Lowest-fee crypto exchanges for limit-order traders.
If your orders rest in the book, the maker fee is the one you pay. This ranking gives the futures maker fee 50 of 100 points, the futures taker fee 30 and spot fees 20, using each venue’s published base-tier schedule.
9 of 9 venues qualifyRe-weighted from the same published feesFees read 10 November 2026Affiliate
Two venues publish a 0.01% futures maker fee, half the 0.02% that most of the field charges: MEXC and Phemex. They separate on taker and spot, where MEXC publishes lower rates on both.
MEXC leads at 8.2 of 10, 0.4 ahead of Deribit at 7.8.
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.
A low maker fee only helps if your order is actually filled as a maker. Orders that cross the spread, and all stop and take-profit orders, pay the taker rate.
What this ranking uses: published base-tier futures maker and taker fees and the average of spot maker and taker. 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
30%
40%
-10 pts
Futures maker fee
50%
30%
+20 pts
Spot fees
20%
30%
-10 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
8.2score
0.01% maker and 0.04% taker on perpetuals at the base tier. The line that carries most weight here is futures maker 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
MEXC’s own pages state different base rates in different places; AffMiss uses the higher figures and flags the conflict in the MEXC review.
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
On base-tier rates read on 10 November 2026, MEXC publishes the lowest combination on this site: 0.01% / 0.04% on perpetual futures and 0% / 0.05% on spot. Its own pages are not fully consistent, so confirm the rate on the order ticket.
No. Trading fees are one cost. A wider spread, slippage on larger orders and funding payments can cost more than a difference of one or two hundredths of a percent in fees, and none of those is measured here.
Use limit orders that rest in the book to pay the maker rate, pay fees in the venue’s token where a discount is offered, and check the volume needed for the next VIP tier. Each review lists the discounts the venue itself publishes.
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
8.2score