Coinify scores 34 points above Fonbnk, led by purchase cost, quote honesty, and named licence. Coinify ranks #2 and Fonbnk #15 of 16 published onramps. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Coinify75
vs
Fonbnk41
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #15 of 16
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7541+34.0
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.
CoinifyScore 75The pool's fee-schedule anchor - bank 1%, EEA card 3.5%, non-EEA card 5%, 0.50% non-USD FX, network fee separate, all on its own domain - and since 2026-05-29 a register-verified Danish MiCA CASP (FT-ID 10907) whose own legal page has not yet caught up with its authorisation.Strength: All in purchase cost — 8/10Watch-out: The cheap rail is the unlocked one: pay by SEPA (1%) and you contractually accept 'the current available exchange rate at the time Coinify processes your trade' - up to 1-2 business days after you saw the 'indicative' quote - and if the trade cannot proceed, your refund comes back EUR20-30 lighter. The 15-minute rate lock exists only on the 3.5-5% card rail, and only in a help-centre article the Terms never echo.FonbnkScore 41Mobile-money, bank and digital-wallet rail turning KES/NGN/GHS and ten other local currencies into stablecoins in the 18 countries the provider states on 2026-09-29 have an on-ramp channel (its homepage says '19 Markets'; the docs call airtime 'off-ramp only, everywhere') — the most local rail in the pool, and the pool's silence specimen on fees, quote binding and licences.Strength: Kyc friction time to coins — 5/10Watch-out: Your recourse is structurally thinner than your purchase: a US$500 on-ramp ceiling, a refund path that exists only as a help-centre 'refund link' email the terms never promise, no status page, and a Delaware ToS capping Fonbnk's total liability at US$50 — about a fifth of the EUR200-equivalent purchase — with no licence in any of the 20 countries its docs listed on 2026-09-29 to complain to a regulator about.
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactCoinifyFonbnk
Purchase spreadSnapshotCoinify "Trading Fees" page (https://www.coinify.com/trading-fees), fetched 28 September 2026, HTTP 200, unchanged from 18 August 2026. Handling fee: "BUY ORDERS Bank Transfer 1% Credit/Debit Card EEA *3.5% Credit/Debit Card 5%" with "* EU, NORWAY, ICELAND, LIECHTENSTEIN, SWITZERLAND"; sell side "Bank Transfer 1%". Conversion fee: "For all purchases done in currencies other than USD, a foreign exchange fee of 0.50% applies." Network fee: "A fee deducted from the purchased cryptocurrency amount." and "It depends on the Blockchain network’s current transaction volumes." Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Coinify figure): a EUR 200 purchase by SEPA bank transfer = 1 percent handling + 0.50 percent FX = EUR 3.00 plus the network fee; by EEA card = 3.5 percent + 0.50 percent = EUR 8.00 plus the network fee. The exchange-rate margin is not on this page: Coinify's help article 360013699059 says fees "are included in the exchange rate we offer you" without a number. Minimums are on help article 360013698319 (edited 13 December 2024), not on this page.Fonbnk Terms of Service (https://fonbnk.com/terms-of-service), fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, unchanged from 2026-08-18: "2.3 Processing Fee. You agree to pay a processing fee of 2.5% for all transactions related to the Fonbnk PayWidget unless a specific marketing promotion indicates otherwise." and "2.4 Blockchain Network Fees. You will be responsible for any blockchain network fees incurred per Supported Blockchain for On-Chain Transfers to your wallet. These fees are dynamic and will be determined based on network congestion during the transaction." No pricing page exists (https://www.fonbnk.com/pricing returns HTTP 404 on 29 September 2026) and no exchange-rate spread or benchmark is disclosed on the Terms or the docs. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Fonbnk figure): a purchase worth about USD 232 (EUR 200) carries a 2.5 percent processing fee of about USD 5.80, plus the network fee and an undisclosed local-currency exchange spread.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshoteurope, asia, latamafrica, latam, asia
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Coinify
75#2 of 16
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Coinify if purchase cost matters most — it scores 8/10 to Fonbnk's 3/10 there (weight 34).
Strength
All in purchase cost — 8/10
Tradeoff
The cheap rail is the unlocked one: pay by SEPA (1%) and you contractually accept 'the current available exchange rate at the time Coinify processes your trade' - up to 1-2 business days after you saw the 'indicative' quote - and if the trade cannot proceed, your refund comes back EUR20-30 lighter. The 15-minute rate lock exists only on the 3.5-5% card rail, and only in a help-centre article the Terms never echo.
Fonbnk
41#15 of 16
Pick it when
Fonbnk leads Coinify 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
Kyc friction time to coins — 5/10
Tradeoff
Your recourse is structurally thinner than your purchase: a US$500 on-ramp ceiling, a refund path that exists only as a help-centre 'refund link' email the terms never promise, no status page, and a Delaware ToS capping Fonbnk's total liability at US$50 — about a fifth of the EUR200-equivalent purchase — with no licence in any of the 20 countries its docs listed on 2026-09-29 to complain to a regulator about.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
CoinifyLeads
Choose Coinify if purchase cost matters most
Purchase cost: 8/10 against 3/10 for Fonbnk (weight 34)
Quote honesty: 5/10 against 2/10 for Fonbnk (weight 26)
Named licence: 8/10 against 1/10 for Fonbnk (weight 22)
CoinifyScore 75The pool's fee-schedule anchor - bank 1%, EEA card 3.5%, non-EEA card 5%, 0.50% non-USD FX, network fee separate, all on its own domain - and since 2026-05-29 a register-verified Danish MiCA CASP (FT-ID 10907) whose own legal page has not yet caught up with its authorisation.Strength: All in purchase cost — 8/10Watch-out: The cheap rail is the unlocked one: pay by SEPA (1%) and you contractually accept 'the current available exchange rate at the time Coinify processes your trade' - up to 1-2 business days after you saw the 'indicative' quote - and if the trade cannot proceed, your refund comes back EUR20-30 lighter. The 15-minute rate lock exists only on the 3.5-5% card rail, and only in a help-centre article the Terms never echo.
Fonbnk
Fonbnk leads Coinify on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
FonbnkScore 41Mobile-money, bank and digital-wallet rail turning KES/NGN/GHS and ten other local currencies into stablecoins in the 18 countries the provider states on 2026-09-29 have an on-ramp channel (its homepage says '19 Markets'; the docs call airtime 'off-ramp only, everywhere') — the most local rail in the pool, and the pool's silence specimen on fees, quote binding and licences.Strength: Kyc friction time to coins — 5/10Watch-out: Your recourse is structurally thinner than your purchase: a US$500 on-ramp ceiling, a refund path that exists only as a help-centre 'refund link' email the terms never promise, no status page, and a Delaware ToS capping Fonbnk's total liability at US$50 — about a fifth of the EUR200-equivalent purchase — with no licence in any of the 20 countries its docs listed on 2026-09-29 to complain to a regulator about.
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 5 of 10weight 8.2 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify8/10 out of 10
Fonbnk3/10 out of 10
Quote honesty
by 3 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify5/10 out of 10
Fonbnk2/10 out of 10
Named licence
by 7 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify8/10 out of 10
Fonbnk1/10 out of 10
KYC and speed
by 2 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify7/10 out of 10
Fonbnk5/10 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
Coinify12/20Fonbnk12/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Coinify16.9/30Fonbnk6.4/30
Coinify leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Coinify2.7/10Fonbnk2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Coinify3.2/8Fonbnk3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Coinify10.1/18Fonbnk2.8/18
Coinify leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Coinify unless the term Fonbnk leads on is the one you are buying.
Fonbnk leads Coinify 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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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% (Coinify 8/10, Fonbnk 1/10)
Execution failure: you get a worse price, later, or nothing.
Scored by Is the number on the widget the number that settles? · 26% (Coinify 5/10, Fonbnk 2/10)
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% (Coinify 7/10, Fonbnk 5/10)
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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Coinify scores 34 points above Fonbnk, led by purchase cost, quote honesty, and named licence. Published scores, out of 100: Coinify 75 (rank 2 of 16 onramps), Fonbnk 41 (rank 15 of 16).
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