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Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) vs CoinTracking.info Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads by 5 points.

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) scores 5 points above CoinTracking.info, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) ranks #5 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.

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)77
CoinTracking.info72
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #5 and #9 of 11
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-SUMM-FORMERLY-CRYPTO-TAX-CALCULATOR-VS-COINTRACKING-INFO-a6251fde
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads by 5 points

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) scores 5 points above CoinTracking.info, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions.

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) #5 of 1177
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 termSumm (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; CoinTracking.info on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermSumm (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)CoinTracking.infoWeightPoints
Your tax form8/107/107.7+2.0for Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+1.0 of 32
Cost-basis method8/107/106.2+1.6for Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+0.8 of 32
Complex transactions9/107/105.3+2.7for Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)+1.4 of 32
Record portability4/105/104.8−1.2for CoinTracking.info−0.6 of 32
Net of the terms+5.1
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+5.2
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7772+5.0

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.
FactSumm (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)CoinTracking.info
Entry planSnapshothttps://summ.com/pricing — fetched 29 September 2026. A desktop User-Agent gets HTTP 403 (also in headless Chrome); an iPhone-Safari User-Agent over HTTP/1.1 gets HTTP 200, and https://summ.com/pricing/personal serves the same page. No currency code is printed; prices render with a bare "$" beside a country selector. Header: "Pay the lowest tax and get the most accurate reports with Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)." Four plans, each labelled "Annual subscription.": "Rookie" "$ 49" "100" "Transactions"; "Hobbyist" "$ 99" "1,000" "Transactions"; "Investor" "$ 249" "10,000" "Transactions"; "Trader" "$ 499" "100,000" "Transactions", with a slider to "500,000". Every plan lists "Unlimited tax reports for all tax years", "Crypto and stocks coverage" and "Dividend tracking"; "Tax minimisation algorithm", "Tax loss harvesting", "Advanced reports" and "Audit report" start at Investor; "Trading stock report" is on Trader. Above the ladder: "We support up to one million transactions and offer custom solutions for high-volume traders." FAQ: "Our subscription pricing is per year not tax year, so with an annual subscription you can calculate your crypto taxes as far back as 2013." | "Summ has an annual subscription which covers all previous tax years." | "For access to reports, the tax loss harvest tool or chat and priority support, you will need to upgrade to the appropriate paid plan." This is a recurring annual subscription covering all years, not a per-tax-year purchase; access ends when the subscription ends (https://help.summ.com/en/articles/6294285-cancellation-policy, fetched 2026-09-29: "Once your subscription expires, you will lose access to any paid features, including tax reports.").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?

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)

77#5 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) if your tax form matters most — it scores 8/10 to CoinTracking.info's 7/10 there (weight 32).
Strength
Awkward case treatment — 9/10
Tradeoff
Three compounding surprises, all landing after the card is charged. (1) YOUR REPORTS ARE RENTED — THOUGH YOUR DATA IS NOT DELETED. Terms clause 5.2: "For recurring services, we grant you and your Authorised Users a right to access the relevant Services only for the duration that you continue to pay for the Service, subject to these Terms." The cancellation article is blunter: "Once your subscription expires, you will lose access to any paid features, including tax reports." Read the whole article, though, because the same page also says: "The data and integrations you have imported are retained and can still be reviewed on the Accounts and Transactions pages unless a refund is issued, which may result in their deletion." So the history stays visible; what dies is the ability to REGENERATE the filed report and to EXPORT anything. The documented escape hatch does not survive either: "Currently, the only way to back up your data in Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) is by exporting your Transaction report. This ensures you have a copy of your raw data outside the platform.", which requires an active subscription ("An active subscription is required to download reports for all years.") and whose nine columns carry no cost basis. Stop paying in year three and the 2025 return you already filed cannot be regenerated to defend an audit — even though you can still look at the transactions behind it. (2) AT $49 AND $99 YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE INVENTORY METHOD. The pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, no longer names inventory methods by tier (the features that start at Investor ($249) are "Tax minimisation algorithm", "Tax loss harvesting", "Advanced reports" and "Audit report"), but the vendor's own pricing help article states the gate: "Additionally, tools like the Tax Loss Harvesting Tool, advanced inventory methods, and advanced reports are only available on Investor and Trader Plans." The US default is Highest In First Out, so a US filer on Rookie or Hobbyist is locked into HIFO — a method that materially changes the tax owed — and the fix costs $200 more rather than a settings click. (3) UK FILERS WITH DEFI FACE A ONE-WAY DOOR: "Please note that, currently, the Bridge and Swap categories are not supported if you choose HM Revenue and Customs as your inventory method. If you use other inventory methods (e.g., First In First Out or Average Cost), you can use these categories but will not be able to switch back to HM Revenue and Customs." The method that actually binds under UK law is unavailable to anyone who has bridged or swapped, and leaving it is irreversible. Worse, the escape is paywalled: "In Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator), we provide three inventory methods if your country setting is the UK. The HM Revenue and Customs method is available for all paid subscriptions. We also provide the First In First Out and Average Cost inventory methods for users on the Investor and Trader plans." — so a UK filer on Rookie ($49) or Hobbyist ($99) has HMRC as their only method and therefore cannot use the Bridge or Swap categories at all. Lesser but real: the pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, no longer lists smart contract transactions by tier, but the vendor's help centre puts them above the $49 tier: "Certain features, such as smart contract transactions, require a subscription to the Hobbyist Plan or higher."

CoinTracking.info

72#9 of 11
Pick it when
Pick CoinTracking.info if record portability matters most — it scores 5/10 to Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)'s 4/10 there (weight 20).
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?

Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)Leads

Choose Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) 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: 9/10 against 7/10 for CoinTracking.info (weight 22)
CoinTracking.info

Choose CoinTracking.info if record portability matters most

  • Record portability: 5/10 against 4/10 for Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) (weight 20)
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 86Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)8 out of 10
CoinTracking.info7 out of 10

Cost-basis method

by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)8 out of 10
CoinTracking.info7 out of 10

Complex transactions

by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)9 out of 10
CoinTracking.info7 out of 10

Record portability

by 1 of 10weight 4.8 of 86CoinTracking.info leads
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)4 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
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)14/20CoinTracking.info14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)17.8/30CoinTracking.info15.8/30
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)2.7/10CoinTracking.info2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)3.2/8CoinTracking.info3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)8.3/18CoinTracking.info8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) unless the term CoinTracking.info leads on is the one you are buying.

Pick CoinTracking.info if record portability matters most — it scores 5/10 to Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator)'s 4/10 there (weight 20).

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  • 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% (Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) 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% (Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) 4/10, 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% (Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) 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% (Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) 9/10, CoinTracking.info 7/10)
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Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) scores 5 points above CoinTracking.info, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Published scores, out of 100: Summ (formerly Crypto Tax Calculator) 77 (rank 5 of 11 tax software), CoinTracking.info 72 (rank 9 of 11).

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