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CGemini vs Kraken
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Gemini if…
- you're in its core audience: retail crypto investors, active traders
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Choose Kraken if…
- you're in its core audience: retail crypto investors, active and leveraged traders
Side by side
Feature Gemini Kraken
Pricing modelPricing unknownPricing unknown
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWeb, iOS, Android, API
CompanyGemini Space Station, LLC · since 2015Payward, Inc. · since 2011
Full feature lists
G Gemini
- Buy and trade 90+ cryptocurrencies
- Yes/no prediction market event contracts
- Staking to earn rewards
- Gemini Credit Card
- ActiveTrader, margin trading and perpetuals
- Institutional custody, OTC and clearing
- Developer platform and API
- TradingView integration
K Kraken
- 600+ crypto trading pairs
- 11,000+ stocks and ETFs (U.S. only)
- Perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage
- Staking and auto earn on assets
- Recurring buys (dollar cost averaging)
- Self-custody multi-chain wallet
- Kraken CLI for traders and AI agents
- OTC trading and institutional custody via Prime
Strengths and limitations
Gemini
- Crypto trading, predictions, staking and a credit card in one platform
- Operating since 2015 with NMLS-registered entities
- Products for institutions as well as individual users
- Developer platform available
- Fees are not shown on the home page
- Prediction positions can only be sold subject to market availability
Kraken
- Operating since 2011, with $2T+ in reported transaction volume
- Over 600 crypto pairs plus stocks and ETFs
- Trade on the web, in the mobile app, or through the API and CLI
- Publishes proof of reserves
- Stock trading is available only in the U.S. and not in every state
- Products and features vary by region because of geographic restrictions
- UK cryptoasset services are unregulated and not covered by the FSCS
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