Crypto exchange fees in dollars: what 8 venues charge on $1,000 to $1,000,000
A market order on Coinbase costs six times what the same order costs on Binance. Not six percent more — six times. That gap is published on both venues' own fee pages, it applies to every trade you make, and almost nobody checks it before opening an account.
Here is what the eight exchanges compared on this site charge, taken from their published spot schedules on 2026-09-07.
The headline rates
| Exchange | Maker | Taker | KYC |
|---|---|---|---|
| OKX | 0.08% | 0.1% | Required |
| Binance | 0.1% | 0.1% | Required |
| Bybit | 0.1% | 0.1% | Required |
| Bitget | 0.1% | 0.1% | Optional |
| MEXC | 0.1% | 0.1% | None |
| Gate.io | 0.15% | 0.15% | Optional |
| Kraken | 0.16% | 0.26% | Required |
| Coinbase | 0.4% | 0.6% | Required |
Maker is the fee you pay when your order sits on the book and someone else trades against it. Taker is what you pay when you take an existing offer — which is what a market order does, and what most buyers actually do.
What that costs in dollars
Percentages are easy to shrug at. The same numbers as money, on a single taker trade:
| Trade size | Cheapest (0.1%) | Kraken (0.26%) | Coinbase (0.6%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $1 | $2.60 | $6 |
| $10,000 | $10 | $26 | $60 |
| $100,000 | $100 | $260 | $600 |
| $1,000,000 | $1,000 | $2,600 | $6,000 |
A buyer who puts $10,000 into the market once a month pays $120 a year on a 0.1% venue and $720 on Coinbase. Over three years that is a $1,800 difference for an identical set of trades.
Why the expensive venue still has customers
The fee table is not the whole argument, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest:
- Regulatory posture. Coinbase is a US-listed public company with a different disclosure and custody profile than most offshore venues. Some buyers are paying for that on purpose.
- The simple-buy interface costs more than the fee table says. On several exchanges the one-click purchase flow carries a spread on top of the published trading fee. If you are comparing costs, compare the same order type — a limit or market order on the actual trading interface, not the "buy crypto" button.
- Volume tiers. Every rate above is the entry-level published rate. High-volume accounts, and accounts holding the exchange's own token, pay less — sometimes substantially less.
- Withdrawal fees are separate. For someone buying $200 at a time, a flat withdrawal fee can dwarf the trading fee entirely.
What actually matters for a small buyer
If you are moving less than a few thousand dollars, the trading fee is rarely the biggest cost. Deposit method, withdrawal fee and spread usually are. The fee table matters most for people trading often or trading size — and for them, the difference between 0.1% and 0.6% is not a rounding error, it is the return.
If you want the pair-by-pair version of this, every combination of these eight exchanges has its own page with the same figures worked through: all 28 comparisons.
Method
Rates are the published entry-level spot schedules as of 2026-09-07, read from each exchange's own fee page. No discounted tier, referral rate or promotional period is included. Dollar figures are the stated percentage applied to the stated notional. Nothing here is investment advice, and account links on this site may be referral links — the ordering above comes from the same published data for every venue and is not affected by that.