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BG Bitget VS KU KuCoin
Both exchanges offer Spot, Margin, Perpetual futures. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitget and KuCoin.
| Bitget | KuCoin | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
| 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. | Available in most regions outside the United States. A 2025 guilty plea to unlicensed money transmission and a March 2026 CFTC consent order permanently bar KuCoin's operator from allowing US-based traders onto its platform. Also restricted in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and a handful of other jurisdictions: verify local availability before signing up. |
| Products | Spot, Margin, Perpetual futures, Copy trading, Launchpool / staking | Spot, Margin, Perpetual futures, Trading bots |
| Maker fee | Verify current tier: Bitget uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule | Verify current tier: KuCoin uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule, with roughly a 20% discount for paying fees in its native KCS token |
| Taker fee | Verify current tier: Bitget uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule | Verify current tier: KuCoin uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule, with roughly a 20% discount for paying fees in its native KCS token |
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
KuCoin pros
- One of the widest altcoin listings among major exchanges, useful for traders looking for assets that haven't reached Binance or Coinbase yet
- A mature, free built-in trading-bot suite (grid and DCA bots) that many competitors charge for or don't offer at all
- Fully recovered from its 2020 hack, with no comparable incident since and a published monthly proof-of-reserves report
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.