Gold IRA Company Reviews

Which gold IRA companies have the best reviews?

It depends on what you need. Patriot Gold Group has 0 BBB complaints in three years and a 5.0 on Trustpilot. It doesn’t publish its minimum or fees. Augusta Precious Metals had 1 BBB complaint and starts at $50,000. Noble Gold had 3 and starts at $20,000. With less to invest, Birch Gold Group starts at $5,000.

Goldco had 72 BBB complaints in three years, and American Hartford Gold had 115. Star scores leave out fees and court records. Each review below covers those too.

The reviews

Each review below is built from the same sources: the company’s own fee pages, FAQs and agreements; its Better Business Bureau and Business Consumer Alliance profiles; its Trustpilot page; and regulator and court records where we could find them. We didn’t make up customer stories, and we don’t give star ratings. Where a company doesn’t publish something, we say so.

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For the full ranking and our reasons, see our ranked list of all eight.

What every review covers

• Verdict: who the company suits and who should look elsewhere
• Facts table: minimum, fees, custodian, depository, metals, ratings
• Fees: the company’s published schedule, conflicts between its own pages, and worked totals
• Custody and storage: who holds the account and where the metal sits
• Buyback, cancellation and promotions: the written terms, and what’s missing
• Ratings and complaints: BBB, BCA and Trustpilot, with the date we checked
• Legal record: regulator actions and lawsuits, with sources
• Pros and cons
• FAQ and sources

Companies we don’t review

We don’t recommend companies that are out of business, in bankruptcy, or subject to recent fraud findings by regulators. If a company we’ve covered reaches that point, we’ll remove it from our ranking and say why on its review page.

Companies we didn’t list and why

Regal Assets. In September 2023 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation sued Regal Assets LLC, its owner and its former president, charging them with misappropriating customer funds given to them to buy precious metals. In October 2024 the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered default judgments against all three. The Better Business Bureau lists the company as out of business.

Rosland Capital. Rosland Capital LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 2, 2026, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (case 2:26-bk-16650-BB). Its homepage now says American Hartford Gold has acquired its assets in a sale approved by that court.

Both fall under the rule above, so neither is in our ranking.

How to spot a bad gold IRA pitch

These are the warning signs we look for. Several come straight from the regulator records cited in our reviews. Be wary if a salesperson:

• won’t tell you the markup on a coin as a percentage, in writing
• pushes collector, “exclusive” or “semi-numismatic” coins over plain bullion for an IRA
• says you can keep IRA gold at home
• promises gold will rise, or that it “can’t lose value”
• offers free silver or bonus coins without explaining what you pay for them
• rushes you, or warns that a price or offer ends today
• tells you to move money by taking a check made out to you, instead of a direct rollover

The Lear Capital case is an example: the New York Attorney General alleged undisclosed commissions of up to 33%, and Lear paid $6 million to settle in 2022.

How we keep reviews current

We recheck every fee, rating and legal item at least every 90 days and update the “facts checked” date at the top of each review. When a company changes a fee, settles a case or loses accreditation, we update the review and the ranking. Our full process is on the methodology page, and our standards are in the editorial policy.

If you see something wrong, tell us through the contact page.