Affirm vs. Coinbase

Affirm

Affirm

8 Reviews and Ratings

Coinbase

Coinbase

56 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Affirm	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Affirm, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their dynamic payment system for ecommerce, supporting payments broken out into installments to accommodate shopper preference.	N/A
Coinbase	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Coinbase is a digital currency exchange (Coinbase Pro) and crypto-oriented software solution suite for businesses, including hosted checkout pages, payment buttons, invoicing, and multiple ecommerce integrations (Coinbase Commerce), a turnkey solution for brokerages, exchanges, and fintechs enabling them to offer customers crypto (Coinbase Prime), crypto asset custody (Coinbase Custody), and a wallet to self-store crypto (Coinbase Wallet).	$0.20 taker fee

Pricing

Affirm

Coinbase

Editions & Modules

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$100K-$1M: $0.20
taker fee
$10-50K: $0.35
taker fee
<$10K: $0.50
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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Affirm	Coinbase
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Affirm	Coinbase
Considered Both Products	Affirm Verified User Anonymous Chose Affirm Shop Pay uses affirm but it's more integrated with Shopify. I recommend Shop Pay more if you are interested in using pay as you go. There's better integration at the checkout and they treat customers really well. I highly recommend moving over to Shop Pay if you already use … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Affirm We didn't see anything else out there that was as simple to use as Affirm. I don't know if there are other options out there, I bet there are, but we have had no need to look elsewhere because we are pleased with what we have. The whole process of implementation to getting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Affirm We have not used any payment plans before, this was the first for the company. Incentivized Helpful?	Coinbase Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase I actually prefer BlockFi to Coinbase (currently using both). BlockFi has more clear information on my tax basis and is far more transparent on interest rates for staked assets. I wish Coinbase would follow suit. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase I have personally used Robinhood for micro-transactions, and it is similar to Coinbase, but Coinbase is more widely used and accepted. We ended up going with Coinbase because of the selection of currencies available, Coinbase's market presence, and secure transactions. I feel … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase I tried different tools but ended up choosing Coinbase as the main one because of the simple interface and the way it is clearer in displaying its features. Despite not being the easiest for beginners, Coinbase is not chaotic and dispersive like some other tools. Incentivized Helpful? MW Mark Wong Head of Web Development Chose Coinbase Coinbase and Robinhood both offer crypto trading and investing. Coinbase, however, also offers to stake along with sending and receiving crypto. It's also nice that Coinbase focuses on crypto rather than also offering the purchasing and selling of stocks. Coinbase also does a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase They can learn more from Binance and how things are done, they are a good example. Also, the fact that they care about their users it's a nice thing, and being in this new world of cryptocurrencies there is space to grow and improve always as this world just emerged. Incentivized Helpful? RASHAB KAUSHIK Research Analyst Chose Coinbase Coinbase provides better security than its other market competitors and its insurance program allows us to be stressed free of our investment. It What I liked best about Coinbase was how simple it was to transmit cryptocurrency from one account to another via email and that … Incentivized Helpful? Anmol Dubey CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose Coinbase In terms of security, speed, and pricing, Coinbase outperforms other bitcoin services. It has assisted us in making sound investments and offers us with high passive returns. In compared to others, Coinbase performed admirably. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase Coinbase is just better overall, with access to investments that can be traded for USD. As well as the crypto that can gain interest, Coinbase is amazing at educating the user along with providing real-time data, that allows the user to make the best decision they can when … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase Coinbase 100% is more user-friendly with beginners whereas Binance is tailored more towards seasoned crypto traders. Coinbase does offer a lot more options as well as far as types of coins to trade and of course, they're supposed to be the most secure platform. Coinbase has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase I use Coinbase alongside a few other platforms for their various benefits. Some platforms have different rates for different currencies, for transfers as well as for staking rewards, so it can be beneficial to have options when looking at a particular transaction. Coinbase is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase Coinbase has both the Coinbase wallet and the standard app. I like to use Coinbase over Robinhood because it has significantly more options. Incentivized Helpful? CharRon E. Smith Sound Engineer Chose Coinbase If you want to get a small understanding on bitcoin, Fetch.ai, stellar Lumen, or Clover. Then I suggest going with coinbase. You will get $10 worth of cryptocurrency to start your trading adventure. You can get venmo or cashapp but they just allow you to spend your money but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase Coinbase is one of the best in the industry for SME custody-focused investment companies. We were able to complete our objectives with Coinbase. We selected Coinbase as we were familiar with their UI from personal trading experiences. Originally, compared to its competitors, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase Coinbase is easier to use and has a nice simple user interface. However, it may be lack some of the alternative coins, that we do not accept anyway. It easily allows you to keep track of what is going on. It also lets you see in real-time your balance and notifications are … Incentivized Helpful? MZ Mike Zipperer Systems Administrator Chose Coinbase Far less waiting in Coinbase than other applications I've used. Coinbase has superior security features such as 2fa and secure transactions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coinbase Coinbase is more focused on just crypto [whereas] Robinhood also has involvement in stocks. Incentivized Helpful? John La Belle President Chose Coinbase Binance didn't seem to be something I would have wanted to jump into as a novice, and at the time it wasn't approved to operate in the US. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Chung Co-Founder Chose Coinbase Coinbase is an easy to use program. I've also used Binance, and Coinbase is so much easier. I've used BitPay to accept crypto onto my store, but it had me make another account, set-up a wallet, etc. I've used a bunch of other exchanges, and Coinbase is by far the easiest to use. Incentivized Helpful? Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer Chose Coinbase Coinbase definitely provides the most impressive user experience of all the crypto-currency exchanges.Coinbase is one of only a few that US uses to buy crypto with fiat (USD) currency, making it on the short list of feasible platforms to use. However, Coinbase does lack options … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Davies Country Marketing Manager Chose Coinbase Coinbase is an entry-level platform for cryptocurrency trading. I would prefer to use Gemini or Bittrex now that I am familiar with how to use and trade in these types of currency. Coinbase needs to improve its customer support or it will struggle to scale effectively alongside … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Affirm	Coinbase
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Affirm	Coinbase
Likelihood to Recommend	We use Affirm with a Woocommerce/Wordpress website and there is a plugin that integrates Affirm for us. We also use a payment method plugin that limits Affirms availability only to products that they support. Generally, we have had a good experience with integration and payments from Affirm to us are consistent and timely. People finance guitars, pedals, and amplifiers and it offers us a way to reach a customer base that may not otherwise purchase from us. Incentivized Peter Micalizzi Founder/Director Read full review	Coinbase is well suited to the beginning investor, or someone who wants to learn more about Crytpo. While not all forms of Crypto are available for purchase outside of Coinbase Wallet, the variety is great. Also, the way their graphs display performance over time is so convenient, we do not have to do excessive outside research, because Coinbase is great at keeping relevant information in one place. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Customer support is always quick to respond. The dashboard is very easy to navigate and has useful information. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Coinbase has a really nice looking design which offers for a better user experience. Coinbase is extremely easy to use. Coinbase does a great job delivering company news/changes to its users. Coinbase offers frequent updates which makes you feel more secure using their services. Incentivized MW Mark Wong Head of Web Development Read full review
Cons	Fees could be lower. Today there are a lot of other alternatives. Needed some coding help. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The fees coinbase charges on top of the crypto networks are relatively high, compared to the rest of the industry Under load/high volume, the site and application become unresponsive Customer support is lacking. It's hard to talk to a human and get a real response to your questions/concerns. This is particularly irritating since we're dealing with money. Incentivized Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer Read full review
Usability	Easy to use, simple to integrate, especially if you are using Shopify Plus. Putting everything live and active was easy. We did have to do some simple HTML/CSS to make everything look the way that we wanted it to, but that was very easy and something that we did in house. If you can do some simple style work, you won't have any issues at all. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The application and desktop versions are updated regularly and rarely experience down time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	I haven't needed to contact support for Coinbase yet—it's probably because it is super easy to use and very intuitive. If I were to use the support, it would probably be better than these other companies because most of the other ones come from foreign markets or aren't as big as Coinbase. Incentivized Brian Chung Co-Founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Shop Pay uses affirm but it's more integrated with Shopify. I recommend Shop Pay more if you are interested in using pay as you go. There's better integration at the checkout and they treat customers really well. I highly recommend moving over to Shop Pay if you already use Affirm. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Coinbase and robinhood both offer crypto trading and investing. Coinbase, however, also offers to stake along with sending and receiving crypto. It's also nice that Coinbase focuses on crypto rather than also offering the purchasing and selling of stocks. Coinbase also does a better job of trying to educate their users about each crypto and often offers free crypto with that education. I use Coinbase for crypto trading/purchasing for those reasons. Incentivized MW Mark Wong Head of Web Development Read full review
Return on Investment	Well, since it cost us nothing to implement, and we did the customization to the look and felt in-house, we saw an immediate positive ROI. Orders starting happening within the first week of implementation and haven't stopped since. We don't get tons of orders from Affirm, but it is steady, and they are typically for several thousand dollars. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I have been interested in investing. But certain stocks are high. Cryptocurrency is open to whatever amount you have unlike stash or e-trader that only you a small amount to ownership I get the benefits to be educated on a few currencies and blockchains. They even give you a starting amount to get you trading To withdrawal, coinbase ask which currency to withdraw from. Then give a QR code to point at a bitcoin ATM or service. Incentivized CharRon E. Smith Sound Engineer Read full review
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