CoinLedger review: does the free preview actually finish inside TurboTax?
We imported a mixed Coinbase and MetaMask history into CoinLedger, ran the free cost-basis preview, paid for the report and pushed the result straight into TurboTax to see whether the import held up.
Our verdict
CoinLedger does the one thing most US filers actually need well: pull exchange and wallet history into a clean Form 8949 and drop it straight into TurboTax without a manual re-entry step. The free preview genuinely shows gains and losses before you pay, which is more honest than tools that gate the numbers behind a paywall. Anyone with real DeFi activity, staking or wrapped-token positions should expect to spend time fixing mislabeled transactions by hand; that gap is not unique to CoinLedger, but it is not solved here either.
Best for: US investors with a mostly buy-and-sell portfolio who want a fast, cheap TurboTax export
Tax season is where most crypto tools quietly fail, because a portfolio that looked fine in a dashboard turns into a pile of mismatched cost basis the moment a form needs filing. We ran a mixed history through CoinLedger, a handful of Coinbase trades plus a MetaMask wallet with a few DeFi swaps, to see how far the free tier gets you before it asks for a card.
The free preview is not a teaser
CoinLedger lets you import every wallet and exchange, sync the full transaction history and see your calculated gains and losses before paying a cent. That is a real preview, not a locked summary with the numbers blurred out; only the downloadable report and the final PDF sit behind the paywall.
Once you are ready to file, Hobbyist runs $49.99 for up to 100 transactions, Investor moves to $99.99 for 1,000, and Pro starts at $199 and covers margin and futures activity along with 3,000-plus transactions. That ceiling sits below several competitors that charge past $250 for comparable transaction volume, which matters if your history is large but not enormous.
TurboTax is where the integration actually shows
CoinLedger is an official TurboTax partner, and the export goes directly into TurboTax Online and TurboTax Desktop without a manual re-entry step. For a filer whose entire crypto history fits into a handful of exchange accounts, that path from import to filed return is close to the shortest one available on the market right now.
