CoinTracker vs. Koinly

Compare two of the leading crypto tax software providers: Koinly and CoinTracker, and see which could help you track your portfolio and calculate your taxes.

Looking for a crypto tax calculator that does everything you need? If you’re stuck between Koinly and CoinTracker, this guide breaks down where they differ, from integrations and automation to tax accuracy and international support, so you can choose the right tool with confidence.

Integrations

Lack of native support for your exchanges, wallets, or blockchains means manual imports. For active investors, that can quickly turn into hours of work.

Koinly leads on integrations, with 1000+ supported platforms and 500+ automatic API connections, so most users can sync accounts without touching a CSV file.

CoinTracker relies more heavily on manual imports. Only around 170 integrations support auto-sync, while 370+ require files to be reformatted into CoinTracker’s custom CSV template. With Koinly, CSVs exported from exchanges are already mapped, no edits required.

Portfolio tracking

Both tools offer solid portfolio tracking, with dashboards that let you monitor performance, holdings, and gains at a glance. The difference is access.

Koinly includes full portfolio tracking on its free plan, while CoinTracker locks its dashboard behind a paid subscription starting at $59/year for 100 transactions. Koinly also offers a dedicated NFT dashboard, asset maturity dashboard, and tax loss harvesting dashboard, giving you more tools at your fingertips.

DeFi, NFTs, margin trading, and derivatives

Both platforms support the full range of crypto transaction types, including DeFi, derivatives, lending, mining, staking, and NFTs — something many crypto tax tools still struggle with.

The difference is how much manual work is required. Koinly simplifies DeFi taxes with automatic imports for major L1 blockchains, stronger DeFi protocol support, and automatic spam-token filtering, so users spend less time reviewing or fixing transactions.

CoinTracker supports the same transaction types, but users often report more manual review, particularly around DeFi activity and spam tokens.

Free plan

Both platforms offer a free plan, but CoinTracker’s is very limited. On CoinTracker, you can import and view transactions, but key features like portfolio tracking, tax previews, and tax loss harvesting are locked behind a paid plan.

Koinly includes these features for free. Users can preview their full tax summary (capital gains, losses, and income, excluding Canada), use a free tax loss harvesting tool to simulate trades, and explore detailed portfolio and NFT performance without upgrading.

Paid plans

When it comes to paid plans, Koinly’s paid plans cost much less. A plan covering 1,000 transactions costs $99 on Koinly, compared to $199 on CoinTracker.

One thing to note: CoinTracker plans include all tax years, while Koinly (like most crypto tax tools) prices plans per tax year. Depending on your situation, that may offset some of the price difference.

Usability and features

Both platforms make it easy to import, filter, and review transactions, with support for tags, filters, and automatic error detection to catch issues that could affect your taxes.

Where Koinly stands out is visibility and control. Errors are clearly flagged at the wallet level, with in-app guidance to help resolve them quickly. Users can also preview their full tax summary before paying and adjust tax settings freely, including cost-basis methods.

Another important difference lies in how uncategorized deposits are treated. CoinTracker often treats uncategorized deposits as acquisitions at fair market value at the time of receipt. Koinly instead flags these transactions for review, giving users (or their accountant) control over how cost basis is handled, which helps avoid overstating losses or understating gains.

With CoinTracker, error resolution often requires manual filtering, and key tax settings and accounting method changes are restricted, with some only available on higher-tier plans. Because full tax previews are paywalled, users may not spot issues affecting their tax bill until after upgrading.

These differences in error handling and cost basis treatment are one reason Koinly is often preferred by accountants and CPAs, particularly for investors with complex histories or incomplete records.

Customer support

Crypto taxes can get complex, especially if you have a high volume of trades, which makes responsive customer support essential. Fortunately, both Koinly and CoinTracker offer excellent customer support with live chat and email support across plans and strong TrustPilot feedback from more than 1,000 reviews each. As well as this, both platforms offer a ‘hands-off’ service where an expert will reconcile your imported data on your behalf.

Reputation and security

Both Koinly and CoinTracker handle sensitive financial data, so security is a critical consideration.

Koinly is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified and has not experienced any direct data breaches to date. CoinTracker is SOC 1 and SOC 2 certified, and experienced a limited data incident in 2022 that affected customer email addresses.

In 2025, both platforms were impacted by a third-party Mixpanel data breach. Neither company was directly compromised, and both have since discontinued use of the service.

Supported countries 

Both platforms support US and Canadian investors with the required tax forms, including IRS Form 8949, Schedule D, TurboTax, and CRA reports. While CoinTracker is officially partnered with TurboTax, the actual filing workflow is identical on both platforms — a file upload rather than in-app filing.

For some users, the partnership may feel familiar. For others, particularly those frustrated by how difficult and expensive filing taxes in the US has become, it’s a reminder of how deeply layered the tax software industry still is. Koinly offers in-depth guides on how to file with TurboTax and all other major (and more affordable) software providers, including FreeTaxUSA, TaxAct, H&R Block, TaxSlayer, and more.

For investors outside North America, Koinly offers tailored tax reports for countries such as the UK, Australia, and across Europe. Where a country-specific report isn’t available, Koinly’s Complete Tax Report provides the information needed to file locally.

CoinTracker focuses primarily on the US and Canada. For other countries, reporting is limited and typically provided as basic CSV files rather than country-specific tax reports.

Conclusion: Which is best?

Overall, both Koinly and CoinTracker are solid options for your crypto taxes. But with not only more integrations, but improved automatic integrations, as well as more support for international investors, we think Koinly stands out, and although we might be just a touch biased, we'll keep working hard to keep our product that way.