Disclosure first: OnyxGift is one of the platforms discussed here, and we own this website. You should weigh everything below accordingly. What we can do is be specific enough that you can check the claims yourself rather than take our word for them — every figure here is either from a competitor's own published pages or from ours, and we say which.
The useful thing to say about this market is that "which is best" is the wrong question. These platforms are not ranked versions of each other. They are different sizes, carrying different catalogues, with different rules about identity, and the one that suits a $500 Amazon card is not the one that suits 60 Mobile Legends diamonds.
So here are the six questions that actually separate them, and how to answer each one in about a minute.
1. Does it carry the exact card you want?
This decides it more often than everything else combined, and it is the fastest to check.
Catalogue sizes in this niche, from each platform's own site: Cryptorefills advertises 6,600+ products across 180+ countries. Bitrefill carries 5,000+. Coinsbee lists 4,000+ across 185 countries. OnyxGift carries 22.
That is not a typo and it is not modesty. We are the smallest shop in this comparison by two orders of magnitude, and if you want an airline voucher, a mobile top-up in Nigeria or a supermarket card in Germany, none of what follows matters — go to one of the large catalogues, because we simply do not sell it.
The counter-argument for a small catalogue is real but narrow: 22 products is few enough that each one has a page written by someone who knows what goes wrong with that specific card. Whether that is worth anything to you depends entirely on question 5.
2. Where does the platform show you the price?
The single most useful habit when comparing: open the same card on two sites, take both all the way to the final confirmation screen, and compare the last number.
The reason is that "no fees" is a claim about the fee line, not about the price. A platform with no fee line can carry its margin in the exchange rate, in the price of the card, or in both, and the total is what leaves your wallet. Bitrefill is generally understood to embed its margin in the rate rather than charge a separate fee; Coinsbee shows service fees as separate line items. Neither approach is dishonest. They just cannot be compared until you are at the last screen.
Our own version of this: our prices are shown in your own currency on the product page, and what you see there is what you pay. We publish where we sit against face value in the cheapest way to buy Steam Wallet with crypto, including the products where we are the more expensive option.
3. Which coins and — more importantly — which networks?
Coin support is where the marketing numbers get big and stop meaning much. Coinsbee accepts 200+ cryptocurrencies. Cryptorefills lists 20+. OnyxGift accepts six: BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, BNB and TRX.
If you hold something outside the top few dozen assets, that difference is the whole decision and Coinsbee is your answer.
If you hold BTC, ETH or a stablecoin — which is most people — then the coin count is close to irrelevant and the question underneath it matters much more: which networks does it accept for the coin you hold? USDT on the wrong chain is unrecoverable money, and a platform accepting "USDT" without naming the chain on the payment page is a platform you should be careful with. We take USDT on TRC20, ERC20 and BEP20, and the payment page names which one; the three networks compared covers what each costs you.
Bitrefill additionally supports Lightning for Bitcoin, which for small orders is a genuine cost advantage nobody else in this comparison matches.
4. What does it want to know about you, and at what threshold?
Every platform here lets you start without documents. They differ in where the wall is.
- Coinsbee publishes its thresholds: up to €1,000 per order and €10,000 in total without verification, after which identity documents are checked through Sumsub. Some products are verified-accounts-only regardless.
- Cryptorefills states "No KYC" on its homepage.
- OnyxGift asks for an email address and a password, and does not request an identity document, selfie or proof of address to buy a card.
Two warnings about reading that list. First, "no KYC" is a statement about documents, not about anonymity — if you have an account, there is an email address attached to your purchase, and that is true of us as much as anyone. We wrote out the honest version in do you need KYC to buy a gift card with crypto.
Second, thresholds change, because the rules underneath them change. Check the platform's own KYC page on the day you buy rather than trusting any comparison article, including this one.
5. What happens when a code does not work?
Almost nobody checks this before buying, and it is the question you will care about most if it ever happens.
A gift card code is not like a parcel. When it fails, it usually fails for one of three reasons — wrong region, already redeemed, or genuinely invalid — and those have completely different remedies. The first is your mistake and generally unfixable. The third is the platform's problem and should be replaced.
What to look for before you buy: does the site tell you the region rule on the product page, before purchase, or does it leave you to discover it at redemption? Is there a written refund policy that distinguishes a revealed code from a broken one? Is there an actual support channel with a human answering?
Our answers, so you can hold us to them: region rules are on each product page, the refund policy is written down, support is by email and every message is answered — not 24/7, because that would not be true. If a code is rejected, what to check first is the order we work through it ourselves.
6. What does it hold about you, and what happened the last time that was tested?
This question got a lot more concrete in March 2026.
Bitrefill disclosed a cyberattack that began on 1 March 2026 with a compromised employee laptop and reached production systems. In its own incident report, roughly 18,500 purchase records were exposed — customer email addresses, cryptocurrency payment addresses and IP addresses. Bitrefill attributed the intrusion to a North Korea-linked group, said it would cover the losses from operating capital, and published the security changes it made afterwards.
We are not going to use that as a sales pitch, for two reasons.
The first is that Bitrefill's conduct after the fact was better than the industry norm. They disclosed it publicly, described the attack path, named what was taken and covered the losses. A great many companies would have said less, later.
The second is that the same data model exists here. We hold an email address against your order, and your payment arrives from a crypto address that is recorded on a public blockchain forever. If someone got into our systems, the shape of what they would find is not fundamentally different from what was taken from Bitrefill. Anyone in this niche claiming otherwise is describing a business that does not deliver codes to customers.
The honest conclusions are smaller and more useful than "use the safe one":
- Assume the email you use for a gift card shop can leak, at any platform. Many people use a dedicated address for shopping, and this is a good reason to.
- A platform that discloses an incident in detail is giving you information. One that has never disclosed anything has either been lucky, been careful, or not told you.
- Reused passwords are the actual risk to you personally. An exposed email is a nuisance; an exposed email plus a password you also use elsewhere is an account takeover.
So which one?
Genuinely, in order of how the decision usually goes:
- Want a brand nobody small carries, or hold an unusual coin? Cryptorefills or Coinsbee, for catalogue breadth and 200+ assets respectively.
- Want the widest well-known catalogue, and paying in Bitcoin? Bitrefill, and Lightning makes small orders cheap.
- Buying a regional store card or a game top-up where getting the region or the player ID right is the hard part? That is the narrow strip we built for — see best regional gift cards with crypto.
Head-to-head detail, with the same disclosure attached: vs Bitrefill, vs Coinsbee, vs Cryptorefills.
And the answer that is sometimes right and almost never written on a page like this: if you have a working bank card, buying direct from Steam, Apple or Amazon is usually cheaper than any reseller. Crypto is the better route when the card route is closed, expensive, or your money is already on-chain.
Frequently asked questions
Is a bigger platform safer than a small one?
Not inherently, and March 2026 is the illustration — the largest platform in this niche is the one with a publicly documented breach. Size buys resources and also makes you a target worth attacking. Judge the specifics rather than the headcount.
Why does OnyxGift only sell 22 products?
Because each product page carries a region rule and a redemption path written for that specific brand, and that does not scale to thousands of items without becoming filler. It is a deliberate trade, and it costs us every customer looking for a brand we do not stock.
Which platform is cheapest?
It varies by brand and by day, which is why the only reliable method is opening the same card on two sites and comparing the final confirmation screen. Any article claiming a permanent cheapest platform is guessing.
Do any of these let me buy with no account at all?
Some sell without a login for certain products. Weigh that against where the code goes if the delivery email fails — with no account, there is often nothing to log back into.
Is my purchase anonymous on a "no KYC" platform?
No. No-KYC means no identity documents. Your email address, your IP and the crypto address you paid from still exist, and blockchain payments are permanently public by design.
What single check matters most before buying?
The region rule on the product page. A wrong-region card is the one failure that nobody — no platform in this comparison — can undo once the code has been revealed.
