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Crypto.com Card vs MetaMask Card Crypto.com Card leads by 8 points.

Crypto.com Card scores 8 points above MetaMask Card, led by card reliability, named issuer, and tax on spending. Crypto.com Card ranks #2 and MetaMask Card #4 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
MetaMask Card69
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #2 and #4 of 9
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-CRYPTO-COM-CARD-VS-METAMASK-CARD-35aa6023
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

Crypto.com Card leads by 8 points

Crypto.com Card scores 8 points above MetaMask Card, led by card reliability, named issuer, and tax on spending.

Crypto.com Card #2 of 977
MetaMask Card #4 of 969
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; MetaMask Card on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermCrypto.com CardMetaMask CardWeightPoints
Card reliability7/104/106.2+4.9for Crypto.com Card+2.5 of 32
Named issuer7/105/105+2.6for Crypto.com Card+1.3 of 32
Tax on spending7/106/104.8+1.2for Crypto.com Card+0.6 of 32
Net of the terms+8.7
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+8.8
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7769+8.0

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 CardMetaMask 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 https://support.metamask.io/trade/metamask-card/limits-and-fees/ (HTTP 200, fetched 28 September 2026), "Fee type" / "Free tier" / "Metal tier": "Annual subscription fee" "$0" / "$199"; "Physical card replacement fee" "n/a" / "$99"; token fees "Delegate funds for spending" "No fee (no min. balance)", "Stablecoin of non-US cardholder denominated in local currency" "No fee", "Stablecoin of US cardholder denominated in USD" "No fee", "Stablecoin denominated in currency not of cardholder country or merchant country" "0.5%", "Stablecoin denominated in local currency of merchant country but not of cardholder country" "No fee", "DeFi token or tokenized yield (e.g., aUSDC)" "No fee up to $1,200 / mo, then 0.5%", "Other cryptocurrencies (e.g., wETH)" "0.875%"; "Network gas (e.g., Linea)" "Small, variable gas fee (typically $0.01)"; "ATM withdrawal" "2%" (Free) / "No fee up to $1,200 / mo, then 2%" (Metal); "Cross-border" "1%" (Free) / "No fee" (Metal). Footnotes: "ATM operator may charge you additional fee." "Using card with merchant located outside of cardholder country." "Subject to fair usage." Limits: "Card transaction limit" "$10,000 / tx" "$15,000 / day" (Free), "$20,000 / tx" "$30,000 / day" (Metal); "ATM withdrawal limit" "$1,000 / tx" "$1,000 / day" (Free), "$1,000 / tx" "$5,000 / day" (Metal). The zero-fee Metal tier cannot currently be bought: https://support.metamask.io/trade/metamask-card/metal-card/ (fetched 28 September 2026) says "New Metal card orders are currently unavailable." and the Metal tier "is currently only available to users in the United States", where sign-ups are "temporarily closed" (https://metamask.io/card). Not priced anywhere: the FX margin over the Mastercard rate (https://support.metamask.io/trade/metamask-card/card-faq/ says only "the best foreign exchange rate allowed by MasterCard").
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, asiaeurope, latam, ca
From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

Crypto.com Card

77#2 of 9
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Crypto.com Card if card reliability matters most — it scores 7/10 to MetaMask Card's 4/10 there (weight 26).
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.

MetaMask Card

69#4 of 9
Pick it when
MetaMask 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
Swipe cost abroad — 6/10
Tradeoff
You will most likely be annoyed by discovering that the tier you paid to reach cannot be bought, and that MetaMask's three fee pages do not agree. The $199 Metal tier is the only way to zero the 1% cross-border fee and to waive the 2% ATM fee on the first $1,200 a month — and https://support.metamask.io/trade/metamask-card/what-is-metamask-card/ (loaded 2026-08-17) says 'Orders for the Metal card are temporarily paused as of June 2nd, 2026.' while https://metamask.io/card (same date) still runs a 'GET METAL' button at '$199/year' and claims 'MetaMask Metal Card is now available in the US. Get yours today.' Meanwhile the help-centre FAQ tells you foreign transactions carry no additional fee while the fee table charges 1%, and the help-centre article on using the card lists only gas and a 0.875% swap fee under 'You will also be charged a minimal fee for each transaction:', omitting the cross-border and ATM lines entirely. On the free tier outside the US you cannot use an ATM at all.
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Which one is actually for you?

Crypto.com CardLeads

Choose Crypto.com Card if card reliability matters most

  • Card reliability: 7/10 against 4/10 for MetaMask Card (weight 26)
  • Named issuer: 7/10 against 5/10 for MetaMask Card (weight 21)
  • Tax on spending: 7/10 against 6/10 for MetaMask Card (weight 20)
MetaMask Card

MetaMask 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

weight 7.9 of 86Tie
Crypto.com Card6 out of 10
MetaMask Card6 out of 10

Card reliability

by 3 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Crypto.com Card leads
Crypto.com Card7 out of 10
MetaMask Card4 out of 10

Named issuer

by 2 of 10weight 5 of 86Crypto.com Card leads
Crypto.com Card7 out of 10
MetaMask Card5 out of 10

Tax on spending

by 1 of 10weight 4.8 of 86Crypto.com Card leads
Crypto.com Card7 out of 10
MetaMask Card6 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 Card12/20MetaMask Card12/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Crypto.com Card16/30MetaMask Card12.6/30
Crypto.com Card leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Crypto.com Card2.7/10MetaMask Card2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Crypto.com Card3.2/8MetaMask Card3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Crypto.com Card8.3/18MetaMask Card8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

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

MetaMask 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, MetaMask Card 5/10)
    Scored by Does buying a coffee create a taxable disposal, and will they hand me the record? · 20% (Crypto.com Card 7/10, MetaMask Card 6/10)
  • 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, MetaMask Card 4/10)
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 8 points above MetaMask Card, led by card reliability, named issuer, and tax on spending. Published scores, out of 100: Crypto.com Card 77 (rank 2 of 9 crypto cards), MetaMask Card 69 (rank 4 of 9).

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