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MetaMask Card vs Coinbase Card MetaMask Card leads by 17 points.

MetaMask Card scores 17 points above Coinbase Card, led by cost abroad and tax on spending. MetaMask Card ranks #4 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.

MetaMask Card69
Coinbase Card52
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #4 and #7 of 9
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-METAMASK-CARD-VS-COINBASE-CARD-9323e636
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

MetaMask Card leads by 17 points

MetaMask Card scores 17 points above Coinbase Card, led by cost abroad and tax on spending.

MetaMask Card #4 of 969
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 termMetaMask Card leads on 2 of 4 published criteria; Coinbase Card on 2. The terms sum to the gap.
TermMetaMask CardCoinbase CardWeightPoints
Cost abroad6/104/107.9+4.1for MetaMask Card+2.1 of 32
Card reliability4/106/106.2−3.2for Coinbase Card−1.7 of 32
Named issuer5/107/105−2.6for Coinbase Card−1.3 of 32
Tax on spending6/104/104.8+2.5for MetaMask Card+1.3 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension12620+15.6for MetaMask Card
Net of the terms+16.3
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.2
Reproduced gap+16.1
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6952+17.0

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.
FactMetaMask CardCoinbase Card
PricingSnapshotFrom 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").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 fitSnapshoteurope, latam, caus
From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

MetaMask Card

69#4 of 9
Leads
Pick it when
Pick MetaMask Card if cost abroad matters most — it scores 6/10 to Coinbase Card's 4/10 there (weight 33).
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.

Coinbase Card

52#7 of 9
Pick it when
Pick Coinbase Card if card reliability matters most — it scores 6/10 to MetaMask Card's 4/10 there (weight 26).
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.
Self-identify in 10 seconds

Which one is actually for you?

MetaMask CardLeads

Choose MetaMask Card if cost abroad matters most

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

Choose Coinbase Card if card reliability matters most

  • Card reliability: 6/10 against 4/10 for MetaMask Card (weight 26)
  • Named issuer: 7/10 against 5/10 for MetaMask Card (weight 21)
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 86MetaMask Card leads
MetaMask Card6 out of 10
Coinbase Card4 out of 10

Card reliability

by 2 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Coinbase Card leads
MetaMask Card4 out of 10
Coinbase Card6 out of 10

Named issuer

by 2 of 10weight 5 of 86Coinbase Card leads
MetaMask Card5 out of 10
Coinbase Card7 out of 10

Tax on spending

by 2 of 10weight 4.8 of 86MetaMask Card leads
MetaMask Card6 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
MetaMask Card12/20Coinbase Card6/20
MetaMask Card leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
MetaMask Card12.6/30Coinbase Card12.4/30
MetaMask Card leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
MetaMask Card2.7/10Coinbase Card2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
MetaMask Card3.2/8Coinbase Card3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
MetaMask Card8.3/18Coinbase Card8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

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

Pick Coinbase Card if card reliability matters most — it scores 6/10 to MetaMask Card's 4/10 there (weight 26).

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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 licence is actually behind this card, and will they even tell me their name? · 21% (MetaMask Card 5/10, Coinbase Card 7/10)
    Scored by Does buying a coffee create a taxable disposal, and will they hand me the record? · 20% (MetaMask Card 6/10, 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% (MetaMask Card 4/10, 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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MetaMask Card scores 17 points above Coinbase Card, led by cost abroad and tax on spending. Published scores, out of 100: MetaMask Card 69 (rank 4 of 9 crypto cards), Coinbase Card 52 (rank 7 of 9).

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