Both offer free access. Coinglass provides free market data with paid upgrades, and ArbiScreen has a free tier showing live net-of-fee opportunities, with Pro unlocking the full list, all exchanges and alerts.

ArbiScreen vs Coinglass — Arbitrage Scanner or Data Terminal? (2026)

ArbiScreen and Coinglass are both popular with crypto traders, but they solve different problems. ArbiScreen is a net-of-fee arbitrage scanner that hands you executable price gaps. Coinglass is a derivatives data terminal that shows you market context — funding, liquidations and open interest.

People compare them because both display funding rates, so they look similar at a glance. But the moment you ask "which coin can I actually arbitrage right now, and what do I keep after fees?", the difference becomes obvious. This is an honest, feature-by-feature comparison — including where Coinglass is genuinely the better tool.

What each tool is for

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ArbiScreen — arbitrage scanner

Watches 17 exchanges and ranks live, net-of-fee opportunities: spot spreads, spot-futures basis, funding-rate carry and geo premiums. Built to answer "what do I trade now?"

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Coinglass — data terminal

Aggregates derivatives market data: funding rates, liquidation heatmaps, open interest, long/short ratios. Built to answer "what is the market doing?"

Feature-by-feature

Feature	ArbiScreen	Coinglass
Live cross-exchange spot spreads	✅ ranked	❌
Net profit after fees	✅ core feature	❌ shows raw rates
Funding rates	✅ + delta-neutral action	✅ strong
Liquidation heatmap	❌	✅ excellent
Open interest / long-short ratio	❌	✅ excellent
Spot-futures basis (cash-and-carry)	✅	~ data only
Regional / geo premiums	✅ (ZAR, TRY, INR)	❌
Ranked, executable arbitrage list	✅	❌
Free tier	✅	✅

Where Coinglass genuinely wins

Let's be fair — Coinglass is excellent at what it does. If you want to understand market structure and derivatives sentiment, it beats ArbiScreen hands down:

Use Coinglass for market context

Its liquidation heatmaps, open-interest charts and long/short ratios are best-in-class for reading where leverage is stacked and where the market might squeeze. That's research and timing insight ArbiScreen doesn't try to provide.

Where ArbiScreen wins

For actually finding and executing arbitrage, ArbiScreen is built for the job and Coinglass isn't:

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Net-of-fee, not raw

ArbiScreen subtracts trading, withdrawal and network fees so you see what you keep. Coinglass shows raw rates — you'd do the arbitrage math yourself.

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Cross-exchange spreads

ArbiScreen ranks live spot gaps between exchanges. Coinglass doesn't surface tradable cross-exchange spot arbitrage at all.

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Geo premiums

ArbiScreen tracks regional gaps like the South African rand premium. Coinglass has no equivalent.

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Ranked & actionable

ArbiScreen sorts opportunities by real profit; you act on the top rows. Coinglass gives you data to interpret, not a to-do list.

Which should you use?

They're complementary, not either/or. Use Coinglass to read derivatives sentiment and time the market; use ArbiScreen to find and execute net-of-fee arbitrage. If your goal is specifically arbitrage — finding the gap and knowing what you keep — ArbiScreen is the tool built for it. Many traders keep both open.

Try ArbiScreen for Actionable Arbitrage

Where Coinglass shows you the market, ArbiScreen shows you the trade. It scans 17 exchanges and ranks live opportunities with net profit after every fee — spot, futures basis, funding and geo — so you're acting on what you'd actually keep. Free tier included; your funds never leave your own exchange accounts.

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