A trade made $200. The account showed $34.70.

Three numbers decide whether a winning trade pays you or pays the exchange. We read them from the exchange's own API and show the subtraction most people never do.

Last updated 26 October 2026Fee data captured 2026-10-26T03:50ZIndependent research · method

You open a long at 10×. The price moves 0.2% your way. You close it.

Your account is $34.70 richer. You expected $200.

Nothing broke. The difference is the fee schedule, and it is decided before you ever see the market. Read where the $165.30 went →

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Rates: maker -0.0100% · taker 0.0750% · captured 2026-10-26T03:50Z

Position value (USD) Notional, not margin

How you enter A limit order can still fill as taker

How you exit

Hours held Funding every 8h

Entry fee

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Exit fee

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Funding paid

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Total cost

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Negative numbers mean you were paid rather than charged. Funding uses the current rate held constant; on a perpetual it changes every settlement and can also go in your favour. This is an estimate from one captured rate set, not a quote.

Where $165.30 wentA winning trade that kept 17% of its gain Limit still cost taker feeYou chose right and paid anyway The price didn't moveYou still lost money holding 20× apart in costSame coin, different products Rejected three timesNothing was wrong with your ID "Processing"Four stages, one label Four questionsWhy "is it safe" has no answer Four lists, four winnersNone of them wrong $75 fee, $980 slippageThe cost no fee page shows 1.70% from zeroAt 50×, that is the whole trade Two costs, one labelWhy small withdrawals cost more Three amendments, one feeChasing a price can cost your rebate 0.00510% is 5.58% a yearThe cost that charges you for waiting Cheaper until week fourSpot vs perpetual, by holding period $4.50 for the whole ladderWhat a 30% tier discount buys

Comparison of a 20 dollar maker rebate against a 150 dollar taker fee on the same 100000 dollar round trip — **The single biggest lever on trading cost.** Same contract, same size, same market — the only difference is whether your order rests in the book or crosses it. Captured 2026-10-26T03:50Z.

Timeline of funding settlements at zero, eight, sixteen and twenty-four hours — **Funding is a different charge on a different clock.** Trading fees are charged per fill; funding is charged per settlement for as long as the position stays open.

Rates we captured on 2026-10-26T03:50Z

How we capture rates

Source: Gate public REST API and published fee pages. Values are point-in-time, not a standing quote.
Item	Value	What it means in practice
Perpetual maker fee	-0.0100%	You add liquidity and are paid a rebate; a $100,000 round trip earns $20
Perpetual taker fee	0.0750%	You remove liquidity; the same round trip costs $150
Funding rate	0.00510%	Charged every 8 hours on the contract's notional while the position is open
Spot trading fee	0.20%	Single published rate; the API does not split maker and taker for spot
Maximum leverage	200×	Raises both position size and the dollar cost of every fill
Ratio, taker to maker	8×	The single largest lever on trading cost that most people never check

A $200 trade, three different mornings

Full walkthrough

10× leverage on $10,000 of your own money gives a $100,000 position. The price moves 0.2% in your favour, which is $200 of gross profit. The rows below show what each execution method leaves you.

Fees at the captured rates above; funding over 24 hours (three settlements).
Execution	Trading fee	Funding	Net profit	Fee as % of gain
Limit in, limit out (maker)	+$20.00	$15.30	$204.70	0%
Market in, market out (taker)	−$150.00	$15.30	$34.70	83%
Same trade, ten market round trips	−$1,500.00	$15.30	+$484.70	76%

The middle row is the one worth sitting with: a trade that made $200 kept $34.70. The bottom row is the same trade turned into a loss by order frequency alone, not by being wrong about the market.

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About this site

Most pages about crypto exchange fees copy a table from another page and stop there. The numbers are frequently a year or more old, and rarely say when they were checked.

This site takes a narrower approach. It reads rates from the exchange's own machine-readable API where one exists, records the exact moment, and shows the arithmetic rather than a verdict. When a number cannot be verified from a primary source, it is marked as unverified instead of being filled in.

There is no ranking, no "best exchange" list, and no profit promise. The pages are written for people who are about to place an order and want to know what it will cost.

Two things to keep in mind

Fees are one part of cost. Spread, slippage, liquidation and funding can matter far more than the published rate. And every rate on this site is a point-in-time capture — confirm it in your own account before sizing a position.