Frequently asked questions

About exchange fees, and about how this site produces the numbers it publishes. Page-specific questions live at the bottom of each tool page.

The basics

What is Coinmarketfees?

A reference for what it costs to use a crypto exchange: withdrawal fees for every coin and network, deposit fees, trading fees with the full VIP ladder, fiat and card fees. We currently publish 59,680 withdrawal routes covering 5,212 coins across 76 exchanges, and every number shows its source and the time we last checked it.

Is it free? Do I need an account?

Everything is free and nothing requires an account. There is no sign-up, no newsletter wall and no paywall, and we do not ask for exchange API keys or wallet connections — nothing on this site can move your money.

Do you take money from exchanges?

Yes, in one way: referral links. Some of the buttons that take you out to an exchange are referral links, and so are the occasional exchange banners — which we place ourselves, not through an ad network. If you open an account through one, that exchange may pay us a commission; the exchange’s own page here marks its button “Referral” so you can see which ones. Nothing else is for sale: no exchange can pay to be listed or to rank higher, and no fee on this site is supplied or approved by an exchange — every number is read from the venue’s own published schedule.

About the fee data

Where do the numbers come from?

Withdrawal and deposit fees are collected from each exchange's own public endpoints. Trading fees and VIP ladders are read by hand from each exchange's official fee schedule, because almost no exchange publishes them through an API. Every row keeps a link back to its source.

How often is it updated?

Withdrawal fees are re-synced on a rolling schedule and each row shows its sync time. Coin prices are polled continuously, so USD amounts are computed fresh at page load. Trading fees carry the date a person last verified them against the exchange's page. If a number is old, the page says so instead of hiding it.

Why does my exchange show a different fee?

Usually one of four reasons: your VIP tier or a fee-token discount lowers your personal rate; the exchange changed the fee since our last check, which the timestamp will show; fees differ by region, account type or verification level; or the fee is dynamic and follows network congestion. Always confirm on the exchange's own confirmation screen before you transact.

Why do some fees show a dash instead of 0?

A dash means we have no verified number — not that the withdrawal is free. We never publish a zero we did not read from the exchange, because on a fee comparison a fake zero always looks like the best deal.

How is the USD value of a withdrawal fee calculated?

Fee in coin × the coin's live price at page load. We do not freeze the USD value at sync time, because for a volatile coin that number goes stale within minutes. Percentage fees stay percentages — they have no single USD value.

Some fees look absurd — a five-figure withdrawal fee. What is that?

A handful of exchanges report fees in a token's raw integer units, which converts into an enormous dollar figure. We keep those rows out of every average, median, minimum and maximum, but we still show the exchange's published number on its detail page, flagged, rather than quietly editing it.

Using the site

What is the cheapest way to withdraw a coin?

Open the coin's withdrawal-fee page: it lists every exchange and every network for that coin, sorted by what the withdrawal actually costs in USD, and marks routes the exchange has currently disabled. The cheapest route is often a network you were not planning to use — the same token can cost dollars on one chain and cents on another.

How do I compare two exchanges?

The compare pages put any two exchanges side by side: spot and futures maker/taker rates, the whole VIP ladder drawn on one chart, withdrawal fees coin by coin, deposit and fiat fees, each with its source and date.

What does the fee calculator actually calculate?

The all-in cost of a trade rather than the headline rate: your maker or taker fee at the tier your 30-day volume puts you in, the discount if you pay fees in the exchange's token, a round trip if you plan to exit, plus the withdrawal fee to move the coin to your own wallet. On small trades the withdrawal fee is frequently the larger half.

What is the difference between a network fee and an exchange withdrawal fee?

The network fee is what the blockchain charges to include your transaction. The withdrawal fee is what the exchange charges you, which it sets itself: some exchanges pass the network cost through, some round it up generously, and some subsidise it. That gap is why the same withdrawal can cost very different amounts on two exchanges on the same day.

Trust and contact

Is this financial advice?

No. The site publishes fee data and calculators for information only. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, hold or use any asset, exchange or service, and we are not licensed to give investment advice.

I found a wrong number. How do I report it?

Email [email protected] with the exchange, the coin or fee type, what our page shows, what the exchange's page shows and a link. Corrections are made in the underlying data, so the fix reaches every page that uses that number.

Do you have an API?

Not a public one yet. If you are building something that needs this data, write to us and describe what you need — it helps us prioritise.

Still stuck? Write to [email protected]. More detail on sources and checks: methodology.