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BF Bitfinex VS BT Bitso
Both exchanges offer Spot. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitfinex and Bitso.
| Bitfinex | Bitso | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
| Regions | Blocked for US persons and entities since a 2021 New York Attorney General settlement. Available in most other regions, with licensed derivatives operations in El Salvador; verify local availability before signing up. | Full retail product available in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, with a 2025 expansion into Chile and Peru. Not available to retail customers in the US or Canada: the US-facing 'Bitso' presence is a separate business-to-business arm serving companies, not a consumer trading account. |
| Products | Spot, Margin, Peer-to-peer margin funding, Perpetual and dated futures, Securities and OTC block trades | Spot, Staking, Stock and ETF trading (select markets, via Alpaca), Cross-border remittances (Bitso Shift) |
| Maker fee | 0% as of a December 2025 platform-wide change; verify this remains current, since fee policy can shift again | Verify current tier: Bitso uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule that varies by country and by trading pair, with USD and MXN markets pricing differently |
| Taker fee | 0% as of a December 2025 platform-wide change; verify this remains current, since fee policy can shift again | Verify current tier: Bitso uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule that varies by country and by trading pair, with USD and MXN markets pricing differently |
Bitfinex pros
- Eliminated maker and taker fees across spot, margin, derivatives, and OTC trading platform-wide in December 2025, with no volume tiers or token-holding requirements
- Deep order-book liquidity and a mature peer-to-peer margin funding market that lets users lend idle assets directly to traders for yield
- One of the longest continuous operating histories in the industry, dating to 2012, and still functioning after surviving its own major hack
- A meaningful share of the bitcoin stolen in 2016 is now being returned to the exchange following a landmark US Department of Justice forfeiture case
Bitso pros
- The dominant crypto on-ramp for the Mexico-US remittance corridor, reportedly moving over $6.5 billion in 2024 alone, more than a tenth of total corridor volume, using stablecoins as the settlement layer
- One of the few Latin America-focused platforms with formal registration in its home market: licensed in Mexico under the Fintech Law with CNBV and Banco de México oversight, plus a Gibraltar DLT license
- No history of a direct hack resulting in lost customer funds, and it publishes cryptographic zero-knowledge proof-of-reserves rather than a simple balance snapshot
- Backed by serious venture capital (Coatue, Jump Crypto, BOND, and others, across roughly $330 million raised) and still expanding regionally, adding Chile and Peru in 2025
This table is generated from the same data behind our individual exchange reviews. See methodology for how it's put together. Fee figures marked "not yet verified" need confirming against live terms before this page is treated as launch-ready.