Best exchanges for futures & derivatives

This ranking covers 12 tracked brands - crypto exchanges tagged for this use case - and 12 of them carry a score. The median sits at 63, with the cohort spread between 0 and 89 out of 100.

The top three are Coinbase (88.6), Bybit (77.4), and Kraken (73.9). Coinbase sits 26 points clear of the cohort median, so the gap at the top is wide enough to mean something rather than a rounding artefact.

Across the cohort, 1 score 80 or above, 6 land in the 60s and 70s, 3 sit between 40 and 59, and 2 fall below 40. A thin top band usually says the category is hard to get right, not that we are marking harshly.

The scores behind this page rest on 6.9M reviews gathered across Trustpilot, Google Play and the App Store, weighed alongside news and social coverage.

Home markets skew towards Seychelles, base for 4 of the 12 brands here, and the cohort spans 3 countries in total. Where a brand is headquartered shapes which regulator it answers to and, often, where it will let you open an account.

7 of 12 hold an EU MiCA licence, the register that governs crypto services across the bloc. An unlicensed exchange may still serve you, only outside that framework.

Since the previous reading, 4 brands scored higher and 8 scored lower.

A high score means customers are broadly satisfied - not that a brand is the cheapest, nor that it is available where you live. Fees, supported markets and product limits live on the profile pages, and those are usually what settle the choice once sentiment has narrowed the field.

Order is set by the score alone - we take no payment for placement. Scores refresh every month, so this ranking moves as customer sentiment does.