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BH Bithumb VS WX WazirX
Both exchanges offer Spot. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bithumb and WazirX.
| Bithumb | WazirX | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
| Regions | Built for South Korean residents: full access requires a Korean mobile phone number and a real-name-verified account at Bithumb's partner bank. Registration for new overseas users has been suspended since 2021, and Bithumb blocks access from roughly 21 jurisdictions under FATF-related restrictions, including North Korea and Iran. | Built for Indian retail users with direct INR deposit and withdrawal rails; not available to US persons. Full operations, including INR trading, resumed in October 2025 after the hack-related restructuring, though a share of user claims remain settled only in non-tradable Recovery Tokens as of 2026. |
| Products | Spot | Spot, Margin, INR-settled perpetual futures, P2P |
| Maker fee | Verify current tier: Bithumb runs a tiered, promotion-heavy schedule (KRW-market rates have ranged from a standard 0.25% down to 0.04% for applicants to fee events) so check the live rate and any active promotion before trading | Verify current tier: WazirX's standard schedule runs 0.2% maker and 0.2% taker on spot, moving with WRX holdings and 30-day volume, or a flat monthly WazirX ZERO subscription for unlimited trades; its INR futures product runs a separate schedule around 0.02% maker |
| Taker fee | Verify current tier: same volatility applies, Bithumb has run limited-time maker/taker promotions on top of its standard tiered schedule more than once | Verify current tier: same pattern as the maker fee; WazirX futures taker fees run around 0.04%, and both the spot schedule and subscription pricing have changed more than once recently |
Bithumb pros
- Long operating history since 2014 and consistently South Korea's second-deepest KRW order book after Upbit
- Wide listing of Korea-origin and Korea-popular tokens that see little volume on international exchanges
- Free KRW deposits and a flat, low KRW withdrawal fee through its real-name-verified bank partner
- Site and app support multiple languages including English, though functional support for non-Korean users is thinner than the language selector suggests
WazirX pros
- India's largest exchange by registered users, with by far the deepest INR order-book liquidity and direct rupee on and off-ramps
- Resumed full service, including INR deposits and withdrawals, after a Singapore court approved its restructuring plan with over 95% creditor support
- Wide asset selection, close to 300 tokens, plus a zero-commission P2P market
- A flat-fee subscription option, WazirX ZERO, that removes per-trade costs entirely for active traders
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.