# Gate (slim)

> Gate is a centralised crypto exchange for spot, margin, futures, options, earn and tokenised stocks, reached through its REST and WebSocket API v4, official SDKs, a CLI, and hosted and local MCP servers under its Gate for AI programme.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.md (~9,700 tokens) · this version ~2,480 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**C · 56.4/100 · rank #786 of 1349 · #12 in Crypto exchanges · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Gate runs official hosted MCP servers with keyless market data and OAuth-scoped trading, a local stdio server with a read-only switch, per-endpoint rate limits with headers and a futures testnet. There is no status page, SLA or OpenAPI file, the fee table needs a login, the MCP host is a separate domain, and the terms name no company.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Gate · category: Crypto exchanges · legal entity: not named · provenance 60/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp` (Streamable HTTP, stdio)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The API v4 at api.gateio.ws, read from gate.com/docs/developers (API v4 and the agent guide), the gate GitHub organisation, the MCP registry, the OAuth metadata on api.gatemcp.ai, the help centre and the legal pages on 3 November 2026. No account was made, no key minted, no OAuth flow started and no MCP session opened
- MCP server: Official. Hosted at api.gatemcp.ai over Streamable HTTP with SSE fallback: /mcp (58 market-data tools, no auth), /mcp/exchange (400 or more tools, Gate OAuth 2), /mcp/dex (33 tools, Google or Gate OAuth), /mcp/info (10 to 32 tools by page), /mcp/news (3 to 18) and /mcp/docs (3). Local stdio package npm `gate-mcp` 0.19.0 with 384 tools in 22 modules, GATE_READONLY and GATE_MODULES. Registry entries under io.github.gateio-dev (GitHub namespace), the remote ones published 16 April 2026. Documented in Gate's developer guide, a help centre article of 26 March 2026 and a blog post of 28 August 2026
- Key permissions: Per product group (spot and margin, perpetual contract, delivery contract, wallet, withdrawal, with unified, options, earn and others in the console) set to disabled, read-only or read-write; GET is read and other methods write. Up to 20 IPv4 addresses per key, no ranges; with no list the server skips IP checks. The docs say 20 keys per account in one place and 5 in another. Error labels INVALID_KEY, IP_FORBIDDEN and READ_ONLY name the failure
- Rate limits: Public endpoints 200 requests per 10 seconds per IP; spot order placement and amendment 10 a second combined, cancellation 200 a second; perpetual placement 100 a second; withdrawals 1 per 3 seconds; transfers and balances 80 per 10 seconds; other private endpoints 150 per 10 seconds; sub-accounts counted separately. Headers X-Gate-RateLimit-Limit, X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and X-Gate-RateLimit-Reset-Timestamp; HTTP 429 with label TOO_FAST. Fill-ratio rules cut spot placement to 10 per 10 seconds for accounts with low fill ratios. WebSocket 300 connections per IP
- Testnet: api-testnet.gateapi.io/api/v4 for futures, with keys from the Futures TestNet APIKeys tab; real keys do not work there and no spot testnet is documented
- Fees: VIP 0 spot taker 0.1 per cent per the help centre, maker 0.1 per cent per Gate's learn articles, 0.09 per cent when paid in GT; tiers VIP 0 to 16. The fee page draws its table after login; the VIP 0 futures rate was not readable
- FIX and WebSocket: No FIX API in the docs. WebSocket v4 for spot and futures market data and order updates, 10 requests a second on spot and 100 on futures, with order placement and cancellation over the socket; the full WebSocket docs are in the Markdown download
- Countries: Clause 2.5 names the United States, mainland China, Singapore, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Malta, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Crimea, Spain, Luhansk, Donetsk, the Netherlands, the UK, Myanmar, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Austria, India, Indonesia, Japan, Argentina, Cambodia, the UAE, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, Pakistan, Vietnam and Russia as Restricted Locations, a list Gate may change without notice, with extra limits on TradFi assets. Gate EU, Gate US, Gate JP, Gate TR, Gate AU and Gate Dubai are separate licensed sites
- Terms on automated trading: Clause 1.3(h) bans algorithmic, quantitative, systematic, high-frequency or automated activity through any channel Gate has not designated for it and any call to undocumented interfaces; clause 1.4 treats strategies that profit mainly from how the system works as prima facie prohibited; clause 2.11 lists unauthorised API use and data scraping; remedies include freezing assets and reversing trades. Clause 11.3 gives no guarantee of uninterrupted service and clause 12.11 caps liability at three months of fees
- Other agent surfaces: github.com/gate/gate-skills (27 to 41 skills with installers for Cursor, OpenClaw, Claude Code and Codex, pushed 3 November 2026), gate-cli (Go, releases on GitHub, JSON output), gate-for-ai (MIT), and the agent guide's advice to run the agent on a dedicated sub-account with its own key
- Legal entity: None named in the user agreement or privacy policy, which refer to Gate and its affiliates under the laws of Panama with ICC arbitration in Panama. The about page names Gate Technology Ltd as the Malta payment institution and lists licences in Dubai, Malta, the EU, Australia, Italy and the Bahamas, and says Gate is not registered in the Cayman Islands
- Prices: Spot trade, VIP 0 taker 0.1% percentage fee

- Scores: Reliability 42, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 70, Agent ergonomics 66, Security & auth 60, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 77, Transparency & trust 49 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded with the hosted lines on the API v4 at api.gateio.ws with the hosted MCP beside it. · Schema & documentation, No public OpenAPI file was found, though the SDKs are generated and the MCP tools carry typed parameters per the tool reference; the hosted… · Agent ergonomics, Read for the API with the hosted MCP beside it. · Security & auth, Gate OAuth 2 for the hosted trading MCP with eight scopes per the protected-resource metadata and revocation on the API management page, and… · Payments & pricing, No machine payment protocol (0). · Maintenance & community, Read as a hosted service with open-source MCP packages. · Transparency & trust, The editorial half.
- Sources: 19, open questions: 9, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: exchange.market-data, exchange.spot-trading, exchange.derivatives, exchange.balances, exchange.transfers, exchange.staking, market.crypto
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gate-io.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/gate-io.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gate-io from a page on gate.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/gate/gate-mcp, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: support@gate.com; https://www.gate.com/help; https://support.gate.com/hc/en-001/requests/new; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Start on https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp for prices and order books with no credential; switch to /mcp/exchange only when the person has approved the OAuth grant with the narrowest scopes
2. For a key-based route, create a key on a dedicated sub-account with read-only on every group but the one the task needs, withdrawal disabled and an IP allow-list; changes take up to 5 minutes
3. Put a unique `text` value starting with t- on every spot order and reuse it on the retry; read the order back before placing again
4. Read X-Gate-RateLimit-Requests-Remain and stop at zero; spot order placement is capped at 10 a second and withdrawals at 1 per 3 seconds
5. Rehearse futures logic on api-testnet.gateapi.io with TestNet keys; there is no spot testnet

## Connect

```bash
npx -y gate-mcp
```

```bash
curl https://api.gateio.ws/api/v4/spot/tickers?currency_pair=BTC_USDT
```

```bash
claude mcp add gate-mcp --transport http https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/gate-io

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