Kraken vs MEXC 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

Name: Kraken vs MEXC OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OpenChainBench

Kraken vs MEXC

MEXC leads on both live benchmarks. MEXC wins on Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked (0.0080% vs 0.028%), Funding paid to hold an ETH perp long for 30 days, per venue, live (28.9 bps vs 63.7 bps). Data as of 2026-11-06 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:59:39 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Kraken

Kraken is a US-registered centralized exchange founded in 2011, offering spot, margin and futures trading across 300+ assets with a strong reputation for security and regulatory compliance.

MEXC

Centralised exchange with a perpetual futures book (MEXC Futures). On OpenChainBench as a reference row: volume, open interest and market count as reported to CoinGecko, funding from the Mobula feed.

Side by side measurements

Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked

Trading

Kraken

Trails

0.028 %

p99: 0.022%
rank: #16
samples: 2,880

MEXC

Leads

0.0080 %

p99: 0.0085%
rank: #9
samples: 2,880

24h ETH funding stddev

Krakenn/aMEXCn/a

Ranked only with 24 hours of funding history (288 samples) and a stddev above zero: a young listing, or a venue whose rate has not moved since listing (Ondo Perps at launch, Polymarket in July), reads artificially stable and shows as Provisional, never as the leader. Stability is not directionality: a persistently positive but tight band ranks above a rate that flips every settlement.

Funding paid to hold an ETH perp long for 30 days, per venue, live

Trading

Kraken

Trails

63.7 bps

p99: 53.8 bps
rank: #18
samples: 720

MEXC

Leads

28.9 bps

p99: 45.6 bps
rank: #4
samples: 720

Funding paid, 30d ETH long

Krakenn/aMEXCn/a

Every row is a month of funding at the venue's average daily cost over the hours measured in the trailing 30 days (average x 30). A venue ranks only with 576 of the 720 hours (24 days) behind that average; under the floor the row is provisional, unranked, and shows its day count (the venues added on 2026-09-22 and 2026-09-23 start there). Funding is signed: on a month where shorts paid longs the figure is negative and "cheapest" means "was paid the most".

Frequently asked questions

Kraken vs MEXC: which one is better?

Kraken and MEXC are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. MEXC leads on Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Kraken or MEXC?

On the Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked benchmark, MEXC leads at 0.0080% versus Kraken at 0.028%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Kraken vs MEXC comparison measured?

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.

How this pair was selected

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.