Bitcoin.Tax vs rotki

Bitcoin.Tax calculates cryptocurrency capital gains, losses, and income, then produces data and tax forms for filing. Its reports include gains, income, donations, Kraken margin trading, and closing balances with net profit or loss and cost basis. Users can import exchange trade histories, spending, income, mining income, and Kraken margin activity, or use CSV imports. Cost-basis methods include FIFO, LIFO, average costing, specific identification, and optional like-kind treatment. The service lists tax-year support for the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, or a year beginning January 1. It supports DeFi and NFT activity and lists 23 import sources. Tax outputs include IRS Form 8949 PDF, Schedule D, and formats for TurboTax, TaxACT, H&R Block, Drake, and CCH. Free access covers up to 20 trading transactions. Paid plans are billed once per tax year, beginning with Premium at $59.95, paid once for up to 1,000 transactions. The service says margin trading is not completely supported and may produce incorrect values; its terms also say it does not verify that data is accurate or suitable for tax filing.

rotki is an open-source, self-hosted portfolio manager, accounting, and analytics tool focused on privacy. It runs locally on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with data stored on the user's device in a SQLCipher database encrypted using 256-bit AES. Exchange connections use read-only API keys processed locally, while blockchain access uses RPC endpoints chosen by the user. The dashboard tracks assets, liabilities, exposure percentages, and changes in net worth. rotki turns on-chain activity into readable events and generates profit-and-loss and tax reports. Listed integrations cover numerous chains, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Avalanche, Polygon PoS, Arbitrum One, and Base, with early Solana support; the product says it detects and decodes more than 140 DeFi protocols. Premium adds graphs and analytics, advanced staking, higher event limits, decentralized-exchange accounting, and DeFi historical profit-and-loss reporting. It also allows encrypted database backup and synchronization across devices. The Free and Starter plans include up to 1,000 recent events and 10 notes; Starter lists no ETH staking. Supporter is €9 a month, Basic is €25 a month, and Advanced is €45 a month.