Bybit Trading Fees vs Bitget Fees: What You Actually Pay on Spot and Futures

Two traders can buy the same coin at the same price and still walk away with different results. Very often the gap comes down to fees, and on Bybit and Bitget those fees are low enough per trade that it's easy to stop paying attention to them.

That's a mistake if you trade often or use futures. Small percentages add up quickly when they're charged on the full size of every position, every time you open and close it.

Here is what each exchange charges on its standard tier, how the rest of the cost stack works, and how to estimate a trade before you place it.

The headline numbers on the standard tier

Both exchanges use a maker-taker model. A maker order rests on the order book and adds liquidity, usually a limit order that doesn't fill straight away. A taker order fills immediately against an existing order, like a market order.

If you want the background on why exchanges price the two sides differently, our guide to crypto exchange fees and the maker-taker model walks through it in detail.

On Bybit's entry level, called VIP 0, spot trading costs 0.10% for both makers and takers. Perpetual and futures contracts cost 0.055% for takers and 0.02% for makers. Options are 0.03% taker and 0.02% maker.

Bitget's standard spot rate is also 0.10% for both sides. Its standard futures rate is 0.02% for makers and 0.06% for takers, a touch higher than Bybit on the taker side.

Both exchanges say the rate on your own account can differ by region and status. Bybit points users to its My Fee Rate page after identity verification, and Bitget to its live Fee Schedule. Check those before you rely on any table, including this one.

Bybit trading fees in a little more detail

Bybit's fee ladder runs from VIP 0 up to Supreme VIP. You move up through trading volume over 30 days or through your asset balance, rather than through holding a special token.

The first step, VIP 1, needs an asset balance of at least $100,000, or 30-day spot volume of $1 million, or derivatives volume of $10 million. At that level spot drops to 0.08% taker and 0.0675% maker, and derivatives to 0.04% taker and 0.018% maker.

For most retail traders, VIP 0 is the realistic tier. The useful lesson is less about climbing the ladder and more about choosing order types, since the maker discount on futures is large.

One detail catches people out. Spot pairs that trade crypto against fiat currency, such as USDT against euros, use a separate schedule. For non-VIP users under $100,000 of monthly volume, Bybit lists those pairs at 0.20% taker and 0.15% maker, noticeably more than the crypto-to-crypto rate.

Bitget fees and the BGB discount

Bitget offers two ways to lower costs. The first is a VIP program based on trading volume, account assets or BGB holdings. The second is paying fees in BGB, the exchange's own token.

If you hold BGB and switch on the option to use it for fees, Bitget applies a 20% discount to spot trading fees. That takes the standard 0.10% spot rate down to 0.08%, with the fee taken from your BGB balance instead of the asset you traded.

The discount covers spot and spot margin trading. It does not apply to futures, where the 0.02% and 0.06% rates stand unless your VIP level changes them.

It's worth being honest about the trade-off. Holding BGB to save a fraction of a percent means holding a token whose price moves. A small saving on fees can easily be wiped out by a drop in the token itself.

Funding is the cost most traders forget

Perpetual futures have no expiry date, so exchanges use funding payments to keep the contract price close to the spot price. When funding is positive, longs pay shorts. When it is negative, shorts pay longs.

Funding is a payment between traders, not a fee the exchange keeps. It still comes out of your balance, and on a position held for days it can easily cost more than the trading fee. Our explainer on how crypto funding rates work covers the mechanics.

The structure is very similar on both platforms. Most contracts settle every eight hours, at 00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC. You only pay or receive funding if you hold a position at the settlement moment.

Each exchange builds the rate from a premium index, which measures how far the contract trades from the index price, plus a fixed interest component of 0.01% per eight-hour period. The difference between the two is clamped within plus or minus 0.05% before the final rate is capped by contract-specific limits.

There are differences at the edges. Bybit says that if a contract's funding rate hits its upper or lower limit at settlement, the settlement frequency can switch to once an hour. Bitget runs some contracts on one, two or four-hour intervals and scales the formula to match.

The practical point is simple. Look at the funding countdown and the interval on the trading screen for the specific pair, not just the rate, because a rate settled hourly costs far more over a day than the same rate settled every eight hours.

Working through a real example

Say you buy $10,000 of bitcoin on spot with a market order. At the standard 0.10% rate, the fee is $10 on either exchange. On Bitget with the BGB option switched on, it falls to $8. Selling later costs about the same again.

Now take a $10,000 perpetual futures position, opened and closed with market orders. On Bybit that's 0.055% twice, or $11. On Bitget it's 0.06% twice, or $12. Using limit orders that rest on the book on both sides cuts that to $4 on either platform.

Leverage doesn't shrink those numbers. If the $10,000 position is backed by $1,000 of margin at 10x, the fee is still charged on the full $10,000. That $11 round trip is 1.1% of the money you actually put up.

Then add funding. If the rate sits at the baseline 0.01% per eight hours, a $10,000 position pays or receives $1 at each settlement, or $3 a day. In a crowded market the rate can run several times higher.

The costs that don't appear in the fee table

Trading fees are only one layer. The spread between the best bid and best ask is a cost on every market order, and on thinner pairs it can be wider than the fee itself.

Slippage is the next layer. A large market order can eat through several price levels in the order book, so the average fill ends up worse than the price you saw when you clicked.

Withdrawals carry their own charges. Both exchanges set these per coin and per network, and they show the amount on the withdrawal screen. Moving a stablecoin over one network can cost very different amounts than moving it over another.

Finally, access matters before cost does. Neither Bybit nor Bitget serves customers in the United States, and both restrict a number of other jurisdictions. A cheap fee schedule means nothing if the platform isn't permitted where you live.

How to keep the bill down

The biggest lever is order type. On futures, the gap between a maker and a taker fill is wide on both exchanges, so patient limit orders often save more than any discount program.

Trading less often is the second lever. Fees are charged per trade, so a strategy that flips positions many times a day pays far more than one that holds for a week, even if the per-trade cost looks tiny.

If you want to see how fees, spreads and funding chip away at a strategy without risking real money, the free Coinasity paper-trading league uses virtual cash at live prices. It's a low-stakes way to test whether a plan still works once trading costs are part of the result.

Whichever exchange you use, open your own fee page before you trade. Published rates change, regional entities differ, and the number that matters is the one attached to your account.