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Trading fee calculator

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A 0.1% fee sounds tiny — but the more often you trade and the more you go in and out, the more it quietly takes a bite out of you. Enter your amount and rate to see what one trade, one round trip and a full year actually cost.

USDT
Binance spot maker / taker is roughly 0.1%, and the BNB discount drops it further.
%
Each buy or sell counts as one trade — this estimates your yearly cost.
/ month
Fee per trade
0.75USDT
Round trip (buy + sell)
1.50USDT
Estimated yearly fees
270.00USDT
Trades per month
30
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54.00USDT
It's not a huge amount — but it's there every year Fees are one of the few costs you can actually lower. Turning on the BNB discount and signing up with BN1606 for the 20% cut means paying a little less tuition before you've even started reading the market.
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These are estimates for illustration only; your actual rate depends on your account tier and the exchange's current rules. The calculation runs entirely in your browser and collects nothing.

Why fees are worth working out properly (expand)

Most beginners watch the price go up and down but rarely look back at fees. The reason is simple: a single fee looks too small to matter. But fees have a quirk — they're tied to how often you trade, not to whether you make money. You pay when you lose and you pay when you win, and every time you flip in and out, they quietly stack up. That's exactly why pinning them down is about the only "sure thing" a beginner can optimize.

How to read these numbers

The per-trade fee is the cost of one buy or one sell. The round trip is buying and then selling — that's what a complete trade actually costs you. The estimated yearly fee is the one to watch: it turns your "I trade a few times a month" habit into one concrete annual figure. If that number makes you wince, you may be trading more than you thought.

Common mistakes

The first is counting only the buy and forgetting the sell costs another fee — the round trip is the real cost. The second is assuming the rate is always 0.1%: turning on the BNB discount usually knocks 25% off, and a higher account tier lowers it too. The third is dismissing fees as "tiny anyway" — but once you start trading frequently, the running total often dwarfs the gain or loss on any single trade. To break each cost open, read our guide on understanding trading fees.

Lowering your costs is its own kind of discipline

Lower the costs you can lower — it's the same logic as "losing less is earning more." Turning on the BNB discount and using the BN1606 invite code for the 20% cut are set-once, works-forever moves. Once they're done, you can put your attention back where it's hard: don't trade on impulse, and stay away from high leverage. When you feel about ready, run any platform or message you've come across through our scam self-check first.