# Bitget vs Gate

> Gate scores 56.4 (C) to Bitget's 53.9 (D) for exchange market data. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Gate scores 56.4 (C) on agent readiness against Bitget's 53.9 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Bitget leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do exchange market data.

- Bitget: grade D, 53.9/100, rank #890 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitget.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitget.json
- Gate: grade C, 56.4/100, rank #786 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gate-io.json
- Best crypto exchange APIs and MCP servers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/crypto-exchanges/index.md
- All 210 exchanges comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-exchanges/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Bitget (D)

Good 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 66
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 35
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 49

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

### Gate (C)

Good 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.

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Bitget loses 8 points for them

Watch for: No status page, incident history or SLA; the terms give no uptime guarantee and cap liability at three months of fees


## Why the edge

### Agent ergonomics: Bitget +17

- 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.
- 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.

### Transparency & trust: Bitget +16

- 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.
- Gate (49): The editorial half. A closed hosted service with a clear user agreement that names no company; the MCP packages are MIT (12 of 30). The privacy policy names a DPO address and categories of recipients, with no retention numbers and no named subprocessors (12 of 30). The changelog records breaking changes such as the amend endpoint path move of 16 October 2026 with no notice period or policy (8 of 20). Transfers outside the user's jurisdiction are disclosed with no locations or provider names (5 of 20). 37.

### Payments & pricing: Bitget +5

- 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.
- 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.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Bitget | Gate | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 42 | Gate +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 70 | Bitget +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 66 | Bitget +17 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 60 | Bitget +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Bitget +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 77 | Bitget +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 49 | Bitget +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **53.9 · D** | **56.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Bitget | Gate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | BTG Technology Holdings Limited | Gate |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | stdio | Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Tools exposed | 14 | 58 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Bitget-AI/bitget-agent-mcp` | `io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-11-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-20 | 2026-07-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-12-05 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |
| Popularity | 234 stars | 44 stars |

## 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.

**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.

## 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

### Gate

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Rehearse futures logic on api-testnet.gateapi.io with TestNet keys; there is no spot testnet

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Bitget or Gate?

Gate scores 56.4 (C) on agent readiness against Bitget's 53.9 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Bitget leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do Bitget and Gate need an API key?

Bitget needs an API key. Gate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Bitget and Gate without installing anything?

Bitget runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Gate has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-gate-io.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-gate-io.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "bitget", "b": "gate-io"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bitget gate-io`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitget.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gate-io.json

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