ZeroLoss supports multiple exchanges, and the question of which one to connect comes up constantly from new accounts — often framed as if there's a single objectively "best" choice. In practice, the right choice depends far more on your existing setup and region than on any dramatic feature difference between the exchanges themselves for automation purposes specifically.
If you already have an account on any supported exchange, use it
This is the most important piece of practical advice, and the most commonly ignored one: moving funds to a new exchange purely to connect automation adds withdrawal steps, transfer fees, and delay that most people don't need to accept. If you already have a funded account on Binance, Bybit, BingX, or any other exchange ZeroLoss supports, connect that one. The marginal difference between exchanges for automation purposes rarely justifies the friction and fees of moving funds somewhere new.
If you're starting fresh, what actually differs
Binance, Bybit, and BingX all support the API permission structure ZeroLoss needs — trade-only access with withdrawal explicitly disabled — and are among our most-connected exchanges, meaning the connection process is well-tested across a large number of real accounts. Beyond that baseline compatibility, the practical differences that matter are regional availability (not every exchange operates in every country with the same feature set), fee structure on the underlying trades themselves (which affects your net results independent of ZeroLoss), and which markets and instruments each exchange offers, since not every exchange supports identical futures products.
What doesn't meaningfully differ for automation purposes
The reliability of ZeroLoss's execution doesn't meaningfully vary by which of these three exchanges you connect — our infrastructure is built to work consistently across all supported exchanges, and the underlying automation units don't behave differently based on which exchange they're routing orders through. If you're choosing between two exchanges you're otherwise equally comfortable with, this specific factor shouldn't be the deciding one.
What matters regardless of which exchange you choose
Enabling futures trading on your account if your automation strategy requires it — this is a separate step from generating an API key, and it's a common source of setup confusion when accounts skip it. Generating a trade-only API key correctly, with withdrawal explicitly disabled, which we cover in detail in our post on trade-only API keys. And confirming that automated trading is permitted for your account type and region under that exchange's own terms of service, which is your responsibility to verify independent of anything ZeroLoss's setup flow checks for you.
A practical decision process, if you're genuinely undecided
Check which of the supported exchanges is available and fully featured in your region first — this alone eliminates the choice for a meaningful number of people. Among the remaining options, compare fee structures for the specific instruments you expect to trade, since that affects your actual net results more than any automation-specific factor does. Beyond that, personal familiarity and comfort with a given exchange's interface for the occasional manual check-in is a reasonable tiebreaker. See our FAQ for exchange-specific setup notes as they come up.