If you run market orders on a BTCUSDT perpetual at real size, taker fees are quietly the biggest line item you never look at. Trade $100,000 of notional a month crossing the spread on Gate.io and you've paid $75 in taker fees alone before a single dollar of PnL — more than most traders' entire monthly data/VPN budget, gone to one fee line.
The rates, read straight from the source, 2026-09-05
We keep a small collector that reads maker/taker perpetual fees straight from each exchange's own API (or published fee page, where the API refuses the connection) rather than trusting a stale comparison table. Here's what it read on 2026-09-05T14:17 UTC, standard/VIP-0 tier, BTCUSDT:
| Exchange | Maker | Taker | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEXC | 0.000% | 0.020% | contract.mexc.com API |
| OKX | 0.020% | 0.050% | OKX fee help page |
| Binance | 0.020% | 0.050% | Binance futures fee page |
| KuCoin | 0.020% | 0.060% | api-futures.kucoin.com API |
| Bitget | 0.020% | 0.060% | Bitget academy fee page (their API reset the connection twice from our collector) |
| Gate.io | -0.010% | 0.075% | api.gateio.ws API |
(The cover chart on this post is generated straight from this same dataset — bar height is the taker rate in bps, the label above each bar is what that rate turns into in dollars at $100,000/month of taker volume.)
What that spread actually means at volume
At $100,000/month of taker-side volume, the gap between MEXC's 0.020% and Gate.io's 0.075% is $55/month — nothing dramatic at that size, but it scales linearly with volume and it's paid every single month regardless of whether the underlying trade was profitable. Push the same ratio to $1M/month and it's a $550/month gap, purely from which exchange the order routed to.
Maker fees don't get discussed nearly as often, but they matter more the more your strategy actually rests orders instead of crossing the book: Gate.io's -0.010% maker rate means you're paid to add liquidity there, while most of the others charge 0.020% on both sides of a purely passive strategy.
Where the referral link comes in
We run an affiliate arrangement with Bitget, disclosed here because it's ours: our Bitget referral link. Signing up through it doesn't change Bitget's own published maker/taker schedule above — it's a separate rebate arrangement on top of trading fees you'd pay Bitget regardless of which link you used to register. We're not going to attach a number to what that rebate is worth to you here, because it depends on Bitget's own current terms at the time you sign up, and we'd rather you check that directly than trust a number we didn't just re-verify.
No return guarantee, and this isn't investment advice — fee schedules change, VIP tiers and fee-token discounts (BNB, KCS, etc.) shift these numbers materially at real volume, and liquidity/uptime/market access still matter more than a few bps of taker fee for most trading decisions. Check each exchange's own current fee page before assuming any number above still holds by the time you read this.
We track these numbers ourselves on returnfee.com, our fee comparison and rebate tracking site, if you want the latest rates in one place.
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