# Gate vs Upbit Open API (slim)

> Gate scores 56.4 (C) to Upbit Open's 54.7 (C) for exchange market data. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Gate scores 56.4 (C) on agent readiness against Upbit Open API's 54.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Upbit Open API leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do exchange market data.

- Gate: C 56.4, rank #741 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.min.md
- Upbit Open API: C 54.7, rank #802 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upbit.min.md
- Gate, good for An agent trading spot, futures and earn products in a person's Gate account outside the 35 restricted locations, with a keyless MCP for research and an OAuth MCP or scoped key for trading. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 35 against 15. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.
- Upbit Open API, good for KRW-market trading for agents acting for a verified Korean account, with first-party SDKs, a CLI and skills but no MCP. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 83 against 77; Transparency & trust, 54 against 49.

| Category | Gate | Upbit Open API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 42 | 42 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gate | Upbit Open API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Gate | Dunamu Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Tools exposed | 58 | 0 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.gateio-dev/gate-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-20 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-22 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not read yet |
| Popularity | 44 stars | 91 stars |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Gate +20: Gate 35 (No machine payment protocol (0). The fee page's table loads after login; help centre and learn articles give the VIP 0 spot rates (15 of 20). Market data over REST and the public MCP needs no account and no card (20). A person registers, verifies identity and mints the key or approves the grant in a browser (0). 35.); Upbit Open API 15 (No machine payment protocol (0). The fee schedule is on upbit.com, which disallows every crawler path, so no price is recorded (0 of 20, unchecked). Public quotation endpoints need no key, card or account; trading needs a verified Korean account. Judgement call (15 of 20). A person must sign up, pass identity checks and issue keys on the PC web site (0). 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 15.)
- Maintenance & community, Upbit Open API +6: Gate 77 (Read as a hosted service with open-source MCP packages. The API changelog's latest entry is 2 November 2026 and gate-skills was pushed 3 November (30). 40 dated changelog entries since 5 August 2026 (20). developer@gate.com, a help centre and issue trackers on gate-mcp and gate-skills, replies not checked (12 of 25). In the official MCP registry under io.github.gateio-dev, a GitHub namespace rather than gate.com, and official SDKs current (10 of 15). The local package has a publish workflow and no test workflow in CI, and its last tag is 16 April 2026 (5 of 10). 77.); Upbit Open API 83 (Read as a closed service. SDK v1.1.0 on 20 October 2026 (30). The CLI 1.0.0 on 1 September, the rate-limit update of 7 October, the SDK on 20 October and the path-format notice for 16 November 2026 (20). open-api@upbit.com answers in turn on weekdays per the support notice, notices carry dates, and the six upbit-official repositories show no open issues (12 of 15). Current official SDKs in Python, TypeScript and Go (15). Apache-2.0 repositories pushed in October 2026; CI not checked (6 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 6 = 83.)
- Transparency & trust, Upbit Open API +5: Gate 49 (The editorial half. A closed hosted service with a clear user agreement that names no company; the MCP packages are MIT (12 of 30). The privacy policy names a DPO address and categories of recipients, with no retention numbers and no named subprocessors (12 of 30). The changelog records breaking changes such as the amend endpoint path move of 16 October 2026 with no notice period or policy (8 of 20). Transfers outside the user's jurisdiction are disclosed with no locations or provider names (5 of 20). 37.); Upbit Open API 54 (The editorial half. A closed service whose user and Open API terms could not be fetched under upbit.com's robots.txt, and whose SDK licence page calls the SDK material not open source while the repositories carry Apache-2.0 (8 of 30). The developer centre's privacy policy names Dunamu Inc., gives retention periods and names Zendesk in Japan; the main privacy policy was not read (14 of 30). Notices with effective dates, including the path-format change and the deprecated Remaining-Req min field (12 of 20). Zendesk and Google Analytics named with a location for the developer centre only (8 of 20). 8 + 14 + 12 + 8 = 42.)