Tirana Bank review

The card carries a monthly fee of €1 under the package terms Tirana Bank S.A. publishes, and that is the recurring charge to budget for. Cards such as Bitpanda and Wise in this comparison list a monthly fee of €0 and £0, so Tirana Bank's card is the card that costs you each month.

It is a debit card, the plainest version of the product: spending draws on your bank balance rather than a prepaid balance you top up. Debit cards account for 74.7% of the cards in this category, so a debit format is the normal choice rather than the exception.

The card runs on visa, so it is accepted wherever that network is accepted, and Visa-only terminals and cash machines work with it. Visa accounts for 57.6% of the networks in this category, which makes visa the most common pairing here.

The card comes from Tirana Bank S.A., the legal entity behind the account. It is a bank issuing its own debit card rather than a prepaid programme run by another firm, and the €1 monthly fee is set by the bank in its own package terms.

No. This is a debit card from a bank, so it does not hold tokens, offer staking or provide self-custody keys. In this category 2.4% of brands offer staking and 2.8% offer self-custody, which is where the crypto cards separate from this one.

On the monthly fee measure Tirana Bank sits at 311 out of 379 cards ranked here, and the category median is €0. Bitpanda lists €0 and Wise lists £0, so the fee is the clearest thing to check before choosing.

It suits people who bank with Tirana Bank S.A. and want a card for everyday spending on visa. If your priority is a card with a monthly fee of €0 or £0, or you want token balances and staking, the crypto cards in this comparison fit that better.