OKX scores 4 points above Bitvavo, on availability rather than any published criterion. OKX ranks #7 and Bitvavo #10 of 17 published exchanges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
OKX67
vs
Bitvavo63
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #7 and #10 of 17
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6763+4.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
OKX leads on no published criterion; Bitvavo is ahead on withdrawal track record. The gap comes from availability.
OKXScore 67Global exchange with a monthly self-verified zk-STARK proof-of-reserves, a register-verified MiCA entity in Malta, a published 1.00% max-spread disclosure on its instant-buy surface — and a record that includes a five-week 2020 withdrawal suspension and a $505M 2025 DOJ settlement, both self-disclosed.Strength: Personal all in cost — 7/10Watch-out: Which OKX you get depends entirely on where you live: an EEA buyer contracts with a MiCA-segregated Malta entity at 0.10%/0.20% fees on a spot-only account (0.08%/0.10% only with a derivatives account), a US buyer pays 0.20%/0.35% and cannot sign up in New York or four US territories, and a UK buyer contracts with Aux Cayes FinTech in the Seychelles — the very entity that admitted the US licensing failure — under pooled-asset, unsecured-creditor terms. On every version, the default buy/convert surface can carry up to a 1.00% spread the fee table never shows.BitvavoScore 63AFM-licensed Dutch MiCA CASP (licence 41000010) serving the SEPA zone only, with a fully published 10-tier 0.15%/0.25% fee schedule, free SEPA in/out, a stichting-based bankruptcy-remote asset structure written into its terms, a third-party proof-of-reserves attestation its help centre describes as quarterly, and a self-disclosed, customer-guaranteed handling of its Genesis/DCG lending exposure (EUR 280M per contemporaneous reporting).Strength: Withdrawal incident record — 9/10Watch-out: The guaranteed-price buy flow — the interface the venue itself promotes for beginners as protection from slippage — carries a market-maker mark-up over mid-price that Bitvavo nowhere quantifies, and the counterparty on those trades is its own affiliate Inveniam B.V.; the buyer who never opens the order book will pay a spread with no published number on every trade, despite a pricing-policy sentence claiming 'No hidden costs or spreads beyond those published'.
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactOKXBitvavo
PricingSnapshotOKX publishes one schedule per entity, and the reader pays the one that serves their country. EEA (https://www.okx.com/en-eu/fees, re-read 28 October 2026, "Spot-only account" tab): "Regular user" … "0.1000%" / "0.2000%" (maker / taker), the rate of an account with no derivatives account; the "Spot & derivatives account" tab reads "0.0800%" / "0.1000%", which a new reader does not have. US, OKX Inc. (https://www.okx.com/en-us/fees, re-read 28 October 2026): "Regular user" "0.2000%" / "0.3500%". Everyone else, the UK included, contracts with OKX's global entity at https://www.okx.com/fees, which redirects a German address to the EU page: that rate is not read, so this record carries no base rate and a reader outside the EEA and the US sees "regional rate not read".Bitvavo fees, read 29 September 2026. The fee schedule itself (https://bitvavo.com/en/fees) answered every fetch path today with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403 to curl, to a rendering browser and to a reader proxy), so its tier table is not restated here. From Bitvavo's help article "What is the trading fee when I buy or sell crypto?" (https://support.bitvavo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405175148689, "Updated September 23, 2026"): fees depend on "Your 30-day trading volume tier."; for orders that do not fill immediately "we reserve the maximum fee of 0.25%"; the page's own worked example: "€1000 x 0.25% = €2.50 fee." and "You will receive €997.50 after the fee is deducted."; and "Trading pairs involving USDC (USD Coin) typically have lower fees than Euro-based pairs." Crypto withdrawal fees are published per asset in Bitvavo's public API (https://api.bitvavo.com/v2/assets): Bitcoin "withdrawalFee":"0.000018", Ethereum "withdrawalFee":"0.0003". Euro withdrawal (https://support.bitvavo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405188690065): "It also confirms that there are no fees for withdrawing euros." Price Guarantee orders (https://support.bitvavo.com/hc/en-us/articles/25974760217873): "the market maker adds a spread to account for any unforeseen price fluctuations during this period", with no number published for that mark-up.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, asiaeurope
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
OKX
67#7 of 17
Leads
Pick it when
OKX leads on no published criterion; its edge is availability (12 vs 6 points). Pick it if that term is what you are buying.
Strength
Personal all in cost — 7/10
Tradeoff
Which OKX you get depends entirely on where you live: an EEA buyer contracts with a MiCA-segregated Malta entity at 0.10%/0.20% fees on a spot-only account (0.08%/0.10% only with a derivatives account), a US buyer pays 0.20%/0.35% and cannot sign up in New York or four US territories, and a UK buyer contracts with Aux Cayes FinTech in the Seychelles — the very entity that admitted the US licensing failure — under pooled-asset, unsecured-creditor terms. On every version, the default buy/convert surface can carry up to a 1.00% spread the fee table never shows.
Bitvavo
63#10 of 17
Pick it when
Pick Bitvavo if withdrawal track record matters most — it scores 9/10 to OKX's 7/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Withdrawal incident record — 9/10
Tradeoff
The guaranteed-price buy flow — the interface the venue itself promotes for beginners as protection from slippage — carries a market-maker mark-up over mid-price that Bitvavo nowhere quantifies, and the counterparty on those trades is its own affiliate Inveniam B.V.; the buyer who never opens the order book will pay a spread with no published number on every trade, despite a pricing-policy sentence claiming 'No hidden costs or spreads beyond those published'.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
OKXLeads
OKX leads Bitvavo on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
OKXScore 67Global exchange with a monthly self-verified zk-STARK proof-of-reserves, a register-verified MiCA entity in Malta, a published 1.00% max-spread disclosure on its instant-buy surface — and a record that includes a five-week 2020 withdrawal suspension and a $505M 2025 DOJ settlement, both self-disclosed.Strength: Personal all in cost — 7/10Watch-out: Which OKX you get depends entirely on where you live: an EEA buyer contracts with a MiCA-segregated Malta entity at 0.10%/0.20% fees on a spot-only account (0.08%/0.10% only with a derivatives account), a US buyer pays 0.20%/0.35% and cannot sign up in New York or four US territories, and a UK buyer contracts with Aux Cayes FinTech in the Seychelles — the very entity that admitted the US licensing failure — under pooled-asset, unsecured-creditor terms. On every version, the default buy/convert surface can carry up to a 1.00% spread the fee table never shows.
Bitvavo
Choose Bitvavo if withdrawal track record matters most
Withdrawal track record: 9/10 against 7/10 for OKX (weight 28)
Licence coverage: 9/10 against 7/10 for OKX (weight 24)
BitvavoScore 63AFM-licensed Dutch MiCA CASP (licence 41000010) serving the SEPA zone only, with a fully published 10-tier 0.15%/0.25% fee schedule, free SEPA in/out, a stichting-based bankruptcy-remote asset structure written into its terms, a third-party proof-of-reserves attestation its help centre describes as quarterly, and a self-disclosed, customer-guaranteed handling of its Genesis/DCG lending exposure (EUR 280M per contemporaneous reporting).Strength: Withdrawal incident record — 9/10Watch-out: The guaranteed-price buy flow — the interface the venue itself promotes for beginners as protection from slippage — carries a market-maker mark-up over mid-price that Bitvavo nowhere quantifies, and the counterparty on those trades is its own affiliate Inveniam B.V.; the buyer who never opens the order book will pay a spread with no published number on every trade, despite a pricing-policy sentence claiming 'No hidden costs or spreads beyond those published'.
Criterion by criterion
Scorecard
Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology
Trading cost
weight 7.2 of 86Tie
OKX7/10 out of 10
Bitvavo7/10 out of 10
Withdrawal track record
by 2 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Bitvavo leads
OKX7/10 out of 10
Bitvavo9/10 out of 10
Licence coverage
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Bitvavo leads
OKX7/10 out of 10
Bitvavo9/10 out of 10
Asset protection
weight 4.3 of 86Tie
OKX6/10 out of 10
Bitvavo6/10 out of 10
Score dimensions
weights sum to 86
The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.
Availabilityweight 20 of 86
OKX12/20Bitvavo6/20
OKX leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
OKX16.4/30Bitvavo18.9/30
Bitvavo leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
OKX2.7/10Bitvavo2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
OKX3.2/8Bitvavo3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
OKX8.3/18Bitvavo10.1/18
Bitvavo leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose OKX unless the term Bitvavo leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Bitvavo if withdrawal track record matters most — it scores 9/10 to OKX's 7/10 there (weight 28).
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Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
Scored by When this venue broke, did people get their money out — and how would I know? · 28% (OKX 7/10, Bitvavo 9/10)
Insolvency failure: the firm or issuer that owes you cannot pay.
Scored by If this exchange fails — or freezes me — are the coins legally mine, and on whose terms? · 18% (OKX 6/10, Bitvavo 6/10)
Regulatory failure: no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.
Scored by Whose licence actually covers me in my country — and can I find it on the register? · 24% (OKX 7/10, Bitvavo 9/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: What will I actually pay here at my volume — including the spread they don't print? (30%).
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OKX scores 4 points above Bitvavo, on availability rather than any published criterion. Published scores, out of 100: OKX 67 (rank 7 of 17 exchanges), Bitvavo 63 (rank 10 of 17).
ReviewedRe-read in progressOverdue; re-read by 10 November 2026.Methodology v2026.10.18
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