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ZenLedger vs Ledgible ZenLedger leads by 11 points.

ZenLedger scores 11 points above Ledgible, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. ZenLedger ranks #8 and Ledgible #11 of 11 published tax software. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

ZenLedger73
Ledgible62
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #8 and #11 of 11
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-ZENLEDGER-VS-LEDGIBLE-ede158c9
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

ZenLedger leads by 11 points

ZenLedger scores 11 points above Ledgible, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions.

ZenLedger #8 of 1173
Ledgible #11 of 1162
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termZenLedger leads on 4 of 4 published criteria; Ledgible on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermZenLedgerLedgibleWeightPoints
Your tax form7/105/107.7+4.0for ZenLedger+2.0 of 32
Cost-basis method6/104/106.2+3.2for ZenLedger+1.7 of 32
Complex transactions7/105/105.3+2.7for ZenLedger+1.4 of 32
Record portability7/106/104.8+1.2for ZenLedger+0.6 of 32
Net of the terms+11.2
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+11.2
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7362+11.0

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.
FactZenLedgerLedgible
Entry planSnapshothttps://zenledger.io/pricing/ — fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, plain curl (page JSON-LD dateModified 29 July 2025; content identical to 19 August 2026). <title> "Crypto Tax Software Plans"; the meta description still says "including a free plan" but no free tier is rendered. DIY cards: Silver "$49" "Per year" "100 transactions or less"; Gold "$199" "Per year" "5,000 transactions or less" "Most Popular"; Platinum "$399" "Per year" "15,000 transactions or less", with "Unlimited Transactions +$600" and "*Unlimited also includes 1 hr of live support"; then "Save 10% when you purchase multiple years!". Comparison table: "Annual Fee" $49 / $199 / $399; "Transactions" "Up to 100" / "Up to 5,000" / "Up to 15,000"; "All Detailed Reports" and "DeFi / Staking / NFTs" on all three. "All plans also include:" "Audit Report", "Tax Pro Access", "HIFO/FIFO/LIFO", "TurboTax Integration" among ten items. Add-on: "Personal product consulting available per request at $150/hr as an add-on." Human-assisted: "Premium Support Consultation- with a ZenLedger Enrolled Agent" "$ 275" "60 minute consultation"; "Tax Pro Prepared Plan - Single Year" "$ 3500" struck to "$ 2800" "Per year"; "Tax Pro Prepared Plan - Multi Year" "$ 6500" struck to "$ 5200" "Per two years"; "Packages are based on time required; prices are estimated. The actual cost for your tax return may be higher depending on your unique situation." Separate product "State & Federal Tax Filing" "$ 30" "per year", "30 day money back guarantee", "No subscription required". Continuity and refunds, same page: "All ZenLedger plans have a 14 day refund policy. Access the report forever, so you can always update or add transactions to your crypto tax reports." — while the nav block on the same page still says "All plans offer a generous 1 year refund policy." (contradiction unchanged since August). Billing count, from https://support.zenledger.io/en/articles/2615544-what-do-you-count-as-a-transaction-for-billing-purposes (fetched 29 September 2026): "Any buy, sell, and trade transaction is counted as a transaction in ZenLedger for billing purposes." Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.https://ledgible.io/pricing/ — fetched 29 September 2026, HTTP 200, plain curl; text unchanged from 19 August 2026. The page publishes one price as text: tabs "Professional Tax" "(Starting at $49)" and "Enterprise Accounting" "(Custom Pricing)"; lead "Our tax platform has straightforward base pricing with clearly defined transaction tiers."; "Ledgible Crypto Tax Pro is free for Tax Professionals to use. Clients are charged directly on a per client basis." The tier ladder is served only inside two images (alt text "crypto tax tracking software"; ledgible.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Group-5301.png and Group-5302.png, both re-downloaded 29 September 2026 and read visually, so not byte-verifiable): IMAGE-READ "Base Price" $49 "Tax-year reporting and up to 200 transactions"; IMAGE-READ "Usage-Based Incremental Pricing" $50 "200–1000 transactions" and $100 "Each set of 2500 transactions over 1000". Enterprise: no price, only cost drivers ("Account Users", "Exchange Connections", "Wallets", "Transaction Volume", "General Ledger Integrations") and two unpriced examples. The binding caps for the $49 buyer are in the help centre, https://support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/360058705432-Purchasing-Reports (read 29 September 2026 via the Zendesk API, updated 22 August 2024): "The basic package starts at $49 and includes up to 2 wallets and 1 exchange in their data sources with up to 200 transactions." Counting basis, https://support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405478844045-Intro-to-Ledgible-Products (updated_at 9 August 2026, unchanged): "Pricing for Ledgible Crypto Tax begins at $49 a tax year and increases based on the number of total transactions added to your Ledgible account" | "Pricing is based on the total number of transactions you've made from the beginning of your transaction history to the end of the current tax year date (rather than annual transactions)". Refunds, https://ledgible.io/terms-of-service.pdf/ ("Last Updated: December 20, 2019", fetched 29 September 2026): "MEMBERSHIP FEES WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAW." Prices unchanged since 19 August 2026.
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From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

ZenLedger

73#8 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick ZenLedger if your tax form matters most — it scores 7/10 to Ledgible's 5/10 there (weight 32).
Strength
Named form output — 7/10
Tradeoff
Four things a buyer only finds out after paying. (1) THERE IS NO FREE REPORT. The homepage (loaded 2026-08-19) says "Calculate your DeFi, NFT, & crypto taxes and generate free crypto tax reports.", "Industry-leading pricing with a free crypto tax software plan.", "Choose from our free crypto tax software or full-service plans to meet your needs." and buttons reading "Get Started for Free"; the pricing page's meta description still reads "ZenLedger pricing and cost breakdown. We have many competitively priced crypto tax software plans, including a free plan." — but the rendered pricing table has NO free tier and the word 'free' does not appear in its rendered body at all (Silver $49 is the floor). ZenLedger's own help centre states the real rule: "Creating an account is FREE. Use ZenLedger to import and aggregate your crypto transactions without paying a dime." followed immediately by "You only pay to view, download, and access tax reports each year." The free thing is data entry; every fileable artefact costs money. (2) THE 'ONE-TIME' PLAN AUTO-RENEWS. It is sold as a per-tax-year purchase ("Think of it as similar to TurboTax's business model") but: "When you sign up for ZenLedger and pay for your plan, we will automatically subscribe you to yearly auto-renewal of your subscription. This will automatically charge the card you paid with your first plan with towards the end of the calendar tax year for that next tax year. You will be notified via email 7 days prior to the renewal charge." (3) THE PRICING PAGE CARRIES THREE DIFFERENT REFUND WINDOWS. On one served page: "All plans offer a generous 1 year refund policy." (DIY header) and "All ZenLedger plans have a 14 day refund policy." (table footer) and "Tax Professional Prepared Plans have a 14-day refund policy." and "30 day money back guarantee" (the april filing product). Terms of Use §14 governs the software and says 14 days, adding: "If you request a refund after You downloaded any of the tax forms or CSV files, ZenLedger reserves the right to refuse your refund request or issue a partial refund." You cannot check whether the forms are right for you without forfeiting the refund right. The '1 year' line is not confined to the pricing page — it rides the global nav and is served on the Terms of Use page itself, directly above the clause that contradicts it. (4) IT IS NOT A FILING TOOL AND SAYS SO. The page that names the forms also says: "We are not a full tax reporting software like TurboTax or TaxAct, so, you will need to combine what ZenLedger offers with a service like TurboTax or TaxAct to complete your tax return (if you are filing without the services of a CPA). For more information on how to import your reports from ZenLedger into TurboTax (which we have direct integration with!) please review this article." — and the TurboTax walkthrough that sentence links to is HTTP 404.

Ledgible

62#11 of 11
Pick it when
Ledgible leads ZenLedger 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
Portable record and prior year access — 6/10
Tradeoff
The $49 is a lifetime-transaction toll, not a this-year toll, and the caps that decide your bill are published only inside a PNG. Ledgible's own words: "Pricing is based on the total number of transactions you've made from the beginning of your transaction history to the end of the current tax year date (rather than annual transactions)" (support.ledgible.io/hc/en-us/articles/4405478844045, updated 2026-08-09). A filer with eight years of history and four trades this year is priced on all eight years. The base tier is also far narrower than the pricing page admits — "The basic package starts at $49 and includes up to 2 wallets and 1 exchange in their data sources with up to 200 transactions." (article 360058705432); that 2-wallet and 1-exchange limit appears NOWHERE on ledgible.io/pricing/, whose own base-tier image says only 'Tax-year reporting and up to 200 transactions'. (The pricing page does print '2 wallets', but inside an Enterprise Accounting usage example, not as the $49 cap — do not read it as the consumer limit.) Second, the buyer arriving from the marketing site will find the automation isn't there: the FAQ says "Yes, the Ledgible Platform offers full support for DeFi and NFT trading." while the documentation says "NFT tracking isn’t done automatically on Ledgible, so tracking the activity will be best done manually.", DeFi auto-categorisation covers only Ethereum and Algorand, and "However, income cannot be automatically detected and therefore transactions that are to be taxed as such must be designated by the user." — so every staking reward, airdrop and fork is hand-labelled. Third, and most expensive to discover late: this is a US-only filing artefact whose US rulebook is stale. Rev. Proc. 2024-28 wallet-level basis allocation is not mentioned once in 277 knowledge-base articles — while Ledgible's institutional whitepaper explains the rule in detail, so the silence is in the consumer product, not in the company. The FIFO/LIFO/HIFO guidance still cites the superseded IRS Virtual Currency FAQ Q39-41, and the preparer instructions still assert crypto is 'not currently reported on 1099s' in the first Form 1099-DA season.
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Which one is actually for you?

ZenLedgerLeads

Choose ZenLedger if your tax form matters most

  • Your tax form: 7/10 against 5/10 for Ledgible (weight 32)
  • Cost-basis method: 6/10 against 4/10 for Ledgible (weight 26)
  • Complex transactions: 7/10 against 5/10 for Ledgible (weight 22)
Ledgible

Ledgible leads ZenLedger 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 2 of 10weight 7.7 of 86ZenLedger leads
ZenLedger7 out of 10
Ledgible5 out of 10

Cost-basis method

by 2 of 10weight 6.2 of 86ZenLedger leads
ZenLedger6 out of 10
Ledgible4 out of 10

Complex transactions

by 2 of 10weight 5.3 of 86ZenLedger leads
ZenLedger7 out of 10
Ledgible5 out of 10

Record portability

by 1 of 10weight 4.8 of 86ZenLedger leads
ZenLedger7 out of 10
Ledgible6 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
ZenLedger14/20Ledgible14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
ZenLedger16.2/30Ledgible11.9/30
ZenLedger leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
ZenLedger2.7/10Ledgible2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
ZenLedger3.2/8Ledgible3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
ZenLedger8.3/18Ledgible8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose ZenLedger unless the term Ledgible leads on is the one you are buying.

Ledgible leads ZenLedger 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 Which country's actual tax form comes out at the end — named, and for the year I am filing? · 32% (ZenLedger 7/10, Ledgible 5/10)
  • 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% (ZenLedger 7/10, Ledgible 6/10)
  • 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% (ZenLedger 6/10, Ledgible 4/10)
    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% (ZenLedger 7/10, Ledgible 5/10)
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored.
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ZenLedger scores 11 points above Ledgible, led by your tax form, cost-basis method, and complex transactions. Published scores, out of 100: ZenLedger 73 (rank 8 of 11 tax software), Ledgible 62 (rank 11 of 11).

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