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BG Bitget VS BT Bitso
Both exchanges offer Spot. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitget and Bitso.
| Bitget | Bitso | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
| Regions | Widely available internationally; not available to US, Canadian, Singaporean, Hong Kong, South Korean, or Netherlands residents, among other restricted jurisdictions: 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, Perpetual futures, Copy trading, Launchpool / staking | Spot, Staking, Stock and ETF trading (select markets, via Alpaca), Cross-border remittances (Bitso Shift) |
| Maker fee | Verify current tier: Bitget uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule | 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 | Verify current tier: Bitget uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule | 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 |
Bitget pros
- Copy trading is a genuinely core, well-built product rather than a bolted-on feature, with both spot and futures copy modes
- Self-funded protection fund (reported at over $300 million) with public, trackable wallet addresses
- Monthly Merkle-tree proof-of-reserves reports with an independent, open-source verification tool
- Broad product suite (spot, margin, futures, copy trading, launchpad, a separate Web3 wallet) inside one ecosystem
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.