Maker and taker fees on the four biggest futures venues — side by side, so leverage stops quietly eating your account.
Updated Oct 2026 · By TokVS
On maker fees, all four exchanges tie at 0.02%. On taker fees, Binance and OKX lead at 0.05%, Bybit charges 0.055%, and Bitget 0.06%. The per-trade gap looks tiny — and it is. But futures traders do dozens of round trips, and leverage multiplies every fee by your leverage multiple. That's why this page exists: the fee schedule matters more in futures than anywhere else in crypto.
| Exchange | Futures maker | Futures taker |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | 0.02% | 0.05% |
| OKX | 0.02% | 0.05% |
| Bybit | 0.02% | 0.055% |
| Bitget | 0.02% | 0.06% |
Standard (non-VIP) tier. Exchanges adjust fees periodically — always confirm on the exchange's official fee page before committing size.
Every trade is one of two things. A maker order is a limit order you place on the book that waits to be filled — you "make" liquidity, so you pay the lower rate. A taker order executes immediately against orders already on the book — market orders are always taker orders, and so are limit orders priced aggressively enough to fill instantly. The practical takeaway: patience is literally cheaper. If your strategy can wait seconds for a fill, limit orders cut your fee bill by more than half on every exchange above.
Perpetual futures — the contracts most people trade — have no expiry. Instead they have funding payments, typically every 8 hours, flowing directly between longs and shorts to keep the contract price anchored to spot. When funding is positive, longs pay shorts; when negative, the reverse. The exchange doesn't take a cut — but the cost is real, and for positions held days at a time, funding can exceed the trading fee itself. Before holding any leveraged position overnight, check the funding rate and its recent history on the exchange. A "cheap" 0.02% maker fee means nothing if you're paying 0.1% in funding three times a day.
Here's the math most beginners never do. You put up $1,000 margin at 10x leverage: your position is $10,000 notional. A taker round trip at 0.05% costs $5 to open and $5 to close — $10 total, which is 1% of your margin, gone before price moves a cent. At 20x leverage, the same round trip costs 2% of margin. Ten such trades erase roughly 20% of the account in fees alone. This is the quiet killer of small futures accounts — not bad calls, but death by a thousand fee cuts. The defenses are simple: lower leverage, fewer trades, limit orders.
The numbers in the table are standard-tier rates — what every new account pays. All four exchanges run VIP programs that discount fees for high monthly volume, but the thresholds are serious (tens of millions in volume for the meaningful tiers). As a beginner or regular trader, you are on standard, and that's fine: order type and trade frequency move your costs far more than a VIP tier you can't reach. Don't contort your trading to chase a discount.
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Fees are close enough that fit matters more than a 0.005% taker gap. Bybit built its reputation on derivatives — the futures interface is where it shines. Binance has the deepest liquidity, which means the tightest spreads on major pairs (a hidden cost the fee table doesn't show). OKX offers strong tooling for active traders who want depth across products. Bitget is popular with traders who follow other traders' positions. Pick the venue whose strengths match how you actually trade; the fee table above just keeps anyone from overcharging you.
Exchanges periodically run zero-maker-fee or fee-rebate promotions on select pairs. They're real, but they're temporary and usually exclude the pairs beginners trade most. Don't choose a venue for a promotion — choose it for the everyday fee schedule, which is what you'll actually pay month after month.
Numbers make funding concrete. Say you hold a $20,000 long position on a perpetual contract and the funding rate is 0.01% per 8-hour interval — a completely ordinary reading in a bullish market. Each interval costs you $20,000 × 0.01% = $2. Three intervals a day = $6/day. Hold for a week and you've paid $42 in funding alone — more than four times the $10 round-trip trading fee on the same position at taker rates. Now flip it: when funding is negative, you get paid to hold the long. Sophisticated traders check funding before every multi-day hold and sometimes choose their direction partly based on it. The lesson isn't to fear funding — it's to price it into the trade before you enter, the same way you'd check the spread. Most exchanges show the current funding rate and a countdown to the next payment right on the futures trading screen; make glancing at it part of your pre-trade checklist.
It's tempting to pick the exchange with the lowest taker number and call it a day. Resist that. Across these four venues, the maximum taker gap is 0.01% — on a $5,000 position, that's fifty cents per trade. Your leverage choice, your order type and your trade frequency each move the needle 10–100x more. A trader on 3x leverage using limit orders on the "expensive" exchange pays far less than a 20x market-order scalper on the "cheap" one. Get the big decisions right first; let the fee table be the tiebreaker it is.
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Yes — futures are cheaper on all four exchanges shown here. Standard-tier futures sit around 0.02% maker / 0.05% taker, versus roughly 0.08–0.10% on spot. Exchanges price futures aggressively because volumes are far higher.
On maker fees, all four tie at 0.02%. On taker fees, Binance and OKX at 0.05% are the lowest of the four. But funding rates and spreads can matter more than a 0.005–0.01% taker gap, so don't pick on this number alone.
A periodic payment between longs and shorts on perpetual contracts — usually every 8 hours — that keeps the contract price anchored to spot. It isn't paid to the exchange. Holding a position through several funding intervals can cost more than the trading fee itself.
Yes. Any order that executes immediately against resting orders counts as a taker order. Only limit orders that sit on the order book and get filled later earn the maker rate.
Slowly, yes. A 20x-leverage round trip at taker rates costs about 2% of your margin in fees alone. Ten such trades erase roughly 20% before price movement is even counted. This is the math most beginners never do.
Yes — exchanges adjust fee tiers periodically. Treat any article, including this one, as a snapshot. The exchange's official fee page is the source of truth; check it before committing size.
Not for beginners. VIP discounts require serious monthly volume. Order type (limit vs market) and trade frequency save far more for regular traders than chasing a tier you won't reach.