Coinbase Card vs Wirex
Coinbase Card wins on measured health — 9/10 against 8.68/10. Note the coverage gap: we measured 44% of the criteria for Coinbase Card and 100% for Wirex. Some of that gap is the finding — a service that publishes less can be measured less.
Last collection 2026-08-25: probed 252 services, measured 233, over a 90-day window.
| Measured | Coinbase Card | Wirex |
|---|---|---|
| Status now | Operational | Operational |
| Score On what we could measure: 44% of the criteria weight for Coinbase Card, 100% for Wirex. | 9/10 | 8.68/10 |
| Age | — | 12.7 yr |
| Latency (our probe) | 307 ms | 387 ms |
| Median fix | 104 min | 241 min |
| Status feed | statuspage | statuspage |
Coinbase Card
9 / 1044% measuredNo documented launch or listing date to measure age from.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Measured 307 ms, but at a different surface from the rest of this category — not comparable, so shown as context, not scored.
Median 104 min from published report to resolution across 50 logged incidents. Scored on repair speed, not on how many it logged.
Incident repair time: Median 104 min from published report to resolution across 50 logged incidents. Scored on repair speed, not on how many it logged.
Wirex
8.68 / 10100% measuredLive 12.7 yr (since founding (2014), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Median 387 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Median 241 min from published report to resolution across 6 logged incidents. Scored on repair speed, not on how many it logged.
Incident repair time: Median 241 min from published report to resolution across 6 logged incidents. Scored on repair speed, not on how many it logged.
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