# Cost Per Trade

> One line per venue: what the rate card charges on a $10,000 round trip, what the order book takes without printing it, and the sum of the two.

- [What a perpetual futures trade costs](https://thundermessage.com/): Maker and taker rates for seven order-book perpetual futures venues, the measured price their books add on top, and the all-in cost of a $10,000 round trip — every figure dated and sourced.
- [Crypto exchanges with no maker fee in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/crypto-exchanges-with-no-maker-fee): Four perpetual futures venues charge makers nothing and four charge them something. What each one asks of takers instead, and what a posted order really saves.
- [Lighter alternatives in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/priced-against-lighter): Six order-book perpetual futures venues compared with Lighter on published rates, measured depth and what a $10,000 round trip costs all in.
- [Best crypto exchange with low fees in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/best-crypto-exchange-with-low-fees): Seven order-book perpetual futures venues priced on what a $10,000 round trip really costs — published maker and taker rates plus the measured price the order book adds — and scored on six weighted criteria.
- [Crypto exchange with lowest fees in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/crypto-exchange-with-lowest-fees): The seven cheapest order-book perpetual futures venues ordered by the published cost of a $10,000 taker round trip, with the measured price each order book adds beside it.
- [What is a maker-taker fee?](https://thundermessage.com/what-is-a-maker-taker-fee): The two-sided charge behind every order-book trade, what each side costs on ten perpetual futures venues, and the three costs a fee page never prints.
- [Lighter vs Extended in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/lighter-vs-extended): Two venues that charge makers nothing, priced on the side that still costs money — the taker rate, the walk the order-book readings put on each book, and the all-in bill for a $10,000 round trip.
- [Crypto exchange fees comparison for 2026](https://thundermessage.com/crypto-exchange-fees-comparison): Five perpetual futures venues grouped by how they charge — a zero rate bought with latency, a flat schedule, a volume ladder and cashback — and what each model costs on a $10,000 round trip.
- [Extended vs Hyperliquid in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/extended-vs-hyperliquid): A single flat schedule against a fee ladder that rewards turnover, priced on a $10,000 round trip, on measured BTC depth and on six weighted criteria.
- [Crypto exchange fee list for 2026](https://thundermessage.com/crypto-exchange-fee-list): Every perpetual futures venue priced here with its published charge — seven order-book venues with maker and taker rates, five pool-priced venues with position fees — dated and sourced.
- [Lowest fee crypto exchange for large orders in 2026](https://thundermessage.com/lowest-fee-crypto-exchange-for-large-orders): Seven order-book perpetual futures venues ordered by measured BTC depth, with the spread, the walk on $10,000 and $100,000 orders and what each one publishes as its rate.
- [About Cost Per Trade](https://thundermessage.com/about): Who runs thundermessage.com, what it prices, where the numbers come from, and what the domain used to be.
- [How we rate](https://thundermessage.com/how-we-price): The single methodology behind every ranking on thundermessage.com — six weighted criteria, a worked example, the data sources and how ties are settled.
- [What we log, and for how long](https://thundermessage.com/what-we-log): The single access-log line a request for a sheet produces, the fourteen days it sits on the machine, the mail kept while a question is open, and the measurement and advertising code this domain does not run.
- [Terms, disclaimer and privacy](https://thundermessage.com/terms-and-disclaimer): How long a printed price stays true, why a priced comparison is not advice, who bought the publication, and the single access-log line a visit to thundermessage.com leaves behind.