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Koinly vs CoinTracking.info Koinly leads by 9 points.

Koinly scores 9 points above CoinTracking.info, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Koinly ranks #1 and CoinTracking.info #9 of 11 published tax software. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

Koinly81
CoinTracking.info72
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #1 and #9 of 11
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-KOINLY-VS-COINTRACKING-INFO-cc4ee62c
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

Koinly leads by 9 points

Koinly scores 9 points above CoinTracking.info, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions.

Koinly #1 of 1181
CoinTracking.info #9 of 1172
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termKoinly leads on 4 of 4 published criteria; CoinTracking.info on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermKoinlyCoinTracking.infoWeightPoints
Your tax form8/107/107.7+2.0for Koinly+1.0 of 32
Cost-basis method8/107/106.2+1.6for Koinly+0.8 of 32
Complex transactions8/107/105.3+1.4for Koinly+0.7 of 32
Record portability8/105/104.8+3.7for Koinly+1.9 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 below8172+9.0

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.
FactKoinlyCoinTracking.info
Entry planSnapshothttps://koinly.io/pricing/ — fetched 29 September 2026; plain curl returns HTTP 403 (Cloudflare interstitial), the page was rendered in headless Chrome (HTTP 200). Header "Simple pricing". Four columns as rendered: FREE "Essential features" "$ 0" "free forever"; NEWBIE "Just getting started" "$ 49" "per tax year"; HODLER "Taking it easy" "$ 99" "per tax year"; TRADER "Hustling like a pro" "$ 199" "per tax year". USAGE row "Transactions": Free "10,000", Newbie "100", Hodler "1000", Trader "3000", with a "10,000+" selector; "Wallets & exchange accounts" "Unlimited" on all four. Under TAX REPORTS the rows "Form 8949, Schedule D", "International tax reports", "Comprehensive audit report" and "Export to TurboTax, TaxACT" are marked "-" on Free. FAQ: "You only need to purchase a plan to download your tax reports." | "You can generate and download unlimited number of reports for the tax year that your plan is valid for." | "If you exceed the limits of our top plan you can purchase additional transactions in the app. Koinly supports up to 100,000 transactions on regular accounts." No fifth price renders. The help article https://support.koinly.io/en/articles/9856841-tax-plans (rendered 29 September 2026, "June 23, 2026") names a fourth paid tier the pricing page does not price — "Pro" "Up to 10.000 transactions" — and the unpriced add-ons "Extra transactions", "Dual Nationality", "Daily Sync" and "Expert Review". Contract (https://koinly.io/legal/terms/, "Revised on Jan 2, 2026", rendered 29 September 2026): "Refunds are not possible once you have downloaded any reports and must be made within 7 days of purchase." Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.https://cointracking.info/pricing/ — fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, plain curl (349,753 bytes; August 348,475). Billing period toggle "1 Year" / "2 Years" / "Lifetime"; a "Your personal discount — 10% off all annual plans" banner is served and is NOT reflected in the list prices below. Tier table as served: Free "$0" "€0" ("+ 7-day free trial · unlimited imports · no credit card"; Total Transactions "Portfolio view only"); Starter "$49" "€39" "/year" ("200 transactions"); Pro "$169" "€129" "/year" ("3,500 transactions"); Expert "MOST POPULAR" "$259" "€219" "/year" ("20K transactions" / "50K transactions" / "100K transactions"); Unlimited "$899" "€769" "/year" ("Unlimited transactions"); Corporate "Base Price" "$1,799" "€1,599" "/year", "Additional Accounts" "$299" "€249" "/year", "Includes 3 unlimited accounts". Hero line: "7 days of unlimited imports, no credit card required. Tax reports require a paid plan." FAQ, verbatim: "Tax reports require a paid plan. After the 7 days, your account stays free forever, but on the free plan you can only view your existing portfolio — new transaction imports also require a paid plan." | "Each CoinTracking plan has a different transaction limit based on the total number of transactions imported across all years. This means that all historical transactions count toward the limit, ensuring that your complete trading history is accurately analyzed for comprehensive tax calculations." | "Yes, all CoinTracking plans allow you to generate tax reports for every tax year at no additional cost. Unlike many other platforms that charge per tax year, our plans cover all years, ensuring that you can manage and report your entire transaction history." | "CoinTracking offers three plan duration options: 1-Year Plan billed once per year, 2-Year Plan with significant savings compared to annual billing, and Lifetime Plan — a one-time payment that grants lifetime access with no recurring fees." | "2-year and lifetime plans are also available at reduced rates." — the Lifetime and 2-year prices are not printed in the served HTML. Other served terms: "14-day money-back guarantee", "Cancel anytime", "We accept PayPal, credit cards (set up for recurring payments), cryptocurrency via NOWPayments and Crypto.com (one-time payments with a 5% Bitcoin discount), and Klarna for flexible payment options." One feature row is geo-blocked for the fetching client: AI Tax Saver "Not available in your country yet". Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.
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From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

Koinly

81#1 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Koinly if your tax form matters most — it scores 8/10 to CoinTracking.info's 7/10 there (weight 32).
Strength
Named form output — 8/10
Tradeoff
Two, and the first costs money before it costs time. US buyers: paying does not by itself produce a filled 8949. "USA-specific reports like Schedule D and form 8949 require the 1099-DA flow to be completed. Without the information if you received the 1099-DA form or not, some of the fields cannot be filled." and "If you didn't complete the 1099-DA flow and download reports, some of them will be empty (1kb PDFs)" (https://support.koinly.io/en/articles/13791356-usa-uploading-1099-da-forms-to-koinly, re-loaded 2026-08-19). Now read that against the contract: "Refunds are not possible once you have downloaded any reports and must be made within 7 days of purchase. The refund reason must be related to a bug/issue within Koinly that we are unable to resolve within reasonable time." (https://koinly.io/legal/terms/, reached from https://koinly.io/terms/, loaded 2026-08-19, "Revised on Jan 2, 2026"). Downloading the empty 1kb PDF is itself the act that extinguishes the refund. Second: German and Austrian buyers get NO statutory form. The pricing FAQ names Germany among countries with "specialised tax reports" (https://koinly.io/pricing/), but the help centre's Localized Tax Reports list has no German entry — Germany appears only as a report LANGUAGE, and the countries article routes German filers to the generic artefact ("Our Comprehensive Tax Report is suitable for anyone looking to declare taxes - no matter which country.", https://support.koinly.io/en/articles/9489962-which-countries-does-koinly-calculate-taxes-for). No Anlage SO, no ELSTER handoff, no Austrian E1/E1kv and no FinanzOnline appears on any page loaded. A German filer pays for a Complete Tax Report written in German and transcribes it. And anyone filing in two countries pays the "Dual nationality" add-on again for each extra country, each tax year. THIRD, added in verification: the help centre's "Each yearly plan is valid for 10 years from the date of purchase" has no counterpart in the contract, which reserves the right to terminate "without any prior notice" on grounds including "Any extended periods of inactivity;", to delete "any and all related information, files, and any such content that may be associated with or inside your account, or any part thereof;", and states "If your account is terminated by Us, you will not be entitled to any refund of any monies spent on Koinly." A buyer who pays for a tax year and comes back in year four is relying on a help article, not on a term.

CoinTracking.info

72#9 of 11
Pick it when
CoinTracking.info leads Koinly 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
Named form output — 7/10
Tradeoff
UNCHANGED IN SUBSTANCE -- both halves re-verified 2026-08-19. First, the transaction cap is LIFETIME, not annual: "Each CoinTracking plan has a different transaction limit based on the total number of transactions imported across all years. This means that all historical transactions count toward the limit, ensuring that your complete trading history is accurately analyzed for comprehensive tax calculations." (https://cointracking.info/pricing/) -- a ten-year history burns Starter's 200-transaction allowance on day one, so the $49/EUR39 entry price is a fiction for anyone with real history. Second, and worse for a legal record: stop renewing and you can no longer produce the report you already paid to produce. The free state is portfolio-view-only -- on 2026-09-29 the pricing page reads "Tax reports require a paid plan." and "new transaction imports also require a paid plan" -- so the 2025 Form 8949 you generated in 2026 cannot be regenerated in 2029 when an examiner asks, unless you are paying again. And section 6 of the Terms lists "User account inactivity exceeding 12 months" as cause to terminate, after which "CoinTracking will delete the data stored by the User 30 days after the termination of the User Agreement." Export the Roll Forward / Audit Report to CSV while the plan is live, or the derived record sits on a clock you do not control.
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Which one is actually for you?

KoinlyLeads

Choose Koinly if your tax form matters most

  • Your tax form: 8/10 against 7/10 for CoinTracking.info (weight 32)
  • Cost-basis method: 8/10 against 7/10 for CoinTracking.info (weight 26)
  • Complex transactions: 8/10 against 7/10 for CoinTracking.info (weight 22)
CoinTracking.info

CoinTracking.info leads Koinly 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

Your tax form

by 1 of 10weight 7.7 of 86Koinly leads
Koinly8 out of 10
CoinTracking.info7 out of 10

Cost-basis method

by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Koinly leads
Koinly8 out of 10
CoinTracking.info7 out of 10

Complex transactions

by 1 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Koinly leads
Koinly8 out of 10
CoinTracking.info7 out of 10

Record portability

by 3 of 10weight 4.8 of 86Koinly leads
Koinly8 out of 10
CoinTracking.info5 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
Koinly14/20CoinTracking.info14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Koinly19.2/30CoinTracking.info15.8/30
Koinly leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Koinly2.7/10CoinTracking.info2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Koinly3.2/8CoinTracking.info3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Koinly8.3/18CoinTracking.info8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose Koinly unless the term CoinTracking.info leads on is the one you are buying.

CoinTracking.info leads Koinly 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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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 Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing? · 32% (Koinly 8/10, CoinTracking.info 7/10)
  • 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% (Koinly 8/10, CoinTracking.info 5/10)
  • 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% (Koinly 8/10, CoinTracking.info 7/10)
    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% (Koinly 8/10, CoinTracking.info 7/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
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Koinly scores 9 points above CoinTracking.info, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Published scores, out of 100: Koinly 81 (rank 1 of 11 tax software), CoinTracking.info 72 (rank 9 of 11).

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