Start with the checkout that keeps failing
Six of the checkouts we get asked about most. Each entry leads with the mechanism that blocks a card; the merchant name sits in the title, where you would look for it anyway.
Start from the card you already hold
The first six digits tell you who issued the card, where, and what kind of product it is. That is usually enough to predict whether a given checkout will take it, without opening anything new.
Cards grouped by where they were issued
Where a card is issued decides which checkouts take it. Each guide groups the issuers registered in one country or region, their BIN ranges, and the merchants those cards cleared.
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Seven groups, sorted by how the payment actually fails. Not by industry, which tells you nothing about whether a charge clears. The full list of 105 checkouts lives inside each group, which keeps this page readable.
The 18 issuers we would open first
We track 484 issuers. The table below shows 18 of them — the highest-rated of the set, scored on published fees, how reliably the range clears checkouts in the log, and how much verification it demands. Ratings sit on a curve across all 484 issuers, so a 9.0 here is top decile, not merely adequate. The rest are not hidden: every issuer still has its ranges and decline notes in the BIN directory.
| # | Issuer | Networks | Creation fee | Top-up fee | KYC | Risk | Rating | Scenarios |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VCard Anonymous VCC | Visa, Mastercard | Lite VISA $0; Lite MC $… | 0.8%–2% by tier (… | Partial (Lite car… | High | ★★★★★ 9.8 | 6/6 |
| 2 | SwissBorg Card Crypto Card | Mastercard | $0 | 0% | Yes | low | ★★★★★ 9.5 | 5/6 |
| 3 | Ucards Crypto Card | Visa, Mastercard, Dis… | $1-5 (some free, e.g. a… | 1.5-2.5% | No (no KYC) | Medium (no-KYC; UK-based, founded 2024) | ★★★★★ 9.4 | 6/6 |
| 4 | Zebec Carbon Crypto Card | Mastercard | $0 | 0% | No | medium | ★★★★★ 9.3 | 1/6 |
| 5 | DuPay USDT top-up crypto virtual card (… | Mastercard / Visa | $0-$10 (by card type) | 1.5%-3% USDT | partial (some car… | medium (compliance link opaque; card stability mixed) | ★★★★★ 9.3 | 6/6 |
| 6 | Klarna Card BNPL / Debit Card | Visa | $0 | 0% | Yes | low | ★★★★★ 9.2 | 1/6 |
| 7 | Novo Business Banking / Debit Card | Mastercard | $0 | 0% | Yes | low | ★★★★★ 9.2 | 1/6 |
| 8 | COCA Crypto super app / debit card | Visa + Mastercard (is… | Free virtual; physical… | 0% top-up (SEPA/I… | No (basic) / Yes… | Medium (non-custodial ERC-4337 smart wallets; cashback up to 8% requires staking up to 30,000 $COCA locked with a 30-day cooldown; claim capacity capped $15–$350/mo by tier) | ★★★★★ 9.1 | 5/6 |
| 9 | Crypto.com Card Crypto Card | Visa | Free (virtual); physica… | Free crypto top-u… | Yes (KYC required… | Low | ★★★★★ 9.1 | 4/6 |
| 10 | Halocard Crypto Card | Visa | Essential 3 cards $12/m… | 1% (stablecoin/cr… | Yes (passport/nat… | Medium | ★★★★★ 9.1 | 6/6 |
| 11 | Jupiter Global Crypto Card (Solana) | Visa (Infinite/Platin… | $0 (free) | 0% (USDC 1:1) | Yes (full KYC via… | Low-Medium | ★★★★★ 9.0 | 5/6 |
| 12 | Nexo Crypto Card | Mastercard | 0 (virtual card instant… | 0 | Yes (Full KYC: ID… | Low-Medium | ★★★★★ 9.0 | 5/6 |
| 13 | Mesh Payments Corporate Card / Spend Management | Visa | $0 | 0% | Yes | low | ★★★★★ 9.0 | 1/6 |
| 14 | Navan Corporate Card / T&E | Visa/Mastercard/Ameri… | $0 | 0% | Yes | low | ★★★★★ 8.9 | 1/6 |
| 15 | XKard Crypto Card | Visa | $0 (subscription $108-$… | 2.3%-4.5% (USDT t… | No (zero-KYC adve… | High (frozen-funds / forced-KYC reports) | ★★★★★ 8.9 | 5/6 |
| 16 | Affirm Card BNPL / Debit Card | Visa | $0 | 0% | Yes | medium | ★★★★★ 8.9 | 1/6 |
| 17 | Bitwala Crypto banking app (Visa debit ca… | Visa | Virtual €0.99; Physical… | Free (SEPA/euro);… | Yes (Full KYC: ID… | Medium (crypto-linked; e-money via Striga/Lightspark) | ★★★★★ 8.8 | 5/6 |
| 18 | Bleap Crypto debit card | Mastercard | Free | 0% | Yes | Low-Medium | ★★★★★ 8.8 | 5/6 |
How these numbers get here
We read the issuers
Every fee, KYC rule and network in the table comes off the issuer's own published pages, with the source kept on file. Nobody paid to appear here. No issuer sees an entry before it publishes.
First charge and renewal
A range only counts as reliable in our model when the first charge and the renewal both clear. Ranges that pass a trial and fail on renewal are marked down, because that is the failure people actually hit.
Prices come from the issuer
Fees come straight off each issuer's own pricing page, never a reseller's listing, and get re-checked every month. Quote a price in another currency and we convert it at the rate on the review date.
Declines carry a reason
Where the model expects a decline we publish the reason category — address mismatch, 3-D Secure left unfinished, range blocked — instead of a bare "no".
What a log entry looks like
The format we publish per range: merchant, result, and the gateway reason category when a charge is expected to fail. The rows below are an illustrative sample of the format, not a live extract — real per-range figures sit in the BIN lookup.
| Time | Card (masked) | Merchant | Result | Gateway reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 12:33 UTC | 4560 76** **** 6191 | Steam | Cleared | approved |
| 27 Sep 18:20 UTC | 2563 04** **** 7259 | YouTube Premium | Cleared | approved |
| 26 Sep 23:16 UTC | 4237 16** **** 7068 | Hugging Face | Cleared | approved |
| 28 Sep 07:19 UTC | 2369 71** **** 2409 | Epic Games Store | Cleared | approved |
| 27 Sep 09:44 UTC | 5590 94** **** 7903 | Spotify Premium | Cleared | approved on retry |
| 26 Sep 18:24 UTC | 4902 01** **** 7926 | App Store | Cleared | approved |
Sample rows show the published format only; card numbers and personal details never appear in the real entries.
Something out of date? Issuers change pricing without warning. Tell us and we will re-check the entry. Quietly editing the number would defeat the point of the table.