Zeal scores 8 points above Plutus Card, led by cost abroad, card reliability, and named issuer. Zeal ranks #8 and Plutus Card #9 of 9 published crypto cards. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
ZEZeal49
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Plutus Card41
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #8 and #9 of 9
Zeal scores 8 points above Plutus Card, led by cost abroad, card reliability, and named issuer.
ZEZeal #8 of 949
Plutus Card #9 of 941
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termZeal leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; Plutus Card on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermZealPlutus CardWeightPoints
Cost abroad5/104/107.9+2.1for Zeal+1.1 of 32
Card reliability5/101/106.2+6.5for Zeal+3.3 of 32
Named issuer6/101/105+6.6for Zeal+3.4 of 32
Net of the terms+15.1
Reproduced gap+15.1
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below4941+8.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
A floor bound on one row means the criterion arithmetic does not reproduce the displayed gap exactly.
ZealScore 49Self-custodial wallet app that front-ends a Gnosis Pay Visa debit card issued by FCA-authorised EMI Monavate Limited (FRN 901097); Zeal adds no FX markup on top of Visa's own rate, publishes no fee schedule of any kind, and the single document it points to for ATM fees is a dead link.Strength: Whose licence issues it — 6/10Watch-out: The buyer cannot find out what an ATM withdrawal costs before signing up, and Zeal's own footnote sends them to a dead page to find out. 'Other fees and charges from Gnosis Pay, such as ATM withdrawal fees, may apply as per their documentation' links to https://help.gnosispay.com/en/articles/8663251-fees-and-limits, which returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-17. The FX headline is genuinely good — Zeal adds no markup and names the Visa rate it sits on — but that is the one leg it prices. Everything else about the cost of this card (ATM percentage, ATM flat fee, free allowance, physical card price) is left to someone else's documentation, and the fees article Zeal links to for it returned HTTP 404 again on 2026-09-28.Plutus CardScore 41A UK/EEA Visa rewards card whose own dated FAQ of 20 February 2026 says card spending is not possible and refuses to name the replacement banking partner, while the homepage that links to that FAQ simultaneously advertises 'No fees. No Catch.'Strength: Swipe cost abroad — 4/10Watch-out: You can be paying £/€6.99 to £/€19.99 a month, today, for a card the vendor's own most recent dated communication says cannot be spent — and the page that sells you the subscription links to that communication under the words 'The 2026 Transition Update'. The homepage headline next to it reads 'No fees. No Catch.'
Pick Zeal if cost abroad matters most — it scores 5/10 to Plutus Card's 4/10 there (weight 33).
Strength
Whose licence issues it — 6/10
Tradeoff
The buyer cannot find out what an ATM withdrawal costs before signing up, and Zeal's own footnote sends them to a dead page to find out. 'Other fees and charges from Gnosis Pay, such as ATM withdrawal fees, may apply as per their documentation' links to https://help.gnosispay.com/en/articles/8663251-fees-and-limits, which returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-17. The FX headline is genuinely good — Zeal adds no markup and names the Visa rate it sits on — but that is the one leg it prices. Everything else about the cost of this card (ATM percentage, ATM flat fee, free allowance, physical card price) is left to someone else's documentation, and the fees article Zeal links to for it returned HTTP 404 again on 2026-09-28.
Plutus Card
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Plutus Card leads Zeal 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 — 4/10
Tradeoff
You can be paying £/€6.99 to £/€19.99 a month, today, for a card the vendor's own most recent dated communication says cannot be spent — and the page that sells you the subscription links to that communication under the words 'The 2026 Transition Update'. The homepage headline next to it reads 'No fees. No Catch.'
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Choose Zeal if cost abroad matters most
Cost abroad: 5/10 against 4/10 for Plutus Card (weight 33)
Card reliability: 5/10 against 1/10 for Plutus Card (weight 26)
Named issuer: 6/10 against 1/10 for Plutus Card (weight 21)
ZealScore 49Self-custodial wallet app that front-ends a Gnosis Pay Visa debit card issued by FCA-authorised EMI Monavate Limited (FRN 901097); Zeal adds no FX markup on top of Visa's own rate, publishes no fee schedule of any kind, and the single document it points to for ATM fees is a dead link.Strength: Whose licence issues it — 6/10Watch-out: The buyer cannot find out what an ATM withdrawal costs before signing up, and Zeal's own footnote sends them to a dead page to find out. 'Other fees and charges from Gnosis Pay, such as ATM withdrawal fees, may apply as per their documentation' links to https://help.gnosispay.com/en/articles/8663251-fees-and-limits, which returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-17. The FX headline is genuinely good — Zeal adds no markup and names the Visa rate it sits on — but that is the one leg it prices. Everything else about the cost of this card (ATM percentage, ATM flat fee, free allowance, physical card price) is left to someone else's documentation, and the fees article Zeal links to for it returned HTTP 404 again on 2026-09-28.
Plutus Card
Plutus Card leads Zeal on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
Plutus CardScore 41A UK/EEA Visa rewards card whose own dated FAQ of 20 February 2026 says card spending is not possible and refuses to name the replacement banking partner, while the homepage that links to that FAQ simultaneously advertises 'No fees. No Catch.'Strength: Swipe cost abroad — 4/10Watch-out: You can be paying £/€6.99 to £/€19.99 a month, today, for a card the vendor's own most recent dated communication says cannot be spent — and the page that sells you the subscription links to that communication under the words 'The 2026 Transition Update'. The homepage headline next to it reads 'No fees. No Catch.'
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 1 of 10weight 7.9 of 86Zeal leads
Zeal5/10 out of 10
Plutus Card4/10 out of 10
Card reliability
by 4 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Zeal leads
Zeal5/10 out of 10
Plutus Card1/10 out of 10
Named issuer
by 5 of 10weight 5 of 86Zeal leads
Zeal6/10 out of 10
Plutus Card1/10 out of 10
Tax on spending
weight 4.8 of 86Tie
Zeal2/10 out of 10
Plutus Card2/10 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
Zeal6/20Plutus Card6/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Zeal11.1/30Plutus Card5.3/30
Zeal leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Zeal2.7/10Plutus Card2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Zeal3.2/8Plutus Card3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Zeal8.3/18Plutus Card8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Zeal unless the term Plutus Card leads on is the one you are buying.
Plutus Card leads Zeal on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
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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% (Zeal 6/10, Plutus Card 1/10)
Scored by Does buying a coffee create a taxable disposal, and will they hand me the record? · 20% (Zeal 2/10, Plutus Card 2/10)
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% (Zeal 5/10, Plutus Card 1/10)
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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Zeal scores 8 points above Plutus Card, led by cost abroad, card reliability, and named issuer. Published scores, out of 100: Zeal 49 (rank 8 of 9 crypto cards), Plutus Card 41 (rank 9 of 9).
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