ClearBasis vs Blockpit
EU and DACH filers who want a report written for their own tax office, priced in euros with a published ceiling. We are a different shape of product: narrower today, and built so that every number can be traced to the record it came from. Below is what they do better, where we differ, and a table where each figure is the one the vendor published, linked to the page it came from.
What Blockpit does better
Starting anywhere else would waste your time.
- Its report is written for a tax office rather than for a user: per-disposal cost basis, proceeds, holding period and gain with the statute cited inline (§23 EStG, §20 Abs. 2 EStG) — visible in their own published sample PDF.
- It is honest about depth versus breadth, naming the ten countries with real country-specific logic instead of hiding behind a '100+ countries' claim.
- Five flat euro prices with a published ceiling of 549€ and no open-ended top tier.
Where we are different
Every figure carries its evidence. Every figure links to the row it came from — source file, row number, tx hash, price source. Rulesets are versioned and dated (2026.08-r1) and the methodology memos (M-001…) are published, not internal.
The answer is free; the paperwork is paid. Everything computed and visible — true gain, the blank-basis overstatement, per-lot detail in preview, gaps and decisions. Payment unlocks the documents (Form 8949, workpapers, exports); nothing about the answer is hidden to sell the answer.
Your basis is portable by design. Basis Passport: your full evidence-linked basis history as a signed, versioned JSON file, free from any saved scan even if you never pay. The spec is public and anyone — including these competitors — may implement it.
Dead platforms are the specialty. Dead-platform rebuild is the specialty: FTX, Celsius, Cryptopia, Mt. Gox and others, reconstructed from what survives, with the gaps shown rather than filled in.
Side by side
| ClearBasis | Blockpit | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get without paying | Everything computed and visible — true gain, the blank-basis overstatement, per-lot detail in preview, gaps and decisions. Payment unlocks the documents (Form 8949, workpapers, exports); nothing about the answer is hidden to sell the answer. | Import unlimited sources and track the portfolio; the tax report requires a paid plan for that year, and 'Tax Figures' sit behind the separate Blockpit Plus subscription (47.90€/yr). |
| Price at ~1,000 transactions | $99 per tax-year bundle (≤1,000 tx) | 99€ per tax year (Medium, ≤1,000 tx) |
| Above that | $249 (≤5,000 tx) · $399 (≤15,000) · $649 (≤50,000) | 149€ (Large, ≤3,000 tx) · 229€ (X-Large, ≤10,000) · 549€ (XX-Large) |
| Connections | 13 auto-detected CSV formats today, including the 1099-DA itself and migration files from Koinly, CoinTracker, CoinLedger and CoinTracking. Read-only API and on-chain sync are not live yet — that is the honest gap. | Their own pages state 700+ in one place and 160+ exchanges / 190+ blockchains / 2,500+ dApps in another. API and CSV supported. |
| Country depth | Three deep country guides (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) in five languages plus a global hub; US federal throughout. | Ten countries with dedicated logic, named openly; a generic English report elsewhere. |
| Documents produced | Form 8949 (PDF + CSV), evidence workpapers, TurboTax CSV, TXF — opening with payments. | Country-specific PDF reports for the named jurisdictions, with statutory citations inline; PDF form-completion aids rather than electronic filing. |
| Evidence behind each figure | Every figure links to the row it came from — source file, row number, tx hash, price source. Rulesets are versioned and dated (2026.08-r1) and the methodology memos (M-001…) are published, not internal. | The closest of the group to an evidence product — statutory citation inline in the report — but still no versioned public ruleset, no change log and no per-figure source trail back to the imported row. |
| Getting your data out | Basis Passport: your full evidence-linked basis history as a signed, versioned JSON file, free from any saved scan even if you never pay. The spec is public and anyone — including these competitors — may implement it. | Report and transaction exports; no open published basis format. |
| Dead platforms | Dead-platform rebuild is the specialty: FTX, Celsius, Cryptopia, Mt. Gox and others, reconstructed from what survives, with the gaps shown rather than filled in. | Not a stated specialty. |
| Support model | Self-serve; no sales calls. Practitioner tier (Workbench) is self-serve too. | Email/chat; Source-of-Funds reports sold per credit (19.99€). |
Blockpit figures from their own pricing page, checked 2026-08-23.
Which one should you actually use?
Choose Blockpit if you need dozens of exchanges connected by API today, or a statutory form for a country we have not built yet. We would rather tell you that than take your money for a worse fit.
Choose ClearBasis if your problem is missing cost basis — transferred-in coins, a dead exchange, a decade of history, or a 1099-DA that reads your whole sale as profit — and you need every figure to survive a question from a tax authority, with the evidence attached.
Use both if it helps. Their export imports here directly, and our Basis Passport is an open format anyone can read — including them. Switching costs are a business model, not a law of nature.
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compare-2026.1 · figures checked 2026-08-23 · Blockpit 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.