A CoinTracking alternative for people tired of paying rent on their own history
CoinTracking is the elder statesman of crypto tax software, running since the era when a thousand transactions made you exotic, and its power-user reputation is earned, the reporting depth is real. It is also a subscription, $49 to $899 a year by tier at current prices, with durations from one year to lifetime, and while a subscription runs it covers all your tax years, which is genuinely the better cloud model. The catch sits at the end, stop paying and access to your reports stops with it. This page is for the UK investor doing that arithmetic.
The trade, in a table
Prices from CoinTracking’s published page, checked today. UK scenario, 1,000 transactions, which needs their Pro tier since Starter caps at 200.
| gains.tax | CoinTracking | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan fitting 1,000 transactions | Free tier | Pro, $169 per year |
| Three years, filed each April | £0 | $169 to $507 depending on timing |
| Reports if you stop paying | Yours forever, files on your machine | Access ends |
| Free tier | Full product below 1,000 transactions | 7-day trial, then view only |
| Billing | One £39 fee for 1,000 to 9,999, all years | Subscription, 1 year, 2 year or lifetime durations |
| UK rules shown per disposal | Yes, statute linked | No |
| Data | Your machine | Their servers |
Their fairness column first. Catching up many years inside one subscription year is the cheap way through a cloud tool, the lifetime option exists for people who hate renewals, and the sheer breadth of exchange history CoinTracking can ingest, accumulated over a decade, is nothing to sniff at. High-volume traders above our 9,999 cap belong there or nowhere, and we say so plainly.
What the switch gets a UK investor
Three things, concretely. The rent ends, free below 1,000 transactions with every report included, one £39 payment above. The computation becomes checkable, every disposal names its rule, same day, 30 day, or section 104 pool, with the statute linked, and imports prove their row count on screen. And the copy of your financial history on someone’s server stops existing, the engine runs in your browser, which the network tab will confirm while it works.
Moving is an export and an import, reconciled in front of you, and your gains recomputed independently make a free second opinion even if you renew anyway.
Prices are the vendor’s own, today’s date, sources above, corrections welcome and published. General information, not tax advice, humans for the hard parts live in the directory.