Awaken Tax vs Dime

Awaken Tax is web-based crypto tax software for traders, DeFi users, startups, and funds. It advertises U.S. tax reports including Form 8949 and 1099-B, and lists Schedule D, 1099-DA reconciliation, TurboTax, and TaxAct formats. Users can upload wallets and review a tax summary for free, but need a paid plan to download tax reports. The free Minnow plan allows 100 transactions; Fish is $99.00 per year for 300 transactions, and higher tiers increase transaction limits and add options such as advanced tax settings, performance tracking, tax lots, or tax planning. Awaken says its AI handles more than 10,000 dapps and supports liquidity providing, staking, bridging, and swaps. It also says it supports more than 50 countries and lists integrations with wallets and services such as MetaMask, Ledger, Phantom, Coinbase, Solana, Ethereum, KuCoin, Binance US, and Kraken. Business tools include entity-specific ledgers and closes, double-entry bookkeeping, and QuickBooks journal-entry syncing. Awaken states that it is SOC II compliant, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and uses read-only API keys that cannot move funds.

Dime is a free, open-source command-line tool that calculates United Kingdom cryptoasset taxes from a transaction spreadsheet. It accepts CSV data containing fields such as dates, operations, market values, assets, quantities, fees, and income, with receive, send, swap, and transfer operations. After processing, users can review figures for available tax years and see their current fiat balance. The format supports marking sent and received assets as non-fungible, including guidance for an NFT minted from multiple NFTs. Dime runs locally and stores transactions and computed figures in a SQLite database inside the user’s .dime folder. Installation documentation covers Composer, a PHAR archive, Docker, and an experimental standalone application. Composer and PHAR installations require PHP 8.2 and BCMath; Docker requires Docker and sh or Bash. The project targets people familiar with UK tax rules who want local processing.