Head to head · Exchange market data · October 2026 research run

Bitget vs Deribit

Deribit scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Bitget's 53.9 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Bitget leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do exchange market data.

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Which one, for what

Bitget D

Best for An agent trading spot, futures and earn products in a person's Bitget account outside the prohibited list, with the smallest default MCP surface of the exchanges graded and a paper-trading switch.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 83 against 74
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 65
  • Transparency & trust, 65 against 46

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

Hot and warm wallets lost about 388 million dollars on 24 September 2026 to forged withdrawal commands, and withdrawals were paused until 2 October

Deribit C

Best for An agent trading crypto options, dated futures and perpetuals for an institutional or retail Deribit account, and anyone migrated from Coinbase International Exchange.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 45 against 40
  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 74

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Bitget loses 8 points for them

Watch for

No official MCP server, and the GitHub organisation has no public repositories, so no official SDK in any language

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Transparency & trust Bitget +19

Bitget 65

The editorial half. A closed hosted service with clear terms naming BTG Technology Holdings Limited; the toolkit is MIT (15 of 30). The privacy notice names the controller and EEA representative, gives 7-year and up to 10-year retention for compliance and litigation, and names recipients by category only (18 of 30). Deprecations and parameter changes carry effective dates (delta mode deprecated 27 August, symbol and category required from 30 September, snapshot changes with demo and live dates) but no written policy (15 of 20). Recipients by category, transfers under Seychelles law with no locations or provider names (5 of 20). 53.

Deribit 46

The editorial half. A closed service whose terms (Deribit FZE membership terms and DRB Panama Inc. terms) sit on a support site that answered 403, with the entity confirmed on VARA's register (12 of 30). The privacy policy was not read, and nothing in the docs states retention (0 of 30). The changelog marks deprecations and the upcoming docs branch previews the next release, but removals such as public/get_index on 25 November 2025 carry no notice period (10 of 20). No subprocessor or data-location statement found (0 of 20). Total 22.

Payments & pricing Bitget +15

Bitget 40

No machine payment protocol (0). Base spot and futures rates are stated in a help article without login, the tier table draws by script (20). Market data needs no key, demo trading costs nothing and no card is asked for at sign-up (20). A person registers, verifies identity and mints the key in a browser (0). 40.

Deribit 25

No machine payment protocol (0). The fee schedule is on support.deribit.com, which answered 403; Deribit's own posts give VIP4 to VIP7 taker fees and the 0 bps linear options maker fee, so partial prices are public but the lowest tier is unchecked (5 of 20). Public market data needs no key and the test environment is free, with no card anywhere (20). A person signs up in a browser with identity checks before any key exists (0). Total 25.

Schema & documentation Deribit +14

Bitget 74

The agent SDK ships openapi.yaml with 109 typed UTA v3 operations from which the tools are generated, a machine-readable contract from the vendor's own organisation though not on the docs site (20 of 25). llms.txt in the SDK and MCP repositories; the docs site has none (6 of 10). Intent tools with a discover tool that explains each verb, action and its risk level, and the server's initialize instructions state surface, modules and read-only posture (15 of 20). Typed inputs with enums and required fields from the OpenAPI source (12 of 15). Examples in the quick start and READMEs, a REST error code page in the legacy docs that we did not read in full (9 of 15). Changelog by day with preview notices and effective dates (12 of 15). 74.

Deribit 88

OpenAPI 3.0.0 for the whole JSON-RPC surface (Deribit API 2.1.1, about 1.4 million characters) plus AsyncAPI files for the WebSocket side (25). llms.txt with production and upcoming indexes, and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Each operation has a description such as "Places a buy order for an instrument." with parameter notes, and the articles say when to use WebSocket subscriptions over polling, but the reference seldom says when not to use a method (13 of 20). Parameters are typed with enums (order type has eight values, time_in_force four) and required flags, with amount or contracts as a documented either-or (13 of 15). Every reference page carries an example request and response, and the errors page lists about 159 codes with retry guidance, though most operations document only a 200 response and the smaller error tables disagree with the full one on two codes (12 of 15). A versioned path (/api/v2), a production and an upcoming docs branch, and a dated changelog of 64 entries since 21 January 2020 (15). Total 88.

Maintenance & community Bitget +13

Bitget 78

Read as a hosted service with an open-source toolkit. The UTA changelog's latest launched entry is 30 October 2026 and a preview entry 3 November; the MCP package shipped 3.3.1 on 20 September and agent-skill was pushed 30 October (30). 58 dated changelog entries since 5 August 2026 and six MCP versions since June (20). Issue trackers on the Bitget-AI repositories (11 open on agent_hub) and a support centre; replies were not checked (10 of 25). In the official MCP registry under io.github.Bitget-AI, a GitHub namespace, with official SDKs in five languages (10 of 15). CI workflow with coverage, npm provenance attestations, two runtime dependencies, no install scripts (8 of 10). 78.

Deribit 65

Read as a closed service. The JSON-RPC changelog's latest production entry is 13 October 2026 and an entry dated 5 November 2026 describes the next release; Deribit's posts of 14 October and 2 November 2026 change fees (30). Entries of 18 August, 15 September and 13 October 2026, three in 90 days (20). A public changelog and a support site; whether support answers wasn't tested and the support site refused our reader (10 of 15). No official SDK and no MCP registry entry (0). The OpenAPI and AsyncAPI files are maintained with the docs (5 of 10). Total 65.

Agent ergonomics Bitget +9

Bitget 83

Read for the API with the MCP server as the agent route. 14 compact tools by default, module filters, a full surface on request and progressive discovery (25). Cursor pagination on CFD order history since 15 October 2026 and limit parameters on lists (15 of 20). Uniform ok or error result shape from the SDK with typed error classes and compact JSON in the text channel (13 of 20). clientOid on orders, dryRun: true on every write, confirm: true gating cancelAll and withdraw, annotations derived from risk level including readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint (18 of 20). Few required fields, official SDKs in five languages plus the TypeScript agent SDK and a CLI (12 of 15). 83.

Deribit 74

An API, read for response sizing. public/get_order_book takes depth, get_instruments filters by currency and kind, and history methods take count and offset, though get_instruments returns every instrument for a currency and costs 10,000 credits (18 of 25). Count and offset pagination, time ranges on trade and transaction logs, and WebSocket channels with interval and depth options (16 of 20). Numeric error codes with short names, a wait value on some errors, and sample code that branches on them (18 of 20). A nonce on orders since May 2026 returns the existing order on retry, a label lets an agent find its own orders, and 10040 marks the calls safe to retry; no MCP annotations apply (16 of 20). Few required parameters and sensible defaults (limit and good_til_cancelled), but no official SDK in any language, so every caller signs and frames JSON-RPC itself (6 of 15). Total 74.

Reliability Deribit +5

Bitget 40

Graded with the hosted lines on the UTA v3 API at api.bitget.com. No status page found (status.bitget.com does not resolve, the docs link none), so 0 for the page and 5 for no readable history; the September 2026 breach is in the deduction, not here. Rate limits are published as 6,000 per IP per minute and per-endpoint UID limits by VIP level (15). An x-mbx-used-remain-limit header is documented and the agent SDK backs off on 429, orders take a clientOid of up to 64 characters, but the breach error code and a Retry-After rule were not read (10 of 15). No SLA (0). UTA v3 is the production API (10). 40.

Deribit 45

Read with the hosted lines on the JSON-RPC API. status.deribit.com did not resolve for our reader on 3 November 2026 and Coinbase's status page showed no Deribit component, so no status page is scored, with the unchecked line below (0). No readable history (5). Rate limits are documented with numbers, 50,000 credits per sub-account refilled at 10,000 a second, and matching-engine tiers of 5 to 30 requests a second by 7-day volume (15). Error 10028 ends the session and the errors page says to back off exponentially; 10040 means retry; the 6 May 2026 release added a nonce for idempotent orders (15). No SLA found (0). The API is generally available; only Starbase is limited to selected clients (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBitgetDeribitEdge
Reliability16%204045Deribit +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27488Deribit +14
Agent ergonomics13%16.28374Bitget +9
Security & auth14%17.56262even
Payments & pricing10%12.54025Bitget +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87865Bitget +13
Transparency & trust7%8.86546Bitget +19
Negative events≤15-80
TotalD 53.9/100C 59/100

Facts side by side

FactBitgetDeribit
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBTG Technology Holdings LimitedDeribit FZE
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transportsstdio
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicencenoneProprietary hosted exchange. The API is documented under the Deribit docs with an OpenAPI 3.0 file; no official client library is published
Tools exposed140
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registryio.github.Bitget-AI/bitget-agent-mcpnot listed
Last release2026-10-302026-10-13
Terms last updated2026-10-202026-08-13
Privacy policy last updated2025-12-05no document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity234 starsnone

Verdicts

Bitget

Bitget's official MCP server keeps the default surface to 14 intent tools with discovery, read-only and paper-trading switches, dry runs and a confirmation gate on withdrawals, over an API with demo trading. A 388 million dollar wallet breach in September 2026 paused withdrawals for eight days, and there is no status page, SLA or readable fee table.

Deribit

Deribit's JSON-RPC API has scoped keys with IP and expiry limits, asymmetric signing, an OpenAPI file, numeric rate limits and a 64-entry changelog. There is no official MCP server or client library, the fee schedule, terms and privacy policy sit on a support site that refused our reader, and the status page did not resolve.

Before you call either

Bitget

  1. Run npx -y @bitget-ai/bitget-agent-mcp --read-only for research and --paper-trading with a demo key before any live order; the two flags cannot be combined
  2. Call discover({}) first, then the intent verbs; add dryRun: true to any write to preview it, and pass confirm: true only after the person has agreed to a withdraw or cancelAll
  3. Send a unique clientOid of at most 64 characters on every order and reuse it on retry; orderId wins when both are sent
  4. Stay under 10 requests a second per endpoint on a new account and 6,000 a minute per IP; the SDK retries on 429, so do not add a second retry loop
  5. Bind the key to an IP and keep write permission off a research key; the docs read show no separate withdrawal scope

Deribit

  1. Create the key with trade:read_write and wallet:none, an ip: limit and an expires value; keep account:read unless the task edits subaccounts
  2. Authenticate with client_signature or an Ed25519 key over WebSocket rather than client_credentials over HTTP, which puts the secret in the URL
  3. Watch the limits field of private/get_account_summary and back off on error 10028; a session that runs out of credits is closed and must reconnect
  4. Send a nonce with orders so a retry after a timeout does not place a second order, and treat order_not_found on cancel as a possible fill
  5. Develop against https://test.deribit.com/api/v2 first; production and test need separate accounts and keys

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Bitget or Deribit?

Deribit scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Bitget's 53.9 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Bitget leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Do Bitget and Deribit need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Bitget and Deribit without installing anything?

Bitget runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Deribit.

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