Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about how FeeEdge works, what it costs, and how the rankings are calculated. Still stuck? Email support@feeedge.com.
What is FeeEdge?
FeeEdge ranks 33 major crypto exchanges by estimated trading cost, tuned to your monthly volume, your maker/taker mix, whether you trade perpetual futures or spot, and which assets you trade. Most traders pick an exchange once and never re-check, and the gap between the cheapest and priciest venue can be thousands of dollars a year for identical trading. There is also a personal fee audit at /fee-audit for Binance.com USD-M fills.
How do I use FeeEdge?
Two paths. Comparator: open the calculator on the home page, set your monthly volume, maker/taker split, market (perps or spot), and assets, and FeeEdge ranks exchanges by your estimated monthly cost. Free shows the complete ranking with every venue name and estimated cost. No account is required to use the ranking. Personal fee audit: open /fee-audit, or use Check my fees / Explore a sample on the home page, and import a Binance.com USD-M fills CSV. The file stays in your browser. Free shows all findings. Pro adds export and period comparison. Written guides live at /guides, not /how-to-use.
How do I run a personal fee audit?
Open feeedge.com/fee-audit, or use Check my fees / Explore a sample on the home page. Import a Binance.com USD-M linear USDT fills CSV. The file is parsed in your browser and is never uploaded. Free shows all findings. Pro adds print or PDF, a snapshot export, and period comparison on this device. Pilot coverage is Binance.com USD-M only. Binance.US is unvalidated. A difference is not a savings guarantee.
What CSV does the fee audit accept?
The pilot accepts Binance.com USD-M linear USDT-settled fills. Official Account Trade List column names and the Binance.com website Trade History headers validated 10 September 2026 (intl/EU) are accepted. Fee may be a number glued to an asset (for example 0.03BNFCR). A separate Fee Asset column still wins when present. Never include Uid. Binance.US is unvalidated. Other venues are not supported yet. If the import rejects the file, check the supported columns at /fee-audit#coverage or the export steps at /guides/export-binance-futures-trades-csv. Do not send API keys. There is no /how-to-use page; use /guides or /faq.
What does Free vs Pro show on the fee audit?
Free: all findings, group detail and the action plan after a successful import, plus the full fictitious sample report. Pro: print or save a copy, a versioned snapshot, and compare a second import on this device. Pro is a one-time $12 convenience unlock. It does not buy exclusive ownership of the public fee book.
Is FeeEdge free?
Yes. The complete ranking across 33 tracked exchanges, trading-fee and funding estimates, withdrawal comparison, all findings in a supported personal CSV audit, all named live funding spreads, and the public fee-change tracker are free without an account. Pro costs $12 once, with no subscription, and adds PDF/CSV exports, audit period comparison, unlimited saved scenarios, price and funding alerts, historical rollups, native-token modeling, the tier savings ladder and head-to-head tools.
Do I have to upload my trades? Is my data private?
No. The personal fee audit parses your CSV entirely in your browser. Trade history is never uploaded. The in-site support chat may send recent messages plus whether you are signed in and your plan (Free or Pro) to OpenRouter so a model can draft a reply. The model prompt uses plan status, not your email. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
How accurate are the rankings?
Rankings use published maker and taker fee schedules, your volume tier when the venue publishes a volume path, maker/taker mix, selected assets, and, for perpetual futures, funding estimates. The monthly total is trading fees, plus signed BTC funding only when that component is in the rank. Withdrawals stay out. Published-book "Updated" dates show that venue's last hand-verification stamp. A live or scrape fetch only replaces that date when it is newer. CoinW futures stay on the Regular 0.02%/0.06% book with no VIP. Binance volume-only stays Regular User; VIP needs BNB. Kraken Pro spot starts at 0.40%/0.80% and follows the published spot-volume ladder. Gate USDT perps count at 0.4 times volume for VIP; Hyperliquid and edgeX use estimated 14-day activity. MEXC perps stay on the published UI 0%/0.02% base. 0%/0.02% is the published UI base as of 31 Aug 2026, not a universal book. Rates vary by region and event; the 25 May BTC/ETH update is region-gated; API futures use a separate 0.06%/0.08% book. Venues that publish a 0% maker and 0% taker book sit in their own band above the numbered ranking. If the gap between the top two venues is smaller than the estimate margin, FeeEdge does not name a cheapest winner. Click "Why this ranking?" beside the top result to see the profile, rates, and what the total includes. Click any "Updated" date to see its source and when it was refreshed or verified. Results are estimates based on how you describe your trading, not a quote from an exchange. We do not invent confidence percentages. The full calculation is explained on the Methodology page.
Who writes and checks FeeEdge research?
FeeEdge is built and run by one independent operator. FeeEdge Research is the byline used on reports, guides, exchange pages, and comparisons. The operator maintains the data pipeline, reviews detected fee changes, checks published schedules, and handles corrections sent to support@feeedge.com.
What are funding rates and why do they matter?
On perpetual futures, funding is a payment exchanged between longs and shorts. Interval depends on the venue (8h on Bybit, hourly on Hyperliquid, 4h on edgeX). Positive funding means longs pay shorts; negative flips the payer. FeeEdge funding quotes are BTC perpetual. ETH-only stays fees-only. BTC plus Other, or any mixed book, is a labeled BTC reference, not a full-instrument match. Long and short are exposure hypotheses. A missing live quote is not treated as zero and is not replaced by the 0.01%/8h hypothesis when ranking venues. A momentary credit is not a guaranteed yearly saving. Settlement history is stored for Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Hyperliquid. The live Funding board ranks venues from cheapest to hold. The same page also ranks the biggest funding spreads between venues for delta-neutral carry, before fees and margin.
What is the fee-change tracker?
FeeEdge checks live fee data against a verified baseline every day across 33 exchanges. When a venue changes its fees we confirm it by hand and publish it, dated, at feeedge.com/fee-changes, with an RSS feed for readers and bots. The weekly Fee Report email rounds up every confirmed change, when the cheapest venue changes, and the biggest funding spread. Subscribing is free. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
I unsubscribed from the weekly Fee Report. How do I subscribe again?
Submit the same address on the subscribe form. We send a confirm link and keep you unsubscribed until you tap it. That is so an unsubscribed address cannot be added back without a click from that inbox. Account and purchase emails are separate.
What are native-token fee discounts?
Some exchanges lower your trading fee when you hold or pay fees with their own token, for example BNB on Binance or GT on Gate.io. FeeEdge only applies quoted pay-in-token rates. Venues that list a token without a published rate are not quoted.
Which exchanges does FeeEdge cover?
33 of the largest venues across both perps and spot: Binance, Bybit, Hyperliquid, OKX, Gate.io, Bitget, KuCoin, MEXC, Kraken, HTX, BingX, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Bitfinex, WhiteBIT, Phemex, BitMEX, Backpack, BitMart, CoinEx, Lighter, Aster, edgeX, dYdX, Deribit, Bitunix, LBank, BloFin, WEEX, Toobit, Deepcoin, CoinW, and ApeX.
Does FeeEdge make money from exchanges, and does that affect the ranking?
FeeEdge uses affiliate links to some exchanges, but they never change the rankings. Every ranking comes purely from fee data and the inputs you provide. The details are in our Terms.
Can I compare two exchanges directly?
Yes. The public compare pages put published maker, taker, and funding side by side. Start from the compare hub, or use the interactive head-to-head comparison, a Pro feature, for entry-tier fees at your volume and order mix including quoted native-token discounts. Use the free calculator for supported volume-tier logic and conditional BTC funding.
Does Pro include exclusive fee data?
No. Published fee schedules and funding history stay public, including on SEO pages. The complete ranking, current funding optimizer and all supported fee-audit findings are free. Pro adds exports, period comparison, alerts and advanced modeling. The 7-day and 30-day funding averages in Pro are a convenience rollup of that public history. Someone determined can reconstruct the same ranking from public data.
Is Pro really a one-time payment?
Yes. Pro is $12 paid once, with no subscription and no recurring charge. It stays unlocked on your account.
Do I need an account to upgrade to Pro?
No. You can pay first and set up your account afterward. At checkout you enter your email and pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link, then create a FeeEdge account with that same email and Pro unlocks automatically. If you already have an account, just use the email you paid with. We confirm your email with a short verification code, so only you can claim your purchase.
How do I get back to FeeEdge after checkout?
Stripe sends you to /welcome with a checkout session id. That session is what proves payment. Opening /welcome with no session is not proof you paid. Sign in or create an account with the same email you used at checkout. If you paid as a guest, the confirmation email has a claim link. If you started from the fee audit, use Continue to your fee audit after Pro unlocks. If you are signed in and still see Free, refresh once, then email support@feeedge.com.
How do I sign in or create an account?
You do not need an account to use the calculator or the personal fee audit. When you want to save your setup, upgrade to Pro, or set price alerts, sign in with your email and a password, or with Continue with Google. New email sign-ups confirm your address with a short code we email you. Forgot your password? Use the "Forgot your password?" link on the sign-in form to get a reset code by email and set a new one.
Can FeeEdge remember my setup?
Yes, with a free account. Your default trader profile, meaning your volume, maker/taker mix, market and assets, is saved and restored whenever you open the calculator on any device. You can also save a named scenario and share it with a link (one on Free, unlimited on Pro), and Pro adds email price alerts when a cheaper venue appears.
Is this financial advice?
No. FeeEdge provides estimates for informational purposes only and is not financial advice.
More detail
Read the exact calculation on the Methodology page, run a personal fee audit at /fee-audit, rank venues on the lowest-fee exchange and cheapest perps pages, see live perp costs on the Funding board, or check how we handle data in our Privacy Policy and Terms.