# Orla vs CoinTracker

URL: https://www.orla.finance/en/vs-cointracker
Markdown twin of that page. Append `.md` to any Orla page URL to get one.

One counts last year's crypto for the tax office. The other runs all your money, crypto included, every day of the year.

#### Once a year, or every day

- What it is (In one sentence): Orla: One book for all your money, crypto included; CoinTracker: Crypto portfolio tracking, and tax forms once a year
- Price (Their pricing page, this month): Orla: Free forever; Starter $25 or Pro $69 a month, flat; CoinTracker: Tracking free; forms from $59 to $599 a year by volume
- Cost basis (What a swap does to your gain): Orla: Kept through swaps and bridges; FIFO, LIFO or HIFO; CoinTracker: Kept; tax lots on the higher tiers
- Tax paperwork (What you hand over): Orla: A capital gains report by lot, not a form generator; CoinTracker: Country tax forms, TurboTax and H&R Block integrations
- Budgets (Everyday money): Orla: Envelopes, calendar, goals, warnings on day six; CoinTracker: None
- Banks (The fiat half of your life): Orla: Connected read only, next to the coins; CoinTracker: Not what it is for
- Getting paid (Invoices, links, cards): Orla: Invoices a client can pay by bank, card or stablecoin; CoinTracker: None

#### When CoinTracker is the right choice

A comparison you can trust has to be able to say this.

- You need last year's official forms, filled and filed, and nothing else.
- Your filing runs through TurboTax and you want the direct handoff.
- Crypto is an investment you check monthly, not money you live on.

#### Crypto that behaves like money, not a portfolio

A tracker shows what coins are worth. A book shows where your money went.

- Getting paid in USDC lands as income, budgeted next to the rent.
- The tax view updates all year, not in a January reconstruction.
- Fiat and crypto in one net worth, one report, one export.

Wallets are watched by address, exchanges join by read only key.