NEUTRAL COMPARISON · FIGURES CHECKED 2026-08-29
CoinLedger vs CoinTracker
Neither of these is our product, and this page does not pretend to be neutral about the fact that we make one — but the figures below are simply what each vendor publishes, with the page they came from. We think you should be able to compare two tools without wading through either one's marketing.
Side by side
| CoinLedger | CoinTracker | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get without paying | Import unlimited exchanges and wallets, track the portfolio and see a gains preview; downloading the tax reports requires a paid plan for that year. Their own words, re-read 1 September 2026: you can use it «completely for free to import all of your crypto transaction history, view your net capital gains and losses, and track your portfolio». | Portfolio tracking with daily updates; per their help centre the tax calculations themselves sit behind a paid plan — we could not verify this in-product, so treat it as their documentation rather than our observation. |
| Price at ~1,000 transactions | $99 per tax year (Investor, ≤1,000 tx) | $199/yr (Prime, 1,000 tx/yr) — with $59 (Base, 100) and $99 (Base+, 250) below it |
| Above that | From $199 per tax year (Pro) — the card prints '$199+' and additional transactions are bought in-app at a price not published | $299 (Prime+, 2,500) · $599 (Ultra, 10,000) · $1,999 (Ultra+, 50,000). Full Service is quote-only. Note their own page states the Ultra+ ceiling inconsistently with their marketing elsewhere, and every paid tier carries a 200,000 LIFETIME cap on tax forms |
| Four unfiled years — one payment or four? | Four payments. Each report is a one-time purchase for one tax year, available for 2010 onward. Four years at the $99 band is about $396. | One payment. Their page states that one plan covers all past tax years and lets you file for any prior year at no extra cost. The plan renews annually and reprices on last year's volume. This is genuinely cheaper than us for a multi-year catch-up. |
| Connections | Exchange, wallet and chain imports via API and CSV; the count differs between their pages. | Their own pages state 632, 500+ and 605+ on the same day. API (read-only) and CSV both supported. |
| Country depth | US-focused, with support for several other jurisdictions. | US-centric with international support; per-country statutory forms are not the focus. |
| Documents produced | Form 8949 (itemised and consolidated), Schedule D, Schedule 1, Form 8453, TurboTax/H&R Block/TaxAct/TaxSlayer files, and an 'Audit Trail Report' that traces the arithmetic. | Form 8949, Schedule D, TurboTax and H&R Block hand-off. Their own documentation states no TXF export. |
| Does your import actually add up? | Their pages describe import review and a missing-cost-basis warning. No published costed figure and no per-gap source attribution found. | The strongest published version of this among the five: review-suggested flags, balance-discrepancy indicators comparing exchange-reported balances against the sum of transactions, and spam-token detection. It reports that numbers disagree; we found no published figure for what the disagreement costs. |
| Evidence behind each figure | The audit-trail report traces the calculation, which is more than most ship — but it is arithmetic, not legal authority: no cited statute per figure, no published methodology, no versioned ruleset. | Per-transaction cost basis, proceeds and fees are visible on expansion, and tax lots on higher tiers — but no documented price-data source, no published methodology and no versioned ruleset. |
| Getting your data out | Transaction history CSV is exportable free; computed basis comes with the paid reports. | Transaction history exports as CSV; the computed cost-basis export is less clearly documented than Koinly's. |
| Tax-loss harvesting | A Tax Loss Harvesting report «suggesting potential harvesting opportunities in your portfolio» with the projected losses you could write off. Current calendar year only — their help centre states you only see the report on the year you are actually in. No tier stated, no short/long split described, nothing on estimated basis. The page tells you to make sure everything is imported first, which is the right instinct and the opposite of measuring what is missing. Retrieved 31 August 2026. | The most product of the five: it «surfaces personalized opportunities based on your portfolio and allows you to swap crypto from self-custody wallets directly in CoinTracker» — harvesting and the trade in one place. Prime and Ultra only; Free and Base see a preview of a single opportunity. It carries two real warnings we did not find elsewhere: that German and Portuguese long-term losses are not deductible, and that staked crypto shows up in the recommendations though its basis only applies once unstaked. Nothing published about missing or estimated basis. Retrieved 31 August 2026. |
| Your ledger vs your Form 1099-DA | Reconciliation aimed at the user's own records rather than at the form: «error reconciliation tools that catch missing cost basis and mislabeled transactions», flagging «missing cost basis errors and data gaps» and telling you «exactly which transactions are causing the problem». Their page discusses 1099-DA problems separately and does not describe matching your records against an uploaded form line by line. Read 1 September 2026. | Not published as a per-line 1099-DA reconciliation. Their reconciliation tooling is about the user's own imported data — review flags, balance-discrepancy indicators against exchange-reported balances, spam detection — which is genuinely strong and is a different question from whether your return matches the form the IRS will match it to. Treat as not published rather than absent. Read 1 September 2026. |
| Dead platforms | Not a stated specialty. | Not a stated specialty. |
| Support model | Email/chat, Expert Review, and a published Done-For-You engagement at $3,500–$6,000. | Chat/email, tax-pro collaboration on paid plans, Full Service tier from $3,499/yr. |
Sources: CoinLedger · CoinTracker, checked 2026-08-29.
What neither of them does
Neither publishes a versioned, dated ruleset or a standing methodology document, and neither cites the underlying authority beside each computed figure. For most filers that never matters. It matters the day a tax authority asks where a number came from — which is the day we built our product for.
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compare-2026.1 · figures checked 2026-08-29 · CoinLedger and CoinTracker are trademarks of their respective owners; ClearBasis is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. Competitor figures are what each vendor published on its own site on the date shown and change without notice — follow the links and check before deciding. Where a vendor does not publish a figure in machine-readable form we say so rather than estimate it. ClearBasis is tax software, not a law firm, accounting firm or tax preparer.