Phemex
BitunixIn short: the difference
How Phemex differs from Bitunix
First in the pair, Phemex, is a venue where contracts come before spot. On the market since 2019, jurisdiction: Samoa.
Second in the pair, Bitunix, is a venue with bots and a Web3 side. On the market since 2021.
What Phemex gives you
The rival’s service list is wide, yet Phemex wins on other things: A derivatives venue founded by people from bank trading desks. A hundred and fifty spot pairs and a hundred and twenty perpetuals, each with its own funding rate. There is savings, copy trading and trading bots. The book is even and the data is served openly, which makes its prices sound to compare with other venues.
Where Phemex is strong
an even book, open data, the funding interval stated per contract.
What Bitunix gives you
Next to a derivatives terminal, Bitunix answers with something else: The derivatives tilt shows in the numbers: almost nine hundred perpetuals and five and a half hundred spot pairs against USDT, leverage to 200x where permitted. Futures are charged at 0.02% maker and 0.06% taker. The unusual part is a section of contracts on traditional markets — gold, silver, oil and the S&P 500.
Where Bitunix is strong
almost 900 contracts with funding rate and mark price in a single list, low futures fees, a full network directory with contract addresses and withdrawal costs.
What decides it
Fees, withdrawals and limits: where the gap shows
- Strengths side by side. Phemex: an even book, open data, the funding interval stated per contract; Bitunix: almost 900 contracts with funding rate and mark price in a single list, low futures fees, a full network directory with contract addresses and withdrawal costs.
- Which job. Phemex is as an additional venue in cross-exchange routes and funding, while Bitunix is as the futures leg in spot-versus-contract routes and a source of funding rates.
- Worth remembering. Phemex: a narrow listing next to the Asian venues. Bitunix: the venue publishes no market summary at all: spot books have to be walked one pair at a time, so its prices refresh more slowly than the rest.
Which one fits you
Who Phemex suits
Phemex — as an additional venue in cross-exchange routes and funding.
Who Bitunix suits
Bitunix — as the futures leg in spot-versus-contract routes and a source of funding rates.
What people ask most
Questions about Phemex
Phemex: How many pairs and contracts does Phemex have? The exact counts are in the panel at the top of the page: they come from the same feed that drives our arbitrage sections. It is one of the smaller venues we cover, and the listing is tidy by design.
Phemex: What is the funding interval on Phemex? Eight hours for most contracts, and the exchange states it per contract. Our funding section annualises from the real interval rather than assuming eight hours.
Phemex: Does Phemex have P2P? No. You fund the account with crypto from another wallet or through the exchange’s external payment services.
Questions about Bitunix
Bitunix: Why are Bitunix prices slightly older than the rest? The venue publishes no market summary: the book is only available one pair per request. We walk every pair with a separate process, and a full lap takes about forty seconds. The age of the data is shown next to each route.
Bitunix: How many contracts and spot pairs does Bitunix have? By our measurements, almost nine hundred perpetual contracts against USDT and five and a half hundred open spot pairs. The figures are live and are taken on every refresh.
Bitunix: Can you use Bitunix without verification? The demo account and some features, yes. But withdrawals require verification, as do Earn, Dual Investment and the card. Old reviews about a «no-KYC exchange» are out of date.
Both at once
When it makes sense to keep accounts on both Phemex and Bitunix
Keeping both costs less than it seems: signing up is free, and a choice of two quotes usually beats one. Spot and earn stay on the ecosystem, contracts on the terminal. Moving between them costs pennies on the right network.
Live numbers
Live Phemex and Bitunix 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. Phemex and Bitunix 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 Phemex and Bitunix numbers
The spot lists differ by 3.6× — 534 USDT pairs on Bitunix, 149 on the other side. A price for moving USDT exists only for Bitunix: 0.50 over TON. Derivatives go to Bitunix: 889 perpetuals against 129.
Where these numbers come from
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.
When they were last updated
Snapshot from 12 November 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.
