a €200 purchase actually cost me — by card and by bank, all-in? (34%).
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Banxa scores 27 points above Koywe, led by purchase cost, quote honesty, and named licence. Published scores, out of 100: Banxa 68 (rank 5 of 16 onramps), Koywe 41 (rank 13 of 16).
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