CoinTracker vs CoinLedger, compared honestly.

Prices checked in November 2026. The two billing models make headline comparisons misleading, so here is both the sticker and the scenario math.

• CoinTracker (annual subscription): Base $59/year (up to 100 transactions), Prime $199/year (up to 1,000), Ultra $599/year (up to 10,000), with Plus variants in between. The subscription covers all tax years stored in your account and auto-renews.
• CoinLedger (per tax year): Hobbyist $49 (up to 100 billable transactions), Investor $99 (up to 1,000), Pro $199+ (3,000+, extra capacity in-app), Unlimited $499 (10,000+). No renewal — you buy the years you file. Readers of this site get 10% off with code CRYPTOTAX10.
• Scenario: one year, 1,000 transactions. CoinLedger $99 vs CoinTracker $199 — CoinLedger by $100.
• Scenario: three years to catch up, 1,000 transactions each. CoinLedger 3 × $99 = $297 vs CoinTracker $199 Prime covering all three years — CoinTracker by ~$98, and the gap widens with every extra year.

• CoinTracker breaks on single-year value. At 1,000 transactions its Prime tier costs double CoinLedger’s Investor tier for the same year’s forms, and the auto-renewing subscription keeps billing if you forget to cancel after filing season.
• CoinLedger breaks on multi-year catch-up. Every back year is another purchase, and its US-centric report set offers little for anyone who also files abroad.
• Both break on missing basis. A subscription does not fix a blank 1099-DA basis box, and neither does a cheaper report. Transferred-in coins arrive basis-less in both platforms until you attach your own acquisition records — read our guide on what to do when the basis box is blank.
• Both break at the long tail of exchanges. The headline integration counts cover the venues most people use; a defunct exchange, a regional platform, or a wallet with idiosyncratic CSVs can still land as manual entry on either side. Test your oddest source in the free tier before paying.

1. Count your years and your transactions. The whole decision is (years owed) × (transactions per year). One year points to CoinLedger; three or more points to CoinTracker’s subscription.
2. Check the 1099-DA gap with our free reconciler. If proceeds and your own basis already agree and the count is small, you may not need either platform.
3. Import into both free tiers. CoinTracker’s free plan shows a tax summary; CoinLedger’s shows the full report preview. Where the totals disagree, basis gaps are why — fix them in whichever platform you will pay for.
4. Pay once and file. Single year: CoinLedger (10% off with CRYPTOTAX10). Multi-year or Coinbase-centric: CoinTracker — then set a reminder to cancel the subscription after filing if you will not need it next season.

Form 1099-DA changed the filing dynamic: the IRS now opens the conversation holding your proceeds figures. Both platforms compute your lots from raw exchange data rather than trusting the form, and both surface the difference — which is precisely the workflow this era requires.

• Where they agree: covered sales should tie to the form’s reported basis; noncovered sales (transferred-in, pre-2026) arrive basis-less and must be documented from your records in either platform.
• Where CoinTracker pulls ahead: amendments and catch-up. If a corrected 1099-DA lands or you are filing several past years, the subscription regenerates forms for every year in the account without new per-year purchases.
• Where CoinLedger pulls ahead: the free full-report preview shows your reconciled position as a finished document before you spend anything — the fastest way to see whether the gap is a rounding issue or a five-figure problem.

One warning that applies to both: a platform can only reconcile what you import. A wallet you forget does not produce an error — it produces a return that disagrees with a form you never saw. Start from the form itself with our free reconciler, then import.

• We take pricing, free tiers, and billing models from the vendors’ own public pages, cross-checked against independent roundups — and we date every check, because these numbers move.
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• We do not publish user counts, star ratings, or testimonials we cannot verify, and we label integration counts as vendor-reported because every vendor counts differently.
• When sources disagree, the vendor’s current pricing page is the final authority — confirm there before buying.

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