Taker fees on crypto futures are quoted in fractions of a percent, which makes them easy to ignore. Run them against a real monthly volume and they stop being fractions.
Here's what OKX, Binance, Bitget and MEXC currently charge on BTC/USDT perpetuals at standard tier, and what that costs over a year at three volumes a working trader might actually hit.
(Chart above: taker/maker fees across six exchanges, read from each exchange's own API or fee page. Full source list below.)
The rates (read 2026-09-04/05, standard tier, no VIP discount)
| Exchange | Taker fee | Source |
|---|---|---|
| MEXC | 0.020% | contract.mexc.com API, read 2026-09-05 |
| OKX | 0.050% | OKX fee help page, verified 2026-09-04 |
| Binance | 0.050% | Binance futures fee page, verified 2026-09-04 |
| Bitget | 0.060% | Bitget academy fee page, verified 2026-09-04 |
What that costs, by monthly volume
| Monthly volume | MEXC/yr | OKX/yr | Binance/yr | Bitget/yr | Cheapest to most expensive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | $24 | $60 | $60 | $72 | $48/yr |
| $50,000 | $120 | $300 | $300 | $360 | $240/yr |
| $250,000 | $600 | $1,500 | $1,500 | $1,800 | $1,200/yr |
That last column is just fee cost on the cheapest of these four minus fee cost on the most expensive, same volume, same year, taker side only. At $250k/month it's $1,200 a year, money that never touched a trade thesis, just the venue.
None of this counts maker rebates, VIP tiers, or funding rates, which move these numbers further at real volume. It also doesn't tell you which exchange to use, liquidity, uptime and what markets you actually need matter more than a fraction of a percent for most people. It just tells you what the fraction of a percent is actually worth once you multiply it by how much you trade.
If you want this for your own volume instead of the three above, returnfee.com/calculator/ runs the same arithmetic live, for any number you type in, across the same four exchanges, no signup. It also shows the same underlying fee-rates.json numbers this post used.
The reason we built that calculator: ReturnFee pays users back a share of these same taker fees on top of whatever the exchange already rebates automatically, funded out of our own affiliate commission with each exchange, free to join, no cost to the trader either way. The rebate side isn't the point of this post; the arithmetic above is true whether or not you ever register with us.
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