Kraken
BigONEIn short: the difference
How Kraken differs from BigONE
What Kraken is: a regulated venue. On the market since 2011, jurisdiction: San Francisco, USA.
What BigONE is: an exchange with services around the trading. On the market since 2017, jurisdiction: Seychelles, its own ONE token.
What Kraken gives you
The rival’s service list is wide, yet Kraken wins on other things: The oldest venue we cover, running since 2011 under US regulation. Its distinction is real money: hundreds of dollar pairs and more euro pairs than anyone else here. There is spot, perpetual futures with hourly funding, staking and institutional services. Kraken is how we compute the live dollar rate in our stablecoin section.
Where Kraken is strong
hundreds of pairs against dollars and euro directly, age and regulation, hourly funding.
What BigONE gives you
Against a regulated venue, BigONE wins on other things: One of the older venues in this comparison: running since 2017, with a team that came out of the Yunbi exchange. It carries around nine hundred spot pairs and a hundred perpetual contracts, each publishing its funding rate, accrual interval and mark price. There is margin, leveraged tokens, staking and its own ONE token for fee discounts. Data is fully open, including the size resting at the best quote.
Where BigONE is strong
~900 pairs and 100 contracts, best quotes with sizes, an open network directory with withdrawal fees, the ONE token for discounts.
What decides it
Fees, withdrawals and limits: where the gap shows
- Age. Kraken has run since 2011, BigONE since 2017 — a gap of 6 years. It guarantees nothing on its own, but the older venue has been through more market cycles.
- Jurisdiction. Kraken sits in San Francisco, USA, BigONE in Seychelles. It shapes both the checks you pass and what the venue has to disclose.
- Native token. ONE on BigONE cuts fees and opens launches; Kraken has no such lever.
- Strengths side by side. Kraken: hundreds of pairs against dollars and euro directly, age and regulation, hourly funding; BigONE: ~900 pairs and 100 contracts, best quotes with sizes, an open network directory with withdrawal fees, the ONE token for discounts.
- Which job. Kraken is for settling in real dollars and euro rather than stablecoins, while BigONE is as an additional venue in spot routes and funding.
- Worth remembering. Kraken: entry-level fees run higher than neighbours — it pays off at larger volumes. BigONE: the top of the book is thin: on major coins the best price often holds only a hundred dollars or two.
Which one fits you
Who Kraken suits
Kraken — for settling in real dollars and euro rather than stablecoins.
Who BigONE suits
BigONE — as an additional venue in spot routes and funding.
What people ask most
Questions about Kraken
Kraken: Why is there no table of Kraken networks and withdrawal fees? The exchange does not serve them programmatically, and we will not retype them by hand: figures like that go stale silently. The cost of a transfer is shown in the account before you send.
Kraken: Why is the Kraken fee so high? The entry rate of 0.40% maker and 0.80% taker is the dearest we cover, but the ladder is long: $2,500 of monthly volume already brings it to 0.30% and 0.60%, and ten thousand to 0.22% and 0.38%. There is no token discount here, by design.
Kraken: Does Kraken have P2P? No. There is no classic listings board with merchants and escrow between users: money moves in and out through bank transfers and the venue own fiat routes.
Questions about BigONE
BigONE: Can coins bought in Alpha be withdrawn? Per the venue's own guide, assets in the Alpha account are meant for trading and cannot be withdrawn the ordinary way. That is worth knowing before buying.
BigONE: What does trading on BigONE cost? The base spot rate is 0.20% for maker and taker, and futures start at 0.02% and 0.06%. From there BigONE Points cut the rate: at the top Challenger level it reaches 0.06%. Your own figure depends on the points earned and is shown in the account.
BigONE: Why are spreads on BigONE often large? Because the top of the book is thin: the size at the best price is often a hundred dollars or two. The percentage on screen is real, but it fills only for that much. Use the «depth» button before trading.
Both at once
When it makes sense to keep accounts on both Kraken and BigONE
You do not have to pick one. Two accounts give you a fallback when the coin or network you need exists only on the other venue. Deposits and withdrawals go through the regulated venue, trading and yield through the ecosystem. A stablecoin travels between them on a cheap network.
Live numbers
Live Kraken and BigONE prices side by side
The figures above do not come from marketing pages: we compute them from the same market snapshots as the rest of the site. Kraken and BigONE 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 Kraken and BigONE is widest
BigONE gives 20× the choice on spot: 880 USDT pairs against 44. BigONE is the one of the two with a published USDT withdrawal: 0.78 on ETH. Kraken carries more perpetuals: 209 where the other has 97.
The source of these values
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 12 November 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.
