Blockpit scores 18 points above Ledgible, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Blockpit ranks #2 and Ledgible #11 of 11 published tax software. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
BLBlockpit80
vs
LELedgible62
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #11 of 11
Blockpit scores 18 points above Ledgible, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions.
BLBlockpit #2 of 1180
LELedgible #11 of 1162
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termBlockpit leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; Ledgible on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermBlockpitLedgibleWeightPoints
Your tax form9/105/107.7+8.0for Blockpit+4.1 of 32
Cost-basis method8/104/106.2+6.5for Blockpit+3.3 of 32
Complex transactions8/105/105.3+4.1for Blockpit+2.1 of 32
Net of the terms+18.6
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+18.5
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8062+18.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
BlockpitScore 80An Austrian crypto-tax engine that actually names the form: prefilled E1/E1kv completion aids carrying KZ 172/174/176, Anlage SO for the open 2025 German year, and a prefilled Form 8949 with a 1099-DA reconciliation page — all delivered as PDF, with per-lot basis that stays inside the PDF and never reaches the CSV.Strength: Named form output — 9/10Watch-out: You buy the tax-year licence and then find part of the interface still locked. Per-transaction cost basis ON SCREEN is NOT in the €49–€549 licence: "To view the Tax Details, you need an active Blockpit Plus subscription!" (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137146-advanced-transaction-details-ledger-tax, "January 30, 2026"), a separate subscription that the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, prices at "Only €3.99/month" "Incl. tax • Billed as annual subscription". The number itself is not withheld: the purchased PDF prints 'Kosten (€)', 'Erlös (€)' and 'Gewinn (€)' per transaction (verified on the sample report, pages 16-18). Blockpit Plus buys the on-screen view, not the data. The redesigned pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, now names what Plus buys: its Blockpit PLUS card lists "Cost basis, gains, losses per transaction". The second sting is the cap, and it bites the buyer who did the right thing. The limit counts a self-transfer TWICE — "Transfers are counted twice because the incoming and outgoing components are separate transactions." (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137278-how-to-understand-the-transaction-limits-of-my-tax-year, "July 20, 2026") — so connecting one more hardware wallet after payment can push you past the package you already bought, and then, on a DIFFERENT help page (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137280-what-happens-if-i-exceed-the-transaction-limit-for-my-purchased-tax-year, "October 1, 2025"): "Once you exceed the transaction limit, you will no longer be able to download the tax report. Upgrade to a higher transaction package to regain access." The step from 50 transactions at 49€ to 1,000 at 99€ is a doubling with nothing in between. Blockpit does only charge the delta, same page: "We will, of course, only charge you the difference between your current package and the higher transaction package." Third, if you ever leave, your lot matching does not come with you: "Transfers are only exported in form of their basic transaction types: Deposit & Withdrawal. The exact reconciliation/reconstruction of previously linked transactions (Transfers) is therefore currently not possible via our export feature." (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137149-how-to-export-my-blockpit-transactions-as-a-csv-file). The CSV that leaves Blockpit has thirteen columns and not one of them is a cost basis. Fourth, portfolio tracking is free: the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists "Portfolio Tracking" at "Free", and the help centre confirms "You can always import unlimited transactions in terms of Portfolio & Performance Tracking, but for generating a tax report the displayed transaction limits apply." 50 transactions is the cheapest paid tax tier, not a free cap. Fifth, Blockpit names no audit partner: across the 33 Blockpit pages read for this review there is no mention of PwC, and the only claim is unnamed: "Blockpit features country specific and compliant tax frameworks in cooperation with Big4 companies." Its terms are issued by "Blockpit AG".LedgibleScore 62A US-only IRS Form 8949 generator (Verady, Inc.) whose consumer tier is alive and current for tax year 2025, but whose public site has pivoted to institutional 1099-DA reporting and whose tax help centre has gone dark on the one US rule that changed the answer — Rev. Proc. 2024-28 is not mentioned once in 277 knowledge-base articles, even though Ledgible's own institutional whitepaper explains it.Strength: Portable record and prior year access — 6/10Watch-out: The $49 is a lifetime-transaction toll, not a this-year toll, and the caps that decide your bill are published only inside a PNG. Ledgible's own words: "Pricing is based on the total number of transactions you've made from the beginning of your transaction history to the end of the current tax year date (rather than annual transactions)" (support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405478844045, updated 2026-08-09). A filer with eight years of history and four trades this year is priced on all eight years. The base tier is also far narrower than the pricing page admits — "The basic package starts at $49 and includes up to 2 wallets and 1 exchange in their data sources with up to 200 transactions." (article 360058705432); that 2-wallet and 1-exchange limit appears NOWHERE on ledgible.io/pricing/, whose own base-tier image says only 'Tax-year reporting and up to 200 transactions'. (The pricing page does print '2 wallets', but inside an Enterprise Accounting usage example, not as the $49 cap — do not read it as the consumer limit.) Second, the buyer arriving from the marketing site will find the automation isn't there: the FAQ says "Yes, the Ledgible Platform offers full support for DeFi and NFT trading." while the documentation says "NFT tracking isn’t done automatically on Ledgible, so tracking the activity will be best done manually.", DeFi auto-categorisation covers only Ethereum and Algorand, and "However, income cannot be automatically detected and therefore transactions that are to be taxed as such must be designated by the user." — so every staking reward, airdrop and fork is hand-labelled. Third, and most expensive to discover late: this is a US-only filing artefact whose US rulebook is stale. Rev. Proc. 2024-28 wallet-level basis allocation is not mentioned once in 277 knowledge-base articles — while Ledgible's institutional whitepaper explains the rule in detail, so the silence is in the consumer product, not in the company. The FIFO/LIFO/HIFO guidance still cites the superseded IRS Virtual Currency FAQ Q39-41, and the preparer instructions still assert crypto is 'not currently reported on 1099s' in the first Form 1099-DA season.
Quick facts
At a glance
2 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactBlockpitLedgible
Entry planSnapshothttps://www.blockpit.io/pricing — fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, plain curl, prices in static HTML. The page was redesigned since 19 August 2026; the prices are unchanged. Top cards: "Portfolio Tracking" "Free"; "Crypto Tax report" "From €49 per tax year"; "Blockpit PLUS" "€3.99 per month". Tax-report ladder, each card reading "One-time purchase per tax year • PDF & CSV export": "Small · up to 50 transactions" "€49"; "Medium · up to 1,000 transactions" "€99"; "Large · up to 3,000 transactions" "€149"; "X-Large · up to 10,000 transactions" "€229"; "XX-Large · more than 10,000 transactions" "€549". Stated basis: "Pricing is based on the number of transactions in the selected tax year, not on the size or value of the portfolio." Blockpit PLUS: "Only €3.99/month" "Incl. tax • Billed as annual subscription", listing "Cost basis, gains, losses per transaction". Human service, now priced on this page: "Free initial consultation" "Free" "15 minutes"; "Expert Check" "€99" "30 minutes"; "Expert Service" "Full tax report preparation" "from €199" "per hour". Source of Funds: "1 Credit" "€19.99"; "3 Credits" "€49.99"; "5 Credits" "€79.99", with "Unused credits remain available until they are needed." The pricing-page FAQ that stated "no subscription and no automatic renewal" is no longer served; the purchased-year permanence stands in the terms (https://www.blockpit.io/terms, "Revised, 25. August 2025", clause 7.3.2).https://ledgible.io/pricing/ — fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, plain curl; text unchanged from 19 August 2026. The page publishes one price as text: tabs "Professional Tax" "(Starting at $49)" and "Enterprise Accounting" "(Custom Pricing)"; lead "Our tax platform has straightforward base pricing with clearly defined transaction tiers."; "Ledgible Crypto Tax Pro is free for Tax Professionals to use. Clients are charged directly on a per client basis." The tier ladder is served only inside two images (alt text "crypto tax tracking software"; ledgible.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Group-5301.png and Group-5302.png, both re-downloaded 29 September 2026 and read visually, so not byte-verifiable): IMAGE-READ "Base Price" $49 "Tax-year reporting and up to 200 transactions"; IMAGE-READ "Usage-Based Incremental Pricing" $50 "200–1000 transactions" and $100 "Each set of 2500 transactions over 1000". Enterprise: no price, only cost drivers ("Account Users", "Exchange Connections", "Wallets", "Transaction Volume", "General Ledger Integrations") and two unpriced examples. The binding caps for the $49 buyer are in the help centre, https://support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/360058705432-Purchasing-Reports (read 29 September 2026 via the Zendesk API, updated 22 August 2024): "The basic package starts at $49 and includes up to 2 wallets and 1 exchange in their data sources with up to 200 transactions." Counting basis, https://support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405478844045-Intro-to-Ledgible-Products (updated_at 9 August 2026, unchanged): "Pricing for Ledgible Crypto Tax begins at $49 a tax year and increases based on the number of total transactions added to your Ledgible account" | "Pricing is based on the total number of transactions you've made from the beginning of your transaction history to the end of the current tax year date (rather than annual transactions)". Refunds, https://ledgible.io/terms-of-service.pdf/ ("Last Updated: December 20, 2019", fetched 29 September 2026): "MEMBERSHIP FEES WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAW." Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
BL
Blockpit
80#2 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Blockpit if your tax form matters most — it scores 9/10 to Ledgible's 5/10 there (weight 32).
Strength
Named form output — 9/10
Tradeoff
You buy the tax-year licence and then find part of the interface still locked. Per-transaction cost basis ON SCREEN is NOT in the €49–€549 licence: "To view the Tax Details, you need an active Blockpit Plus subscription!" (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137146-advanced-transaction-details-ledger-tax, "January 30, 2026"), a separate subscription that the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, prices at "Only €3.99/month" "Incl. tax • Billed as annual subscription". The number itself is not withheld: the purchased PDF prints 'Kosten (€)', 'Erlös (€)' and 'Gewinn (€)' per transaction (verified on the sample report, pages 16-18). Blockpit Plus buys the on-screen view, not the data. The redesigned pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, now names what Plus buys: its Blockpit PLUS card lists "Cost basis, gains, losses per transaction". The second sting is the cap, and it bites the buyer who did the right thing. The limit counts a self-transfer TWICE — "Transfers are counted twice because the incoming and outgoing components are separate transactions." (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137278-how-to-understand-the-transaction-limits-of-my-tax-year, "July 20, 2026") — so connecting one more hardware wallet after payment can push you past the package you already bought, and then, on a DIFFERENT help page (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137280-what-happens-if-i-exceed-the-transaction-limit-for-my-purchased-tax-year, "October 1, 2025"): "Once you exceed the transaction limit, you will no longer be able to download the tax report. Upgrade to a higher transaction package to regain access." The step from 50 transactions at 49€ to 1,000 at 99€ is a doubling with nothing in between. Blockpit does only charge the delta, same page: "We will, of course, only charge you the difference between your current package and the higher transaction package." Third, if you ever leave, your lot matching does not come with you: "Transfers are only exported in form of their basic transaction types: Deposit & Withdrawal. The exact reconciliation/reconstruction of previously linked transactions (Transfers) is therefore currently not possible via our export feature." (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137149-how-to-export-my-blockpit-transactions-as-a-csv-file). The CSV that leaves Blockpit has thirteen columns and not one of them is a cost basis. Fourth, portfolio tracking is free: the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists "Portfolio Tracking" at "Free", and the help centre confirms "You can always import unlimited transactions in terms of Portfolio & Performance Tracking, but for generating a tax report the displayed transaction limits apply." 50 transactions is the cheapest paid tax tier, not a free cap. Fifth, Blockpit names no audit partner: across the 33 Blockpit pages read for this review there is no mention of PwC, and the only claim is unnamed: "Blockpit features country specific and compliant tax frameworks in cooperation with Big4 companies." Its terms are issued by "Blockpit AG".
LE
Ledgible
62#11 of 11
Pick it when
Ledgible leads Blockpit on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
Strength
Portable record and prior year access — 6/10
Tradeoff
The $49 is a lifetime-transaction toll, not a this-year toll, and the caps that decide your bill are published only inside a PNG. Ledgible's own words: "Pricing is based on the total number of transactions you've made from the beginning of your transaction history to the end of the current tax year date (rather than annual transactions)" (support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405478844045, updated 2026-08-09). A filer with eight years of history and four trades this year is priced on all eight years. The base tier is also far narrower than the pricing page admits — "The basic package starts at $49 and includes up to 2 wallets and 1 exchange in their data sources with up to 200 transactions." (article 360058705432); that 2-wallet and 1-exchange limit appears NOWHERE on ledgible.io/pricing/, whose own base-tier image says only 'Tax-year reporting and up to 200 transactions'. (The pricing page does print '2 wallets', but inside an Enterprise Accounting usage example, not as the $49 cap — do not read it as the consumer limit.) Second, the buyer arriving from the marketing site will find the automation isn't there: the FAQ says "Yes, the Ledgible Platform offers full support for DeFi and NFT trading." while the documentation says "NFT tracking isn’t done automatically on Ledgible, so tracking the activity will be best done manually.", DeFi auto-categorisation covers only Ethereum and Algorand, and "However, income cannot be automatically detected and therefore transactions that are to be taxed as such must be designated by the user." — so every staking reward, airdrop and fork is hand-labelled. Third, and most expensive to discover late: this is a US-only filing artefact whose US rulebook is stale. Rev. Proc. 2024-28 wallet-level basis allocation is not mentioned once in 277 knowledge-base articles — while Ledgible's institutional whitepaper explains the rule in detail, so the silence is in the consumer product, not in the company. The FIFO/LIFO/HIFO guidance still cites the superseded IRS Virtual Currency FAQ Q39-41, and the preparer instructions still assert crypto is 'not currently reported on 1099s' in the first Form 1099-DA season.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
BLBlockpitLeads
Choose Blockpit if your tax form matters most
Your tax form: 9/10 against 5/10 for Ledgible (weight 32)
Cost-basis method: 8/10 against 4/10 for Ledgible (weight 26)
Complex transactions: 8/10 against 5/10 for Ledgible (weight 22)
BlockpitScore 80An Austrian crypto-tax engine that actually names the form: prefilled E1/E1kv completion aids carrying KZ 172/174/176, Anlage SO for the open 2025 German year, and a prefilled Form 8949 with a 1099-DA reconciliation page — all delivered as PDF, with per-lot basis that stays inside the PDF and never reaches the CSV.Strength: Named form output — 9/10Watch-out: You buy the tax-year licence and then find part of the interface still locked. Per-transaction cost basis ON SCREEN is NOT in the €49–€549 licence: "To view the Tax Details, you need an active Blockpit Plus subscription!" (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137146-advanced-transaction-details-ledger-tax, "January 30, 2026"), a separate subscription that the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, prices at "Only €3.99/month" "Incl. tax • Billed as annual subscription". The number itself is not withheld: the purchased PDF prints 'Kosten (€)', 'Erlös (€)' and 'Gewinn (€)' per transaction (verified on the sample report, pages 16-18). Blockpit Plus buys the on-screen view, not the data. The redesigned pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, now names what Plus buys: its Blockpit PLUS card lists "Cost basis, gains, losses per transaction". The second sting is the cap, and it bites the buyer who did the right thing. The limit counts a self-transfer TWICE — "Transfers are counted twice because the incoming and outgoing components are separate transactions." (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137278-how-to-understand-the-transaction-limits-of-my-tax-year, "July 20, 2026") — so connecting one more hardware wallet after payment can push you past the package you already bought, and then, on a DIFFERENT help page (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137280-what-happens-if-i-exceed-the-transaction-limit-for-my-purchased-tax-year, "October 1, 2025"): "Once you exceed the transaction limit, you will no longer be able to download the tax report. Upgrade to a higher transaction package to regain access." The step from 50 transactions at 49€ to 1,000 at 99€ is a doubling with nothing in between. Blockpit does only charge the delta, same page: "We will, of course, only charge you the difference between your current package and the higher transaction package." Third, if you ever leave, your lot matching does not come with you: "Transfers are only exported in form of their basic transaction types: Deposit & Withdrawal. The exact reconciliation/reconstruction of previously linked transactions (Transfers) is therefore currently not possible via our export feature." (https://intercom.help/blockpit/en/articles/12137149-how-to-export-my-blockpit-transactions-as-a-csv-file). The CSV that leaves Blockpit has thirteen columns and not one of them is a cost basis. Fourth, portfolio tracking is free: the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists "Portfolio Tracking" at "Free", and the help centre confirms "You can always import unlimited transactions in terms of Portfolio & Performance Tracking, but for generating a tax report the displayed transaction limits apply." 50 transactions is the cheapest paid tax tier, not a free cap. Fifth, Blockpit names no audit partner: across the 33 Blockpit pages read for this review there is no mention of PwC, and the only claim is unnamed: "Blockpit features country specific and compliant tax frameworks in cooperation with Big4 companies." Its terms are issued by "Blockpit AG".
LELedgible
Ledgible leads Blockpit on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
LedgibleScore 62A US-only IRS Form 8949 generator (Verady, Inc.) whose consumer tier is alive and current for tax year 2025, but whose public site has pivoted to institutional 1099-DA reporting and whose tax help centre has gone dark on the one US rule that changed the answer — Rev. Proc. 2024-28 is not mentioned once in 277 knowledge-base articles, even though Ledgible's own institutional whitepaper explains it.Strength: Portable record and prior year access — 6/10Watch-out: The $49 is a lifetime-transaction toll, not a this-year toll, and the caps that decide your bill are published only inside a PNG. Ledgible's own words: "Pricing is based on the total number of transactions you've made from the beginning of your transaction history to the end of the current tax year date (rather than annual transactions)" (support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405478844045, updated 2026-08-09). A filer with eight years of history and four trades this year is priced on all eight years. The base tier is also far narrower than the pricing page admits — "The basic package starts at $49 and includes up to 2 wallets and 1 exchange in their data sources with up to 200 transactions." (article 360058705432); that 2-wallet and 1-exchange limit appears NOWHERE on ledgible.io/pricing/, whose own base-tier image says only 'Tax-year reporting and up to 200 transactions'. (The pricing page does print '2 wallets', but inside an Enterprise Accounting usage example, not as the $49 cap — do not read it as the consumer limit.) Second, the buyer arriving from the marketing site will find the automation isn't there: the FAQ says "Yes, the Ledgible Platform offers full support for DeFi and NFT trading." while the documentation says "NFT tracking isn’t done automatically on Ledgible, so tracking the activity will be best done manually.", DeFi auto-categorisation covers only Ethereum and Algorand, and "However, income cannot be automatically detected and therefore transactions that are to be taxed as such must be designated by the user." — so every staking reward, airdrop and fork is hand-labelled. Third, and most expensive to discover late: this is a US-only filing artefact whose US rulebook is stale. Rev. Proc. 2024-28 wallet-level basis allocation is not mentioned once in 277 knowledge-base articles — while Ledgible's institutional whitepaper explains the rule in detail, so the silence is in the consumer product, not in the company. The FIFO/LIFO/HIFO guidance still cites the superseded IRS Virtual Currency FAQ Q39-41, and the preparer instructions still assert crypto is 'not currently reported on 1099s' in the first Form 1099-DA season.
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
Your tax form
by 4 of 10weight 7.7 of 86Blockpit leads
Blockpit9/10 out of 10
Ledgible5/10 out of 10
Cost-basis method
by 4 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Blockpit leads
Blockpit8/10 out of 10
Ledgible4/10 out of 10
Complex transactions
by 3 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Blockpit leads
Blockpit8/10 out of 10
Ledgible5/10 out of 10
Record portability
weight 4.8 of 86Tie
Blockpit6/10 out of 10
Ledgible6/10 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 · constant here
Blockpit14/20Ledgible14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Blockpit19/30Ledgible11.9/30
Blockpit leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Blockpit2.7/10Ledgible2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Blockpit3.2/8Ledgible3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Blockpit8.3/18Ledgible8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Blockpit unless the term Ledgible leads on is the one you are buying.
Ledgible leads Blockpit on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .
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Regulatory failure: 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% (Blockpit 9/10, Ledgible 5/10)
Exit failure: 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% (Blockpit 6/10, Ledgible 6/10)
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% (Blockpit 8/10, Ledgible 4/10)
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% (Blockpit 8/10, Ledgible 5/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
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Blockpit scores 18 points above Ledgible, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Published scores, out of 100: Blockpit 80 (rank 2 of 11 tax software), Ledgible 62 (rank 11 of 11).
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