Gate
KCEXIn short: the difference
How Gate differs from KCEX
What Gate is: the exchange with the longest ticker list. On the market since 2013, jurisdiction: Panama, its own GT token.
What KCEX is: an exchange that covers several jobs at once. On the market since 2021, jurisdiction: Seychelles.
What Gate gives you
The rival’s service list is wide, yet Gate wins on other things: 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 KCEX gives you
Against an early-listing venue, KCEX plays a different game: A derivatives venue: over eight hundred perpetual contracts, each publishing its funding rate and mark price, plus spot across some eight hundred and fifty pairs. What the venue sells itself on is zero spot fees and low futures rates. There is copy trading and new-coin launches; turnover is concentrated in the first hundred pairs, where the book is dense.
Where KCEX is strong
800+ contracts with open rates and mark prices, zero spot fees per the venue’s own schedule, early listings.
What decides it
Fees, withdrawals and limits: where the gap shows
- Age. Gate has run since 2013, KCEX since 2021 — a gap of 8 years. It guarantees nothing on its own, but the older venue has been through more market cycles.
- Jurisdiction. Gate sits in Panama, KCEX in Seychelles. It shapes both the checks you pass and what the venue has to disclose.
- Native token. GT on Gate cuts fees and opens launches; KCEX has no such lever.
- Strengths side by side. Gate: more USDT withdrawal networks than any other venue we cover, 2000 spot pairs, running since 2013; KCEX: 800+ contracts with open rates and mark prices, zero spot fees per the venue’s own schedule, early listings.
- Which job. Gate is for anyone who values freedom of choice when moving coins between chains, while KCEX is primarily as a futures venue in funding.
- Worth remembering. Gate: the interface is dense with sections: finding the right one takes a while. KCEX: spot books are served one pair per request, so we keep the top hundred by turnover under watch.
Which one fits you
Who Gate suits
Gate — for anyone who values freedom of choice when moving coins between chains.
Who KCEX suits
KCEX — primarily as a futures venue in funding.
What people ask most
Questions about Gate
Gate: How trustworthy is Gate? The exchange has been running since 2013 and publishes proof of reserves regularly — by industry standards those are good signs. Such a publication is not a full audit.
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: What is the maximum leverage on Gate? There is no single figure: it is set per contract by the leverage_max field in the directory at api.gateio.ws/api/v4/futures/usdt/contracts. As the position grows the available leverage falls under the risk limits.
Questions about KCEX
KCEX: Why do KCEX routes show a question mark instead of a transfer status? The venue does not publish whether deposits and withdrawals are open per network, or what a transfer costs. We will not present a guess as a fact, so the badge reads «unknown» and those rows are hidden while the «working transfers only» filter is on.
KCEX: What are KCEX fees? The venue advertises zero spot fees and reduced futures rates. In our tables the fee is yours to set in the «trade fee» field — put in zero and watch how the net spread changes.
KCEX: Does KCEX take part in funding? Yes, in full. Every contract arrives in one list with its rate, accrual interval and next payout time, so the annualised rate is computed from the real interval rather than an assumption.
Both at once
When it makes sense to keep accounts on both Gate and KCEX
Keeping both costs less than it seems: signing up is free, and a choice of two quotes usually beats one. A rare coin is bought where it exists and moved to the ecosystem — easier to hold, stake or sell into a deeper book there.
Live numbers
Live Gate and KCEX prices side by side
Everything in the table above is recomputed together with the rest of the site — pairs, contracts, P2P, networks and the withdrawal fee. Gate and KCEX 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
Where the gap between Gate and KCEX is widest
A price for moving USDT exists only for Gate: 0.0500 over ARBITRUM. Gate gives 2.6× the choice on spot: 2,004 USDT pairs against 785. Derivatives go to Gate: 1,081 perpetuals against 819. Only Gate of the two reaches our P2P scanner, in 72 currencies.
What this comparison is built on
Every value in the table is read from the venues themselves: pairs, networks, fee tiers, P2P currencies. We add no estimates of our own and spell out the fields that are missing.
How fresh this snapshot is
Snapshot from 12 November 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.
