VOR vs Coinglass
26 September 2026 · about 5 minutes · written by the person who builds VOR
These two tools look like competitors and are not really doing the same job. Coinglass is a data terminal: enormous breadth, every exchange, every metric, and you decide what it means. VOR is a decision screen: four conditions, forty markets, and an answer — usually "no". If you want the honest version of which to pay for, it is below, including the cases where the answer is Coinglass.
| Coinglass | VOR | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Aggregated derivatives data terminal | A rules screen over 40 spot markets |
| Exchanges covered | Many, aggregated | Binance only |
| Markets | Effectively everything listed | The 40 most liquid USDT spot pairs |
| Core question answered | "What is happening across the market?" | "Does anything meet my conditions right now?" |
| Liquidation levels | Aggregated from the positioning data it collects | Modelled from a leverage grid — an estimate, labelled as one |
| Order flow | Derivatives-led | Spot CVD, taker buy minus taker sell |
| Tells you what is missing | No — it shows data | Yes — names the failing condition on every market |
| Formulas published | Method is proprietary | Every weight and threshold is on the desk |
| Alerts | Yes, on metrics you configure | Yes, only when all four conditions hold |
| Free tier | Yes | The scan page is free; the desk is £15/month |
| Historical depth | Years | Live only, plus recent alerts |
What Coinglass does that VOR does not
This list is longer than the other one, and pretending otherwise would be silly:
- Breadth across exchanges. VOR reads Binance. Coinglass aggregates across venues, which matters when flow moves between them.
- Funding rates, long/short ratios, options and ETF flows. None of that is in VOR, and some of it is genuinely useful.
- Years of history to compare today against. VOR is a live screen; it has no archive to query.
- Every listed market, not a liquidity-filtered forty.
- A free tier that is actually usable for the headline numbers.
If what you need is data — to research, to compare venues, to look at a funding regime from two years ago — Coinglass is the better tool and VOR is not competing for that job.
What VOR does that Coinglass does not
- It commits. Four conditions, all of which must hold: price at value (or a reclaim, or a clean continuation), positive spot CVD over the last six candles and the last three, volume at 1.2× the prior twenty, and at least as much room to the first target as to the invalidation level. Anything short of all four is not a buy.
- It names what is missing. Every market that fails says which condition failed and what it is waiting for. That is the difference between a dashboard and an answer.
- It says no out loud. On most days nothing qualifies across all forty markets, and the free scan page publishes that too. A tool that finds a setup every day is describing its own need for engagement, not the market's.
- The formulas are published. Weights, thresholds, and where a number is estimated rather than measured. You can disagree with a specific threshold — you cannot be surprised by it.
- One screen. Everything needed for one decision is in one place, rather than five tabs you assemble yourself.
The liquidation maps are built differently — and that matters
This is where the two tools are most often compared, so here is the honest version.
Coinglass builds its liquidation map from the positioning data it aggregates across exchanges. The exact method is its own and is not published in full.
VOR's map is a model, and the desk says so on the panel itself. It takes visible price action, applies a grid of common leverage settings and each one's maintenance margin, and shows where positions opened at those prices would be liquidated. Nothing in it is reported by an exchange, because exchanges do not publish open positions. It is an estimate of where the pain is, derived from arithmetic you can check.
Which one should you actually pay for?
Choose Coinglass if you want maximum data, multiple exchanges, funding and options, history to research against, or if you already have a process and just need feeds for it.
Choose VOR if the problem is the opposite one: you have plenty of data and still do not know what to do with it, you want the same four things checked the same way on every market, and you would rather be told "nothing today" than be handed twelve more charts.
They also sit together perfectly well. Several members run both — the terminal for context, the desk for the go/no-go.
What VOR is not
Stated plainly, because a comparison page is exactly where a product usually stops being honest:
- It is not a signal service and not a profit claim. The published backtest of the rule came out around break-even before costs; it is a filter for discipline, not an edge you can buy. The methodology page on the desk carries the numbers, including the bad ones.
- It reads one exchange. A buyer working an order elsewhere is invisible to it.
- It never connects to an exchange account, holds no funds and cannot place an order.
- It is information only, not financial advice, and it is not regulated by the FCA.
Try the answer before you buy the screen
The scan page is free and updates every five minutes — including the days it says nothing qualified, which is most of them.
Coinglass is a trademark of its owner and is referred to here for comparison only. This page describes both tools as they stood on 26 September 2026; features change, so check the current version of either before deciding. Information only, not financial advice. Cryptoassets are high risk: you can lose everything you put in. Risk warning.