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BingXMethodology · v1.0
How AffMiss scores crypto exchange fees.
The AffMiss fee index is a number out of ten calculated from three fees that each exchange publishes for its base tier: futures taker, futures maker and spot. It uses fixed formulas, and the fees come from the exchanges’ own pages, with a source and a date. It is not a rating of safety or quality, and no funded test stands behind it.
The formulas and their weights
Each fee, in percent, is mapped onto a score from 0 to 10, limited to that range and rounded to one decimal. A lower fee gives a higher score.
| Area | Weight | Formula | Examples | Why it is included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Futures taker fee | 40 | 10 − (fee − 0.02) × 100 | 0.05% → 7.0 · 0.035% → 8.5 | Market, stop and take-profit orders all pay the taker rate, and it is where venues differ most. |
| Futures maker fee | 30 | 10 − fee × 200 | 0.02% → 6.0 · 0.01% → 8.0 | The rate for limit orders that rest in the book. Most large venues publish the same 0.02%. |
| Spot fees | 30 | 10 − (maker + taker) ÷ 2 × 40 | 0.10% / 0.10% → 6.0 · 0% / 0.05% → 9.0 | The average of both sides at the base tier, for the venue’s main pair group. |
| Options fees | — | 10 − (maker + taker) ÷ 2 × 100 | 0.02% / 0.03% → 7.5 · 0.03% / 0.03% → 7.0 | Scored only for venues with an options schedule on record. Not part of the fee index; used in the options ranking. |
A worked example: MEXC
MEXC publishes 0.01% maker and 0.04% taker on perpetual futures and 0% / 0.05% on spot.
Futures taker fee: 8.0 × 40
Futures maker fee: 8.0 × 30
Spot fees: 9.0 × 30
(8.0 × 40 + 8.0 × 30 + 9.0 × 30) ÷ 100 = 8.3
The same arithmetic is printed on every review, so any score on the site can be recomputed.
See it on the MEXC reviewHow a fee is read
Read the venue’s own fee page
Rates are taken from the exchange’s fee schedule or help centre, never from another comparison site.
Use the base tier
The rate a new account pays with no volume, no token holdings and no promotion. Tier names differ: VIP 0, LV0, Regular, Standard.
Record the source and the date
Every review links the page the rate was read from and prints the day it was read.
Resolve conflicts upward
If a venue’s own pages state different rates, the higher one is used and the conflict is described in the review.
Apply the formulas
Each fee is mapped onto 0–10, clamped to that range and rounded to one decimal. The index is the weighted sum, rounded once.
Mark what is missing
Anything not read, including every funded test, is listed as pending on the review.
What the fee index does not measure
These limits matter more than the score. A venue can have the lowest published fees and still be the wrong place for your money.
Funded testing
AffMiss has not deposited, traded or withdrawn on any venue. No fill quality, slippage, withdrawal time or support response is claimed anywhere on the site.
Safety and solvency
The fee index says nothing about custody, reserves, regulation or security history.
Spread, slippage and funding
These are real costs and can exceed the trading fee. They depend on the market and your order, and are not measured.
Withdrawal fees
Set per coin and network and changed often. No dated reading has been recorded yet.
Availability
Whether a venue accepts customers in your country, and which products it offers there, is not scored.
How the rankings by need re-weight it
The pages under Best use the same fee scores with different weights: futures (taker 60, maker 40), low fees (maker 50, taker 30, spot 20) and options (options 60, taker 25, maker 15). A venue is ranked only if it lists the product and its schedule is on record.
Methodology questions
Three published base-tier fees are each mapped onto a 0–10 scale with a fixed formula: futures taker (weight 40), futures maker (weight 30) and spot fees (weight 30). The index is the weighted sum divided by 100, rounded to one decimal.
No. It means lower published fees. It does not measure safety, liquidity, support or whether the venue serves your country.
No. Every figure on the site comes from the venues’ own published pages. Funded tests are listed as pending on each review.
Take the three base-tier fees from the review, apply the formulas on this page, multiply by the weights 40, 30 and 30, add them and divide by 100.
All 9 venues were last read on 10 November 2026. When a rate changes, the review shows the new reading above the old one with its own date.
No. Commission is not an input to any formula, and the formulas are published so that anyone can recompute the order.