Coins Listed per Exchange — and How to Pay 20% Less

Checked 2026-10-15

Quick answer: Gate currently lists the most tradable assets among the six exchanges tracked here; Bybit lists the fewest — about 5× fewer.

“How many coins does this exchange list” sounds like a simple question, but exchanges rarely publish it as a plain, comparable number — it’s usually buried in an app’s coin picker, not a page you can cite. Every count below is read directly from each exchange’s own public trading API, right now, not copied from a press release.

#	Exchange	assets listed
1	Gate	1,975	20% lower trading feesSign up
2	MEXC	1,371	20% lower trading feesSign up
3	Bitget	507	20% lower trading feesSign up
4	Binance	463	Sign up
5	OKX	389	20% lower trading feesSign up
6	Bybit	380	20% lower trading feesSign up

What “listed” means here

This counts distinct base assets with at least one live, tradable spot pair on each exchange — not the number of trading pairs (a single coin often trades against several quote currencies, which would inflate the count), and not delisted or pre-launch assets.

The spread is bigger than you’d expect

The exchange with the most listings currently carries roughly 5× as many assets as the one with the fewest tracked here. That gap says more about an exchange’s listing strategy than its quality — a smaller, more selective exchange isn’t necessarily worse, and a huge catalog isn’t automatically better if most of what’s listed has no liquidity.

If you trade mainstream assets, this number barely matters — every exchange here lists BTC, ETH, and the major stablecoins. It starts to matter once you’re looking for a specific smaller-cap coin and need to know, concretely, which exchanges even offer it.