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Crypto.com Card vs Coinbase Card Crypto.com Card leads by 25 points.

Crypto.com Card scores 25 points above Coinbase Card, led by cost abroad, card reliability, and tax on spending. Crypto.com Card ranks #2 and Coinbase Card #7 of 9 published crypto cards. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

Crypto.com Card77
Coinbase Card52
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #7 of 9
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-CRYPTO-COM-CARD-VS-COINBASE-CARD-27927877
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

Crypto.com Card leads by 25 points

Crypto.com Card scores 25 points above Coinbase Card, led by cost abroad, card reliability, and tax on spending.

Crypto.com Card #2 of 977
Coinbase Card #7 of 952
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termCrypto.com Card leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; Coinbase Card on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermCrypto.com CardCoinbase CardWeightPoints
Cost abroad6/104/107.9+4.1for Crypto.com Card+2.1 of 32
Card reliability7/106/106.2+1.6for Crypto.com Card+0.8 of 32
Tax on spending7/104/104.8+3.7for Crypto.com Card+1.9 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension12620+15.6for Crypto.com Card
Net of the terms+25.1
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+25.0

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

1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactCrypto.com CardCoinbase Card
PricingSnapshotFEE TABLE (EEA) — https://help.crypto.com/en/articles/5977463-crypto-com-prepaid-visa-card-fees-and-limits-europe-for-users-with-a-residential-address-in-europe (HTTP 200, fetched 28 September 2026, dated 31 July 2026): "Debit / Credit card top-up: 1%" | "ATM Withdrawal: 2% on amounts above the monthly free ATM limit" | "Free ATM limit (Monthly)" "€200" "€400" "€800" "€800" "€1,000" (Midnight / Ruby / Indigo-Jade / Icy-Rose / Obsidian) | "Close Account: €50" | "Physical Card Issuance:" "Midnight: €4.99" | "Inactivity: €5 per month of inactivity will be charged after 12 months of no cardholder-initiated financial activity on the card unless activity resumes." and "Effective 1 October 2026 fee will be updated to € 6." | "Foreign Transaction Fee (Till 30 September 2026):" Midnight only, "Within the EU and UK" "0.2%", "Outside the EU and UK" "2.0%", "Other Card Tiers: No fee" | "Foreign Transaction Fee (Effective 1 October 2026):" Midnight "Within the EU & UK : 0.2%" "Outside the EU & UK : 2.0%"; Ruby "Outside the EU & UK : No fee up to EUR 400 per calendar month, 2.0% thereafter"; Jade and Indigo "No fee up to EUR 800 per calendar month, 2.0% thereafter"; "Other Card Tiers: No fee". The October schedule takes effect three days after this read. TIER COST — https://crypto.com/cards (HTTP 200 via 301 to https://crypto.com/en-de/cards/, fetched 28 September 2026), "Subscription fee / Lockup": Midnight "Free"; Ruby "€3.99/month or €39.90 yearly (16% off) or €450 12-month CRO staking"; Jade/Indigo "€24.99/month or €249.90 yearly (16% off) or €4,500 12-month CRO staking"; Icy/Rose "€45,000 12-month CRO staking"; Obsidian "€450,000 12-month CRO staking". The same page prices no fee itself: "ATM withdrawal fees, interbank exchange rates, top-up fees, and other charges may apply depending on your jurisdiction and card tier." US CARDHOLDERS — https://help.crypto.com/en/articles/5966563-crypto-com-prepaid-visa-card-fees-and-limits-united-states (HTTP 200, fetched 28 September 2026): "Midnight, Ruby, Jade, Indigo: 3% on all non-USD purchases and ATM withdrawals" / "Rose, Icy, Obsidian: No fee"; "Credit – 2.99%"; "PayPal Top-Up: 2.1%". UNPRICED on every page read: the crypto-to-fiat conversion spread charged at top-up, and the FX base rate the 0.2% / 2.0% / 3% sits on; the cardholder agreement (https://crypto.com/document/eu_card, still "Last update: 30 April 2025") says only "at the prevailing exchange rate".From the "List of all fees ("Long Form") for Coinbase Card" on page 1 of the v2 cardholder agreement, https://static-assets.coinbase.com/card/terms/v2/coinbase_card_metabank_cardholder_agreement.pdf (HTTP 200, fetched 28 September 2026, 149,446 bytes, unchanged): "Card purchase" "$0" | "Monthly fee" "$0" | "Funding from Coinbase Wallet" "$0" | "Card Transactions" "$0" | "Coinbase Wallet Currency Conversion" "2.49% of Card transaction amount" — "This fee applies if your linked Coinbase Wallet account is in a digital asset currency other than USD Coin. This is a third-party fee and is subject to change." | "ATM withdrawal" "$0" — "You may also be charged a fee by the ATM operator" | "Coinbase Wallet Currency Conversion" "2.49% of ATM withdrawal amount plus applicable ATM withdrawal fees" | "International transactions" "0%" "Of the U.S. dollar amount of each transaction. This is our fee. You may also be charged a fee by Coinbase." | "International ATM withdrawal" "$0". The schedule's own stamp, page 7: "© 2021 MetaBank, National Association." / "Revised November 19, 2020". There is no tier, subscription or token stake; the 2.49% is waived only when the linked wallet holds USD Coin. The Coinbase page that would carry a current price, https://www.coinbase.com/card, returned HTTP 403 (Cloudflare challenge) on 28 September 2026.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, asiaus
From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

Crypto.com Card

77#2 of 9
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Crypto.com Card if cost abroad matters most — it scores 6/10 to Coinbase Card's 4/10 there (weight 33).
Strength
Programme survival — 7/10
Tradeoff
Until 30 September 2026 you pay the foreign transaction fee precisely because you did not pay for the card; from 1 October 2026 Ruby, Jade and Indigo subscribers pay it too. On 2026-09-28 the EEA schedule read 'Foreign Transaction Fee (Till 30 September 2026): Midnight: All non-EUR purchases and ATM transactions will be charged as follows Other Card Tiers: No fee' (0.2% inside the EU/UK, 2.0% outside): until that date the free Midnight card is the ONLY EEA tier charged an FX fee. From 1 October 2026 the same article extends that 0.2% inside the EU/UK to Ruby, Jade and Indigo — a documented fee INCREASE for subscribers who are already paying €3.99 or €24.99 a month, or who have €450 to €4,500 of CRO locked up for twelve months precisely to avoid this. None of it appears anywhere on crypto.com/cards, which answers 'What are the fees?' with 'ATM withdrawal fees, interbank exchange rates, top-up fees, and other charges may apply depending on your jurisdiction and card tier.' A buyer who reads only the page that sells the card cannot discover the number they will be charged, cannot discover that it differs from 0.2% to 3% depending on which country they live in, and cannot discover that it rises for Ruby, Jade and Indigo on 1 October 2026.

Coinbase Card

52#7 of 9
Pick it when
Coinbase Card leads Crypto.com Card 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
Whose licence issues it — 7/10
Tradeoff
The 2.49% is the whole cost of this card and it is the one number the issuer's fee schedule expressly disclaims responsibility for. Every fee MetaBank/Pathward charges is $0 or 0% — card purchase, monthly, funding, ATM, international transaction — which makes the marketing-level read of this product 'a free card with no foreign transaction fee'. The real charge sits one document away, labelled 'a third-party fee and is subject to change', 'determined and assessed by Coinbase under your agreement with Coinbase governing your Coinbase Wallet account', and it applies to every swipe and every ATM withdrawal funded by anything other than USD Coin. A buyer who funds from BTC or ETH pays 2.49% on a coffee, pays it again on a cash withdrawal on top of the ATM operator's own fee, and — the part nobody flags — books a taxable disposal of that asset at the same moment. The buyer who holds USD Coin pays nothing and books a near-zero-gain disposal. Nothing in the binding agreement tells them that is the choice they are making; it appears only as a parenthetical condition on a fee line.
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Which one is actually for you?

Crypto.com CardLeads

Choose Crypto.com Card if cost abroad matters most

  • Cost abroad: 6/10 against 4/10 for Coinbase Card (weight 33)
  • Card reliability: 7/10 against 6/10 for Coinbase Card (weight 26)
  • Tax on spending: 7/10 against 4/10 for Coinbase Card (weight 20)
Coinbase Card

Coinbase Card leads Crypto.com Card on no published criterion

  • Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
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

Cost abroad

by 2 of 10weight 7.9 of 86Crypto.com Card leads
Crypto.com Card6 out of 10
Coinbase Card4 out of 10

Card reliability

by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Crypto.com Card leads
Crypto.com Card7 out of 10
Coinbase Card6 out of 10

Named issuer

weight 5 of 86Tie
Crypto.com Card7 out of 10
Coinbase Card7 out of 10

Tax on spending

by 3 of 10weight 4.8 of 86Crypto.com Card leads
Crypto.com Card7 out of 10
Coinbase Card4 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
Crypto.com Card12/20Coinbase Card6/20
Crypto.com Card leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Crypto.com Card16/30Coinbase Card12.4/30
Crypto.com Card leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Crypto.com Card2.7/10Coinbase Card2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Crypto.com Card3.2/8Coinbase Card3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Crypto.com Card8.3/18Coinbase Card8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose Crypto.com Card unless the term Coinbase Card leads on is the one you are buying.

Coinbase Card leads Crypto.com Card 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 Whose licence is actually behind this card, and will they even tell me their name? · 21% (Crypto.com Card 7/10, Coinbase Card 7/10)
    Scored by Does buying a coffee create a taxable disposal, and will they hand me the record? · 20% (Crypto.com Card 7/10, Coinbase Card 4/10)
  • Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.
    Scored by Will this card still work next month, and who has to fail for it to stop? · 26% (Crypto.com Card 7/10, Coinbase Card 6/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Insolvency failure, Execution failure, Information 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 one swipe abroad actually cost me, and can I work that out before I sign up? (33%).
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Crypto.com Card scores 25 points above Coinbase Card, led by cost abroad, card reliability, and tax on spending. Published scores, out of 100: Crypto.com Card 77 (rank 2 of 9 crypto cards), Coinbase Card 52 (rank 7 of 9).

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