# Octav vs CoinStats: Which Portfolio Data Wins

> CoinStats aggregates exchanges and wallets for consumers. Octav decodes DeFi, options, perps and Solana with benchmark-proven accuracy. When each one wins.

- **URL:** https://octav.fi/blog/octav-vs-coinstats
- **Published:** 2026-07-16
- **Updated:** 2026-07-27
- **Author:** Octav Team — Portfolio Intelligence for Digital Assets
- **Topic:** Benchmarks & Comparisons
- **Tags:** comparison, portfolio-tracker, benchmark
- **Source:** Octav, Practical guides on crypto NAV reporting, multi-chain portfolio management and digital asset APIs, from the team behind Octav.

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If you want to see spot balances from your exchanges and wallets in one
consumer app, CoinStats does that well. If you need the **on-chain portfolio to
be correct** — every lending, LP, staking, perp and options position decoded and
priced across every chain — that is a different problem, and it is the one Octav
is built to solve.

The short version: **CoinStats aggregates, Octav decodes.** Aggregating a list
of tokens from connected accounts is not the same as reading what a wallet
actually controls on-chain, and the gap is largest exactly where the money is —
inside DeFi protocols.

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## What CoinStats is built for

CoinStats is a consumer portfolio tracker. Its strength is breadth of
*connections*: link exchange accounts and wallets and see a combined balance in
a polished mobile app. For someone tracking mostly spot holdings across a few
CEXs and chains, that is genuinely useful.

Where a consumer aggregator runs out of road is depth. A DeFi position is not a
token sitting in the wallet — it is a claim held as protocol state, and turning
it back into "you own $X of this" means decoding each protocol. That is
infrastructure work, not an integration checkbox.

## What Octav is built for

Octav is a portfolio **data** engine — an API and an app on the same backend —
whose entire job is resolving an address into every decoded position, priced,
across chains. In our [nine-provider benchmark](/crypto-portfolio-api-benchmark)
it scored the maximum on both coverage and DeFi decoding, and it is the only
provider measured that also decodes **options, perps and Solana DeFi**.

| | CoinStats | Octav |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Primary job | Consumer multi-account tracker | Decoded portfolio data (API + app) |
| DeFi position decoding | Basic | Full — lending, LP, staking, vaults |
| Perps (Hyperliquid, Lighter) | Limited | Decoded |
| Options (Derive) | No | Decoded |
| Solana DeFi | Token-level | Fully decoded |
| Benchmarked accuracy | Not measured | 100 coverage, 100 DeFi decoding |
| Free to use | App | App **and** free-tier API |

## The same data in the API or the app

Everything the API returns is in the Octav app too — free to use at
[pro.octav.fi](https://pro.octav.fi/). Search any address and you get the full
decoded portfolio: net worth, allocation, wallet tokens and every protocol
position across every chain the wallet touches.

![The Octav app decoding a wallet across 48 chains and dozens of protocols — the same data the API returns](./images/octav-pro-board.jpg)

That is one address resolved across 48 chains, with Uniswap, Aave, Yearn, Euler,
Sablier and Hyperliquid positions decoded individually — not folded into a
single opaque balance.

## Why the difference matters

An aggregator that reads DeFi as a token list does not return an error when it
misses a position. It returns a confidently wrong number. For an active wallet,
the majority of value can live inside protocols — see
[why portfolio APIs disagree about net worth](/why-portfolio-apis-disagree) and
[tracking DeFi positions across chains](/track-defi-positions-multichain).

We do not ask you to take that on faith. The benchmark harness is open and the
weights are published, so you can re-run it on your own wallets.

## Which should you pick?

- **CoinStats** — if you mainly want a consumer app that ties your exchange
  accounts and wallets together for a spot overview.
- **Octav** — if the on-chain number has to be right: DeFi, perps, options and
  Solana decoded, available as an API to build on and as a free app to look at.

Try it now on any wallet at [pro.octav.fi](https://pro.octav.fi/), or read the
[full benchmark](/crypto-portfolio-api-benchmark) to see how the coverage gap
was measured.