The short answer
CoinGlass is the far larger derivatives data product, and arb.sh does one job: funding and price arbitrage. Both have a free cross-exchange funding arbitrage page that can be read without logging in. Three things differ. arb.sh pairs legs from 62 exchanges, 48 of them perp DEXs, while the CoinGlass arbitrage pairs came from 12 venues, one of them a DEX, when checked on 6 October 2026. arb.sh shows Net 7d after measured fees and slippage at your position size, while CoinGlass ranks pairs by APR at current rates. arb.sh adds a backtester, a price arbitrage screener and free CSV exports, while CoinGlass adds liquidations, options, a paid API and a mobile app. Use CoinGlass for broad derivatives data. Use arb.sh to pick a funding or price arbitrage pair at a known size, after costs.
What both sites already do for funding arbitrage
CoinGlass and arb.sh both publish a cross-exchange funding arbitrage page that anyone can read for free. All 14 result pages of the CoinGlass list are visible to a logged-out visitor. arb.sh needs no account or API key, and nothing on it is paywalled.
Both sites pair spot with perps on Binance, OKX and Bybit. CoinGlass also has Bitget, and arb.sh also has Hyperliquid spot as a leg. Both have per-coin pages that list funding on every exchange carrying the coin. Both rank exchanges and show their trading fees.
Where the pairs come from: 21 venues with funding or 62 exchanges
As of 6 October 2026, arb.sh covers 62 perpetual exchanges: 48 decentralized (DEX) and 14 centralized (CEX), all on the exchange list. The CoinGlass funding pages show 21 venues across the funding grid of 12 exchange columns and the per-coin pages. 5 of them are perp DEXs: Hyperliquid, tradeXYZ, Aster, Lighter and dYdX.
The arbitrage page narrows that set further. When checked, its exchange filter listed 17 venues, and the page showed 266 pairs across 14 pages. The legs of those pairs came from 12 venues. Aster was the one perp DEX among them, and no pair had a Hyperliquid, Lighter, tradeXYZ or dYdX leg. The CoinGlass DEX page ranks 20 perp DEXs by volume, open interest and TVL, but most of them do not appear on its funding pages.
- Only on arb.sh
- 46 exchanges. DEX (43): Markets by Kinetiq, Paragon, Entropy, Lighter RH, Paradex, Pacifica, Extended, Ondo Perps, Arcus, Katana Perps, RISEx, Bulk, 01, QFEX, Hotstuff, Popdex, TxFlow, Variational, edgeX, GRVT, ApeX, Nado, StandX, Vest, Polymarket Perps, Reya, Phoenix, Hibachi, Perpl, Bullet, Aftermath, gTrade, Avantis, GMX, Jupiter, Orderly, Aevo, Bluefin, Injective, Derive, SunX, SoDEX, Kalshi. CEX (3): Backpack, BloFin, Phemex.
- Only on the CoinGlass funding pages
- Bitunix, WhiteBIT, LBank, Crypto.com and Bitfinex.
What the row tells you: APR at current rates or Net 7d at your size
The CoinGlass funding arbitrage page has these columns: Ranking, Symbol, Portfolio (the long and short legs), APR, Net Funding Rate, Spread Rate, Open Interest, Settlement and Trade. Pairs are ranked by APR, which tracks the Net Funding Rate at current rates. As of 6 October 2026, the page does not have fees, slippage, a figure net of costs or a position-size setting, and it does not rank pairs by settled funding over a past window. Its own explainer tells traders to consider "trading fees, market depth, and other factors." arb.sh puts two figures in every row:
- Paid 7d
- Settled funding that actually changed hands over the period, not the rate currently advertised.
- Net 7d
- Paid minus taker fees and order-book slippage to open and close both legs at the stated position size.
Slippage is measured by walking the live order book of each market, not assumed. You set the size: the default is $10,000, and $100,000 and $1,000,000 are also measured. APR is a scale of the current rate, not a forecast. A pair that ranks high on APR can shrink once the fees and slippage of a large position come out, and Net shows that in the same row. The execution cost page lists the taker fee plus measured slippage at $10k, $100k and $1M on every exchange, and which exchanges can fill each size.
Spot legs on Binance, Bybit, OKX and Hyperliquid get the same Net. The two "Net" labels mean different things: the CoinGlass Net Funding Rate is the difference in funding between the two legs at current rates, while Net on arb.sh is what is left after costs. Net 7d covers one week, and judging a pair over a longer window takes a backtest.
Backtests and funding history on each site
- CoinGlass
- As of 6 October 2026, no funding-pair backtester on the website. Funding history comes as accumulated funding on the grid, over 1, 7 and 30 days and 1 year, and as history charts by exchange on the per-coin pages.
- arb.sh
- The backtest runs up to 90 days, and nothing is typed in. Every line is itemized: settled funding received and paid on each leg, taker fees on entry and exit, order-book slippage measured for your size, and the net result, with the price spread between the exchanges and the drawdown.
The arb.sh backtest takes any long/short pair of exchanges on any asset and also lists the top-ranked pairs for the asset over the same period. arb.sh records settled funding as it happens and keeps it with no 30-day ceiling, including on exchanges that publish no funding history; there it starts on 18 September 2026, the day recording began. A backtest replays settled funding. It is not a forecast.
What else arb.sh has besides the funding screener
As of 6 October 2026, the CoinGlass website does not have any of the tools below. Each one works without an account.
- The price arbitrage screener shows where the same perp trades at different prices on two exchanges, priced after costs.
- The points farm page shows which perp DEXs have no token yet and run points programs, and the airdrops page links each row to the exchange's own docs.
- CSV exports cover the funding screener, the price screener and execution cost.
On CoinGlass, CSV and bulk export are part of the API Enterprise plan.
A Telegram bot answers funding and spread lookups and sends the alerts you set, and a Telegram channel posts a daily review.
What CoinGlass does that arb.sh does not
- Liquidations: a live feed, history, three heatmap models, liquidation maps and max pain.
- Options data, ETF flows, on-chain and technical indicators, stocks pages, a financial calendar and Supercharts charting.
- Order-book heatmaps, whale order tracking and a Hyperliquid whale tracker with positions at the wallet level.
- Long/short ratios, OI-weighted and volume-weighted funding, and funding fee settlement totals by coin.
- Accumulated funding for up to 1 year on its funding grid.
- A documented paid API covering 30+ exchanges, with tick-level order-book data. arb.sh has no API; it has free CSV exports and llms.txt.
- Alerts by email, app push, browser, webhook, Telegram bot and Discord bot. Creating one needs a login.
- A mobile app and 14 interface languages. arb.sh has English, Chinese and Korean.
- Funding data for Bitunix, WhiteBIT, LBank, Crypto.com and Bitfinex.
- A spot-versus-perpetual arbitrage table with a position-size input.
Stay on CoinGlass if the work centers on liquidations, options, open interest or whale flows, or if it needs an API feed or alerts across many channels. It also fits a reader of a language arb.sh does not offer, or a trader on one of those 5 venues. arb.sh covers the arbitrage part of that work. The split is clean: CoinGlass for market data, arb.sh for choosing the pair.
What each site costs
arb.sh has no plans. Everything, including CSV export, is free with no account. CoinGlass plans, as of 6 October 2026:
| CoinGlass plan | Price | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Website data pages | Free, logged out | Funding grid, accumulated funding, funding arbitrage, open interest, liquidations and most dashboards |
| CoinGlass Prime | $28 a month, $78 a quarter, $268 a year | Liquidation heatmap models 1, 2 and 3 and auto refresh; API access not included; non-refundable |
| API Hobbyist | $29 a month ($348 a year) | 80+ endpoints, 30 requests a minute, personal use |
| API Startup | $79 a month ($948 a year) | 130+ endpoints, 80 requests a minute, personal use |
| API Standard | $299 a month ($3,588 a year) | 150+ endpoints, 300 requests a minute, commercial use |
| API Professional | $699 a month ($8,388 a year) | 160+ endpoints, 1,200 requests a minute, commercial use |
| API Enterprise | On request | Custom limits and history, CSV and bulk export |
Questions about CoinGlass and arb.sh
Is arb.sh the same as CoinGlass?
No. CoinGlass is a broad derivatives data product. arb.sh covers funding and price arbitrage across 62 exchanges and ranks pairs by Net 7d after measured costs. The two overlap in one place: each has a free cross-exchange funding arbitrage page. arb.sh publishes this comparison.
Is the CoinGlass Net Funding Rate the same as Net on arb.sh?
No. The CoinGlass Net Funding Rate is the difference in funding between the two legs at current rates. Net on arb.sh is 7 days of settled funding minus the taker fees and measured slippage of opening and closing both legs at your size.
Does arb.sh cover the perp DEXs that CoinGlass ranks on its DEX page?
It covers 17 of the 20. Ostium, Byreal and Drift are not on arb.sh. The other 17, including Hyperliquid, Lighter, dYdX, GMX and Jupiter, can be legs in its funding screener. On the CoinGlass arbitrage page, Aster was the one DEX leg when checked.
Is there a free alternative to the CoinGlass API?
Not a drop-in one, because arb.sh has no API. It has free CSV exports of the funding arbitrage screener, the price arbitrage screener and execution cost, plus llms.txt and server-rendered HTML. That covers bulk reads of the screeners, but not the endpoint range of a paid API.
Does arb.sh show liquidations or options?
No. CoinGlass has both, along with whale tracking and order-book heatmaps. arb.sh covers funding, prices, open interest, order-book execution cost and settled funding, which is the data needed to choose a funding or price arbitrage pair.
Is arb.sh free?
Yes. arb.sh has no plans, no account and no API key, and nothing is paywalled, the CSV exports included. Some Trade buttons carry a fee discount for the visitor and the site earns a share, disclosed on the about page and never changing a ranking.