Methodology
We keep 250 records, 229 of them cards you can still get. This page explains where the numbers come from, and — more importantly — where they stop.
The less a card asks about you, the more it takes from you
Each mark below is one of the 174 cards we could price, placed by how much identity its issuer demands before it will hand one over.
22 of the 250 services run with no KYC at all — and they are the dearest group on the ledger. The median there is $7.90 per $100 against $1.25 among the ones that want a document, a face and an address.
250 records in all, 229 of them still on sale. 174 carry a price we checked against the issuer's own page. 76 publish nothing we could check. 25 are flagged and get no outbound link.
Sources
Every numeric field — fees, limits, KYC level, network, supported coins, blocked countries — must come from the issuer's own website, documentation, or terms. Press releases, affiliate blogs and comparison sites are not accepted as sources for numbers. Where an issuer publishes nothing, we publish nothing.
“Not published” means unknown, not zero
Where the ledger says an issuer does not publish a figure, that is a refusal to guess, and it names who is responsible: them, not us. 52 of 250 cards disclose fewer than three of their eight fee fields publicly; those cards carry a “partial data” badge. A card with an unknown fee is not a cheap card.
No invented scores
We do not publish a score we have not assigned by hand. If an editorial score is absent, the field says so. Any ranking on this site is a sort over verifiable fields — cost per $100, KYC level, availability — not an opinion dressed as a number.
How status is assigned
“Operational” means the service was reachable and selling cards at the last check. “Issues” means users are reporting problems. “Defunct” means we found the shutdown stated by the issuer — currently 21 cards, 43 more carry a warning. On defunct and fraud-flagged entries we remove the outbound link entirely and keep the page as a record.
A dead link is not a dead company
Issuers in this segment change domains without notice. When a URL stops resolving we search for the brand's current domain before touching its status. Ezzocard is the reason this rule is written down: its recorded domain went dark while the product was alive on a new one.
What this site is not
It is not financial advice, not an endorsement, and not a guarantee that any card will work for you. We do not hold, test or insure these cards. Confirm every detail with the issuer before moving money.
Corrections
If a number here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it or remove it. Issuers can submit data with primary-source links; inclusion is free and independent of any commercial relationship.