Are any crypto signal groups actually worth paying for?

If you need signals and chart pictures to trade, you probably should not be trading crypto at all.

Honestly, most of these groups are a scam and a waste of both time and money. The only one I ever came out ahead with was run by a streamer.

This is answerable with numbers rather than opinions now, so here is where our dataset stands as of today.

We have replayed every published signal of 32 channels against 1-minute candles under one fixed rule set — 10,582 signals in total. 29 of those channels have closed trades in the record. 23 of the 29 are cumulatively negative on their own published plan: entries, targets and stops exactly as the channel posted them, equal size on every trade, and no fees, no funding and no leverage applied. Adding real trading costs makes each of those worse, never better.

Two details that explain how a losing channel still looks impressive:

• The median channel reaches a 2% move in its called direction before its stop about 72% of the time. Being right most of the time is normal here. It is not the same as making money, because nothing in that percentage carries the size of the losses.
• The most accurate channel in our set — 91% by that measure, over 134 scored signals — is also the deepest in the red, at roughly −592% cumulative across 125 closed trades. Both figures are real and they describe the same feed.

So: not "all scams", but the honest answer to "is it worth paying for" is that paying is the smaller decision. Before money moves, ask for the calls that resolved badly, ask over how many trades, and check whether the entry prices were reachable at all. A channel worth its fee will have no problem with those three questions.