{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "bitstamp", "name": "Bitstamp API", "vendor": "Bitstamp Ltd.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.bitstamp.net", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "Bitstamp's HTTP API v2 for spot and derivatives trading, balances, deposits and withdrawals, with WebSocket and FIX feeds and a sandbox at sandbox.bitstamp.net. Bitstamp is a Robinhood company since June 2025.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitstamp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitstamp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitstamp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitstamp.json", "dns": "bitstamp.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary hosted API under Bitstamp's terms of use, which our reader couldn't load", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key and secret made in the Bitstamp account after a browser signup, sent as `X-Auth: BITSTAMP {key}` with an HMAC-SHA256 `X-Auth-Signature` over the verb, host, path, query, nonce, timestamp and body, a 36-character single-use nonce and a timestamp within 150 seconds. Keys carry per-endpoint permissions (error API0003 names a missing permission) and an IP allow-list (API0002), and `X-Auth-Subaccount-Id` targets a sub-account. `POST /api/v2/revoke_all_api_keys/` is a kill switch for every key. Responses carry an `X-Server-Auth-Signature` to verify (https://www.bitstamp.net/api/, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API itself costs nothing. Trading fees are maker and taker by 30-day volume per the API's fees endpoints, but the fee schedule page at bitstamp.net/fee-schedule/ draws its table by script and loaded empty for our reader, so the rates are unchecked. Commercial use of exchange data needs a Data License Agreement through partners@bitstamp.net. The sandbox at sandbox.bitstamp.net needs no money (https://www.bitstamp.net/api/, checked 2026-11-03).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API documentation (checked 2026-11-03). Fees are taken from the account; onboarding is a browser signup.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.bitstamp.net/api/", "capabilities": [ "exchange.market-data", "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.derivatives", "exchange.balances", "exchange.transfers", "exchange.staking", "market.crypto" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "api-key", "sandbox", "status-page", "usage-priced", "eu", "uk" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.4, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1002, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 20, "reliability": 63, "schema": 51, "security": 60, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Bitstamp documents its v2 API on one static page with numeric rate limits, per-endpoint key permissions, an IP allow-list, a kill switch and a sandbox. There is no official MCP server, duplicate client order ids are allowed, and the fee schedule, terms, privacy policy and country list render by script and could not be read.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs a long-running regulated spot venue in the EU, UK and US with a sandbox and per-endpoint key permissions, and can do its own signing.", "strengths": [ "Rate limits with numbers (400 requests a second, 10,000 per 10 minutes) and named error codes for client and market limits", "Keys carry per-endpoint permissions and an IP allow-list, and one call revokes every key on the account", "A sandbox at sandbox.bitstamp.net with the same v2 paths, plus order-data endpoints to recover gaps after a dropped WebSocket", "A dated API changelog from 2023 to 28 August 2026 and a Statuspage feed with per-market incidents", "Signed responses (`X-Server-Auth-Signature`) let a client verify what the server returned" ], "weaknesses": [ "No official MCP server, SDK, llms.txt or OpenAPI file; the registry's Bitstamp servers are third parties proxying public market data", "Duplicate client order ids are allowed since November 2023, so a retried order can execute twice", "The fee schedule, terms of use, privacy policy, about page and FAQ load empty without a browser, so fees, retention and the bot clauses are unchecked", "A 3-hour withdrawal failure across 14 networks on 21 August 2026 and a 39-minute halt of all markets on 5 August 2026", "security.txt expired on 12 July 2026, and no SLA was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Mint a key with only the endpoint permissions the task needs and an IP allow-list; keep `revoke_all_api_keys` in reach as a kill switch", "Treat `client_order_id` as a label, not a guard. On a timeout (500.016) fetch the order by client id before resending, because duplicates are accepted", "Use a fresh 36-character nonce and a timestamp within 150 seconds of server time on every request, or expect API0004 and API0017", "Stay under 400 requests a second and 10,000 per 10 minutes; 400.002 and 400.067 mean back off, and open-orders answers are cached for 10 seconds", "Start on sandbox.bitstamp.net with the same paths, and read the fee schedule in a browser before quoting costs, since it is unreadable to a plain fetch" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 20, "reliability": 63, "schema": 51, "security": 60, "transparency": 16 }, "provenanceScore": 90, "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": { "http": "curl https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btcusd/" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.market-data", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bitstamp" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Bitstamp Ltd.", "domain": "bitstamp.net", "domainRegistered": "2011-07-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.bitstamp.net/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://www.bitstamp.net/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.bitstamp.net", "changelog": "https://www.bitstamp.net/api/", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "Bitstamp Ltd. is named in Robinhood's newsroom post of 2 June 2025 on closing the acquisition; the terms of use and privacy policy pages loaded empty for our reader, so the entities they name are unconfirmed.", "RDAP gives bitstamp.net a registration date of 4 July 2011.", "https://www.bitstamp.net/.well-known/security.txt names HackerOne's Robinhood programme as Contact and Policy and expired on 12 July 2026.", "www.bitstamp.net/robots.txt allows /api/ itself and disallows /api/*, /account/, /trade/ and others; only /api/ was read under it. status.bitstamp.net disallows /api/ and /embed/, so the history feed was read. support.bitstamp.net did not resolve.", "The API changelog is a section of the API documentation page; there is no separate changelog URL." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitstamp.json", "live": { "slug": "bitstamp", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.bitstamp.net", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T20:04:41.953848408Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://bitstamp.net/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-07-12T11:59:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:31.314157297Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T20:04:41.953848408Z" } }, "answer": "KuCoin scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Bitstamp API's 50.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Bitstamp API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "kucoin", "name": "KuCoin", "vendor": "KuCoin", "vendorUrl": "https://www.kucoin.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "KuCoin is a centralised crypto exchange for spot, margin and futures trading and earn products, reached through its REST and WebSocket API with a unified trading account, an official multi-language SDK and read-only agent skills. It runs no MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kucoin", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kucoin.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kucoin.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kucoin.json", "dns": "kucoin.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key, secret and user-set passphrase minted under API Management after a browser sign-up and identity verification, with KC-API-KEY, KC-API-SIGN (HMAC-SHA256 over timestamp, method, path and body, Base64), KC-API-TIMESTAMP, KC-API-PASSPHRASE (the passphrase signed with the secret) and KC-API-KEY-VERSION headers. Permissions are General (read-only), Spot, Margin, Futures, Earn, Withdrawal, FlexTransfers, LeadtradeFutures and Unified; Withdrawal and FlexTransfers need an IP allow-list, and a key with trading permissions and no IP bound has trading disabled or is deleted after 30 days of inactivity. General-only keys do not expire (https://www.kucoin.com/docs-new/authentication, https://www.kucoin.com/docs-new/ and https://www.kucoin.com/support/360015102174, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API costs nothing; trades carry KuCoin's fees. Spot fee levels are set against a base of 0.1 per cent maker and 0.1 per cent taker at LV0, with some pairs priced differently and a 20 per cent discount when fees are paid in KCS. The futures LV0 rate (0.02 per cent maker and 0.06 per cent taker per a KuCoin blog post) sits in an image on the support page and was not read first-hand. The fee page itself loads its table by script (https://www.kucoin.com/support/360015188494 and https://www.kucoin.com/en-eu/support/360015207133, checked 2026-11-03).", "priceSummary": "0.1% fee", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the skills hub or the fee pages (checked 2026-11-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 55, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.kucoin.com/docs-new/", "capabilities": [ "exchange.market-data", "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.derivatives", "exchange.balances", "exchange.transfers", "exchange.staking", "market.crypto" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "api-key", "usage-priced", "no-status-page", "agent-skills", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "php" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 891, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 35, "reliability": 45, "schema": 60, "security": 55, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "KuCoin publishes pooled rate limits with remaining and reset headers, scoped keys where withdrawals and transfers need an IP allow-list, an official SDK in five languages and read-only agent skills. It runs no MCP server, has no sandbox, status page or OpenAPI file, and its terms name no legal entity.", "bestFor": "An agent trading spot, margin and futures in a person's KuCoin account outside the restricted list, with no sandbox and no MCP server, so through the SDK or raw REST.", "strengths": [ "Rate limits published per VIP level with per-endpoint weights and gw-ratelimit-limit, gw-ratelimit-remaining and gw-ratelimit-reset headers, 429000 on breach", "API key permissions split into General, Spot, Margin, Futures, Earn, Withdrawal, FlexTransfers and Unified, with Withdrawal and FlexTransfers requiring an IP allow-list", "Official kucoin-universal-sdk for Go, Python, Node.js, PHP and Java, MIT, pushed September 2026", "Unified Trading Account API V2 with a dated changelog and unified six-digit error codes", "Seven read-only agent skills in a KuCoin-published repository, installable with the skills CLI" ], "weaknesses": [ "No official MCP server; the registry's `kucoin` entry is a third party's keyless market-data package", "No sandbox or testnet; the legacy sandbox is offline and the docs point to mocking", "No status page, incident history or SLA found", "No OpenAPI file or llms.txt; the SDK page links a Postman workspace instead", "Terms name no company and fix the Turks and Caicos Islands as the deemed place of every transaction; the privacy policy names only KuCoin" ], "agentNotes": [ "Mint a key with General only for research; add Spot or Futures only with an IP allow-list, since unbound trading keys are disabled after 30 days of inactivity", "Send a UUID clientOid on every order and keep it for the retry, and read the order back by clientOid before placing again", "Budget requests by weight against gw-ratelimit-remaining and sleep for gw-ratelimit-reset milliseconds on 429000; sub-accounts share the pool", "There is no sandbox, so rehearse with the smallest order size on a dedicated sub-account", "Use the UTA V2 endpoints and hosts; the Classic API loses endpoints without notice, as the margin credit endpoints did on 21 October 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 35, "reliability": 45, "schema": 60, "security": 55, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 55, "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": { "http": "curl https://api.kucoin.com/api/v1/market/orderbook/level1?symbol=BTC-USDT" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.market-data", "tool": "https://letme.dev/kucoin" }, "area": "payments", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Spot trade, LV0 maker or taker", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0.1, "note": "base rate; some pairs differ, 20 per cent off in KCS" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "kucoin.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-11-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.kucoin.com/support/47185419968079", "privacy": "https://www.kucoin.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.kucoin.com/docs-new/change-log", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 29 October 2026) name no company; they deem all activity to occur in the Turks and Caicos Islands under its law with SIAC arbitration. /legal/terms-of-use is a shell page that links the support article recorded here. The privacy policy (dated 10/05/2026 in an ambiguous format) names KuCoin as controller with no company name.", "www.kucoin.com/robots.txt disallows assets, order and account paths only; docs-new and support pages are allowed.", "RDAP gives kucoin.com a registration date of 13 November 2013 (Amazon Registrar).", "https://www.kucoin.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. No status page found; status.kucoin.com does not resolve and the docs link none.", "The docs changelog is dated by day; its newest entry is dated 6 November 2026, three days ahead of the check, and the newest past entry 2 November 2026." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kucoin.json", "live": { "slug": "kucoin", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://kucoin.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:54:04.738329571Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T15:54:04.738329571Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 45, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "kucoin", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a closed service. The last dated API change is 28 August 2026, 67 days before the check (20). Only one dated entry in the last 90 days, after 1 July and 12 June (0). No public repository or issue tracker, support pages did not load and support.bitstamp.net did not resolve; a changelog exists (8 of 25). No official SDKs and no MCP registry presence of Bitstamp's own (0). No package to assess (0). 20 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 28.", "b": "Read as a closed hosted service. The changelog's newest past entry is 2 November 2026 and the universal SDK was pushed 15 September (30). Nine dated changelog entries since 5 August 2026 (20). A Telegram API group (t.me/KuCoin_API) and api@kucoin.com for limit requests, no public issue tracker for the API; the SDK repository's issues were not checked (10 of 25). Official SDKs current in five languages, no MCP registry presence (13 of 15). No package health signal checked (0 of 10). 73." }, "scores": { "a": 28, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "reliability", "leads": "bitstamp", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines on the HTTP API v2 at www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/. status.bitstamp.net is a Statuspage site with component history (20). Its feed for 5 August to 3 November 2026 has 17 entries, among them withdrawals failing on 14 networks for about 3 hours on 21 August, database maintenance with login failures and intermittent trading interruptions for about 1 hour 44 minutes on 23 September, a 39-minute halt of all markets on 5 August, and delistings and single-asset suspensions. One major (10). Rate limits with numbers, 400 a second and 10,000 per 10 minutes (15). Limit errors are named (400.002, 400.067, 400.068) but there is no Retry-After or backoff guidance, duplicate client order ids are allowed, and the only retry guidance is to check the order after a 500.016 timeout (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 63.", "b": "Graded with the hosted lines on the API at api.kucoin.com. No status page found (status.kucoin.com does not resolve, the docs link none), so 0 for the page and 5 for no readable history. Rate limits are published per VIP level with per-endpoint weights and IP limits for public endpoints (15). Every response carries gw-ratelimit-limit, gw-ratelimit-remaining and gw-ratelimit-reset, 429000 is documented with a wait rule, and orders take a clientOid the docs recommend as a UUID (15). No SLA (0). The UTA V2 API is the production surface (10). 45." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "payments", "leads": "kucoin", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No machine payment protocol (0). The fee schedule page loaded empty, the API's fee endpoints need a key, and no rate could be read, so fees are scored as not published (0, unchecked). The API is free, public endpoints need no key and the sandbox needs no money (20). A person must sign up in a browser with identity checks and mint the key (0). 0 + 0 + 20 + 0 = 20.", "b": "No machine payment protocol (0). The spot base fee is stated in support articles without login, the futures base rate and the full tier table sit in images or behind script (15 of 20). Market data needs no key, no card is asked for at sign-up (20). A person registers, verifies identity and mints the key in a browser (0). 35." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 35 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "schema", "leads": "kucoin", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found on the API page or elsewhere (0). No llms.txt or Markdown docs (0). The single documentation page describes each endpoint's purpose and parameters, with notes such as the 10-second cache on open orders and the Travel Rule fields, but not when to use one endpoint over another (14 of 20). Parameters are typed with enumerations (margin mode CROSS or ISOLATED, margin multiplier 1 to 25, order types) and required fields marked (11 of 15). Signing examples in Python, Java and C++, and error families with numbered codes and explanations (13 of 15). Version v2 in the path and header, a dated changelog from 7 April 2023 to 28 August 2026, and a 410.001 code for deprecated endpoints, with no stated notice period (13 of 15). 0 + 0 + 14 + 11 + 13 + 13 = 51.", "b": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found; the docs link a Postman workspace and the universal SDK is generated from an internal spec (8 of 25). No llms.txt; the skills hub ships Markdown SKILL.md files with endpoint tables for seven product areas, read-only (6 of 10). One docs page per endpoint with a description, permission and weight, but no when-to-use guidance (12 of 20). Typed parameter tables with enums for type and side and required flags (11 of 15). Request and response examples per endpoint and a unified six-digit error code scheme introduced with V2 (10 of 15). Dated changelog with V1 to V2 versioning (13 of 15). 60." }, "scores": { "a": 51, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "security", "leads": "bitstamp", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Revocable HMAC-SHA256 keys with per-endpoint permissions, an IP allow-list, single-use nonces, a timestamp window, sub-account scoping and a one-call kill switch for every key; no key expiry found (24 of 30). Permissions are chosen per endpoint and withdrawals can need Travel Rule address verification, but whether a withdrawal address allow-list exists sits in the unread account settings and no confirmation step is documented for API withdrawals (14 of 20). The API returns exchange data, not third-party text (10). No per-key audit log found; the account's transaction history is the record (4 of 15). security.txt names HackerOne's Robinhood programme but expired on 12 July 2026; no certification page was readable (8 of 20). 24 + 14 + 10 + 4 + 8 = 60.", "b": "API key with a user-set passphrase, HMAC-SHA256 signing, nine permission groups, IP allow-lists required for Withdrawal and FlexTransfers, trading keys without an IP disabled after 30 days of inactivity, revocation on the management page; no OAuth and no expiry on General keys (24 of 30). A General-only key is a true read-only mode and withdrawals are a separate permission; no confirmation step for writes beyond the key scope (12 of 20). Tools return the exchange's own data (10). The API key info endpoint shows permissions and IP lists; no per-call audit log was found (5 of 15). No security.txt, no disclosure policy or bounty on a page we could read, a whistleblower notice on the legal page (4 of 20). 55." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 55 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Bitstamp Ltd.", "b": "KuCoin", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted API under Bitstamp's terms of use, which our reader couldn't load", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-28", "b": "2026-11-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "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": "none", "b": "55 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "KuCoin scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Bitstamp API's 50.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Bitstamp API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Bitstamp API or KuCoin?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Bitstamp API and KuCoin need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Bitstamp API. No hosted endpoint is listed for KuCoin.", "question": "Can an agent call Bitstamp API and KuCoin without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 45", "Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 55" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent that needs a long-running regulated spot venue in the EU, UK and US with a sandbox and per-endpoint key permissions, and can do its own signing.", "slug": "bitstamp", "watchFor": "No official MCP server, SDK, llms.txt or OpenAPI file; the registry's Bitstamp servers are third parties proxying public market data" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 60 against 51", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 28" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent trading spot, margin and futures in a person's KuCoin account outside the restricted list, with no sandbox and no MCP server, so through the SDK or raw REST.", "slug": "kucoin", "watchFor": "No official MCP server; the registry's `kucoin` entry is a third party's keyless market-data package" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "exchange.market-data", "name": "Exchange market data" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-bitstamp.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Bitstamp API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-bitstamp" }, { "json": "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/bitget-vs-bitstamp.json", "title": "Bitget vs Bitstamp API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-bitstamp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Bitget vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-bitstamp.json", "title": "Bithumb Open API vs Bitstamp API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-bitstamp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Bithumb Open API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-bybit.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Bybit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-bybit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-coinbase-mcp.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-coinbase-mcp" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-htx.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs HTX trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-htx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-hyperliquid.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Hyperliquid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-hyperliquid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kraken.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Kraken API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kraken" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-mexc.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs MEXC API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-mexc" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-okx.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-uniswap.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Uniswap Trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-uniswap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-upbit.json", "title": "Bitstamp API vs Upbit Open API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-upbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Bybit vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Crypto.com Exchange API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-kucoin" }, { "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/gemini-exchange-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Gemini Exchange API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-exchange-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/htx-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "HTX trading API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/htx-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-mexc.json", "title": "KuCoin vs MEXC API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-mexc" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-okx.json", "title": "KuCoin vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-uniswap.json", "title": "KuCoin vs Uniswap Trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-uniswap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-upbit.json", "title": "KuCoin vs Upbit Open API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-upbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/binance-vs-bitstamp.json", "title": "Binance API vs Bitstamp API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/binance-vs-bitstamp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/binance-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Binance API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/binance-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Coinbase Advanced Trade API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kraken-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Kraken API vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kraken-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Deribit vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "dYdX vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-kucoin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperliquid-vs-kucoin.json", "title": "Hyperliquid vs KuCoin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperliquid-vs-kucoin" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "bitstamp": 63, "by": 18, "edge": "bitstamp", "key": "reliability", "kucoin": 45, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bitstamp": 51, "by": 9, "edge": "kucoin", "key": "schema", "kucoin": 60, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "bitstamp": 58, "by": 4, "edge": "kucoin", "key": "ergonomics", "kucoin": 62, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "bitstamp": 60, "by": 5, "edge": "bitstamp", "key": "security", "kucoin": 55, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "bitstamp": 20, "by": 15, "edge": "kucoin", "key": "payments", "kucoin": 35, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bitstamp": 28, "by": 45, "edge": "kucoin", "key": "maintenance", "kucoin": 73, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "bitstamp": 53, "by": 1, "edge": "kucoin", "key": "transparency", "kucoin": 54, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "KuCoin scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Bitstamp API's 50.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Bitstamp API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth. Both do exchange market data.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "bitstamp": "Bitstamp documents its v2 API on one static page with numeric rate limits, per-endpoint key permissions, an IP allow-list, a kill switch and a sandbox. There is no official MCP server, duplicate client order ids are allowed, and the fee schedule, terms, privacy policy and country list render by script and could not be read.", "kucoin": "KuCoin publishes pooled rate limits with remaining and reset headers, scoped keys where withdrawals and transfers need an IP allow-list, an official SDK in five languages and read-only agent skills. It runs no MCP server, has no sandbox, status page or OpenAPI file, and its terms name no legal entity." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kucoin", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kucoin.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kucoin.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kucoin.min.md" }, "markdown": "KuCoin scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Bitstamp API's 50.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Bitstamp API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth. Both do exchange market data.\n\n- Bitstamp API: grade D, 50.4/100, rank #1002 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitstamp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitstamp.json\n- KuCoin: grade D, 53.9/100, rank #891 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kucoin.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kucoin.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### Bitstamp API (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs a long-running regulated spot venue in the EU, UK and US with a sandbox and per-endpoint key permissions, and can do its own signing.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 45\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 55\n\nWatch for: No official MCP server, SDK, llms.txt or OpenAPI file; the registry's Bitstamp servers are third parties proxying public market data\n\n### KuCoin (D)\n\nGood for: An agent trading spot, margin and futures in a person's KuCoin account outside the restricted list, with no sandbox and no MCP server, so through the SDK or raw REST.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 60 against 51\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 28\n\nWatch for: No official MCP server; the registry's `kucoin` entry is a third party's keyless market-data package\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: KuCoin +45\n\n- Bitstamp API (28): Read as a closed service. The last dated API change is 28 August 2026, 67 days before the check (20). Only one dated entry in the last 90 days, after 1 July and 12 June (0). No public repository or issue tracker, support pages did not load and support.bitstamp.net did not resolve; a changelog exists (8 of 25). No official SDKs and no MCP registry presence of Bitstamp's own (0). No package to assess (0). 20 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 28.\n- KuCoin (73): Read as a closed hosted service. The changelog's newest past entry is 2 November 2026 and the universal SDK was pushed 15 September (30). Nine dated changelog entries since 5 August 2026 (20). A Telegram API group (t.me/KuCoin_API) and api@kucoin.com for limit requests, no public issue tracker for the API; the SDK repository's issues were not checked (10 of 25). Official SDKs current in five languages, no MCP registry presence (13 of 15). No package health signal checked (0 of 10). 73.\n\n### Reliability: Bitstamp API +18\n\n- Bitstamp API (63): Read with the hosted lines on the HTTP API v2 at www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/. status.bitstamp.net is a Statuspage site with component history (20). Its feed for 5 August to 3 November 2026 has 17 entries, among them withdrawals failing on 14 networks for about 3 hours on 21 August, database maintenance with login failures and intermittent trading interruptions for about 1 hour 44 minutes on 23 September, a 39-minute halt of all markets on 5 August, and delistings and single-asset suspensions. One major (10). Rate limits with numbers, 400 a second and 10,000 per 10 minutes (15). Limit errors are named (400.002, 400.067, 400.068) but there is no Retry-After or backoff guidance, duplicate client order ids are allowed, and the only retry guidance is to check the order after a 500.016 timeout (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 63.\n- KuCoin (45): Graded with the hosted lines on the API at api.kucoin.com. No status page found (status.kucoin.com does not resolve, the docs link none), so 0 for the page and 5 for no readable history. Rate limits are published per VIP level with per-endpoint weights and IP limits for public endpoints (15). Every response carries gw-ratelimit-limit, gw-ratelimit-remaining and gw-ratelimit-reset, 429000 is documented with a wait rule, and orders take a clientOid the docs recommend as a UUID (15). No SLA (0). The UTA V2 API is the production surface (10). 45.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: KuCoin +15\n\n- Bitstamp API (20): No machine payment protocol (0). The fee schedule page loaded empty, the API's fee endpoints need a key, and no rate could be read, so fees are scored as not published (0, unchecked). The API is free, public endpoints need no key and the sandbox needs no money (20). A person must sign up in a browser with identity checks and mint the key (0). 0 + 0 + 20 + 0 = 20.\n- KuCoin (35): No machine payment protocol (0). The spot base fee is stated in support articles without login, the futures base rate and the full tier table sit in images or behind script (15 of 20). Market data needs no key, no card is asked for at sign-up (20). A person registers, verifies identity and mints the key in a browser (0). 35.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: KuCoin +9\n\n- Bitstamp API (51): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found on the API page or elsewhere (0). No llms.txt or Markdown docs (0). The single documentation page describes each endpoint's purpose and parameters, with notes such as the 10-second cache on open orders and the Travel Rule fields, but not when to use one endpoint over another (14 of 20). Parameters are typed with enumerations (margin mode CROSS or ISOLATED, margin multiplier 1 to 25, order types) and required fields marked (11 of 15). Signing examples in Python, Java and C++, and error families with numbered codes and explanations (13 of 15). Version v2 in the path and header, a dated changelog from 7 April 2023 to 28 August 2026, and a 410.001 code for deprecated endpoints, with no stated notice period (13 of 15). 0 + 0 + 14 + 11 + 13 + 13 = 51.\n- KuCoin (60): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found; the docs link a Postman workspace and the universal SDK is generated from an internal spec (8 of 25). No llms.txt; the skills hub ships Markdown SKILL.md files with endpoint tables for seven product areas, read-only (6 of 10). One docs page per endpoint with a description, permission and weight, but no when-to-use guidance (12 of 20). Typed parameter tables with enums for type and side and required flags (11 of 15). Request and response examples per endpoint and a unified six-digit error code scheme introduced with V2 (10 of 15). Dated changelog with V1 to V2 versioning (13 of 15). 60.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Bitstamp API +5\n\n- Bitstamp API (60): Revocable HMAC-SHA256 keys with per-endpoint permissions, an IP allow-list, single-use nonces, a timestamp window, sub-account scoping and a one-call kill switch for every key; no key expiry found (24 of 30). Permissions are chosen per endpoint and withdrawals can need Travel Rule address verification, but whether a withdrawal address allow-list exists sits in the unread account settings and no confirmation step is documented for API withdrawals (14 of 20). The API returns exchange data, not third-party text (10). No per-key audit log found; the account's transaction history is the record (4 of 15). security.txt names HackerOne's Robinhood programme but expired on 12 July 2026; no certification page was readable (8 of 20). 24 + 14 + 10 + 4 + 8 = 60.\n- KuCoin (55): API key with a user-set passphrase, HMAC-SHA256 signing, nine permission groups, IP allow-lists required for Withdrawal and FlexTransfers, trading keys without an IP disabled after 30 days of inactivity, revocation on the management page; no OAuth and no expiry on General keys (24 of 30). A General-only key is a true read-only mode and withdrawals are a separate permission; no confirmation step for writes beyond the key scope (12 of 20). Tools return the exchange's own data (10). The API key info endpoint shows permissions and IP lists; no per-call audit log was found (5 of 15). No security.txt, no disclosure policy or bounty on a page we could read, a whistleblower notice on the legal page (4 of 20). 55.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bitstamp API | KuCoin | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 45 | Bitstamp API +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 60 | KuCoin +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 62 | KuCoin +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 55 | Bitstamp API +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | KuCoin +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 28 | 73 | KuCoin +45 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 54 | KuCoin +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.4 · D** | **53.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bitstamp API | KuCoin |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Bitstamp Ltd. | KuCoin |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted API under Bitstamp's terms of use, which our reader couldn't load | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-28 | 2026-11-02 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\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 | none | 55 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Bitstamp API.** Bitstamp documents its v2 API on one static page with numeric rate limits, per-endpoint key permissions, an IP allow-list, a kill switch and a sandbox. There is no official MCP server, duplicate client order ids are allowed, and the fee schedule, terms, privacy policy and country list render by script and could not be read.\n\n**KuCoin.** KuCoin publishes pooled rate limits with remaining and reset headers, scoped keys where withdrawals and transfers need an IP allow-list, an official SDK in five languages and read-only agent skills. It runs no MCP server, has no sandbox, status page or OpenAPI file, and its terms name no legal entity.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bitstamp API\n\n1. Mint a key with only the endpoint permissions the task needs and an IP allow-list; keep `revoke_all_api_keys` in reach as a kill switch\n2. Treat `client_order_id` as a label, not a guard. On a timeout (500.016) fetch the order by client id before resending, because duplicates are accepted\n3. Use a fresh 36-character nonce and a timestamp within 150 seconds of server time on every request, or expect API0004 and API0017\n4. Stay under 400 requests a second and 10,000 per 10 minutes; 400.002 and 400.067 mean back off, and open-orders answers are cached for 10 seconds\n5. Start on sandbox.bitstamp.net with the same paths, and read the fee schedule in a browser before quoting costs, since it is unreadable to a plain fetch\n\n### KuCoin\n\n1. Mint a key with General only for research; add Spot or Futures only with an IP allow-list, since unbound trading keys are disabled after 30 days of inactivity\n2. Send a UUID clientOid on every order and keep it for the retry, and read the order back by clientOid before placing again\n3. Budget requests by weight against gw-ratelimit-remaining and sleep for gw-ratelimit-reset milliseconds on 429000; sub-accounts share the pool\n4. There is no sandbox, so rehearse with the smallest order size on a dedicated sub-account\n5. Use the UTA V2 endpoints and hosts; the Classic API loses endpoints without notice, as the margin credit endpoints did on 21 October 2026\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bitstamp API or KuCoin?\n\nKuCoin scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Bitstamp API's 50.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Bitstamp API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Bitstamp API and KuCoin need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Bitstamp API and KuCoin without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Bitstamp API. No hosted endpoint is listed for KuCoin.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kucoin.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kucoin.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bitstamp\", \"b\": \"kucoin\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bitstamp kucoin`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitstamp.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kucoin.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Bitstamp API or KuCoin\n\n- [Bitfinex API vs Bitstamp API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-bitstamp.md)\n- [Bitfinex API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Bitget vs Bitstamp API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-bitstamp.md)\n- [Bitget vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Bithumb Open API vs Bitstamp API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-bitstamp.md)\n- [Bithumb Open API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Bybit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-bybit.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-coinbase-mcp.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Crypto.com Exchange API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-crypto-com-exchange.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Deribit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-deribit.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs dYdX](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-dydx.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Gate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-gate-io.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Gemini Exchange API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-gemini-exchange.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs HTX trading API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-htx.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Hyperliquid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-hyperliquid.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Kraken API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-kraken.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs MEXC API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-mexc.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs OKX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-okx.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Uniswap Trading API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-uniswap.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Upbit Open API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitstamp-vs-upbit.md)\n- [Bybit vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Crypto.com Exchange API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Gate vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Gemini Exchange API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-exchange-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [HTX trading API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/htx-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [KuCoin vs MEXC API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-mexc.md)\n- [KuCoin vs OKX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-okx.md)\n- [KuCoin vs Uniswap Trading API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-uniswap.md)\n- [KuCoin vs Upbit Open API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kucoin-vs-upbit.md)\n- [Binance API vs Bitstamp API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/binance-vs-bitstamp.md)\n- [Binance API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/binance-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Coinbase Advanced Trade API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Kraken API vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kraken-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Deribit vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [dYdX vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-kucoin.md)\n- [Hyperliquid vs KuCoin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperliquid-vs-kucoin.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-11-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.7", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Bitstamp API vs KuCoin", "url": "" } ], "description": "KuCoin scores 53.9 (D) to Bitstamp's 50.4 (D) for exchange market data. 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