EAX offers four categories of memberships:
- EAX Certified Traders Non-Broking: These are traders who can only trade for themselves and are a group of people such as registered cooperatives or registered companies.
- EAX Certified Traders Broking: These are traders who can trade for themselves and on behalf of their own clients. Generally called Brokers, they are business organizations participating in commodity market.
- EAX Certified Member Financial Institutions: These are banking and microfinance institutions who participate in commodity financing though warehouse receipt financing or EAX trade settlement.
- EAX Certified Trader Individual Members: These individual traders who are participating in buying and selling commodities in the market.