{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "name": "Coinbase Advanced Trade API", "vendor": "Coinbase, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/advanced-trade/docs/welcome", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "Coinbase's Advanced Trade API is the trading API of a Coinbase account, with REST, WebSocket feeds and a static sandbox for spot, US futures and, since October 2026, perpetuals on a Deribit-based gateway, authenticated by CDP API keys.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.json", "dns": "coinbase-advanced-trade.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/coinbase/coinbase-advanced-py", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under the Coinbase User Agreement, which answered a bot check and wasn't read. The official Python SDK coinbase-advanced-py is on GitHub", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "coinbase-advanced-py" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "CDP secret API key made in the CDP portal, with view, trade and transfer permissions, a portfolio restriction and an optional IP allowlist. Each request carries a JWT signed with ECDSA (ES256) that expires after 2 minutes, so a new token is minted per call. Ed25519 keys are not accepted by Coinbase App APIs. The OpenAPI spec also lists OAuth2 with wallet:* scopes for acting on other people's accounts. Keys are regenerated or disabled in the portal. Six public market endpoints need no key (https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-app/authentication-authorization/api-key-authentication.md, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API costs nothing to call. Trades carry Advanced Trade maker and taker fees by 30-day volume tier; the fee page at coinbase.com/advanced-fees and help.coinbase.com both answered our reader with 403 on 3 November 2026, so the lowest tier's rates are unread. The sandbox and the public market endpoints need no account.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the Advanced Trade endpoints in the OpenAPI spec or docs (checked 2026-11-03). Coinbase's account MCP server, listed as coinbase-mcp, pays x402 resources as a buyer; that is a separate surface.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/advanced-trade/docs/welcome", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/api-reference/advanced-trade-api/rest-api/advanced-trade-spec.yaml", "capabilities": [ "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.market-data", "exchange.derivatives", "exchange.balances", "exchange.transfers", "market.crypto" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "api-key", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "status-page", "python", "usage-priced", "no-card", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 537, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 20, "reliability": 58, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Advanced Trade has a public OpenAPI spec, keys limited to view, trade or transfer and to one portfolio, and a keyless static sandbox. No REST rate limit is published, the fee schedule, user agreement and country list sit behind a bot check, and an agent that wants an MCP route uses the separate coinbase-mcp listing.", "bestFor": "An agent trading a person's or a treasury's Coinbase account with its own key, where the person wants sandbox tests and portfolio scoping.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 and AsyncAPI specs with typed enums, plus llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "CDP keys carry view, trade and transfer permissions, a portfolio restriction and an IP allowlist, and signed JWTs expire after 2 minutes", "Keyless sandbox with static responses and header-driven error simulation for accounts and orders", "Six public market data endpoints need no key, and most WebSocket channels are open without authentication", "Dated retirement of INTX endpoints with a read-only grace period, announced in the docs" ], "weaknesses": [ "No REST rate limit numbers found; the old rate-limits page answers 404 and only the WebSocket limit of 8 per second per IP is published", "The fee schedule, user agreement, privacy policy and supported-countries pages answered a bot check and were not read", "No FIX connectivity is documented for Advanced Trade", "The OpenAPI spec documents only a default error response, with no 4xx or 429 shapes", "security.txt expired on 1 June 2024 and no status component exists for the Global Derivatives gateway" ], "agentNotes": [ "Mint a fresh ES256 JWT for every request; tokens expire after 2 minutes and Ed25519 keys are rejected", "Send a unique client_order_id on every order and reuse it on retry so a dropped connection does not place a second order", "Develop against api-sandbox.coinbase.com first; its responses are static, so do not read prices or fills from it", "Use a key with view only, or trade without transfer, and restrict it to a portfolio funded for the agent", "For perpetuals call the Global Derivatives JSON-RPC gateway at drb.coinbase.com; the /intx/* endpoints are retired" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 20, "reliability": 58, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 42 }, "provenanceScore": 92, "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": { "install": "pip install coinbase-advanced-py", "http": "curl https://api.coinbase.com/api/v3/brokerage/market/products/BTC-USD/ticker?limit=1" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.spot-trading", "tool": "https://letme.dev/coinbase-advanced-trade" }, "sameCompany": [ "coinbase-mcp" ], "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Coinbase, Inc.", "domain": "coinbase.com", "domainRegistered": "2011-07-02", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement", "privacy": "https://www.coinbase.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.coinbase.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/changelog", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The user agreement, privacy policy, fee schedule and help centre answered a bot check or 403 on 3 November 2026. The terms and privacy URLs are Coinbase's standard ones; Coinbase, Inc. is the entity named in the coinbase-cdp-agentkit and coinbase-mcp listings.", "Domain registration date per the RDAP read of 24 October 2026 for coinbase-mcp, not re-read.", "https://www.coinbase.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and expired on 1 June 2024, re-read 3 November 2026.", "docs.cdp.coinbase.com/robots.txt disallows only /cdn-cgi/ and /_next/. help.coinbase.com answered 403 to robots.txt, so nothing on that host was requested further.", "The CDP changelog's newest entry is 23 October 2026; its only trading entries since August concern the agents MCP server (17 and 21 August)." ], "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.json", "live": { "slug": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.coinbase.com", "indicator": "minor", "summary": "Partially Degraded Service", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T21:25:35.317546317Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "coinbase/coinbase-advanced-py", "version": "v1.8.4", "released": "2026-06-19", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:07:55.498790392Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "coinbase-advanced-py", "version": "1.8.4", "released": "2026-06-19", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:07:55.303074368Z" } ], "githubStars": 364, "pypiWeekly": 31348, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://coinbase.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2024-06-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:52:53.816413711Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T21:25:35.317546317Z" } }, "answer": "OKX API scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase Advanced Trade API's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase Advanced Trade API leads on schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "okx", "name": "OKX API", "vendor": "OKX", "vendorUrl": "https://www.okx.com/docs-v5/en/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "OKX's V5 API covers spot, margin, perpetual, futures and options trading, account and market data over REST and WebSocket, with demo trading on the same host and an open-source Agent Trade Kit whose okx-trade-mcp package is a local MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/okx", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/okx.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/okx.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/okx.json", "dns": "okx.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/okx/agent-trade-kit", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under OKX's Terms of Service (29 October 2026) and API Agreement (28 July 2026). The Agent Trade Kit (MCP server, CLI and skills) is MIT", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@okx_ai/okx-trade-mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@okx_ai/okx-trade-cli" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "python-okx" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key, secret and passphrase made at okx.com/account/my-api, with HMAC-SHA256 signatures over a timestamp and the request. Permissions are Read, Trade and Withdraw, singly or combined; each key binds up to 20 IP addresses or ranges, and a Trade or Withdraw key with no IP binding expires after 14 days without use. Demo trading uses the same host with the header `x-simulated-trading` set to 1 and keys that do not expire. US and Australian users call us.okx.com and EEA users eea.okx.com. The MCP server reads the key from ~/.okx/config.toml, checks its permissions at startup and hides order tools when the key cannot trade (https://www.okx.com/docs-v5/en/, https://www.okx.com/docs-v5/agent_en/, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API costs nothing to call. Trades carry maker and taker fees by regular and VIP level; the fee page at okx.com/fees loads its table by script and the fee FAQ says the rates that apply are the ones shown while logged in, so the lowest tier's rates are unread. Public market data and demo trading need no funded account.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the V5 docs, the API agreement or the Agent Trade Kit (checked 2026-11-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 170, "popularity": { "githubStars": 499, "npmWeekly": 1839, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.okx.com/docs-v5/en/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.okx.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.market-data", "exchange.derivatives", "exchange.balances", "exchange.transfers", "exchange.staking", "market.crypto" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "api-key", "mcp", "cli", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "typescript", "python", "usage-priced", "no-card", "mit" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 432, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 73, "security": 68, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OKX publishes per-endpoint rate limits, Read, Trade and Withdraw key permissions with IP binding, demo trading on the production host, and an MIT MCP server with 170 tools, a read-only flag and a permission check at startup. The fee table and privacy policy were not read, no OpenAPI file was found, and the news tools return third-party text.", "bestFor": "An agent trading spot, perpetuals, futures or options on a person's OKX account from a local machine, with demo trading to test first and grid or DCA bots through the kit.", "strengths": [ "Official local MCP server, MIT, with modules, --read-only, a demo profile, readOnlyHint annotations and a startup check that hides order tools when the key cannot trade", "Keys limited to Read, Trade or Withdraw, bound to up to 20 IPs, with unbound Trade and Withdraw keys expiring after 14 idle days", "Rate limits published per endpoint and per User ID, with sub-account and WebSocket limits in numbers", "Demo trading on the production hosts with one header, keys that do not expire, and a demo profile in the kit", "An API Agreement written for agents, naming prohibited tactics, minimum key scope and rate-limit circumvention" ], "weaknesses": [ "The fee table loads by script and the fee FAQ defers to the logged-in view, so maker and taker rates were not read", "No OpenAPI file was found in the docs; the machine-readable contract is the kit's tool definitions", "The status page lists incidents without component history, and its newest entry is from March 2024", "The news and smart money tools return third-party text with no documented guidance on treating it as untrusted", "Trade tools in the kit carry destructiveHint false, and the npm package runs a postinstall script" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start okx-trade-mcp with --profile demo first, then --read-only on a live key; load only the modules the task needs", "Use a sub-account key with Read and Trade only, bound to the agent's IP; an unbound Trade key expires after 14 idle days", "Stay under 60 place-order requests per 2 seconds per instrument and at most 3 amendments in flight per order; 50011 means the limit was hit", "Send a clOrdId on every order and use the structured error block (code, message, endpoint) to diagnose with read-only tools before retrying", "Call us.okx.com or eea.okx.com for US, Australian and EEA accounts; openapi.okx.com does not serve those regions" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 73, "security": 68, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "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": { "install": "npm install -g @okx_ai/okx-trade-mcp @okx_ai/okx-trade-cli", "http": "curl https://www.okx.com/api/v5/market/ticker?instId=BTC-USDT", "config": { "mcpServers": { "okx-demo": { "args": [ "-y", "@okx_ai/okx-trade-mcp", "--profile", "demo" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.spot-trading", "tool": "https://letme.dev/okx" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Aux Cayes FinTech Co. Ltd.", "domain": "okx.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-07-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.okx.com/help/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.okx.com/help/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://www.okx.com/status", "changelog": "https://www.okx.com/docs-v5/log_en/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 29 October 2026) name Aux Cayes FinTech Co. Ltd. for all users not served by a regional OKX entity; the page metadata of the API Agreement also lists it as publisher. The governing-law clause sat past the part of the page we read. The privacy policy URL is OKX's help-centre page and was not read.", "RDAP gives okx.com a registration date of 3 July 2001, long before OKX took the name in 2022.", "https://www.okx.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404; the Agent Trade Kit's SECURITY.md names security@okx.com.", "www.okx.com/robots.txt allows the docs, help and status pages read and /llms.txt, and disallows account, KYC and other private paths.", "okx.com/status is OKX's own page with issue descriptions and maintenance notices in UTC+8, no component history and no feed found." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/okx.json", "live": { "slug": "okx", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.okx.com/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T21:26:18.893765005Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@okx_ai/okx-trade-cli", "version": "1.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:41:03.618269957Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@okx_ai/okx-trade-mcp", "version": "1.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:41:02.747721806Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "python-okx", "version": "0.4.4", "released": "2026-09-07", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:41:04.955491615Z" } ], "githubStars": 501, "npmWeekly": 1742, "pypiWeekly": 13205, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://okx.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:49.77403161Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T21:26:18.893765005Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 24, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "okx", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a closed hosted service. The last change to the API itself is the Global Derivatives gateway and INTX retirement of 1 October 2026, 33 days before this check; the Python SDK's v2.0.0rc1 is from 30 September (20 of 30). Dated changes in 90 days are the 1 October migration and the agents entries of 17 and 21 August, which run through Advanced Trade (12 of 20). A public changelog and a CDP Discord; SDK issues not read (8 of 15). Official Python SDK current, the rest samples (12 of 15). SDK CI not read (5 of 10). 20 + 12 + 8 + 12 + 5 = 57.", "b": "Read as a closed service with an open-source kit. Changelog entry of 27 October 2026 and kit v1.5.0 on 28 October (30). Changelog entries on 3, 6, 11, 18, 20 and 26 August, 15, 29 and 30 September and 27 October, and kit releases on 20 and 21 August, 1, 7, 14 and 23 September, 19 and 28 October (20). A public changelog, a Telegram community for the kit and GitHub issues whose replies were not read (10 of 15). python-okx is named as the official SDK and the kit is current; the MCP server is not in the official registry (12 of 15). The kit runs CI on push and pull request across Node 18, 20 and 26 with unit tests and coverage (9 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 12 + 9 = 81." }, "scores": { "a": 57, "b": 81 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "reliability", "leads": "okx", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines. status.coinbase.com is a Statuspage site with Coinbase Advanced Trade, API, US Derivatives and International Derivatives components (20). The incidents feed we could read runs from 16 September to 3 November 2026. In it Advanced Trade was degraded for 25 minutes on 21 September, the website had a 3-minute major on 14 October, converts were down 1 hour 4 minutes on 26 October, and no incident named the API; 5 August to 15 September was beyond the feed, so minor only for the seven weeks read (15 of 30). No REST rate limit with numbers was found; the older rate-limits page answers 404 and llms.txt lists none, while the WebSocket page gives 8 connections and 8 unauthenticated messages per second per IP (5 of 15). Orders take a client_order_id, but no 429 or Retry-After guidance was found for Advanced Trade (8 of 15). No SLA (0). REST and WebSocket are generally available; the Global Derivatives gateway is a month old and not marked beta (10). 20 + 15 + 5 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 58.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines on the V5 REST API. okx.com/status is OKX's own page with issue descriptions, maintenance notices and deposit and withdrawal status, but no component history or feed (10 of 20). It lists no incident between 5 August and 3 November 2026; its newest entry is from March 2024, and whether every incident reaches the page cannot be told, so read as clean with a doubt (20 of 30). Rate limits per endpoint, per User ID and per sub-account with numbers, and WebSocket limits (15). Error 50011 on a limit, a clOrdId on orders and a cap of 3 amendments in flight, but no Retry-After or backoff guidance found (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Generally available (10). 10 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 65." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "schema", "leads": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec (45 paths, 51 operations) and an AsyncAPI document (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Every operation has a summary and description, some one line, several with multi-sentence guidance for equities (14 of 20). Enums on product_type, granularity, order_status, time_in_forces, order_types, order_side and sort_by, with defaults (13 of 15). Examples in the docs and the sandbox's simulated errors, but the spec documents only a default error referencing grpc.gateway.runtime.Error, with no 4xx or 429 shapes (8 of 15). Paths carry /api/v3, the CDP changelog is dated, and the INTX retirement was announced with a date, but the spec's info.version is 0.1 and the October gateway change has no changelog entry (10 of 15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 13 + 8 + 10 = 80.", "b": "No OpenAPI file was found in the V5 docs; the kit's tool definitions are typed TypeScript with annotations, and the organisation has an undescribed ai-builder-openapi-md repository we did not read (12 of 25). okx.com/llms.txt exists and links the API and Agent Trade Kit pages, though the V5 docs have no Markdown twins (5 of 10). Each endpoint states its rate limit, rule, parameters and notes (15 of 20). Enums for ordType, tdMode and instType with required flags (12 of 15). Request and response examples per endpoint and an error code list with messages (14 of 15). A dated changelog with an upcoming-changes section that labels breaking changes and dates sunsets (15). 12 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 14 + 15 = 73." }, "scores": { "a": 80, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "transparency", "leads": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "The editorial half. A closed service whose user agreement answered a bot check; the OpenAPI spec is public and the Python SDK is open on GitHub (12 of 30). Privacy facts per the coinbase-cdp-agentkit check of 1 October 2026 (Coinbase, Inc., processing countries, retention tied to need without numbers), not re-read (10 of 30). INTX endpoints retired on 1 October 2026 with a dated notice and a read-only grace period (12 of 20). Processing countries and provider categories per the same earlier check, no subprocessor list (8 of 20). 12 + 10 + 12 + 8 = 42.", "b": "The editorial half. A closed service with terms that name the contracting entities by region and an API Agreement for agents; the kit is MIT (17 of 30). The privacy policy was not read (5 of 30). The changelog dates sunsets and labels breaking changes, such as port 8443 on 31 October and 16 November 2026 (16 of 20). No subprocessor or data-location statement read; the MCP server is local and its npm package runs a postinstall script whose purpose we did not trace (0 of 20). 17 + 5 + 16 + 0 = 38." }, "scores": { "a": 67, "b": 62 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Coinbase, Inc.", "b": "OKX", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or 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 service under the Coinbase User Agreement, which answered a bot check and wasn't read. The official Python SDK coinbase-advanced-py is on GitHub", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under OKX's Terms of Service (29 October 2026) and API Agreement (28 July 2026). The Agent Trade Kit (MCP server, CLI and skills) is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "170", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-10-29", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-27", "b": "couldn't be read", "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": "not found in the text", "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": "499 stars, 1.8k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "OKX API scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase Advanced Trade API's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase Advanced Trade API leads on schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Coinbase Advanced Trade API or OKX API?" }, { "answer": "Coinbase Advanced Trade API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. OKX API needs an API key.", "question": "Do Coinbase Advanced Trade API and OKX API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Coinbase Advanced Trade API. OKX API runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Coinbase Advanced Trade API and OKX API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 73", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 62" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent trading a person's or a treasury's Coinbase account with its own key, where the person wants sandbox tests and portfolio scoping.", "slug": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "watchFor": "No REST rate limit numbers found; the old rate-limits page answers 404 and only the WebSocket limit of 8 per second per IP is published" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 58", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 57" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "An agent trading spot, perpetuals, futures or options on a person's OKX account from a local machine, with demo trading to test first and grid or DCA bots through the kit.", "slug": "okx", "watchFor": "The 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Coinbase Advanced Trade API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-okx.json", "title": "Bybit vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bybit-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-okx.json", "title": "Crypto.com Exchange API vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crypto-com-exchange-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-okx.json", "title": "Gate vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gate-io-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-exchange-vs-okx.json", "title": "Gemini Exchange API vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-exchange-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/htx-vs-okx.json", "title": "HTX trading API vs OKX API", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kraken-vs-okx.json", "title": "Kraken API vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kraken-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/okx-vs-uniswap.json", "title": "OKX API vs Uniswap Trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/okx-vs-uniswap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/okx-vs-upbit.json", "title": "OKX API vs Upbit Open API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/okx-vs-upbit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-dydx.json", "title": "Coinbase Advanced Trade API vs dYdX", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-dydx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-okx.json", "title": "Deribit vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deribit-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-okx.json", "title": "dYdX vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dydx-vs-okx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperliquid-vs-okx.json", "title": "Hyperliquid vs OKX API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperliquid-vs-okx" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 7, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 58, "edge": "okx", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "okx": 65, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 80, "edge": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "okx": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 73, "edge": "okx", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "okx": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 68, "edge": "", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "okx": 68, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 20, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "okx": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 24, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 57, "edge": "okx", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "okx": 81, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 67, "edge": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "okx": 62, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OKX API scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase Advanced Trade API's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase Advanced Trade API leads on schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do exchange spot trading.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "coinbase-advanced-trade": "Advanced Trade has a public OpenAPI spec, keys limited to view, trade or transfer and to one portfolio, and a keyless static sandbox. No REST rate limit is published, the fee schedule, user agreement and country list sit behind a bot check, and an agent that wants an MCP route uses the separate coinbase-mcp listing.", "okx": "OKX publishes per-endpoint rate limits, Read, Trade and Withdraw key permissions with IP binding, demo trading on the production host, and an MIT MCP server with 170 tools, a read-only flag and a permission check at startup. The fee table and privacy policy were not read, no OpenAPI file was found, and the news tools return third-party text." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-okx", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-okx.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-okx.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-okx.min.md" }, "markdown": "OKX API scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase Advanced Trade API's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase Advanced Trade API leads on schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do exchange spot trading.\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API: grade C, 61.7/100, rank #537 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.json\n- OKX API: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #432 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/okx.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/okx.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### Coinbase Advanced Trade API (C)\n\nGood for: An agent trading a person's or a treasury's Coinbase account with its own key, where the person wants sandbox tests and portfolio scoping.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 73\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 62\n\nWatch for: No REST rate limit numbers found; the old rate-limits page answers 404 and only the WebSocket limit of 8 per second per IP is published\n\n### OKX API (B)\n\nGood for: An agent trading spot, perpetuals, futures or options on a person's OKX account from a local machine, with demo trading to test first and grid or DCA bots through the kit.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 58\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The fee table loads by script and the fee FAQ defers to the logged-in view, so maker and taker rates were not read\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: OKX API +24\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API (57): Read as a closed hosted service. The last change to the API itself is the Global Derivatives gateway and INTX retirement of 1 October 2026, 33 days before this check; the Python SDK's v2.0.0rc1 is from 30 September (20 of 30). Dated changes in 90 days are the 1 October migration and the agents entries of 17 and 21 August, which run through Advanced Trade (12 of 20). A public changelog and a CDP Discord; SDK issues not read (8 of 15). Official Python SDK current, the rest samples (12 of 15). SDK CI not read (5 of 10). 20 + 12 + 8 + 12 + 5 = 57.\n- OKX API (81): Read as a closed service with an open-source kit. Changelog entry of 27 October 2026 and kit v1.5.0 on 28 October (30). Changelog entries on 3, 6, 11, 18, 20 and 26 August, 15, 29 and 30 September and 27 October, and kit releases on 20 and 21 August, 1, 7, 14 and 23 September, 19 and 28 October (20). A public changelog, a Telegram community for the kit and GitHub issues whose replies were not read (10 of 15). python-okx is named as the official SDK and the kit is current; the MCP server is not in the official registry (12 of 15). The kit runs CI on push and pull request across Node 18, 20 and 26 with unit tests and coverage (9 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 12 + 9 = 81.\n\n### Reliability: OKX API +7\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API (58): Read with the hosted lines. status.coinbase.com is a Statuspage site with Coinbase Advanced Trade, API, US Derivatives and International Derivatives components (20). The incidents feed we could read runs from 16 September to 3 November 2026. In it Advanced Trade was degraded for 25 minutes on 21 September, the website had a 3-minute major on 14 October, converts were down 1 hour 4 minutes on 26 October, and no incident named the API; 5 August to 15 September was beyond the feed, so minor only for the seven weeks read (15 of 30). No REST rate limit with numbers was found; the older rate-limits page answers 404 and llms.txt lists none, while the WebSocket page gives 8 connections and 8 unauthenticated messages per second per IP (5 of 15). Orders take a client_order_id, but no 429 or Retry-After guidance was found for Advanced Trade (8 of 15). No SLA (0). REST and WebSocket are generally available; the Global Derivatives gateway is a month old and not marked beta (10). 20 + 15 + 5 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 58.\n- OKX API (65): Read with the hosted lines on the V5 REST API. okx.com/status is OKX's own page with issue descriptions, maintenance notices and deposit and withdrawal status, but no component history or feed (10 of 20). It lists no incident between 5 August and 3 November 2026; its newest entry is from March 2024, and whether every incident reaches the page cannot be told, so read as clean with a doubt (20 of 30). Rate limits per endpoint, per User ID and per sub-account with numbers, and WebSocket limits (15). Error 50011 on a limit, a clOrdId on orders and a cap of 3 amendments in flight, but no Retry-After or backoff guidance found (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Generally available (10). 10 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 65.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Coinbase Advanced Trade API +7\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API (80): Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec (45 paths, 51 operations) and an AsyncAPI document (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Every operation has a summary and description, some one line, several with multi-sentence guidance for equities (14 of 20). Enums on product_type, granularity, order_status, time_in_forces, order_types, order_side and sort_by, with defaults (13 of 15). Examples in the docs and the sandbox's simulated errors, but the spec documents only a default error referencing grpc.gateway.runtime.Error, with no 4xx or 429 shapes (8 of 15). Paths carry /api/v3, the CDP changelog is dated, and the INTX retirement was announced with a date, but the spec's info.version is 0.1 and the October gateway change has no changelog entry (10 of 15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 13 + 8 + 10 = 80.\n- OKX API (73): No OpenAPI file was found in the V5 docs; the kit's tool definitions are typed TypeScript with annotations, and the organisation has an undescribed ai-builder-openapi-md repository we did not read (12 of 25). okx.com/llms.txt exists and links the API and Agent Trade Kit pages, though the V5 docs have no Markdown twins (5 of 10). Each endpoint states its rate limit, rule, parameters and notes (15 of 20). Enums for ordType, tdMode and instType with required flags (12 of 15). Request and response examples per endpoint and an error code list with messages (14 of 15). A dated changelog with an upcoming-changes section that labels breaking changes and dates sunsets (15). 12 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 14 + 15 = 73.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Coinbase Advanced Trade API +5\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API (67): The editorial half. A closed service whose user agreement answered a bot check; the OpenAPI spec is public and the Python SDK is open on GitHub (12 of 30). Privacy facts per the coinbase-cdp-agentkit check of 1 October 2026 (Coinbase, Inc., processing countries, retention tied to need without numbers), not re-read (10 of 30). INTX endpoints retired on 1 October 2026 with a dated notice and a read-only grace period (12 of 20). Processing countries and provider categories per the same earlier check, no subprocessor list (8 of 20). 12 + 10 + 12 + 8 = 42.\n- OKX API (62): The editorial half. A closed service with terms that name the contracting entities by region and an API Agreement for agents; the kit is MIT (17 of 30). The privacy policy was not read (5 of 30). The changelog dates sunsets and labels breaking changes, such as port 8443 on 31 October and 16 November 2026 (16 of 20). No subprocessor or data-location statement read; the MCP server is local and its npm package runs a postinstall script whose purpose we did not trace (0 of 20). 17 + 5 + 16 + 0 = 38.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Coinbase Advanced Trade API | OKX API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 65 | OKX API +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 73 | Coinbase Advanced Trade API +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 77 | OKX API +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 68 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 81 | OKX API +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 62 | Coinbase Advanced Trade API +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.7 · C** | **64.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Coinbase Advanced Trade API | OKX API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Coinbase, Inc. | OKX |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Coinbase User Agreement, which answered a bot check and wasn't read. The official Python SDK coinbase-advanced-py is on GitHub | Proprietary hosted service under OKX's Terms of Service (29 October 2026) and API Agreement (28 July 2026). The Agent Trade Kit (MCP server, CLI and skills) is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 170 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-29 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-27 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\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 | 499 stars, 1.8k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Coinbase Advanced Trade API.** Advanced Trade has a public OpenAPI spec, keys limited to view, trade or transfer and to one portfolio, and a keyless static sandbox. No REST rate limit is published, the fee schedule, user agreement and country list sit behind a bot check, and an agent that wants an MCP route uses the separate coinbase-mcp listing.\n\n**OKX API.** OKX publishes per-endpoint rate limits, Read, Trade and Withdraw key permissions with IP binding, demo trading on the production host, and an MIT MCP server with 170 tools, a read-only flag and a permission check at startup. The fee table and privacy policy were not read, no OpenAPI file was found, and the news tools return third-party text.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Coinbase Advanced Trade API\n\n1. Mint a fresh ES256 JWT for every request; tokens expire after 2 minutes and Ed25519 keys are rejected\n2. Send a unique client_order_id on every order and reuse it on retry so a dropped connection does not place a second order\n3. Develop against api-sandbox.coinbase.com first; its responses are static, so do not read prices or fills from it\n4. Use a key with view only, or trade without transfer, and restrict it to a portfolio funded for the agent\n5. For perpetuals call the Global Derivatives JSON-RPC gateway at drb.coinbase.com; the /intx/* endpoints are retired\n\n### OKX API\n\n1. Start okx-trade-mcp with --profile demo first, then --read-only on a live key; load only the modules the task needs\n2. Use a sub-account key with Read and Trade only, bound to the agent's IP; an unbound Trade key expires after 14 idle days\n3. Stay under 60 place-order requests per 2 seconds per instrument and at most 3 amendments in flight per order; 50011 means the limit was hit\n4. Send a clOrdId on every order and use the structured error block (code, message, endpoint) to diagnose with read-only tools before retrying\n5. Call us.okx.com or eea.okx.com for US, Australian and EEA accounts; openapi.okx.com does not serve those regions\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Coinbase Advanced Trade API or OKX API?\n\nOKX API scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase Advanced Trade API's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase Advanced Trade API leads on schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Coinbase Advanced Trade API and OKX API need an API key?\n\nCoinbase Advanced Trade API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. OKX API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Coinbase Advanced Trade API and OKX API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Coinbase Advanced Trade API. OKX API runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-okx.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-okx.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"coinbase-advanced-trade\", \"b\": \"okx\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare coinbase-advanced-trade okx`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-advanced-trade.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/okx.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Coinbase Advanced Trade API or OKX API\n\n- [Bitfinex API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.md)\n- [Bitfinex API vs OKX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-okx.md)\n- [Bitget vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.md)\n- [Bitget vs OKX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-okx.md)\n- [Bithumb Open API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.md)\n- [Bithumb Open API vs OKX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bithumb-vs-okx.md)\n- [Bitstamp API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade 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