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

Bybit vs Gate

Bybit and Gate score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.3 (C) and 56.4 (C). Gate leads on maintenance & community. Both do exchange market data.

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BybitBybit · HTTP API C57.3/100#745 of 1349 GateGate · HTTP API C56.4/100#786 of 1349

Which one, for what

Bybit C

Best for An agent trading spot, perpetuals, futures and options in a person's Bybit account outside the excluded jurisdictions, with a demo environment to rehearse on.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 35

Watch for

No status page, incident history or SLA was found; the terms say the API is not guaranteed to be available

Gate C

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 77 against 66

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

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

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.

Maintenance & community Gate +11

Bybit 66

Read as a hosted service with an open-source MCP server. The MCP package shipped 2.1.26 on 30 October 2026 and the V5 changelog's latest entry is 29 October (30). 31 npm versions since 16 April 2026, 11 of them in the last 90 days, and 24 changelog entries in the same window (20). The trading-mcp repository has 4 open issues and 18 forks; whether issues get answers was not checked, and the API has no public forum we could read (10 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry (0). The package has four dependencies, no install scripts, a publish workflow and no test workflow (6 of 10). 66.

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.

Payments & pricing Bybit +5

Bybit 40

No machine payment protocol (0). The fee schedule is public without login, with VIP 0 maker and taker rates per product and the tier criteria (20). Reading market data needs no key and the demo environment costs nothing, no card is asked for at sign-up (20). A person must register, pass identity verification and mint 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

CategoryWeight this runBybitGateEdge
Reliability16%204542Bybit +3
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27370Bybit +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.26666even
Security & auth14%17.56060even
Payments & pricing10%12.54035Bybit +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86677Gate +11
Transparency & trust7%8.85149Bybit +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 57.3/100C 56.4/100

Facts side by side

FactBybitGate
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBybitGate
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp
TransportsstdioStreamable HTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
Tools exposed39858
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtnono
MCP registrynot listedio.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp
Last release2026-10-302026-11-02
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-07-22
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be readno date given
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readyes
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes
Popularity43 stars44 stars

Verdicts

Bybit

Bybit publishes per-endpoint rate limits, a demo environment, scoped keys with a read-only flag and IP binding, and an official stdio MCP server whose 398 tools carry read-only and destructive annotations. There is no status page, no OpenAPI file, no SLA, the MCP server has no toolsets, and the global terms and privacy pages are drawn by script.

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

Bybit

  1. Create a key with only the permission groups the task needs, set readOnly for research keys, leave Withdraw off and bind an IP, or the key expires after 90 days
  2. Send a unique orderLinkId on every order and reuse it when amending or cancelling, since create-order is asynchronous and confirmed over WebSocket
  3. Read X-Bapi-Limit-Status before bursts and wait until X-Bapi-Limit-Reset-Timestamp on retCode 10006; on HTTP 403 stop all sessions for at least 10 minutes
  4. Test on api-demo.bybit.com with a demo key from the production account, not on testnet demo mode, which the docs call meaningless
  5. Run the MCP server with BYBIT_TESTNET=true first, and only in a client that shows a per-call approval, because the server has no read-only mode of its own

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, Bybit or Gate?

Bybit and Gate score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.3 (C) and 56.4 (C). Gate leads on maintenance & community.

Do Bybit and Gate need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Bybit and Gate without installing anything?

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

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