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P2P venue ranking: where a market actually exists for your currency

Venues compared by offer count, available size and price in your currency rather than by reputation. How to find the one where a market really exists.

What this section shows

P2P venues are compared here by three measurable things rather than by reputation: how many offers they carry, what sizes are available and what price they give in your currency.

The purpose is simple: to see where it is worth opening an account for your currency at all. A venue with the best price and no offers in your direction is useless.

P2P venue ranking: offer count, available size and prices by currency
P2P venue ranking: offer count, available size and prices by currency

Why offer count decides

The more sellers on a venue, the harder they compete and the tighter the gap between buying and selling. For you that means losing less on the exchange itself.

That is why the largest offer market usually gives the best funding conditions — not because of the brand, but because of the arithmetic of competition.

The flip side: on smaller venues weak competition sometimes leaves a better price. It is rarer, but it happens, which is why this should be checked against live data.

Reading the table

  • Offers — how many exist in your currency. Under ten means there is effectively no market in that direction.
  • Available size — the key column: a price without size means nothing.
  • Buy and sell price — the best executable offers.
  • Internal gap — what entering and leaving on that one venue costs.

Choosing a venue

  1. Pick your currency — it is selected by country automatically.
  2. Drop venues with fewer than ten offers in it.
  3. Compare the remaining prices together with available size.
  4. Check the venue supports your bank: without a payment-method match nothing else matters.

The usual conclusion is one large venue for the bulk and one smaller one for when its price happens to be better.

What this section does not show

Some exchanges have P2P but do not serve their offers programmatically. Their sections work; they simply do not reach our live rates, so you check the price on the exchange itself. That is a limit of our collection, not a judgement on the venue.

Frequently asked

Why are there few venues for my currency? P2P markets differ by country. Popular currencies are served by almost everyone, rare ones by a handful.

Which venue is best? The one with offers in your currency, your bank and suitable limits. There is no universal answer.

Why do prices differ from what I see on the exchange? We show the best executable offer. An advert for 13 USDT is not a market price and does not count.

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