OKX vs Kraken: fees, withdrawal costs, products, licenses, security record and support side by side — every value linked to its official source.
This is a mechanical count of per-row results with no weights and no composite score. Which exchange suits you depends on which rows matter to you.
Every sentence is generated from the values in the table below — nothing is added that the data does not show.
| Item | OKX | Kraken |
|---|---|---|
| Fees | ||
| Spot maker | 0.080%✓ ↗ | 0.400% ↗ |
| Spot taker | 0.100%✓ ↗ | 0.800% ↗ |
| Futures maker | 0.020% ↗ | 0.020% ↗ |
| Futures taker | 0.050% ↗ | 0.050% ↗ |
| Cost of a $1,000 spot taker trade | $1.00✓ ↗ | $8.00 ↗ |
| Cost of a $1,000 futures taker trade | $0.50 ↗ | $0.50 ↗ |
| Fee discount with platform token | Not confirmed | No platform token |
| BTC withdrawal fee | 0.000015 BTC ↗ | 0.000015 BTC ↗ |
| USDT withdrawal fee | 1.5 USDT ↗ | 1 USDT✓ ↗ |
| Products & features | ||
| Listed coins | 350 ↗ | 627✓ ↗ |
| Max futures leverage | 100× ↗ | 50× ↗ |
| Copy trading | Yes ↗ | Not confirmed |
| Earn / staking | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Fiat deposit methods | Card · Bank transfer · P2P · Third-party✓ ↗ | Card · Bank transfer ↗ |
| API trading | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Mobile app | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Trust & regulation | ||
| Licenses & registrations | 3 Dubai, UAE, Singapore, Malta / EEA | 8✓ United States, United States, Ireland / EEA, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Canada, Australia, Bermuda |
| Recorded security incidents | Not confirmed | 1 2024 |
| Proof of reserves | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| User protection fund | Yes✓ ↗ | No ↗ |
| KYC required | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Founded | 2017 ↗ | 2011 ↗ |
| Headquarters | Seychelles ↗ | Not disclosed |
| Access & support | ||
| Interface languages | Not confirmed | 28 ↗ en, ms, cs, da, de, es, es-419, fr … |
| Live chat support | Yes ↗ | Yes ↗ |
| Users (exchange’s own claim) | 50M ↗ | 13M ↗ |
Green marks the better value in each row: lower fee, more coins, feature present. Rows without a mark are informational only. Unconfirmed values are never compared.
OKX — Regular user tier (assets < 100,000 USD and 30-day volume below the VIP 1 threshold). No token-discount applied. Spot and perpetual futures tabs of the official trading-fee page. Re-verified 2026-10-12 by weekly review in-browser (Asia IP; the CI runner gets the OKX US table and cannot confirm): Spot Standard "Regular user" 0.0800% / 0.1000%; Futures fee-table JSON behind the same page "Regular user" standardMakerFee 0.0002 / standardTakerFee 0.0005. listed_coins = 350 from the official OKX Learn wording "350+ coins" (about page only says "hundreds of tokens"). OKB fee-discount tiers could not be read from the fees page and help articles conflict on whether OKB affects tiers, so native_token_fee_discount_pct stays null. [Withdrawal fees checked 2026-10-28 via the official Crypto withdrawal fee page, read in-browser (the public REST endpoint needs an API key): BTC 0.000015 BTC on Bitcoin; USDT 1.5 USDT on Tron (TRC20) (cheapest: Plasma (USDT0) 0.0000049). The exchange adjusts them with network conditions.]
Kraken — Tier 1 (30-day volume $0+), Kraken Pro cross-platform fee tiers. Instant Buy pricing excluded. Kraken has no platform token. futures_max_leverage = 50x per the Kraken Perps support article (product page also states 'up to 50x'; region-dependent). insurance_fund=false: Kraken Futures uses a Position Assignment System with liquidity providers instead of a dedicated insurance fund. Crypto withdrawal fees (support article table, 2026-09-23): BTC 0.000015 BTC on the Bitcoin network (Lightning 0); USDT 1.00 USDT on Tron/TRC20 (cheapest: TON/Plasma/Tempo 0.10, Ink 0; Ethereum 0.7935). HQ left null: Kraken states it was founded in San Francisco but publishes no headquarters; listed_coins left null because no official total is published (Assets API returns 843 entries incl. staking variants and tokenized equities). listed_coins = 627 from kraken.com/buy ("buy over 627 cryptocurrencies"); the homepage advertises "600+ crypto pairs".
OKX has the lower spot taker fee (0.1% vs 0.8% on Kraken). Maker fees are 0.08% on OKX and 0.4% on Kraken.
Both charge the same futures fees: 0.02% maker and 0.05% taker.
Both require identity verification (KYC) before trading.
Kraken lists more: 627 coins vs 350 on OKX (each exchange’s own count).
BTC withdrawal: 0.000015 BTC on OKX vs 0.000015 BTC on Kraken. USDT withdrawal: 1.5 USDT on OKX vs 1 USDT on Kraken.
OKX has 3 recorded license(s) or registration(s); Kraken has 8. A license count is not a safety score.
Every answer is generated from the values above and their official sources — nothing is added that the data does not show.