Ramp Network vs Coinbase Onramp Ramp Network leads by 10 points.
Ramp Network scores 10 points above Coinbase Onramp, led by purchase cost, named licence, and KYC and speed. Ramp Network ranks #4 and Coinbase Onramp #6 of 16 published onramps. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
RARamp Network70
vs
CBCoinbase Onramp60
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #4 and #6 of 16
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.2
Reproduced gap+9.6
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7060+10.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Ramp NetworkScore 70Developer-first embedded onramp with a fully published per-rail fee-cap schedule (card up to 3.9% USD/EUR/GBP, manual bank up to 1.40%, min up to €2.49) and a numbered three-entity licence stack (FCA 928783, FinCEN MSB 31000287566749, CBI MiCA CASP) — but the rate is struck when your payment reaches its account, so the confirm-screen number is explicitly not guaranteed.Strength: Licence identity — 8/10Watch-out: The confirm-screen number is explicitly not the settled number: Ramp's own rate article says 'the amount you receive may differ from the initial quote' because the rate is struck 'at the moment your payment reaches our account', and its terms make bank-transfer repricing contractual — with the markup hidden inside an unquantified 'floating exchange rate' rather than published as a spread over a named benchmark.Coinbase OnrampScore 60Coinbase's embeddable fiat-to-crypto rail (CDP Onramp): Coinbase-account and US guest-checkout flows riding Coinbase's own first-party licence stack — NYDFS-listed in the US and an ESMA-register-confirmed MiCA CASP (Coinbase Luxembourg S.A.) passported across 30 EEA states — with published 2.5% credit-card / 0.5% ACH fees but an unquantified spread, no EUR bank rail, and no published time-to-coins anywhere on its docs.Strength: Licence identity — 7/10Watch-out: For the category's representative European buyer the bank rail simply does not exist — the only bank transfer is US ACH — so a €200 purchase means a card at 2.5% (credit, non-US) or an unpublished debit rate plus an unquantified spread, with no published commitment anywhere on the docs about how long the coins take to arrive; and with hosted guest checkout being discontinued (stated date June 30, 2026, already passed), non-US users increasingly need a full Coinbase account, which turns the 'rail' into exchange onboarding.
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactRamp NetworkCoinbase Onramp
PricingSnapshotRamp Network help article "What fees are charged when buying crypto?" (https://support.rampnetwork.com/en/articles/10415-what-fees-does-ramp-network-charge-for-buying-crypto, dated "June 25, 2025"), fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, unchanged from 18 August 2026. Buy-side fees (minimum fee, fee percentage): Bank transfers (manual) "Up to €2.49", "Up to 1.40%"; Easy Bank transfers "Up to €2.49", "Up to 2.40%"; Credit or debit cards (USD, EUR, GBP) "Up to €2.49", "Up to 3.9%"; Credit or debit cards (other currencies) "Up to €2.49" (local equivalent), "Up to 5.45%"; Pix "Up to €2.49", "Up to 2.90%"; Apple Pay and Google Pay "Same as the underlying card". The page says "The fees listed here apply to transactions on our own platform" and that partners may add their own fee. Network fee: "The network fee is determined by miners/validators on the blockchain in question." Rate: "the amount of crypto you receive is based on the exchange rate at the time your payment reaches our account"; no spread percentage and no named benchmark. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Ramp figure): a EUR 200 purchase by manual bank transfer carries a Ramp fee of at most EUR 2.80 (1.40 percent cap), by EUR card at most EUR 7.80 (3.9 percent cap); the minimum fee does not bind at EUR 200; network fee and any partner fee are extra.Coinbase Developer Platform "Onramp FAQ" (https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/onramp/additional-resources/faq.md), fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, unchanged from 18 August 2026. "Coinbase Onramp is free for developers to use." Spread: "Coinbase Onramp includes a spread in the price when you buy cryptocurrencies." (no percentage, no named benchmark). Coinbase fees: "Fees are calculated at the time you place your order and may be determined by a combination of factors, including the selected payment method, the size of the order, and market conditions such as volatility and liquidity." Card and ACH: "There is a 2.5% fee for credit card transactions, and 0.5% fee for ACH". USDC: "Zero-fee USDC onramping is available to select partners through a subsidy program for eligible partners." Network fees: "We charge a fee based on our estimate of these network fees." No debit-card fee number is published on this page. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a Coinbase figure): a EUR 200 credit-card purchase carries EUR 5.00 in card fee (2.5 percent) plus the unquantified spread and the estimated network fee; there is no EUR bank rail, since the only bank transfer listed is "ACH (US Bank Transfer)".
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotglobal, us, europeus, europe, ca
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
RA
Ramp Network
70#4 of 16
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Ramp Network if purchase cost matters most — it scores 6/10 to Coinbase Onramp's 5/10 there (weight 34).
Strength
Licence identity — 8/10
Tradeoff
The confirm-screen number is explicitly not the settled number: Ramp's own rate article says 'the amount you receive may differ from the initial quote' because the rate is struck 'at the moment your payment reaches our account', and its terms make bank-transfer repricing contractual — with the markup hidden inside an unquantified 'floating exchange rate' rather than published as a spread over a named benchmark.
CB
Coinbase Onramp
60#6 of 16
Pick it when
Coinbase Onramp leads Ramp Network 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
Licence identity — 7/10
Tradeoff
For the category's representative European buyer the bank rail simply does not exist — the only bank transfer is US ACH — so a €200 purchase means a card at 2.5% (credit, non-US) or an unpublished debit rate plus an unquantified spread, with no published commitment anywhere on the docs about how long the coins take to arrive; and with hosted guest checkout being discontinued (stated date June 30, 2026, already passed), non-US users increasingly need a full Coinbase account, which turns the 'rail' into exchange onboarding.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
RARamp NetworkLeads
Choose Ramp Network if purchase cost matters most
Purchase cost: 6/10 against 5/10 for Coinbase Onramp (weight 34)
Named licence: 8/10 against 7/10 for Coinbase Onramp (weight 22)
KYC and speed: 6/10 against 5/10 for Coinbase Onramp (weight 18)
Ramp NetworkScore 70Developer-first embedded onramp with a fully published per-rail fee-cap schedule (card up to 3.9% USD/EUR/GBP, manual bank up to 1.40%, min up to €2.49) and a numbered three-entity licence stack (FCA 928783, FinCEN MSB 31000287566749, CBI MiCA CASP) — but the rate is struck when your payment reaches its account, so the confirm-screen number is explicitly not guaranteed.Strength: Licence identity — 8/10Watch-out: The confirm-screen number is explicitly not the settled number: Ramp's own rate article says 'the amount you receive may differ from the initial quote' because the rate is struck 'at the moment your payment reaches our account', and its terms make bank-transfer repricing contractual — with the markup hidden inside an unquantified 'floating exchange rate' rather than published as a spread over a named benchmark.
CBCoinbase Onramp
Coinbase Onramp leads Ramp Network on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
Coinbase OnrampScore 60Coinbase's embeddable fiat-to-crypto rail (CDP Onramp): Coinbase-account and US guest-checkout flows riding Coinbase's own first-party licence stack — NYDFS-listed in the US and an ESMA-register-confirmed MiCA CASP (Coinbase Luxembourg S.A.) passported across 30 EEA states — with published 2.5% credit-card / 0.5% ACH fees but an unquantified spread, no EUR bank rail, and no published time-to-coins anywhere on its docs.Strength: Licence identity — 7/10Watch-out: For the category's representative European buyer the bank rail simply does not exist — the only bank transfer is US ACH — so a €200 purchase means a card at 2.5% (credit, non-US) or an unpublished debit rate plus an unquantified spread, with no published commitment anywhere on the docs about how long the coins take to arrive; and with hosted guest checkout being discontinued (stated date June 30, 2026, already passed), non-US users increasingly need a full Coinbase account, which turns the 'rail' into exchange onboarding.
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
Purchase cost
by 1 of 10weight 8.2 of 86Ramp Network leads
Ramp Network6/10 out of 10
Coinbase Onramp5/10 out of 10
Quote honesty
weight 6.2 of 86Tie
Ramp Network5/10 out of 10
Coinbase Onramp5/10 out of 10
Named licence
by 1 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Ramp Network leads
Ramp Network8/10 out of 10
Coinbase Onramp7/10 out of 10
KYC and speed
by 1 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Ramp Network leads
Ramp Network6/10 out of 10
Coinbase Onramp5/10 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
Ramp Network14/20Coinbase Onramp12/20
Ramp Network leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Ramp Network14.8/30Coinbase Onramp13.1/30
Ramp Network leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Ramp Network2.7/10Coinbase Onramp2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Ramp Network3.2/8Coinbase Onramp3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Ramp Network8.3/18Coinbase Onramp8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Ramp Network unless the term Coinbase Onramp leads on is the one you are buying.
Coinbase Onramp leads Ramp Network 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 money-transmission licence is my money riding — and is that entity my counterparty? · 22% (Ramp Network 8/10, Coinbase Onramp 7/10)
Execution failure: you get a worse price, later, or nothing.
Scored by Is the number on the widget the number that settles? · 26% (Ramp Network 5/10, Coinbase Onramp 5/10)
Information failure: the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.
Scored by How much identity do I surrender before the coins land in my wallet, and how long does that take? · 18% (Ramp Network 6/10, Coinbase Onramp 5/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Insolvency failure, Exit 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 a €200 purchase actually cost me — by card and by bank, all-in? (34%).
Questions
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Ramp Network scores 10 points above Coinbase Onramp, led by purchase cost, named licence, and KYC and speed. Published scores, out of 100: Ramp Network 70 (rank 4 of 16 onramps), Coinbase Onramp 60 (rank 6 of 16).
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