Crypto exchange fee list for 2026
The Cost Per Trade pricing deskUpdated: Books timed
Cheapest here
$0.86
Lighter
$0.00 in fees and $0.86 to the book, opening and closing $10,000 at market.
Dearest here
$191.52
Paradex
$0.00 in fees and $191.52 to the book, on the same position.
The verdict
This crypto exchange fee list covers twelve perpetual futures venues on 24 September 2026: seven with an order book, priced from nothing to $9.00 on a $10,000 round trip, and five priced by a pool, which charge a position fee instead.
- 01Published taker rates on the seven order-book venues run from 0% to 0.045%.
- 02Four of the seven charge makers nothing at all; the dearest maker rate here is 0.040%.
- 03Pool-priced venues charge 0.035% to 0.06% a side, plus price impact and borrowing.
WeightsPublished rate40Execution cost30Where the money sits12Security record8What the rate buys6Who may pay it4how we rate
The crypto exchange fee list in full
Order-book venues first, cheapest round trip first; pool-priced venues below them. A tariff prices the trade and not the risk: on leverage, the whole margin behind a position can go.
| Line | Venue | Maker | Taker | Fees on $10,000 | Book adds | All-in | Score of 50 | Perp markets | Priced for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1= | Lighter | 0% | 0% | $0.00 | $0.86 | $0.86 | 42.8 | 214 | no fee on the default account |
| 1= | Paradex | 0% | 0% | $0.00 | $191.52 | $191.52 | 31.9 | 63 | no fee on retail web orders |
| 3 | Extended | 0% | 0.025% | $5.00 | $0.12 | $5.12 | 38.4 | 325 | one flat rate for everyone |
| 4 | Aster | 0% | 0.040% | $8.00 | $0.16 | $8.16 | 36.3 | 578 | nothing for makers, at every tier |
| 5= | edgeX | 0.040% | 0.045% | $9.00 | $0.04 | $9.04 | 36.2 | 172 | the deepest book and the dearest maker rate |
| 5= | Hyperliquid | 0.015% | 0.045% | $9.00 | $0.12 | $9.12 | 33.1 | 324 | a volume ladder across every market |
| 5= | EVEDEX | 0.015% | 0.045% | $9.00 | $4.12 | $13.12 | 32.5 | 52 | a fixed rate with cashback afterwards |
| – | GMX | 0.04% or 0.06% to open and to close, plus price impact | – | – | not priced | 103 | oracle-priced trades on Arbitrum without an order book | ||
| – | gTrade | 0.035% to open and to close on BTC and ETH | – | – | not priced | 178 | currency, commodity and stock pairs priced by oracle | ||
| – | Jupiter Perps | 0.06% to open and to close, plus price impact and borrow fees | – | – | not priced | 3 | leverage on SOL, ETH and BTC from a Solana wallet | ||
| – | Ostium | 0.06% to open BTC, no closing fee | – | – | not priced | 83 | stocks and currencies priced by oracle | ||
| – | Orderly (WOOFi Pro) | 0.025% / 0.040% on WOOFi Pro | – | – | not priced | 80 | one shared book behind many front-ends | ||
Entry-tier rates, read on 18 September 2026. Fees are twice the taker rate on $10,000; the book column is what a market order of that size paid past the mid price, in and out. An equals sign marks a shared line. Every venue here turns away some jurisdictions, and each one's terms carry its own list. Listed but not priced: GMX, gTrade, Jupiter Perps, Ostium, Orderly (WOOFi Pro) — they charge a position fee instead of maker and taker rates, or the front-end sets the rate.
Line 01 shared
$0.86
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $0.00
- Paid to the book
- $0.86
- Score
- 42.8 of 50
Lighter — no fee on the default account
0% maker and 0% taker on the Standard account, with 300-millisecond taker latency; Premium pays 0.004% and 0.028% (Lighter fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- Nothing charged on either side of the default account
- 214 perpetual markets
Price omits
- Free orders wait 300 milliseconds
- No public bug bounty
Not for: latency-sensitive trading on the free tier.
Rate page: lighter.xyz
Line 01 shared
$191.52
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $0.00
- Paid to the book
- $191.52
- Score
- 31.9 of 50
Paradex — no fee on retail web orders
Nothing either side on web orders since 15 June 2026, with a 300-millisecond bump and three orders a second; Pro 0 pays 0.003% and 0.045% (Paradex fee page, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- No maker or taker fee on web orders
- A Sherlock bounty of up to 500,000 USDC
Price omits
- $870.00 within 10 basis points, the thinnest book on file
- Retail orders capped at three a second
Not for: size.
Rate page: paradex.trade
Line 03
$5.12
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $5.00
- Paid to the book
- $0.12
- Score
- 38.4 of 50
Extended — one flat rate for everyone
0% maker / 0.025% taker for every account and order type, with 0.010% for takers on real-world assets (Extended fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- No tier to climb and no latency penalty
- Bug bounty of up to $500,000
Price omits
- 278 of 325 markets are request-for-quote
- No volume discount
Not for: accounts expecting a volume ladder.
Rate page: extended.exchange
Line 04
$8.16
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $8.00
- Paid to the book
- $0.16
- Score
- 36.3 of 50
Aster — nothing for makers, at every tier
Makers pay nothing at all VIP tiers since 2 February 2026; VIP 1 takers pay 0.040% (Aster fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- 578 perpetual markets, the widest list on file
- 0.01 bps median spread
Price omits
- Two of its own pages quote different fees
- Chain code and bridge validators are closed
Not for: takers.
Rate page: asterdex.com
Line 05 shared
$9.04
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $9.00
- Paid to the book
- $0.04
- Score
- 36.2 of 50
edgeX — the deepest book and the dearest maker rate
0.040% maker / 0.045% taker for regular users on V2 perpetuals (edgeX tier table, checked 18 September 2026); the help centre still lists older V1 rates.
Price buys
- $29.2 million resting within 10 basis points
- Documented withdrawals that bypass the operator
Price omits
- 0.040% to makers
- Contradictory fee pages in its own help centre
Not for: makers.
Rate page: pro.edgex.exchange
Line 05 shared
$9.12
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $9.00
- Paid to the book
- $0.12
- Score
- 33.1 of 50
Hyperliquid — a volume ladder across every market
Base tier 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker, falling with 14-day weighted volume and staked HYPE, one tier across every market (Hyperliquid fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- 324 markets under one fee tier
- Bug bounty of up to 1 million USDC
Price omits
- Base rate of 0.045% until volume arrives
- Vault losses in March and November 2025
Not for: accounts that stay at the base tier.
Rate page: hyperliquid.xyz
Line 05 shared
$13.12
all-in on $10,000
- Published fee
- $9.00
- Paid to the book
- $4.12
- Score
- 32.5 of 50
EVEDEX — a fixed rate with cashback afterwards
0.015% maker / 0.045% taker, unchanged by volume; cashback returns up to 35% of a trader's own fees, bringing the effective taker rate to 0.02925% (EVEDEX documentation, noted 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- Cashback on fees already paid, up to 35%
- Shares, currencies, commodities and pre-IPO contracts on one balance
Price omits
- 52 perpetual markets, the shortest list among the scored venues
- No bug bounty listed on CertiK Skynet, checked 18 September 2026
- Cross margin only
Not for: traders who want the rate itself to fall.
Not priced
no score
Oracle pool
- Markets
- 103
GMX — oracle-priced trades on Arbitrum without an order book
0.04% of size when an order narrows the open-interest imbalance, 0.06% when it widens it, to open and again to close (GMX fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- 103 markets, gold, oil and index contracts among them
- A bounty paying up to $5,000,000
Price omits
- The cheaper rate depends on which way an order moves the imbalance
- Its V1 vault lost about $42m on 9 July 2025, leaving holders roughly $2.0m short
Not for: orders meant to rest and earn a maker rate.
Rate page: gmx.io
Not priced
no score
Oracle vault
- Markets
- 178
gTrade — currency, commodity and stock pairs priced by oracle
BTC and ETH cost 0.035% to open and the same to close, core crypto 0.05%, currencies 0.012% to 0.02% (Gains fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- 178 live pairs across five asset classes
- An email login opens a trade with the gas paid for
Price omits
- The bounty link in its own menu was dead on 18 September 2026
- Currencies, commodities and stocks close with their session and gap on reopening
Not for: anyone needing every market open at all hours.
Rate page: gains.trade
Not priced
no score
Oracle pool
- Markets
- 3
Jupiter Perps — leverage on SOL, ETH and BTC from a Solana wallet
A flat 0.06% of trade size on opening and again on closing, with a price-impact fee and an hourly borrow fee on top (Jupiter fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- One rate, with no tier to reach and no volume to prove
- Three audits between 2023 and 2024
Price omits
- Three markets only, and nothing outside crypto
- Its disclosure programme publishes no reward and no maximum
Not for: anyone wanting a market beyond SOL, ETH and BTC.
Rate page: jup.ag/perps
Not priced
no score
Oracle vault
- Markets
- 83
Ostium — stocks and currencies priced by oracle
BTC costs 0.06% to open and nothing to close, read from the protocol's own contract (Ostium fees, checked 18 September 2026), plus $0.10 per price request.
Price buys
- 83 instruments across six asset classes, one balance
- Three audit firms and a bounty paying up to $200,000
Price omits
- Its own markets page still lists 0.10% where the contract returns 0.06%
- Closing in profit within 15 seconds costs up to 40 basis points
Not for: exits that must carry no timing penalty.
Rate page: ostium.com
Not priced
no score
Hybrid, not scored
- Markets
- 80
Orderly (WOOFi Pro) — one shared book behind many front-ends
Orderly charges the front-end a base rate and the front-end sets what a trader pays; WOOFi Pro's first tier is 0.025% and 0.040% (Orderly fees, checked 18 September 2026).
Price buys
- 80 markets on one book, reachable from 16 chains
- Three audit firms and a bounty paying up to $100,000
Price omits
- The rate belongs to the front-end, so one book is sold at several prices
- Its web and interface bounty programme is shown as paused
Not for: anyone comparing one published rate across venues.
Rate page: orderly.network
01
Venues priced by a pool, not a book
Five venues here have no maker or taker side. On four of them an order opens against a pool at an oracle price and pays a position fee. On the fifth the book is real, but the rate belongs to whichever front-end carries it. None is scored: the execution-cost criterion needs a book they lack or do not price themselves.
02
How this sheet was priced
Quoted off each venue's own pages, 18 September 2026: rates, market counts, sign-in rules, audits. Read off the public book here: every BTC perpetual, 00:00 to 23:54 UTC on 21 September 2026, at ten-minute stops. The weights came first, 22 September 2026, before any of the 7 venues was priced (how we rate). No order was sent.
The price here leaves out volume tiers, staking, rebates and cashback. Funding is billed on its own clock. One contract was timed: BTC. What a chain is told, and what the past 24 months hold, come from the venue's telling, not from anything tested here.
Questions readers ask about these fees
What are typical crypto exchange fees?
Among the order-book venues here two schedules are each published by two of them: nothing on either side, and 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker. Rates run from nothing on two venues up to 0.045% for takers on the dearest of them, all of it read on 18 September 2026.
How do I compare crypto exchange fees?
Convert the rate into money on a size you actually trade. A $10,000 round trip costs nothing on two venues here, $5.00 on Extended and $9.00 on edgeX. Then add the spread and the price impact of the market itself.
What is a position fee?
The charge a pool-priced venue makes for opening or closing, in place of maker and taker rates. GMX charges 0.04% or 0.06% of position size each way and Jupiter Perps a flat 0.06%, and both add price impact and borrowing on top.
Do DEX and CEX fees differ much?
Less than they used to. Several venues here charge retail nothing, and the 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker schedule that two of them publish sits close to what large centralized venues publish. The bigger differences are custody, sign-in and the countries each one turns away.
Which crypto exchange has the highest fees?
Of the twelve venues priced here, edgeX publishes the dearest order-book schedule at 0.040% maker / 0.045% taker, which comes to $9.00 on a $10,000 round trip. Pool-priced GMX charges up to 0.06% of position size each way instead, and every figure carries 18 September 2026.
Are perpetual futures fees charged per day?
Trading fees are charged per order, not per day. What accrues over time is funding, which moves between long and short holders at intervals each venue sets, along with the borrowing costs charged on pool-priced venues such as GMX and Jupiter Perps.
Updated: . Price errors and corrections: desk@thundermessage.com. The Cost Per Trade pricing desk.