Perpetual futures fees are charged on the full position, not on your margin, so a few hundredths of a percent decide whether an active strategy pays. This ranking orders venues on two published numbers only: the base-tier taker fee, which carries 60 of 100 points, and the maker fee, which carries 40.
9 of 9 venues qualifyRe-weighted from the same published feesFees read 10 November 2026Affiliate
Most large venues publish the same 0.02% maker fee, so the taker fee does most of the sorting. The venues at the top are the ones that publish a taker rate below the 0.05% that Binance, OKX and BingX charge.
MEXC leads at 8.0 of 10, 0.1 ahead of Deribit at 7.9.
At published base rates, entering and leaving a $10,000 position with market orders costs $8.00 in fees at MEXC and $7.00 at Deribit. Spread, slippage and funding come on top and are not measured here.
This is a ranking of fee schedules. It does not tell you where a large order fills best, and leveraged futures can lose your whole margin.
What this ranking uses: each venue’s published base-tier maker and taker fee on USDT-margined perpetuals. Nothing was re-read for this ranking: only the weights moved, and they are printed below.
What this ranking weights, against the main board
The same published fees, a different set of shares. Where a weight rises, that fee decides more of the order. Where it falls to zero, the fee is still shown but does not count.
Fee
Weight in this ranking
Main board weight
Change
Futures taker fee
60%
40%
+20 pts
Futures maker fee
40%
30%
+10 pts
Spot fees
0%
30%
-30 pts
Weights total 100 in both columns. The board weighting is published on the methodology page; a ranking only redistributes it.
The ranking
Ordered by the ranking score: the fee scores recomputed at the weights above. Each card shows the published fees that decided it.
9 qualifying
01
MEXC
Top of this ranking
Lowest published base fees in this set · fees checked 10 November 2026
8.0score
0.01% maker and 0.04% taker on perpetuals at the base tier. The line that carries most weight here is futures taker fee, where it scores 8.0 of 10.
Every venue on the site qualifies, so the table is a straight ranking with no exclusions.
What this ranking does not say
These are base-tier published fees. VIP tiers, token discounts and promotions change what you pay.
Fees are one part of cost. Spread, slippage and funding are not measured here and can outweigh a fee difference.
No venue on this page has been through a funded AffMiss test.
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Nothing on this page is investment advice, and no ranking is a statement that an account is safe to hold a balance in. Crypto assets are volatile; leverage can lose the whole deposit.
Common questions
Among the venues on this site, on base-tier rates read on 10 November 2026, Deribit publishes the lowest taker fee (0.035%) and MEXC the next lowest (0.04%), while MEXC and Phemex publish the lowest maker fee (0.01%). The ranked list on this page weighs both.
It depends on your orders. Market, stop and take-profit orders pay the taker fee; limit orders that rest in the book pay the maker fee. This ranking weights taker 60 and maker 40. If you mostly rest orders, the low-fees ranking weights maker more heavily.
On position size. A 0.05% taker fee on a $10,000 position is $5 per fill whatever leverage you use, so at 10× leverage it is 0.5% of the $1,000 margin you posted.
No. It covers published trading fees only. Funding is paid between traders and changes every interval, and slippage depends on order size and market depth; neither is measured here.
Disclosure for this ranking
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AffMiss may be paid a commission by any venue on this page when a reader opens an account through a link here. Commission is not an input to any score.
Crypto assets are volatile and leveraged trading can lose all deposited funds. This page is research, not advice. Read the full risk warning and the scoring method.
All fees were read from each venue’s own published pages on 10 November 2026; each review links its source.
A venue that does not qualify is marked as not eligible rather than scored at zero.
Bybit
OKX
Bitget
KuCoin
Binance
Deribit
Phemex
BingX
8.0score