{ "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": "2026-11-04T20:39:00.351238439Z" }, "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": "2026-11-04T20:39:00.351238439Z" } }, "answer": "Uniswap Trading API scores 63.3 (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 reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "uniswap", "name": "Uniswap Trading API", "vendor": "Uniswap Labs", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.uniswap.org", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crypto-exchanges", "summary": "Uniswap Labs' Trading API quotes and builds swap, bridge and liquidity transactions across Uniswap v2, v3, v4 and UniswapX on 21 chains. The caller signs with its own wallet and broadcasts; the API is free behind an API key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uniswap", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uniswap.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uniswap.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/uniswap.json", "dns": "uniswap.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-ai", "license": "The Trading API is a proprietary hosted service under Uniswap Labs' API Terms of Use, which we couldn't read; the SDKs and the uniswap-ai skills are MIT. Swaps execute on the open-source Uniswap protocol contracts on chain", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@uniswap/v4-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An API key from the Uniswap Developer Platform dashboard, sent as `x-api-key` on every request; the docs say to keep it server-side. The API never holds funds or keys. `/quote` returns `permitData` the user signs as EIP-712 typed data, `/swap` returns calldata the caller signs and broadcasts, and `/order` takes a signed UniswapX order. An optional `X-Agent-Info` header with `decision_origin` of `autonomous` or `human_mediated` attributes agent traffic (https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/trading/swapping-api/start-building/integration-guide, checked 2026-11-03).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The API is free, with no subscription or per-call charge, per the FAQ and the Developer Platform post of 16 April 2026. Swaps pay the pool fee and gas on chain; UniswapX orders are gasless for the swapper. Integrators may add up to 4 fee entries totalling at most 500 bips. Each key is limited to 6 requests a second (https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/trading/swapping-api/faqs, checked 2026-11-03).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the API's endpoints (checked 2026-11-03). The uniswap-ai repository's `pay-with-any-token` skill helps an agent pay HTTP 402 challenges (MPP or x402) by swapping tokens through Uniswap, which is a buyer-side skill, not a paid endpoint.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": 236, "npmWeekly": 153782, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/trading/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.uniswap.org/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://trade-api.gateway.uniswap.org/v1/api.json", "capabilities": [ "exchange.spot-trading", "exchange.market-data", "market.crypto", "wallet.onchain" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "api-key", "free", "no-card", "typescript", "agent-skills", "no-status-page", "security-txt", "rest" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 470, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 42, "schema": 90, "security": 63, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Trading API is free, documented by an OpenAPI file with stable error codes, holds no keys since the caller signs every swap, and posts sunset notices 30 days ahead. There is no official MCP server, status page or sandbox, the key is a plain header secret at 6 requests a second, and the API terms refused our reader.", "bestFor": "An agent swapping or bridging tokens from its own wallet on 21 EVM chains, or managing liquidity positions, with routing done for it.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 file, llms.txt, llms-full.txt and Markdown twins, with 400, 401, 404 and 429 schemas and a stable `errorCode` enum", "The API builds calldata and never holds funds or keys; the caller signs `permitData` and the transaction with its own wallet", "Free with no per-call charge, 21 chains for classic swaps and UniswapX on 10 of them", "Dated changelog notices with a 30-day minimum sunset policy, and the uniswap-ai skills (MIT) for coding agents", "A documented `X-Agent-Info` header for autonomous and human-mediated traffic, and retry guidance per error code" ], "weaknesses": [ "No official MCP server; the registry's Uniswap entries are third parties", "No status page, no SLA and no sandbox; tests use production endpoints on testnets", "A single `x-api-key` per key with 6 requests a second and no scopes; the dashboard is disallowed by robots.txt so key management is unchecked", "The API Terms of Use and Uniswap Labs' terms and privacy policy are on a help centre that answered 403 or draw by script, so restricted countries and data handling are unchecked", "No official client library for the API; the TypeScript SDKs cover the protocol and quoting, not the API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `/check_approval` first, then `/quote`; if `permitData` is non-null sign it as EIP-712 and send `signature` and `permitData` together to `/swap` or `/order`, never one without the other", "Route on the quote's `routing`: `CLASSIC`, `WRAP`, `UNWRAP` and `BRIDGE` go to `/swap`, `DUTCH_V2`, `DUTCH_V3` and `PRIORITY` to `/order`, `CHAINED` to `/plan`", "Refresh any quote older than 30 seconds before broadcasting, and on 429 pause every request from the key before retrying", "Retry unchanged only on `UpstreamTimeoutError`; `NoRouteFoundError` and `QuoteAmountTooLowError` need a different amount, token or `protocols` list", "Send `X-Agent-Info` with `decision_origin: autonomous` and keep `x-api-key` server-side" ], "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": 63.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 42, "schema": 90, "security": 63, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 74, "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": "npx skills add Uniswap/uniswap-ai", "http": "curl -X POST https://trade-api.gateway.uniswap.org/v1/quote -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_UNISWAP_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"tokenIn\":\"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000\",\"tokenOut\":\"0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48\",\"tokenInChainId\":1,\"tokenOutChainId\":1,\"type\":\"EXACT_INPUT\",\"amount\":\"1000000000000000000\",\"swapper\":\"0xYourWallet\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/exchange.spot-trading", "tool": "https://letme.dev/uniswap" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Uniswap Labs", "domain": "uniswap.org", "domainRegistered": "2018-11-26", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://support.uniswap.org/hc/en-us/articles/43018872248589-API-Terms-of-Use", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "Uniswap Labs is the name on the uniswap-ai licence and the blog; the API Terms of Use (support.uniswap.org, answered 403) are said in a search snippet to name Universal Navigation, Inc., which was not read first-hand.", "RDAP gives uniswap.org a registration date of 26 November 2018, registrar Cloudflare.", "app.uniswap.org/.well-known/security.txt lists a Cantina bounty and security@uniswap.org with no Expires field; uniswap.org redirects to the app.", "status.uniswap.org redirects to app.uniswap.org/swap, so no status page is recorded.", "The privacy policy at app.uniswap.org draws by script and was not read. developers.uniswap.org/robots.txt disallows /dashboard, /api/ and /oauth/, so the key dashboard was not fetched; trade-api.gateway.uniswap.org has no robots.txt (404)." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uniswap.json", "live": { "slug": "uniswap", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://uniswap.org/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:09.573484239Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:09.573484239Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 31, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "uniswap", "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 hosted service. The newest changelog notice is dated 22 October 2026 (30). Notices of 20 August, 21 September and 22 October 2026, three in 90 days (20). A help form for developer support that says it won't debug integrators' code, and uniswap-ai with 6 open issues and a push on 26 October (14 of 25). Official TypeScript SDKs current (@uniswap/v4-sdk 2.4.4 with provenance) and the uniswap-ai skills, though no client for the API itself; no MCP registry entry (15). Trusted publishing with provenance on npm, CI and lint hooks on uniswap-ai (9 of 10). Total 88." }, "scores": { "a": 57, "b": 88 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "payments", "leads": "uniswap", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No machine payment protocol on the API (0). The fee schedule answered a bot check on 3 November 2026, so no per-trade price was read, and the docs give none (0 of 20, unchecked). Six public market endpoints and the sandbox need no key or card (20). A person signs up, passes verification and mints a key in the portal (0). 0 + 0 + 20 + 0 = 20.", "b": "No machine payment protocol on the API's endpoints; the `pay-with-any-token` skill lets an agent pay other services' 402 challenges by swapping, which earns nothing here (0). The API is free, stated in the FAQ and the 16 April 2026 post, and integrator fees are capped at 500 bips (20). No card and no plan (20). A person creates an account in the dashboard to get a key (0). Total 40." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 16, "category": "reliability", "leads": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "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 Trading API. status.uniswap.org redirects to the swap app and the docs link no status page (0). No readable history (5). Rate limit documented as 6 requests a second per key (15). The errors page says to pause all requests from the key on 429, retry 500 and 503 with backoff and refresh quotes after 30 seconds; swaps are signed transactions, so idempotency rests on the chain nonce (12 of 15). No SLA (0). The API is generally available; Guidestar routing is a beta notice (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 42 } }, { "by": 12, "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. The API is closed under API Terms of Use that answered 403; the SDKs and uniswap-ai are MIT and the protocol contracts are open source (15 of 30). No privacy policy read (app.uniswap.org draws by script) and nothing in the docs on retention of quotes or wallet addresses (0 of 30). A published sunset policy of at least 30 days, ideally 60, with dated notices such as the Universal Router 2.0 and 2.1.1 sunset of 21 October 2026 (20). No subprocessors or data locations (0 of 20). Total 35." }, "scores": { "a": 67, "b": 55 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "schema", "leads": "uniswap", "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": "OpenAPI 3.0 file (Token Trading 1.0.0) for the Trading and LP APIs, about 33 paths with `x-internal` markers on the margin and 4337 operations (25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Operation summaries are one line, but the guides say which routing types go to `/swap`, `/order` and `/plan`, when UniswapX quotes are returned and when a 404 means change the request (14 of 20). Enums for routing types, urgency and position statuses, required fields and bounded integers such as `limit` 1 to 20 (12 of 15). Examples on every guide page and error schemas for 400, 401, 404 and 429 with a stable `errorCode` enum and per-code retry advice (14 of 15). A /v1 path, a changelog with posted and effective dates and a 30-day minimum sunset policy (15). Total 90." }, "scores": { "a": 80, "b": 90 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "security", "leads": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "CDP keys with view, trade and transfer permissions, a portfolio restriction, an optional IP allowlist, revocation in the portal, ES256 JWTs that expire after 2 minutes, and OAuth2 with wallet:* scopes for other people's accounts; no key expiry (28 of 30). View-only keys and portfolio scoping limit an agent, and transfer is a separate permission, but no withdrawal address allow-list for API keys and no confirmation step were found (14 of 20). The API returns no untrusted content (10). key_permissions reports a key's scope and account activity shows in the app, but no per-call log was found (6 of 15). HackerOne bug bounty named in a security.txt that expired on 1 June 2024; certifications unread behind a bot check (10 of 20). 28 + 14 + 10 + 6 + 10 = 68.", "b": "A single `x-api-key` header, no scopes, no IP allow-list; revocation and rotation happen in a dashboard robots.txt disallows, so unchecked; nothing in a URL (18 of 30). The API never holds keys or funds, every value transfer needs the caller's signature on `permitData` and the transaction, and the swapper sets slippage (16 of 20). The API returns routes and token lists, not untrusted content (10). The dashboard presumably shows key usage; not read, and no per-call log is documented (5 of 15). security.txt on app.uniswap.org with a Cantina bounty and security@uniswap.org, protocol audits in the docs; no SOC 2 or disclosure timeline read (14 of 20). Total 63." }, "scores": { "a": 68, "b": 63 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Coinbase, Inc.", "b": "Uniswap Labs", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Free", "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": "The Trading API is a proprietary hosted service under Uniswap Labs' API Terms of Use, which we couldn't read; the SDKs and the uniswap-ai skills are MIT. Swaps execute on the open-source Uniswap protocol contracts on chain", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-22", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-27", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "236 stars, 154k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Uniswap Trading API scores 63.3 (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 reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Coinbase Advanced Trade API or Uniswap Trading API?" }, { "answer": "Coinbase Advanced Trade API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Uniswap Trading API needs an API key.", "question": "Do Coinbase Advanced Trade API and Uniswap Trading API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Coinbase Advanced Trade API. No hosted endpoint is listed for Uniswap Trading API.", "question": "Can an agent call Coinbase Advanced Trade API and Uniswap Trading API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 58 against 42", "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 63", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 55" ], "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": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 80", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 57" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent swapping or bridging tokens from its own wallet on 21 EVM chains, or managing liquidity positions, with routing done for it.", "slug": "uniswap", "watchFor": "No official MCP server; the registry's Uniswap entries are third parties" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "exchange.spot-trading", "name": "Exchange spot trading" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-uniswap.json", "title": "Bitfinex API vs Uniswap Trading API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitfinex-vs-uniswap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade.json", "title": "Bitget vs Coinbase Advanced Trade API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-coinbase-advanced-trade" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitget-vs-uniswap.json", "title": "Bitget vs Uniswap Trading API", "url": 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"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/uniswap-vs-upbit.json", "title": "Uniswap Trading API vs Upbit Open API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/uniswap-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" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 16, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 58, "edge": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "uniswap": 42, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 80, "edge": "uniswap", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "uniswap": 90, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 73, "edge": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "uniswap": 72, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 68, "edge": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "uniswap": 63, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 20, "edge": "uniswap", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "uniswap": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 57, "edge": "uniswap", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "uniswap": 88, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "coinbase-advanced-trade": 67, "edge": "coinbase-advanced-trade", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "uniswap": 55, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Uniswap Trading API scores 63.3 (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 reliability, security \u0026 auth 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.", "uniswap": "The Trading API is free, documented by an OpenAPI file with stable error codes, holds no keys since the caller signs every swap, and posts sunset notices 30 days ahead. There is no official MCP server, status page or sandbox, the key is a plain header secret at 6 requests a second, and the API terms refused our reader." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-uniswap", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-uniswap.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-uniswap.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-uniswap.min.md" }, "markdown": "Uniswap Trading API scores 63.3 (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 reliability, security \u0026 auth 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- Uniswap Trading API: grade B, 63.3/100, rank #470 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uniswap.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/uniswap.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- Reliability, 58 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 63\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 55\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### Uniswap Trading API (B)\n\nGood for: An agent swapping or bridging tokens from its own wallet on 21 EVM chains, or managing liquidity positions, with routing done for it.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 80\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 57\n\nWatch for: No official MCP server; the registry's Uniswap entries are third parties\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Uniswap Trading API +31\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- Uniswap Trading API (88): Read as a closed hosted service. The newest changelog notice is dated 22 October 2026 (30). Notices of 20 August, 21 September and 22 October 2026, three in 90 days (20). A help form for developer support that says it won't debug integrators' code, and uniswap-ai with 6 open issues and a push on 26 October (14 of 25). Official TypeScript SDKs current (@uniswap/v4-sdk 2.4.4 with provenance) and the uniswap-ai skills, though no client for the API itself; no MCP registry entry (15). Trusted publishing with provenance on npm, CI and lint hooks on uniswap-ai (9 of 10). Total 88.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Uniswap Trading API +20\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API (20): No machine payment protocol on the API (0). The fee schedule answered a bot check on 3 November 2026, so no per-trade price was read, and the docs give none (0 of 20, unchecked). Six public market endpoints and the sandbox need no key or card (20). A person signs up, passes verification and mints a key in the portal (0). 0 + 0 + 20 + 0 = 20.\n- Uniswap Trading API (40): No machine payment protocol on the API's endpoints; the `pay-with-any-token` skill lets an agent pay other services' 402 challenges by swapping, which earns nothing here (0). The API is free, stated in the FAQ and the 16 April 2026 post, and integrator fees are capped at 500 bips (20). No card and no plan (20). A person creates an account in the dashboard to get a key (0). Total 40.\n\n### Reliability: Coinbase Advanced Trade API +16\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- Uniswap Trading API (42): Read with the hosted lines on the Trading API. status.uniswap.org redirects to the swap app and the docs link no status page (0). No readable history (5). Rate limit documented as 6 requests a second per key (15). The errors page says to pause all requests from the key on 429, retry 500 and 503 with backoff and refresh quotes after 30 seconds; swaps are signed transactions, so idempotency rests on the chain nonce (12 of 15). No SLA (0). The API is generally available; Guidestar routing is a beta notice (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Coinbase Advanced Trade API +12\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- Uniswap Trading API (55): The editorial half. The API is closed under API Terms of Use that answered 403; the SDKs and uniswap-ai are MIT and the protocol contracts are open source (15 of 30). No privacy policy read (app.uniswap.org draws by script) and nothing in the docs on retention of quotes or wallet addresses (0 of 30). A published sunset policy of at least 30 days, ideally 60, with dated notices such as the Universal Router 2.0 and 2.1.1 sunset of 21 October 2026 (20). No subprocessors or data locations (0 of 20). Total 35.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Uniswap Trading API +10\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- Uniswap Trading API (90): OpenAPI 3.0 file (Token Trading 1.0.0) for the Trading and LP APIs, about 33 paths with `x-internal` markers on the margin and 4337 operations (25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Operation summaries are one line, but the guides say which routing types go to `/swap`, `/order` and `/plan`, when UniswapX quotes are returned and when a 404 means change the request (14 of 20). Enums for routing types, urgency and position statuses, required fields and bounded integers such as `limit` 1 to 20 (12 of 15). Examples on every guide page and error schemas for 400, 401, 404 and 429 with a stable `errorCode` enum and per-code retry advice (14 of 15). A /v1 path, a changelog with posted and effective dates and a 30-day minimum sunset policy (15). Total 90.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Coinbase Advanced Trade API +5\n\n- Coinbase Advanced Trade API (68): CDP keys with view, trade and transfer permissions, a portfolio restriction, an optional IP allowlist, revocation in the portal, ES256 JWTs that expire after 2 minutes, and OAuth2 with wallet:* scopes for other people's accounts; no key expiry (28 of 30). View-only keys and portfolio scoping limit an agent, and transfer is a separate permission, but no withdrawal address allow-list for API keys and no confirmation step were found (14 of 20). The API returns no untrusted content (10). key_permissions reports a key's scope and account activity shows in the app, but no per-call log was found (6 of 15). HackerOne bug bounty named in a security.txt that expired on 1 June 2024; certifications unread behind a bot check (10 of 20). 28 + 14 + 10 + 6 + 10 = 68.\n- Uniswap Trading API (63): A single `x-api-key` header, no scopes, no IP allow-list; revocation and rotation happen in a dashboard robots.txt disallows, so unchecked; nothing in a URL (18 of 30). The API never holds keys or funds, every value transfer needs the caller's signature on `permitData` and the transaction, and the swapper sets slippage (16 of 20). The API returns routes and token lists, not untrusted content (10). The dashboard presumably shows key usage; not read, and no per-call log is documented (5 of 15). security.txt on app.uniswap.org with a Cantina bounty and security@uniswap.org, protocol audits in the docs; no SOC 2 or disclosure timeline read (14 of 20). Total 63.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Coinbase Advanced Trade API | Uniswap Trading API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 42 | Coinbase Advanced Trade API +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 90 | Uniswap Trading API +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 72 | Coinbase Advanced Trade API +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 63 | Coinbase Advanced Trade API +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Uniswap Trading API +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 88 | Uniswap Trading API +31 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 55 | Coinbase Advanced Trade API +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.7 · C** | **63.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Coinbase Advanced Trade API | Uniswap Trading API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Coinbase, Inc. | Uniswap Labs |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\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 | The Trading API is a proprietary hosted service under Uniswap Labs' API Terms of Use, which we couldn't read; the SDKs and the uniswap-ai skills are MIT. Swaps execute on the open-source Uniswap protocol contracts on chain |\n| Tools exposed | none | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-22 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-27 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 236 stars, 154k 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**Uniswap Trading API.** The Trading API is free, documented by an OpenAPI file with stable error codes, holds no keys since the caller signs every swap, and posts sunset notices 30 days ahead. There is no official MCP server, status page or sandbox, the key is a plain header secret at 6 requests a second, and the API terms refused our reader.\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### Uniswap Trading API\n\n1. Call `/check_approval` first, then `/quote`; if `permitData` is non-null sign it as EIP-712 and send `signature` and `permitData` together to `/swap` or `/order`, never one without the other\n2. Route on the quote's `routing`: `CLASSIC`, `WRAP`, `UNWRAP` and `BRIDGE` go to `/swap`, `DUTCH_V2`, `DUTCH_V3` and `PRIORITY` to `/order`, `CHAINED` to `/plan`\n3. Refresh any quote older than 30 seconds before broadcasting, and on 429 pause every request from the key before retrying\n4. Retry unchanged only on `UpstreamTimeoutError`; `NoRouteFoundError` and `QuoteAmountTooLowError` need a different amount, token or `protocols` list\n5. Send `X-Agent-Info` with `decision_origin: autonomous` and keep `x-api-key` server-side\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Coinbase Advanced Trade API or Uniswap Trading API?\n\nUniswap Trading API scores 63.3 (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 reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Coinbase Advanced Trade API and Uniswap Trading API need an API key?\n\nCoinbase Advanced Trade API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Uniswap Trading API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Coinbase Advanced Trade API and Uniswap Trading API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Coinbase Advanced Trade API. No hosted endpoint is listed for Uniswap Trading API.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-uniswap.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-advanced-trade-vs-uniswap.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"coinbase-advanced-trade\", \"b\": \"uniswap\"}`. 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