OnyxGift vs Bitrefill — An Honest Comparison from the Smaller One

Disclosure: OnyxGift is our shop. A "vs" page written by one of the two parties is worth roughly what its worst claim is worth, so we have kept this to things you can verify — Bitrefill's own published pages, their own incident report, and our own live prices.

The short version, before the detail: Bitrefill is the larger, broader and better-known platform, and for a lot of purchases it is the right choice over us. We are not going to construct a comparison table that concludes otherwise. What we can do is be precise about where the two actually differ, because most of the pages ranking for this comparison are written by affiliates of one side and are precise about nothing.

Where Bitrefill is straightforwardly better

Catalogue. Bitrefill lists over 5,000 products across gift cards, mobile top-ups and bill payments. We sell 22 items. If you want a brand we do not stock — and that is most brands — this comparison is already over.

Bitcoin costs. Bitrefill supports Lightning, which settles small Bitcoin payments for a fraction of a cent and in seconds. We do not. On a $10 order paid in BTC, that is a real and unmatched advantage. Our equivalent answer is a stablecoin on a cheap network, which gets to a similar place by a different route — see TRC20 vs ERC20 vs BEP20.

Coin choice. They accept a wider set of assets than our six (BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, BNB, TRX).

Track record. They have been operating in this niche far longer than we have, at a scale we do not have. That is worth something real when you are handing money to a website.

Gaming, too. It would be convenient for us to claim game top-ups as our specialism, but it is not true: Bitrefill carries PUBG Mobile UC, Mobile Legends diamonds and Razer Gold among others, with the same player-ID redemption model. We checked before writing this rather than after.

Where the two genuinely differ

Three things, and they are narrower than a marketing page would like.

1. We publish what we charge over face value.

Most of this industry — Bitrefill included — shows you a price and lets you work out the margin yourself. We think that is worth being explicit about, so here is ours, taken from our live product pages on 6 September 2026:

Two honest notes on that table. It is a snapshot and prices move, so the product page is the truth on the day you buy. And it includes the rows that embarrass us: on Steam, Google Play and Nintendo we are the expensive option, and if you are buying those specifically you should compare before choosing us.

2. Region rules sit on the product page, before you pay.

Every card we sell carries a region rule that is different per brand — a Nintendo eShop account's country is effectively permanent once it holds a balance, an Amazon claim code only works on the marketplace that issued it, a Netflix card is locked to a billing currency rather than a country. Those rules are written on each product page and in how to redeem a region-locked gift card.

This is what 22 products buys: enough attention per item to describe the specific way each one goes wrong. It is genuinely the reason to keep a catalogue small, and it is also why we cannot sell you a supermarket card in Poland.

3. Size, in both directions.

We are small. That means less operational history, fewer people, and a shop that has not been stress-tested by scale. It also means a smaller pile of customer records, which brings us to the thing everyone searching this comparison in 2026 is actually wondering about.

The March 2026 breach, stated fairly

Bitrefill disclosed a cyberattack that began on 1 March 2026, when an employee laptop was compromised and the intrusion reached production systems. Their published incident report puts the exposure at roughly 18,500 purchase records, including customer email addresses, cryptocurrency payment addresses and IP addresses. Bitrefill attributed the attack to a North Korea-linked group, said losses would be covered from operating capital, and listed the changes made afterwards — external penetration testing, tighter access controls, better logging.

We are deliberately not turning that into a sales argument, and it is worth saying why.

Their handling was better than the norm. They disclosed publicly, described the attack path rather than issuing a vague notice, named exactly what was taken, and absorbed the losses. Plenty of companies would have said less and said it later. A platform that tells you this much is giving you more information than a platform with a silent history.

And the same data model exists here. We hold an email address against your order. Your payment arrives from a crypto address that is on a public ledger permanently. If someone breached us, the shape of what they would take is not fundamentally different. We have not had an incident, and we are not going to dress that up as a security guarantee — every company with a breach also had no incident, right up until it did.

The useful takeaways are practical rather than tribal:

• Use an email address you do not reuse for anything sensitive at any gift card shop, ours included.
• Never reuse a password. An exposed email is a nuisance; an exposed email plus a shared password is an account takeover.
• A crypto address that has paid a shop is linked to that purchase forever. That is how blockchains work, not a failing of any platform.

Side by side

The honest verdict

Use Bitrefill if you want a brand we do not carry, you are paying in Bitcoin and want Lightning, you hold a coin outside our six, or you would simply rather buy from the established name. Those are good reasons and they cover most people.

Consider us if you are buying one of the 22 things we sell, you want the region rule explained before you pay rather than discovered at redemption, or you want to see what a shop is charging over face before you hand it money.

And use neither if you have a working bank card and the brand sells direct. Buying a Steam Wallet code from Steam is cheaper than buying it from us, and we would rather say so here than have you find out afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

Is Bitrefill safe to use after the 2026 breach?

That is your call to make, and we are not a neutral party. The facts: the exposure was purchase records — emails, crypto addresses, IPs — not card numbers or passwords, they disclosed it in detail, covered losses and published remediation steps. Change any password you reused elsewhere, and treat the exposed email as public.

Which is cheaper, OnyxGift or Bitrefill?

It depends on the brand and the day. We publish our margin above; Bitrefill does not publish theirs, so the only reliable method is opening the same card on both and comparing the final confirmation screen. On Steam, Google Play and Nintendo we would expect to lose that comparison.

Does Bitrefill sell game top-ups too?

Yes — PUBG Mobile UC, Mobile Legends diamonds, Razer Gold and others, redeemed with a player ID much as ours are. Game top-ups are not a differentiator between us.

Why should I trust a comparison written by one of the two companies?

Partly you should not, which is why every claim here is either checkable on Bitrefill's own site or is a criticism of ourselves. Verify the price table against our live product pages, and verify the breach details against Bitrefill's own incident report.

Do you accept Lightning?

No. For small Bitcoin payments that is a genuine gap on our side; a stablecoin on TRON or BNB Smart Chain is our cheapest equivalent.

Do I need an account to buy from OnyxGift?

Yes, an email address and a password. Codes are delivered into My orders so there is somewhere to retrieve them if the email fails. We do not ask for identity documents — the full detail is in do you need KYC.