# Bybit vs Gate

> Bybit and Gate score within a point of each other for exchange market data, 57.3 and 56.4 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Bybit: grade C, 57.3/100, rank #712 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bybit.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bybit.json
- 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
- 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

### Bybit (C)

Good 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)

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.

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

### 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

| Category | Weight | Bybit | Gate | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 42 | Bybit +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 70 | Bybit +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 66 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Bybit +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 77 | Gate +11 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 49 | Bybit +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **57.3 · C** | **56.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Bybit | Gate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Bybit | 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 | 398 | 58 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-11-02 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 43 stars | 44 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.


## For agents

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

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