CoinGlass Alternative for Funding Rate Arbitrage: ArbTide vs CoinGlass

CoinGlass and ArbTide answer different questions. CoinGlass shows what the derivatives market is doing: liquidations, open interest, positioning and funding across exchanges. ArbTide shows which trade pays: it prices funding, price and carry arbitrage for your balance after fees and slippage, and alerts you when one appears. If you came here looking for a funding rate arbitrage tool, ArbTide is built for that job; for market-structure data, CoinGlass is the broader tool.

ArbTide is not affiliated with CoinGlass. The CoinGlass details below come from its public website and documentation as of September 2026; check coinglass.com for its current features and prices.

Which tool for which job

You want to…	Better fit
See liquidations and liquidation heatmaps	CoinGlass
Track open interest, long/short ratios, options or ETF flows	CoinGlass
Compare funding rates across exchanges, with history	Both
Know the net profit of a funding trade for your balance, after four taker fees and order-book slippage	ArbTide
Rank funding pairs by what they paid over the last 7 days, not by the rate this minute	ArbTide
See how large a trade the order books can take before slippage eats the edge	ArbTide
Find price arbitrage between exchanges, with transfer status and withdrawal fees	ArbTide
Get alerts on Telegram, email, browser or webhook when a trade pays	ArbTide
Pull raw market data into your own system through a paid API	CoinGlass

What CoinGlass is built for

CoinGlass is a derivatives data platform. Its public pages and documentation cover liquidation statistics and heatmaps, open interest across exchanges, long/short ratios, funding rates with historical candlesticks and volume- or open-interest-weighted averages, a funding rate arbitrage list, options and ETF data, and a paid API with data from more than 30 exchanges. It is the tool to open when you want to understand positioning and where leverage is building up.

What ArbTide is built for

ArbTide starts from the trade. Every row in the funding rate scanner is a long and a short on two exchanges, and it shows:

• Each leg's funding rate as the exchange quotes it, per its own interval, and the gap between them converted to 8 hours.
• The gap the pair actually paid on average over the last 7 days or 24 hours, next to the gap right now, so a few-hour spike does not top the list.
• Costs: four taker fees at each exchange's perpetual rate (or your own fees when signed in) plus the slippage of opening and closing both legs, measured from live order books.
• Your size and its limit: your balance and leverage set the size on each exchange, and thin order books cap it at the amount that earns the most.
• Gross and net profit, return on your balance and break-even time for the holding period you pick.
• History of the exact pair, so you can see whether the gap has lasted.

The same approach covers price arbitrage, where routes are shown after fees with deposit and withdrawal status, and cash and carry. Numbers come directly from each exchange's API, and the methodology documents every formula.

Alerts instead of watching the screen

ArbTide can watch for you. An alert rule describes the trade you want, such as a funding spread above a threshold between exchanges you use, and it is checked every 15 seconds. Alerts go to Telegram, email, browser push notifications or a signed webhook, and each leg links straight to the exchange market. See crypto arbitrage alerts for how it works.

Try it

The scanners are free without an account on all 36 exchanges. Start with the funding rate scanner, set your balance and see what a trade would have paid this week, or read is crypto arbitrage profitable? for the math behind the numbers.