edgeX leads on 1 of 3 shared benchmarks, gains.trade on 2. edgeX wins on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL (0.039% vs 0.040%). gains.trade wins on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues (364 vs 292), Perp DEX cost invariance: all-in bps at $1M vs $1k, live slope ranked (1.000x vs 1.097x).
zkSync-based perp DEX with low taker fees and a documented public REST API.
Perp DEX on Polygon, Arbitrum, Base and Solana. Pool-based execution against the gToken vaults, oracle-priced trades with synthetic leverage.
edgeX
Leads0.039 %
gains.trade
Trails0.040 %
Per chain
| Chain | edgeX | gains.trade |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.043% | 0.040% |
| BTC | 0.039% | 0.040% |
| SOL | 0.060% | 0.050% |
edgeX
Trails292
gains.trade
Leads364
edgeX
Trails1.097x
gains.trade
Leads1.000x
Per chain
| Chain | edgeX | gains.trade |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 1.078x | 1.000x |
| BTC | 1.097x | 1.000x |
| SOL | 1.182x | 1.000x |
edgeX and gains.trade are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. edgeX leads on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL. gains.trade leads on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL benchmark, edgeX leads at 0.039% versus gains.trade at 0.040%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues benchmark, gains.trade leads at 364 versus edgeX at 292. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.