{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "bitfinex", "name": "Bitfinex API", "vendor": "iFinex Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.bitfinex.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "Bitfinex's v2 API for spot, margin, derivatives and peer-to-peer funding, with balances, deposits and withdrawals, through REST and WebSocket with scoped API keys, paper-trading sub-accounts and official Node, Python, Go and Ruby clients.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitfinex", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitfinex.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitfinex.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitfinex.json", "dns": "bitfinex.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/bitfinexcom/bitfinex-api-node", "license": "Proprietary hosted API under Bitfinex's API Terms of Service, which our reader couldn't load. The official client libraries (Node, Python, Go, Ruby) are MIT or Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "bitfinex-api-node" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "bitfinex-api-py" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key and secret made at setting.bitfinex.com/api after a browser signup, with 2FA and an email confirmation, shown once. Each key carries read and write permissions per scope (account, history, orders, positions, funding, settings, wallets, withdraw, ui_withdraw, bfxpay), readable back from `POST /v2/auth/r/permissions`, and keys are revoked from the same page; a strictly increasing nonce per key. Bitfinex's support article on keys says a key can be bound to up to 20 IP addresses, per the search result's text, since the article itself answered 403 (https://docs.bitfinex.com/docs/requirements-and-limitations, https://docs.bitfinex.com/reference/key-permissions, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API itself costs nothing. The fees page read on 3 November 2026 shows zero maker and zero taker fees for exchange, margin and derivatives order execution with no volume tiers, margin funding lender fees of 15% of interest (18% when the offer is hidden) with up to 5% off for LEO holders, a 5% takeover fee, free crypto deposits and bank wire 0.1% (minimum 60 for deposits, 100 for withdrawals, USD or EUR). Paper trading on a sub-account needs no money (https://www.bitfinex.com/fees, checked 2026-11-03).", "priceSummary": "0% fee", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, llms.txt or fees page (checked 2026-11-03). Fees are taken from the account; onboarding is a browser signup.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 480, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.bitfinex.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.bitfinex.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "exchange.market-data", "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.derivatives", "exchange.balances", "exchange.transfers", "exchange.staking", "market.crypto" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "api-key", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "status-page", "javascript", "python", "go", "ruby", "usage-priced" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 675, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 41, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 48, "security": 62, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Bitfinex gives an agent scoped keys with a separate withdraw permission, paper-trading sub-accounts on the production API, llms.txt and official clients in four languages. There is no official MCP server, responses are positional arrays with empty error bodies, rate limits run 10 to 90 a minute per IP, and the terms, API terms and privacy statement could not be read.", "bestFor": "An agent trading spot, margin or derivatives, or lending on the funding market, with scoped keys, official clients and paper trading.", "strengths": [ "Per-scope read and write permissions on each key, including a separate `withdraw` scope, readable back from the permissions endpoint", "Paper trading on a sub-account against test symbols on the same production API, with no money at risk", "llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every docs page, and official Node, Python, Go and Ruby clients", "Rate limits, connection limits and the `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` response documented with numbers", "A Statuspage history going back to 2021 and a fees page without login" ], "weaknesses": [ "No official MCP server, OpenAPI file or AsyncAPI file; the registry's Bitfinex servers are third parties proxying public market data", "Responses are positional arrays and authenticated errors answer 400 with an empty object, so an agent must map indexes and guess causes", "Rate limits of 10 to 90 requests a minute per IP with a 60-second block and no Retry-After", "The Exchange Terms, API Terms of Service, privacy statement and support articles could not be read, so the bot clauses, retention and restricted countries are unchecked", "The docs changelog stops at October 2024 and the v1 deprecation has no date" ], "agentNotes": [ "Mint a key with read on the scopes the task needs and write only on `orders`; never grant `withdraw` to a trading key, and bind the key to known IPs", "Use one key per client process, since each key keeps its own strictly increasing nonce and a reused nonce is rejected", "Rehearse on a paper-trading sub-account with the TEST symbols before touching real balances; the sub-account cannot be converted later", "Plan requests against the per-endpoint limit of 10 to 90 a minute per IP; `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` blocks the IP for 60 seconds with no Retry-After", "Map each response by position from the docs' field tables and set a `cid` on orders, because responses are arrays and a 400 carries no reason" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 41, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 48, "security": 62, "transparency": 13 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install bitfinex-api-node", "http": "curl https://api-pub.bitfinex.com/v2/ticker/tBTCUSD" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.market-data", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bitfinex" }, "area": "payments", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Exchange maker fee, as shown on 3 November 2026", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0, "note": "no tiers or date shown; reads as a promotion" }, { "item": "Exchange taker fee, as shown on 3 November 2026", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0, "note": "no tiers or date shown; reads as a promotion" }, { "item": "Margin funding lender fee on interest earned", "unit": "pct", "usd": 15, "note": "18% when the offer is hidden, up to 5% off for LEO holders" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "iFinex Inc.", "domain": "bitfinex.com", "domainRegistered": "2012-10-11", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.bitfinex.com/legal/exchange/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.bitfinex.com/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://bitfinex.statuspage.io", "changelog": "https://docs.bitfinex.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "iFinex Inc. is named only in the copyright line of bitfinex.com; the Exchange Terms, API Terms of Service and privacy statement pages draw their text by script and loaded only navigation, so the contracting entity and its jurisdiction are unconfirmed.", "RDAP gives bitfinex.com a registration date of 11 October 2012.", "https://www.bitfinex.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "www.bitfinex.com/robots.txt allows the pages read; docs.bitfinex.com allows all and points to llms.txt; bitfinex.statuspage.io disallows /api/ and /embed/, so the history feed was read. support.bitfinex.com's robots.txt allows articles but the articles answered 403.", "The docs changelog's latest entry is 16 October 2024; the API clients carry the recent releases." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitfinex.json", "live": { "slug": "bitfinex", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://bitfinex.statuspage.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T21:25:16.420431998Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "bitfinexcom/bitfinex-api-node", "version": "4.0.15", "released": "2020-07-02", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:02:46.845797373Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "bitfinex-api-node", "version": "9.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:02:45.764784853Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "bitfinex-api-py", "version": "4.0.0", "released": "2025-10-18", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:02:46.619664479Z" } ], "githubStars": 480, "npmWeekly": 6284, "pypiWeekly": 832, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://bitfinex.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:26.210646703Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T21:25:16.420431998Z" } }, "answer": "Bitfinex API scores 58.4 (C) on agent readiness against Gate's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gate leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "gate-io", "name": "Gate", "vendor": "Gate", "vendorUrl": "https://www.gate.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "Gate is a centralised crypto exchange for spot, margin, futures, options, earn and tokenised stocks, reached through its REST and WebSocket API v4, official SDKs, a CLI, and hosted and local MCP servers under its Gate for AI programme.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gate-io.json", "dns": "gate-io.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/gate/gate-mcp", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "gate-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The API v4 takes an API key and secret minted on the APIv4 Keys page after a browser sign-up, signed per request with HMAC-SHA512 in the KEY, Timestamp and SIGN headers, with a 60 second timestamp window. Each key carries a permission per product group (spot and margin, perpetual, delivery, wallet, withdrawal and others) set to disabled, read-only or read-write, an IP allow-list of up to 20 addresses, and changes take up to 5 minutes. The hosted MCP trading endpoint uses Gate OAuth 2 at www.gate.com/apiw/v2/mcp/oauth with scopes base, read, asset, spot_trade, futures_trade, earn, cfd and stock, revocable on the API management page; the public market-data endpoints need no credential; the local `gate-mcp` package takes GATE_API_KEY and GATE_API_SECRET (https://www.gate.com/docs/developers/apiv4/en/, https://api.gatemcp.ai/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp/exchange and https://www.gate.com/docs/developers/agent/en/, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API and the MCP servers cost nothing; trades carry Gate's fees. The fee page shows its tier table only after login. Gate's help centre gives the VIP 0 spot taker rate as 0.1 per cent and its learn articles give 0.1 per cent maker and taker with GT payment lowering it to 0.09 per cent; VIP tiers run from 0 to 16. The VIP 0 futures rate was not readable (https://www.gate.com/help/trade/spot/41629 and https://www.gate.com/fee, checked 2026-11-03).", "priceSummary": "0.1% fee", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API v4 docs, the agent guide, the gate-mcp README or the fee pages (checked 2026-11-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 58, "popularity": { "githubStars": 44, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.gate.com/docs/developers/apiv4/en/", "registryName": "io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp", "capabilities": [ "exchange.market-data", "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.derivatives", "exchange.balances", "exchange.transfers", "exchange.staking", "market.crypto" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "api-key", "oauth", "usage-priced", "sandbox", "no-status-page", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "official", "read-only-mode", "agent-skills", "cli", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "php", "dotnet" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 741, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 35, "reliability": 42, "schema": 70, "security": 60, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Gate runs official hosted MCP servers with keyless market data and OAuth-scoped trading, a local stdio server with a read-only switch, per-endpoint rate limits with headers and a futures testnet. There is no status page, SLA or OpenAPI file, the fee table needs a login, the MCP host is a separate domain, and the terms name no company.", "bestFor": "An agent trading spot, futures and earn products in a person's Gate account outside the 35 restricted locations, with a keyless MCP for research and an OAuth MCP or scoped key for trading.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP at api.gatemcp.ai split by purpose, 58 market-data tools with no credential and trading tools behind Gate OAuth 2 with eight scopes, in the official MCP registry", "API keys with a disabled, read-only or read-write setting per product group, a withdrawal group of its own and an IP allow-list of up to 20 addresses", "Per-endpoint rate limits with X-Gate-RateLimit-Limit, X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and X-Gate-RateLimit-Reset-Timestamp headers and a labelled error body", "Futures TestNet at api-testnet.gateapi.io with its own keys, and the complete REST and WebSocket docs downloadable as Markdown", "Official SDKs in Python, Java, PHP, Go, C#, Node.js and JavaScript, a CLI with JSON output, and 40 dated changelog entries in the last 90 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA; the terms give no uptime guarantee and cap liability at three months of fees", "The MCP endpoints live on gatemcp.ai, not gate.com, and the registry namespace is a GitHub organisation; the OAuth scopes in the metadata differ from the ones the docs describe", "The local MCP server sets no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations, and the hosted server's annotations could not be read without a session", "The fee table loads only after login, and the docs disagree with themselves on keys per account (5 against 20) and tool counts", "Clause 1.3(h) of the user agreement bans automated activity through any channel Gate has not designated, and the agreement names no legal entity" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start on https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp for prices and order books with no credential; switch to /mcp/exchange only when the person has approved the OAuth grant with the narrowest scopes", "For a key-based route, create a key on a dedicated sub-account with read-only on every group but the one the task needs, withdrawal disabled and an IP allow-list; changes take up to 5 minutes", "Put a unique `text` value starting with t- on every spot order and reuse it on the retry; read the order back before placing again", "Read X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and stop at zero; spot order placement is capped at 10 a second and withdrawals at 1 per 3 seconds", "Rehearse futures logic on api-testnet.gateapi.io with TestNet keys; there is no spot testnet" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 35, "reliability": 42, "schema": 70, "security": 60, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 60, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y gate-mcp", "http": "curl https://api.gateio.ws/api/v4/spot/tickers?currency_pair=BTC_USDT", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add gate-mcp --transport http https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "gate-mcp": { "transport": "streamable-http", "url": "https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.market-data", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gate-io" }, "area": "payments", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Spot trade, VIP 0 taker", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0.1, "note": "maker 0.1 per cent per Gate's learn articles; 0.09 per cent paid in GT" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "gate.com", "domainRegistered": "1996-03-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.gate.com/user-agreement", "privacy": "https://www.gate.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.gate.com/docs/developers/apiv4/en/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The user agreement (last updated 22 July 2026) and the privacy policy name only Gate, under the laws of the Republic of Panama with ICC arbitration; no company name or registration number appears. The about page names Gate Technology Ltd for the Malta licence only.", "www.gate.com/robots.txt allows the docs, help, legal and about paths and disallows /post/, search results, referral URLs and a list of internal API paths; nothing under those paths was fetched. The /about path answered 403 and /about-us loaded.", "RDAP gives gate.com a registration date of 29 March 1996 (Amazon Registrar); the exchange moved from gate.io to gate.com and traces its origin to 2013.", "https://www.gate.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. No status page found; status.gate.com does not resolve and the docs link none.", "The API endpoint api.gateio.ws is Gate's own; the MCP endpoints are on api.gatemcp.ai, a separate domain whose OAuth metadata points back to www.gate.com. The changelog is the versioned section of the API v4 docs page." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.json", "live": { "slug": "gate-io", "probe": { "target": "https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-04T21:27:50.477184601Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 10339, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 10329, "p95ms24h": 10591, "samples24h": 62, "samples30d": 62, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 62, "ok": 62 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T17:11:44.552009456Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "gate-mcp", "version": "0.19.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:17:45.56236451Z" } ], "githubStars": 44, "npmWeekly": 303, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://gate.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:27.737532632Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T21:27:50.477184601Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 43, "category": "reliability", "leads": "bitfinex", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines on the v2 API at api.bitfinex.com. bitfinex.statuspage.io is a Statuspage site with history back to May 2021 (20). Its feed has no entry between 25 March 2026 and 3 November 2026, so the last 90 days are clean on the record; the feed logs platform-wide outages only (a 14-hour maintenance in March 2026, a 3-hour outage in August 2025), so smaller incidents may go unrecorded. Judgement call (30). Rate limits with numbers, 10 to 90 a minute per IP and the WebSocket connection limits (15). `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` and the 60-second block are documented, with no Retry-After; orders take a `cid` but no idempotency key or retry guidance was found (10 of 15). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 85.", "b": "Graded with the hosted lines on the API v4 at api.gateio.ws with the hosted MCP beside it. No status page found (status.gate.com does not resolve, the docs link none), so 0 for the page and 5 for no readable history. Rate limits are published per endpoint group with numbers and fill-ratio rules (15). Every response carries X-Gate-RateLimit-Limit, X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and X-Gate-RateLimit-Reset-Timestamp, 429 answers with the label TOO_FAST, and spot orders take a user `text` identifier, but no retry or idempotency guidance is written down (12 of 15). No SLA (0). API v4 and the MCP endpoints are production surfaces (10). 42." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 42 } }, { "by": 36, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "gate-io", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a closed service with open clients. The last dated change we could read is bitfinex-api-node 9.1.0 on 18 July 2026, 108 days before the check; the docs changelog stops in October 2024 (10). Not three dated releases in the last 90 days (0). The bitfinexcom organisation pushes often (bfx-report on 3 November 2026) and the clients have issue trackers, but support articles answered 403 and no reply times were read (10 of 25). Official clients current in four languages, Node 9.1.0 of July 2026 and Python 4.0.0 of October 2025; not in the MCP registry (15). The Node client has a dependency history of security fixes (its last GitHub release notes name two) and no CI was read (6 of 10). 10 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 6 = 41.", "b": "Read as a hosted service with open-source MCP packages. The API changelog's latest entry is 2 November 2026 and gate-skills was pushed 3 November (30). 40 dated changelog entries since 5 August 2026 (20). developer@gate.com, a help centre and issue trackers on gate-mcp and gate-skills, replies not checked (12 of 25). In the official MCP registry under io.github.gateio-dev, a GitHub namespace rather than gate.com, and official SDKs current (10 of 15). The local package has a publish workflow and no test workflow in CI, and its last tag is 16 April 2026 (5 of 10). 77." }, "scores": { "a": 41, "b": 77 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "schema", "leads": "gate-io", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI or AsyncAPI file was found on docs.bitfinex.com, in llms.txt or in the client repositories (0). llms.txt and a .md twin of every docs page (10). Each reference page states the endpoint's purpose and fields, and the introduction says when to use api-pub against api, but nothing says when not to use an endpoint (14 of 20). Responses are positional arrays described in field tables, inputs are typed in prose with some enumerations (wallet names, order types) and required fields marked; the withdrawal CODE field is work in progress (7 of 15). Signed-request recipes in five languages, but authenticated errors are documented as 400 with an empty object and there is no error reference (9 of 15). Version v2 in the path and a dated changelog, whose last entry is October 2024 and whose v1 deprecation has no date (8 of 15). 0 + 10 + 14 + 7 + 9 + 8 = 48.", "b": "No public OpenAPI file was found, though the SDKs are generated and the MCP tools carry typed parameters per the tool reference; the hosted tools' JSON Schema could not be read without a session (12 of 25). The whole REST and WebSocket documentation is downloadable as Markdown and the agent guide is a plain page (10). The tool reference gives one line and the main parameters per tool, the API reference a description per endpoint, no when-not-to-use guidance (12 of 20). Required flags, enums for side, type and time_in_force (11 of 15). Examples per endpoint and a labelled error body with a fixed label list the docs tell you to branch on instead of messages (13 of 15). A versioned changelog, v4.106.177 on 2 November 2026 (12 of 15, since entries are terse). 70." }, "scores": { "a": 48, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "gate-io", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Graded on the REST API. Limits on trades, candles and book depth, and `pub:list` config endpoints keep responses small, but positional arrays make every field a lookup (14 of 25). `start`, `end`, `limit` and `sort` on history endpoints and per-symbol variants (16 of 20). `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` is actionable; authenticated 400s return `{}` and withdrawal status strings may change, so an agent cannot branch on causes (8 of 20). A client id on orders, order multi-op and cancel-multiple, but no idempotency key and no retry contract (8 of 20). Few required parameters and official clients in Node, Python, Go and Ruby (15). 14 + 16 + 8 + 8 + 15 = 61.", "b": "Read for the API with the hosted MCP beside it. The MCP is split by endpoint (58 public tools on /mcp, 400 or more on /mcp/exchange, smaller info and news servers) and the local package filters by module and read-only flag, which stands in for toolsets (5 of 25 for the trading server, 10 added back). Pagination by page and limit, from and to timestamps, status filters (15 of 20). Error labels such as INVALID_SIGNATURE, REQUEST_EXPIRED, IP_FORBIDDEN and READ_ONLY name the recovery (15 of 20). The `text` order identifier makes retries safe; the local server's source sets no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint and the hosted annotations are unread (8 of 20). Three required fields on a spot order, SDKs in seven languages and a CLI (13 of 15). 66." }, "scores": { "a": 61, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "payments", "leads": "bitfinex", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No machine payment protocol (0). The fees page is public without login (20), though it shows zero maker and taker with no tiers or date. The API is free, public endpoints need no account, and paper trading needs no money (20). A person must sign up in a browser with identity checks and mint the key (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.", "b": "No machine payment protocol (0). The fee page's table loads after login; help centre and learn articles give the VIP 0 spot rates (15 of 20). Market data over REST and the public MCP needs no account and no card (20). A person registers, verifies identity and mints the key or approves the grant in a browser (0). 35." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 35 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "iFinex Inc.", "b": "Gate", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted API under Bitfinex's API Terms of Service, which our reader couldn't load. The official client libraries (Node, Python, Go, Ruby) are MIT or Apache-2.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "58", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-07-18", "b": "2026-11-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-07-22", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "480 stars", "b": "44 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Bitfinex API scores 58.4 (C) on agent readiness against Gate's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gate leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Bitfinex API or Gate?" }, { "answer": "Bitfinex API needs an API key. Gate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Bitfinex API and Gate need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Bitfinex API. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-bybit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-mcp.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-crypto-com-exchange.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Crypto.com Exchange API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-crypto-com-exchange" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-deribit.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Deribit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-deribit" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-mexc.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs MEXC API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-mexc" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-okx.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-uniswap.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Uniswap Trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-uniswap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-upbit.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Upbit Open API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-upbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Bitget vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Bithumb Open API vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Bybit vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Crypto.com Exchange API vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-gemini-exchange.json", "title": "Gate vs Gemini Exchange API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-gemini-exchange" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-htx.json", "title": "Gate vs HTX trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-htx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-hyperliquid.json", "title": "Gate vs Hyperliquid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-hyperliquid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-kraken.json", "title": "Gate vs Kraken API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-kraken" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Gate vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-mexc.json", "title": "Gate vs MEXC API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-mexc" }, { "json": 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Advanced Trade API vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "Deribit vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-gate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-gate-io.json", "title": "dYdX vs Gate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-gate-io" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "bitfinex": 85, "by": 43, "edge": "bitfinex", "gate-io": 42, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bitfinex": 48, "by": 22, "edge": "gate-io", "gate-io": 70, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "bitfinex": 61, "by": 5, "edge": "gate-io", "gate-io": 66, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "bitfinex": 62, "by": 2, "edge": "bitfinex", "gate-io": 60, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "bitfinex": 40, "by": 5, "edge": "bitfinex", "gate-io": 35, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bitfinex": 41, "by": 36, "edge": "gate-io", "gate-io": 77, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "bitfinex": 49, "by": 0, "edge": "", "gate-io": 49, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Bitfinex API scores 58.4 (C) on agent readiness against Gate's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gate leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do exchange market data.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "bitfinex": "Bitfinex gives an agent scoped keys with a separate withdraw permission, paper-trading sub-accounts on the production API, llms.txt and official clients in four languages. There is no official MCP server, responses are positional arrays with empty error bodies, rate limits run 10 to 90 a minute per IP, and the terms, API terms and privacy statement could not be read.", "gate-io": "Gate runs official hosted MCP servers with keyless market data and OAuth-scoped trading, a local stdio server with a read-only switch, per-endpoint rate limits with headers and a futures testnet. There is no status page, SLA or OpenAPI file, the fee table needs a login, the MCP host is a separate domain, and the terms name no company." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-gate-io", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-gate-io.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-gate-io.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-gate-io.min.md" }, "markdown": "Bitfinex API scores 58.4 (C) on agent readiness against Gate's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gate leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do exchange market data.\n\n- Bitfinex API: grade C, 58.4/100, rank #675 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitfinex.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitfinex.json\n- Gate: grade C, 56.4/100, rank #741 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gate-io.json\n- Best crypto exchange APIs and MCP servers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/crypto-exchanges/index.md\n- All 210 exchanges comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-exchanges/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Bitfinex API (C)\n\nGood for: An agent trading spot, margin or derivatives, or lending on the funding market, with scoped keys, official clients and paper trading.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 42\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n\nWatch for: No official MCP server, OpenAPI file or AsyncAPI file; the registry's Bitfinex servers are third parties proxying public market data\n\n### Gate (C)\n\nGood for: An agent trading spot, futures and earn products in a person's Gate account outside the 35 restricted locations, with a keyless MCP for research and an OAuth MCP or scoped key for trading.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 48\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 61\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 77 against 41\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA; the terms give no uptime guarantee and cap liability at three months of fees\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Bitfinex API +43\n\n- Bitfinex API (85): Read with the hosted lines on the v2 API at api.bitfinex.com. bitfinex.statuspage.io is a Statuspage site with history back to May 2021 (20). Its feed has no entry between 25 March 2026 and 3 November 2026, so the last 90 days are clean on the record; the feed logs platform-wide outages only (a 14-hour maintenance in March 2026, a 3-hour outage in August 2025), so smaller incidents may go unrecorded. Judgement call (30). Rate limits with numbers, 10 to 90 a minute per IP and the WebSocket connection limits (15). `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` and the 60-second block are documented, with no Retry-After; orders take a `cid` but no idempotency key or retry guidance was found (10 of 15). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 85.\n- Gate (42): Graded with the hosted lines on the API v4 at api.gateio.ws with the hosted MCP beside it. No status page found (status.gate.com does not resolve, the docs link none), so 0 for the page and 5 for no readable history. Rate limits are published per endpoint group with numbers and fill-ratio rules (15). Every response carries X-Gate-RateLimit-Limit, X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and X-Gate-RateLimit-Reset-Timestamp, 429 answers with the label TOO_FAST, and spot orders take a user `text` identifier, but no retry or idempotency guidance is written down (12 of 15). No SLA (0). API v4 and the MCP endpoints are production surfaces (10). 42.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Gate +36\n\n- Bitfinex API (41): Read as a closed service with open clients. The last dated change we could read is bitfinex-api-node 9.1.0 on 18 July 2026, 108 days before the check; the docs changelog stops in October 2024 (10). Not three dated releases in the last 90 days (0). The bitfinexcom organisation pushes often (bfx-report on 3 November 2026) and the clients have issue trackers, but support articles answered 403 and no reply times were read (10 of 25). Official clients current in four languages, Node 9.1.0 of July 2026 and Python 4.0.0 of October 2025; not in the MCP registry (15). The Node client has a dependency history of security fixes (its last GitHub release notes name two) and no CI was read (6 of 10). 10 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 6 = 41.\n- Gate (77): Read as a hosted service with open-source MCP packages. The API changelog's latest entry is 2 November 2026 and gate-skills was pushed 3 November (30). 40 dated changelog entries since 5 August 2026 (20). developer@gate.com, a help centre and issue trackers on gate-mcp and gate-skills, replies not checked (12 of 25). In the official MCP registry under io.github.gateio-dev, a GitHub namespace rather than gate.com, and official SDKs current (10 of 15). The local package has a publish workflow and no test workflow in CI, and its last tag is 16 April 2026 (5 of 10). 77.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Gate +22\n\n- Bitfinex API (48): No OpenAPI or AsyncAPI file was found on docs.bitfinex.com, in llms.txt or in the client repositories (0). llms.txt and a .md twin of every docs page (10). Each reference page states the endpoint's purpose and fields, and the introduction says when to use api-pub against api, but nothing says when not to use an endpoint (14 of 20). Responses are positional arrays described in field tables, inputs are typed in prose with some enumerations (wallet names, order types) and required fields marked; the withdrawal CODE field is work in progress (7 of 15). Signed-request recipes in five languages, but authenticated errors are documented as 400 with an empty object and there is no error reference (9 of 15). Version v2 in the path and a dated changelog, whose last entry is October 2024 and whose v1 deprecation has no date (8 of 15). 0 + 10 + 14 + 7 + 9 + 8 = 48.\n- Gate (70): No public OpenAPI file was found, though the SDKs are generated and the MCP tools carry typed parameters per the tool reference; the hosted tools' JSON Schema could not be read without a session (12 of 25). The whole REST and WebSocket documentation is downloadable as Markdown and the agent guide is a plain page (10). The tool reference gives one line and the main parameters per tool, the API reference a description per endpoint, no when-not-to-use guidance (12 of 20). Required flags, enums for side, type and time_in_force (11 of 15). Examples per endpoint and a labelled error body with a fixed label list the docs tell you to branch on instead of messages (13 of 15). A versioned changelog, v4.106.177 on 2 November 2026 (12 of 15, since entries are terse). 70.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Gate +5\n\n- Bitfinex API (61): Graded on the REST API. Limits on trades, candles and book depth, and `pub:list` config endpoints keep responses small, but positional arrays make every field a lookup (14 of 25). `start`, `end`, `limit` and `sort` on history endpoints and per-symbol variants (16 of 20). `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` is actionable; authenticated 400s return `{}` and withdrawal status strings may change, so an agent cannot branch on causes (8 of 20). A client id on orders, order multi-op and cancel-multiple, but no idempotency key and no retry contract (8 of 20). Few required parameters and official clients in Node, Python, Go and Ruby (15). 14 + 16 + 8 + 8 + 15 = 61.\n- Gate (66): Read for the API with the hosted MCP beside it. The MCP is split by endpoint (58 public tools on /mcp, 400 or more on /mcp/exchange, smaller info and news servers) and the local package filters by module and read-only flag, which stands in for toolsets (5 of 25 for the trading server, 10 added back). Pagination by page and limit, from and to timestamps, status filters (15 of 20). Error labels such as INVALID_SIGNATURE, REQUEST_EXPIRED, IP_FORBIDDEN and READ_ONLY name the recovery (15 of 20). The `text` order identifier makes retries safe; the local server's source sets no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint and the hosted annotations are unread (8 of 20). Three required fields on a spot order, SDKs in seven languages and a CLI (13 of 15). 66.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Bitfinex API +5\n\n- Bitfinex API (40): No machine payment protocol (0). The fees page is public without login (20), though it shows zero maker and taker with no tiers or date. The API is free, public endpoints need no account, and paper trading needs no money (20). A person must sign up in a browser with identity checks and mint the key (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.\n- Gate (35): No machine payment protocol (0). The fee page's table loads after login; help centre and learn articles give the VIP 0 spot rates (15 of 20). Market data over REST and the public MCP needs no account and no card (20). A person registers, verifies identity and mints the key or approves the grant in a browser (0). 35.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bitfinex API | Gate | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 42 | Bitfinex API +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 70 | Gate +22 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 66 | Gate +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 60 | Bitfinex API +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Bitfinex API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 41 | 77 | Gate +36 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 49 | 49 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.4 · C** | **56.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bitfinex API | Gate |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | iFinex Inc. | Gate |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp` |\n| Transports | | Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted API under Bitfinex's API Terms of Service, which our reader couldn't load. The official client libraries (Node, Python, Go, Ruby) are MIT or Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 58 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-07-18 | 2026-11-02 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-22 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 480 stars | 44 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Bitfinex API.** Bitfinex gives an agent scoped keys with a separate withdraw permission, paper-trading sub-accounts on the production API, llms.txt and official clients in four languages. There is no official MCP server, responses are positional arrays with empty error bodies, rate limits run 10 to 90 a minute per IP, and the terms, API terms and privacy statement could not be read.\n\n**Gate.** Gate runs official hosted MCP servers with keyless market data and OAuth-scoped trading, a local stdio server with a read-only switch, per-endpoint rate limits with headers and a futures testnet. There is no status page, SLA or OpenAPI file, the fee table needs a login, the MCP host is a separate domain, and the terms name no company.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bitfinex API\n\n1. Mint a key with read on the scopes the task needs and write only on `orders`; never grant `withdraw` to a trading key, and bind the key to known IPs\n2. Use one key per client process, since each key keeps its own strictly increasing nonce and a reused nonce is rejected\n3. Rehearse on a paper-trading sub-account with the TEST symbols before touching real balances; the sub-account cannot be converted later\n4. Plan requests against the per-endpoint limit of 10 to 90 a minute per IP; `ERR_RATE_LIMIT` blocks the IP for 60 seconds with no Retry-After\n5. Map each response by position from the docs' field tables and set a `cid` on orders, because responses are arrays and a 400 carries no reason\n\n### Gate\n\n1. Start on https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp for prices and order books with no credential; switch to /mcp/exchange only when the person has approved the OAuth grant with the narrowest scopes\n2. For a key-based route, create a key on a dedicated sub-account with read-only on every group but the one the task needs, withdrawal disabled and an IP allow-list; changes take up to 5 minutes\n3. Put a unique `text` value starting with t- on every spot order and reuse it on the retry; read the order back before placing again\n4. Read X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and stop at zero; spot order placement is capped at 10 a second and withdrawals at 1 per 3 seconds\n5. Rehearse futures logic on api-testnet.gateapi.io with TestNet keys; there is no spot testnet\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bitfinex API or Gate?\n\nBitfinex API scores 58.4 (C) on agent readiness against Gate's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gate leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Bitfinex API and Gate need an API key?\n\nBitfinex API needs an API key. Gate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Bitfinex API and Gate without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Bitfinex API. Gate has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-gate-io.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-gate-io.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bitfinex\", \"b\": \"gate-io\"}`. 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