Coinify vs Stripe Crypto Onramp Coinify leads by 21 points.
Coinify scores 21 points above Stripe Crypto Onramp, led by purchase cost, named licence, and KYC and speed. Coinify ranks #2 and Stripe Crypto Onramp #9 of 16 published onramps. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Coinify75
vs
Stripe Crypto Onramp54
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #9 of 16
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7554+21.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
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.Stripe Crypto OnrampScore 54Stripe's application-gated fiat-to-crypto rail (hosted at crypto.link.com or embedded) riding Stripe Payments Company's US money-transmitter stack and Stripe Technology Europe's Irish EMI, with the crypto leg on an unnamed 'Exchange Provider' and pricing disclosed only as a help-centre 3-5% range plus an unquantified spread.Strength: Licence identity — 6/10Watch-out: You cannot learn your actual price before starting a purchase: the only public number is a help-centre 'normally 3-5%' range with Stripe's own spread stacked on top, unquantified against any benchmark — and your bank-rail cost has no published number at all.
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactCoinifyStripe Crypto Onramp
PricingSnapshotCoinify "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.Link (Stripe) help article "Fees when using Link to buy crypto" (https://support.link.com/questions/fees-when-using-link-to-buy-crypto, modified 12 May 2026), fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, unchanged from 18 August 2026. Processing fees: "These are payment processing fees charged based on factors such as your order value and the payment method you’ve used. These will normally amount to 3-5% of your order value and will be shown in more detail before you make a purchase." Network fees: "They’re dynamically calculated based on blockchain network conditions." Card-issuer cash-advance fees: "these fees are typically around 3%, sometimes with a 10 USD/EUR minimum." No per-rail schedule exists on stripe.com or docs.stripe.com (docs.stripe.com/crypto/onramp/fees returns HTTP 404 on 29 September 2026). The spread is separate and unquantified: Stripe's US Onramp Terms define "a fee that Stripe will charge between the market price we receive from our Exchange Provider and the price displayed to you (the "spread")". Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Stripe figure): a EUR 200 card purchase would "normally" carry EUR 6.00 to EUR 10.00 in processing fees, before the unquantified spread, the network fee and any card-issuer cash-advance fee; there is no EUR bank rail (bank account payments are "for US only").
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshoteurope, asia, latamus, europe
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 Stripe Crypto Onramp's 4/10 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.
Stripe Crypto Onramp
54#9 of 16
Pick it when
Stripe Crypto Onramp 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
Licence identity — 6/10
Tradeoff
You cannot learn your actual price before starting a purchase: the only public number is a help-centre 'normally 3-5%' range with Stripe's own spread stacked on top, unquantified against any benchmark — and your bank-rail cost has no published number at all.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
CoinifyLeads
Choose Coinify if purchase cost matters most
Purchase cost: 8/10 against 4/10 for Stripe Crypto Onramp (weight 34)
Named licence: 8/10 against 6/10 for Stripe Crypto Onramp (weight 22)
KYC and speed: 7/10 against 5/10 for Stripe Crypto Onramp (weight 18)
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.
Stripe Crypto Onramp
Stripe Crypto Onramp 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.
Stripe Crypto OnrampScore 54Stripe's application-gated fiat-to-crypto rail (hosted at crypto.link.com or embedded) riding Stripe Payments Company's US money-transmitter stack and Stripe Technology Europe's Irish EMI, with the crypto leg on an unnamed 'Exchange Provider' and pricing disclosed only as a help-centre 3-5% range plus an unquantified spread.Strength: Licence identity — 6/10Watch-out: You cannot learn your actual price before starting a purchase: the only public number is a help-centre 'normally 3-5%' range with Stripe's own spread stacked on top, unquantified against any benchmark — and your bank-rail cost has no published number at all.
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 4 of 10weight 8.2 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify8/10 out of 10
Stripe Crypto Onramp4/10 out of 10
Quote honesty
weight 6.2 of 86Tie
Coinify5/10 out of 10
Stripe Crypto Onramp5/10 out of 10
Named licence
by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify8/10 out of 10
Stripe Crypto Onramp6/10 out of 10
KYC and speed
by 2 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Coinify leads
Coinify7/10 out of 10
Stripe Crypto Onramp5/10 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
Coinify12/20Stripe Crypto Onramp11/20
Coinify leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Coinify16.9/30Stripe Crypto Onramp11.7/30
Coinify leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Coinify2.7/10Stripe Crypto Onramp2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Coinify3.2/8Stripe Crypto Onramp3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Coinify10.1/18Stripe Crypto Onramp8.3/18
Coinify leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Coinify unless the term Stripe Crypto Onramp leads on is the one you are buying.
Stripe Crypto Onramp 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, Stripe Crypto Onramp 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% (Coinify 5/10, Stripe Crypto Onramp 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% (Coinify 7/10, Stripe Crypto Onramp 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 21 points above Stripe Crypto Onramp, led by purchase cost, named licence, and KYC and speed. Published scores, out of 100: Coinify 75 (rank 2 of 16 onramps), Stripe Crypto Onramp 54 (rank 9 of 16).
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