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CoinTracker vs TokenTax CoinTracker leads by 10 points.

CoinTracker scores 10 points above TokenTax, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. CoinTracker ranks #6 and TokenTax #10 of 11 published tax software. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

CoinTracker76
TokenTax66
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #6 and #10 of 11
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-COINTRACKER-VS-TOKENTAX-4a7ed7e5
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

CoinTracker leads by 10 points

CoinTracker scores 10 points above TokenTax, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions.

CoinTracker #6 of 1176
TokenTax #10 of 1166
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termCoinTracker leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; TokenTax on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermCoinTrackerTokenTaxWeightPoints
Your tax form8/105/107.7+6.0for CoinTracker+3.1 of 32
Cost-basis method8/106/106.2+3.2for CoinTracker+1.7 of 32
Complex transactions8/106/105.3+2.7for CoinTracker+1.4 of 32
Record portability4/106/104.8−2.5for TokenTax−1.3 of 32
Net of the terms+9.5
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+9.6
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7666+10.0

Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.

Quick facts

At a glance

2 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactCoinTrackerTokenTax
PricingSnapshothttps://www.cointracker.com/plans — fetched 29 September 2026; plain curl returns HTTP 403 (bot challenge), rendered in headless Chrome (HTTP 200). Cards: "Free" "$0" ("No tax filing"); "Base" "Starting at" "$59" "/year" ("2025 tax forms and all past years", "Up to 100 transactions per year"); "Prime" "Best value" "Starting at" "$199" "/year" ("Up to 1,000 transactions per year"); "Ultra" "Starting at" "$599" "/year" ("Change cost basis method by year", "Up to 10,000 transactions per year"); "Full Service" "Starting at" "$3499" "/year" ("Up to 300,000 transactions per year", "Up to 15 hours of hands-on support to manage CSVs, fix errors, and reconcile accounts for the current tax year"). Comparison table, columns Free | Base/Base+ | Prime/Prime+ | Ultra/Ultra+: "Yearly transaction limit for tax forms" "100 | 250", "1,000 | 2,500", "10,000 | 50,000"; "Lifetime transactions limit for tax forms" "200,000" on each paid tier; pricing row "$0 per year", "$59 / $99 per year", "$199 / $299 per year", "$599 / $1999 per year". Counting rules: "We only count transactions from your current tax year — not your entire history." | "File for any prior year at no extra cost — one plan covers all your past tax years." Purchase shape, from https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413049695249-CoinTracker-Personal-plan-pricing (rendered 29 September 2026): "CoinTracker subscriptions auto-renew annually on the original purchase date." and "CoinTracker offers a 100% money-back guarantee within 30 days of purchase, provided that no tax forms have been downloaded." https://www.cointracker.com/pricing is not the pricing page; /plans is. Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.https://tokentax.co/pricing — fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200 to plain curl (94,478 bytes; August reached it only in headless Chrome). Header: "TokenTax is a full-service accounting firm as well as a software platform. With a full filing package, our in-house team of CPAs, EAs can file your tax return for you." Toggle "Just Crypto Tax" / "With Full Filing". Basic "For casual crypto investors with light activity" "$49" "/tax year" ("Up to 100 transactions", "IRS Form 8949 or relevant international report", "TurboTax online integration", "FIFO, LIFO, specific ID accounting", "Average cost basis for UK/CA filers"; optional "FBAR"). Premium "$199" "/tax year" ("Up to 5,000 transactions", adds "Tax loss harvesting dashboard"; optional "Add 20,000 transactions", "FBAR"). Pro "$1,999" "/tax year" ("Up to 20,000 transactions", "Margin/options PnL calculations", "FBAR"). VIP "Most popular" "$3,499" "/tax year" ("Up to 30,000 CEX transactions", "Two 30 min. consultations with tax expert", "Review of IRS inquiries"; optional "Full filing by TokenTax", "Custom transaction counts", "May require extra fees"). Enterprise: no published price. Additional offerings: "Full filing by TokenTax", "30-min. consultation with a tax expert", "Save 10% on TokenTax when you purchase multiple years." FAQ: "Yes. TokenTax calculates capital gains and losses for any country and provides results in your chosen currency." Add-on prices published only in the help centre, https://help.tokentax.co/en/articles/8614350-the-tokentax-user-interface-guide (re-written "August 24, 2026", fetched 29 September 2026): "Margin Processing: This service is $399 and includes processing of margins, derivatives, and futures data." | "It is available for purchase for $49 for Basic Plan or Premium Plan holders." (FBAR) | "With the purchase of this add-on (starting at $999), our crypto expert tax team will file your state and federal taxes for you." No trial: "At this time, we do not offer free trials, demos, or preview functions." (https://help.tokentax.co/en/articles/5803735-does-tokentax-offer-any-demos-or-trials). Refunds: "TokenTax does not offer refunds." (https://tokentax.co/terms). Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.
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From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

CoinTracker

76#6 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick CoinTracker if your tax form matters most — it scores 8/10 to TokenTax's 5/10 there (weight 32).
Strength
Named form output — 8/10
Tradeoff
UPHELD IN FULL, and better sourced than submitted. You cannot get your money back once you look at your data, and you cannot get your data back once you stop paying — both halves are in writing on served pages. The refund dies at the first download, including a plain transaction file: the Terms (https://cointracker.io/terms → https://www.cointracker.com/terms, 'Last updated: March 10, 2026') state 'Refunds are not possible once you have downloaded any of the tax forms or CSV files (including Transaction History CSV).', and the help centre states the operational consequence on https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/38104390028945-Available-reports-on-CoinTracker (updated 2026-08-14): 'Please note: Downloading a report counts as downloading a tax form for refund-eligibility purposes. Once you've downloaded any report, your CoinTracker plan is treated as used for the tax year.' So the 30-day 'money-back guarantee' survives only for a buyer who never opens the thing they bought. The other half: this is an auto-renewing ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, and on lapse (https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/46693057775761-How-to-cancel-auto-renewal-on-your-CoinTracker-plan, updated 2026-08-14) 'Once canceled, your plan remains active until the end of your current billing period. After that date, your account moves to the free subscription. Your CoinTracker account and data will not be deleted.' — while the plans page shows the Free tier labelled 'No tax filing' with an empty cell in the 'Download tax forms (8949, Schedule D and others)' row. CoinTracker states the consequence for an ALREADY-FILED year on https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/31572739238417-Switching-to-Per-Wallet-tracking-after-missing-IRS-Safe-Harbor (updated 2026-08-14): 'You may need to renew your subscription plan to access your tax reports for 2024.' NEW EVIDENCE this pass, which the submitted record did not have and which hardens the caveat: the vendor's own regional-deadline table (https://support.cointracker.com/hc/en-us/articles/38071402566417-Regional-tax-extension-deadlines-observed-by-CoinTracker) spells the renewal toll out per region — the UK row reads 'Renewal is required before downloading 2025 tax forms.' and the Australia row 'Renewal is required before downloading your 2025 tax forms.'. The reports carrying the IRS safe-harbour position under Rev. Proc. 2024-28 are explicitly not retained for you: 'CoinTracker cannot save these reports for you, it is your responsibility to make sure that you keep all reports provided to you indefinitely.' And the migration is irreversible in place: 'Important: After you select Migrate now, CoinTracker locks all your data prior to 2025. You won't be able to edit pre-2025 transactions or tax reports afterward.' — preceded by the warning 'Ensure there are no Review suggested transactions remaining. Once you've made the allocation, you cannot go back to fix any issues.' Secondary, worth knowing before filing: the default lot-matching method is HIFO, not FIFO — 'Note: CoinTracker defaults all wallets to HIFO, as it tends to lower the tax bill.' — a Specific-ID subset the same page says the product cannot perform at unit level, on a page that also states Specific ID may no longer be applied retroactively for 2025-onward US returns. Changing it per year is an Ultra-tier ($599) feature: 'Changing your cost basis method will apply to all years unless you have an Ultra plan, which will allow you to set a different method for each tax year.'

TokenTax

66#10 of 11
Pick it when
Pick TokenTax if record portability matters most — it scores 6/10 to CoinTracker's 4/10 there (weight 20).
Strength
Basis method fidelity — 6/10
Tradeoff
UPHELD, with one item added and one quote re-sourced. That the plan you bought does not produce the thing the marketing page sold, and that the real work costs more. (1) /features advertises "Form 8949, Schedule D" AND "International forms" under "Our software automatically generates every tax form you need to complete your filings—whether you file with us or a different provider, such as TurboTax.", but the help centre states "Includes information that TokenTax does not have access to for crypto-only clients. TokenTax is unable to generate this form unless we are handling your full tax return. Your tax preparer is responsible for your Schedule D." — and no page anywhere names a single international form. (2) Outside the US there is no form at all — every tier promises only an "IRS Form 8949 or relevant international report", and TokenTax's own Sweden guide tells the filer to "Log in to Skatteverket, open form K4 (D). List each disposal’s cost basis, proceeds, and result" by hand. (3) Buying the cheap tier and then importing your full history to establish basis silently burns your cap: "Import the complete historical data needed to establish accurate cost basis. Your plan's transaction allowance still applies; importing historical data does not make the plan's transaction limit unlimited." (4) Surcharges land after purchase and are published only inside the help centre, never on /pricing: "Margin Processing: This service is $399 and includes processing of margins, derivatives, and futures data.", "It is available for purchase for $49 for Basic Plan or Premium Plan holders." for FBAR, and full filing "starting at $999". (5) Even the $3,499 VIP plan is chain-limited — "At the moment, the VIP Plans include support for Layer 1 Ethereum, Polygon, and Binance Smart Chain transactions. Our engineers are continually adding support for new chains, but in the meantime, other chains may require additional fees." — and one-shot: "Additionally, we will only complete your reconciliation one time for each plan purchased. If we complete the services included in your account's plan but you later discover that you omitted some transaction data, we may ask you to purchase an additional plan." (6) None of it is refundable, and there is nothing to try first: "TokenTax does not offer refunds." (https://tokentax.co/terms), expanded in the help centre as "At TokenTax, we have a no refund policy." (https://help.tokentax.co/en/articles/1800908-can-i-get-a-refund, October 25, 2021) — while "At this time, we do not offer free trials, demos, or preview functions." (https://help.tokentax.co/en/articles/5803735-does-tokentax-offer-any-demos-or-trials, January 23, 2024). You buy blind and you cannot unwind it. (7) ADDED — three served pages disagree on who may buy the $999 full-filing add-on: the UI guide says "This service is only available for U.S.-based clients with a VIP Plan or above." and the VIP article says Full-Filing services "are available to purchase, as an add-on to our VIP Plan, or above, only.", but the plan-chooser, timestamped "Updated today", says "Full filing by TokenTax is a separate add-on available to customers who purchase any crypto tax plan; it is not included automatically and is not limited to VIP customers." and /pricing says only "This add-on is only available to customers who purchase a crypto tax plan." A Basic buyer reading the newest page believes a service two older pages gate behind $3,499 is available to them.
Self-identify in 10 seconds

Which one is actually for you?

CoinTrackerLeads

Choose CoinTracker if your tax form matters most

  • Your tax form: 8/10 against 5/10 for TokenTax (weight 32)
  • Cost-basis method: 8/10 against 6/10 for TokenTax (weight 26)
  • Complex transactions: 8/10 against 6/10 for TokenTax (weight 22)
TokenTax

Choose TokenTax if record portability matters most

  • Record portability: 6/10 against 4/10 for CoinTracker (weight 20)
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 3 of 10weight 7.7 of 86CoinTracker leads
CoinTracker8 out of 10
TokenTax5 out of 10

Cost-basis method

by 2 of 10weight 6.2 of 86CoinTracker leads
CoinTracker8 out of 10
TokenTax6 out of 10

Complex transactions

by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86CoinTracker leads
CoinTracker8 out of 10
TokenTax6 out of 10

Record portability

by 2 of 10weight 4.8 of 86TokenTax leads
CoinTracker4 out of 10
TokenTax6 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
CoinTracker14/20TokenTax14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
CoinTracker17.3/30TokenTax13.6/30
CoinTracker leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
CoinTracker2.7/10TokenTax2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
CoinTracker3.2/8TokenTax3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
CoinTracker8.3/18TokenTax8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose CoinTracker unless the term TokenTax leads on is the one you are buying.

Pick TokenTax if record portability matters most — it scores 6/10 to CoinTracker's 4/10 there (weight 20).

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% (CoinTracker 8/10, TokenTax 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% (CoinTracker 4/10, TokenTax 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% (CoinTracker 8/10, TokenTax 6/10)
    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% (CoinTracker 8/10, TokenTax 6/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
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CoinTracker scores 10 points above TokenTax, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Published scores, out of 100: CoinTracker 76 (rank 6 of 11 tax software), TokenTax 66 (rank 10 of 11).

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