Bybit
GateIn short: the difference
How Bybit differs from Gate
What Bybit is: an exchange that lives on leverage. On the market since 2018, jurisdiction: Dubai, UAE, its own MNT token.
What Gate is: an early-listing venue. On the market since 2013, jurisdiction: Panama, its own GT token.
What Bybit gives you
Against an early-listing venue, Bybit plays a different game: An exchange built on derivatives, with one of the easiest terminals around. Spot, perpetual futures and options, P2P, Earn savings, copy trading with open statistics, bots and a card. Twenty networks are available for USDT withdrawals — the most we cover — and several carry no fee at all.
Where Bybit is strong
20 withdrawal networks, several of them free, an even book on the main pairs, transparent copy trading.
What Gate gives you
The terminal is strong on contracts, but Gate has its own ground: Running since 2013 and holding first place in our coverage for USDT withdrawal networks — nobody else offers as many. Spot across two thousand pairs, a thousand perpetual contracts. The set includes P2P, savings and staking, Startup for new coins, copy trading, bots and its own GT token that cuts the fee.
Where Gate is strong
more USDT withdrawal networks than any other venue we cover, 2000 spot pairs, running since 2013.
What decides it
Fees, withdrawals and limits: where the gap shows
- Age. Gate has run since 2013, Bybit since 2018 — a gap of 5 years. It guarantees nothing on its own, but the older venue has been through more market cycles.
- Jurisdiction. Bybit sits in Dubai, UAE, Gate in Panama. It shapes both the checks you pass and what the venue has to disclose.
- Native tokens. Bybit has MNT, Gate has GT: holders usually get fee discounts and access to launches.
- Strengths side by side. Bybit: 20 withdrawal networks, several of them free, an even book on the main pairs, transparent copy trading; Gate: more USDT withdrawal networks than any other venue we cover, 2000 spot pairs, running since 2013.
- Which job. Bybit is a natural second venue in a route: cheap transfers and predictable execution, while Gate is for anyone who values freedom of choice when moving coins between chains.
- Worth remembering. Bybit: the spot listing is slimmer than the Asian venues with thousands of pairs. Gate: the interface is dense with sections: finding the right one takes a while.
Which one fits you
Who Bybit suits
Bybit — a natural second venue in a route: cheap transfers and predictable execution.
Who Gate suits
Gate — for anyone who values freedom of choice when moving coins between chains.
What people ask most
Questions about Bybit
Bybit: Is the Bybit card available in Ukraine? Ukraine cannot be treated as a confirmed issuing region. The venue names Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru and parts of Asia. Whether you can apply shows in the account itself.
Bybit: Is there P2P here? Yes, across dozens of currencies. With less competition for the top rows the price is sometimes better than on the largest venues.
Bybit: What does P2P cost on Bybit? There is no single rate: it depends on the currency, the listing's direction and the advertiser's status. For the rouble, buy ads are free while sell ads run 0.25% to 0.30%. For currencies absent from the table the venue charges nothing of its own.
Questions about Gate
Gate: Are there many coins? One of the widest listings on the market, comparable to MEXC. As there, breadth calls for caution: check a pair's volume before trading.
Gate: How does the European version of Gate differ? In its fee grid. The European table reaches a zero maker fee at the tenth tier, while the global one only does so at the fifteenth. The other steps match.
Gate: What is the minimum order on Gate? Each pair has its own: the directory at api.gateio.ws/api/v4/spot/currency_pairs returns the minimum base quantity and the minimum notional in the quote currency. The ETH_USDT example gives 0.001 ETH and 1 USDT.
Both at once
When it makes sense to keep accounts on both Bybit and Gate
Nothing stops you from opening an account on both: it is free, and a pair of venues almost always beats any single one on price. The coin is bought where it already trades, moved across and shorted with a contract on the other — that locks the price while the transfer runs.
Live numbers
Live Bybit and Gate prices side by side
The table above is built from our own market snapshots: USDT pairs, perpetual contracts, P2P ads and currencies, withdrawal networks and the cheapest one. Bybit and Gate can be compared on facts rather than promises.
Where these numbers come from
Prices are read straight from the venues and refresh automatically. There is no averaged rate here: each exchange has its own, which is why both are shown side by side.
How often they refresh
Spot and futures every few seconds; fee tiers and withdrawal networks once a day.
What the numbers say
What differs most in the Bybit and Gate numbers
The spot lists differ by 5.2× — 2,006 USDT pairs on Gate, 389 on the other side. The futures list runs longer on Gate: 1,085, against 830. On the cheapest chain Gate charges 0.0500 for USDT via ARBITRUM; the same move on Bybit runs to 0.0700 POLYGON. Gate opens 26 chains for USDT against 20 on Bybit — more routes mean more chances to move funds cheaply. Our scanner reads P2P advertisements on Bybit in 89 currencies and on Gate in 72.
Where these numbers come from
Pair counts, withdrawal chains, fee tiers and P2P currencies are taken from the venues own public references, not from our judgement. Where a venue does not publish a field, we say so plainly instead of filling in a number.
How fresh this snapshot is
Snapshot from 13 November 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.
