Coinbase Onramp vs Koywe Coinbase Onramp leads by 19 points.
Coinbase Onramp scores 19 points above Koywe, led by purchase cost, named licence, and KYC and speed. Coinbase Onramp ranks #6 and Koywe #13 of 16 published onramps. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
CBCoinbase Onramp60
vs
Koywe41
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #6 and #13 of 16
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.2
Reproduced gap+23.7
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6041+19.0
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.
Coinbase OnrampScore 60Coinbase's embeddable fiat-to-crypto rail (CDP Onramp): Coinbase-account and US guest-checkout flows riding Coinbase's own first-party licence stack — NYDFS-listed in the US and an ESMA-register-confirmed MiCA CASP (Coinbase Luxembourg S.A.) passported across 30 EEA states — with published 2.5% credit-card / 0.5% ACH fees but an unquantified spread, no EUR bank rail, and no published time-to-coins anywhere on its docs.Strength: Licence identity — 7/10Watch-out: For the category's representative European buyer the bank rail simply does not exist — the only bank transfer is US ACH — so a €200 purchase means a card at 2.5% (credit, non-US) or an unpublished debit rate plus an unquantified spread, with no published commitment anywhere on the docs about how long the coins take to arrive; and with hosted guest checkout being discontinued (stated date June 30, 2026, already passed), non-US users increasingly need a full Coinbase account, which turns the 'rail' into exchange onboarding.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.
FactCoinbase OnrampKoywe
PricingSnapshotCoinbase Developer Platform "Onramp FAQ" (https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/onramp/additional-resources/faq.md), fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, unchanged from 18 August 2026. "Coinbase Onramp is free for developers to use." Spread: "Coinbase Onramp includes a spread in the price when you buy cryptocurrencies." (no percentage, no named benchmark). Coinbase fees: "Fees are calculated at the time you place your order and may be determined by a combination of factors, including the selected payment method, the size of the order, and market conditions such as volatility and liquidity." Card and ACH: "There is a 2.5% fee for credit card transactions, and 0.5% fee for ACH". USDC: "Zero-fee USDC onramping is available to select partners through a subsidy program for eligible partners." Network fees: "We charge a fee based on our estimate of these network fees." No debit-card fee number is published on this page. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Coinbase figure): a EUR 200 credit-card purchase carries EUR 5.00 in card fee (2.5 percent) plus the unquantified spread and the estimated network fee; there is no EUR bank rail, since the only bank transfer listed is "ACH (US Bank Transfer)".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.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, calatam
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
CB
Coinbase Onramp
60#6 of 16
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Coinbase Onramp if purchase cost matters most — it scores 5/10 to Koywe's 3/10 there (weight 34).
Strength
Licence identity — 7/10
Tradeoff
For the category's representative European buyer the bank rail simply does not exist — the only bank transfer is US ACH — so a €200 purchase means a card at 2.5% (credit, non-US) or an unpublished debit rate plus an unquantified spread, with no published commitment anywhere on the docs about how long the coins take to arrive; and with hosted guest checkout being discontinued (stated date June 30, 2026, already passed), non-US users increasingly need a full Coinbase account, which turns the 'rail' into exchange onboarding.
Koywe
41#13 of 16
Pick it when
Koywe leads Coinbase Onramp 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
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?
CBCoinbase OnrampLeads
Choose Coinbase Onramp if purchase cost matters most
Purchase cost: 5/10 against 3/10 for Koywe (weight 34)
Named licence: 7/10 against 6/10 for Koywe (weight 22)
KYC and speed: 5/10 against 3/10 for Koywe (weight 18)
Coinbase OnrampScore 60Coinbase's embeddable fiat-to-crypto rail (CDP Onramp): Coinbase-account and US guest-checkout flows riding Coinbase's own first-party licence stack — NYDFS-listed in the US and an ESMA-register-confirmed MiCA CASP (Coinbase Luxembourg S.A.) passported across 30 EEA states — with published 2.5% credit-card / 0.5% ACH fees but an unquantified spread, no EUR bank rail, and no published time-to-coins anywhere on its docs.Strength: Licence identity — 7/10Watch-out: For the category's representative European buyer the bank rail simply does not exist — the only bank transfer is US ACH — so a €200 purchase means a card at 2.5% (credit, non-US) or an unpublished debit rate plus an unquantified spread, with no published commitment anywhere on the docs about how long the coins take to arrive; and with hosted guest checkout being discontinued (stated date June 30, 2026, already passed), non-US users increasingly need a full Coinbase account, which turns the 'rail' into exchange onboarding.
Koywe
Koywe leads Coinbase Onramp 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 2 of 10weight 8.2 of 86Coinbase Onramp leads
Coinbase Onramp5/10 out of 10
Koywe3/10 out of 10
Quote honesty
weight 6.2 of 86Tie
Coinbase Onramp5/10 out of 10
Koywe5/10 out of 10
Named licence
by 1 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Coinbase Onramp leads
Coinbase Onramp7/10 out of 10
Koywe6/10 out of 10
KYC and speed
by 2 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Coinbase Onramp leads
Coinbase Onramp5/10 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
Coinbase Onramp12/20Koywe6/20
Coinbase Onramp leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Coinbase Onramp13.1/30Koywe10/30
Coinbase Onramp leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Coinbase Onramp2.7/10Koywe2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Coinbase Onramp3.2/8Koywe3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Coinbase Onramp8.3/18Koywe8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Coinbase Onramp unless the term Koywe leads on is the one you are buying.
Koywe leads Coinbase Onramp on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
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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% (Coinbase Onramp 7/10, 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% (Coinbase Onramp 5/10, 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% (Coinbase Onramp 5/10, 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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Coinbase Onramp scores 19 points above Koywe, led by purchase cost, named licence, and KYC and speed. Published scores, out of 100: Coinbase Onramp 60 (rank 6 of 16 onramps), Koywe 41 (rank 13 of 16).
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