OKX vs Gate.io: fees, withdrawal costs, products, licenses, security record and support side by side — every value linked to its official source.
This is a mechanical count of per-row results with no weights and no composite score. Which exchange suits you depends on which rows matter to you.
| Item | OKX | Gate.io |
|---|---|---|
| Fees | ||
| Spot maker | 0.080%✓ ↗ | 0.100% ↗ |
| Spot taker | 0.100% ↗ | 0.100% ↗ |
| Futures maker | 0.020% ↗ | 0.020% ↗ |
| Futures taker | 0.050% ↗ | 0.050% ↗ |
| Cost of a $1,000 spot taker trade | $1.00 ↗ | $1.00 ↗ |
| Cost of a $1,000 futures taker trade | $0.50 ↗ | $0.50 ↗ |
| Fee discount with platform token | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| BTC withdrawal fee | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| USDT withdrawal fee | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Products & features | ||
| Listed coins | Not confirmed | 3,600 ↗ |
| Max futures leverage | 100× ↗ | 125× ↗ |
| Copy trading | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Earn / staking | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Fiat deposit methods | Card · Bank transfer · P2P · Third-party ↗ | Not confirmed |
| API trading | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Mobile app | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Trust & regulation | ||
| Licenses & registrations | 3 Dubai, UAE, Singapore, Malta / EEA | 8✓ Malta / EEA, Dubai, UAE, Gibraltar, Bahamas, Japan, Australia, Cyprus, Hong Kong |
| Recorded security incidents | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Proof of reserves | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| User protection fund | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| KYC required | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Founded | 2017 ↗ | 2013 ↗ |
| Headquarters | Seychelles ↗ | Not confirmed |
| Access & support | ||
| Interface languages | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Live chat support | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Users (exchange’s own claim) | 50M ↗ | 50M ↗ |
Green marks the better value in each row: lower fee, more coins, feature present. Rows without a mark are informational only. Unconfirmed values are never compared.
OKX — Regular user tier (assets < 100,000 USD and 30-day volume below the VIP 1 threshold). No token-discount applied. Spot and perpetual futures tabs of the official trading-fee page.
Gate.io — VIP0 tier. No GT discount applied. Official fee page.