Head to head

Binance vs Bybit — which broker is better?

Binance or Bybit? Fees, regulation, platform and product range compared side by side — with a verdict drawn from the data.

Risk warning: CFDs and leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly. Investments can fall in value. Past performance is not an indicator of future results.

Binance

The deepest liquidity and the cheapest headline fees in crypto — attached to the weakest regulatory record of any venue this size.

3,9

Group index 53/100Protection depends on your legal entity

JFSAFSRAVARA+1

Stocks (per order): 0.1 %
Minimum deposit: None
5,000 order: €5

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Bybit

The derivatives exchange that survived the largest theft in crypto history — and then got itself properly licensed in the EU.

4,0

Group index 57/100Protection depends on your legal entity

FMAFMAVARA+2

Stocks (per order): n/a
Minimum deposit: None

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The verdict in numbers

Four decision axes, each derived from the recorded data.

Overall Bybit takes it, 4.0 against 3.9 out of 5. The two pricing models cannot be converted like for like; the fee rows in the table carry the detail. Bybit scores 57 against 53 out of 100 on the group index. Your account's protection depends on its legal entity. Both cover 6 of 14 asset classes. On platform and app Binance is ahead, 4.6 against 4.5 out of 5. Which one is right depends on which of these axes matters for your trading profile.

Overall score

Binance: 3.9
Bybit: 4.0 — Better

CostsTie

Binance: €5.00
Bybit: Not offered

Group indexNo winner

Binance: 53 of 100
Bybit: 57 of 100

Product rangeTie

Binance: 6/14
Bybit: 6/14

Platform & app

Binance: 4.6 — Better
Bybit: 4.5

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Up to four brokers at once — every row a decision point.

Data as of: 30 Aug 2026

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Binance · Bybit
Criterion	Binance 3,9 Visit broker	Bybit 4,0 Visit broker

Overall score	3.9	4.0 — Better
Group index	53 of 100	57 of 100
Best for	High-volume active tradersCrypto derivatives and perpetuals tradersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot traders outside the EEATraders who need altcoin depth	Perpetual futures tradersCopy-trading followersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot tradersEEA investors wanting a MiCA venue

Regulation	JFSAFSRAVARAFinCEN	FMAFMAVARAAFSANBG
Top-tier licences	1	2 — Better
Investor protection	None	None
Listed group	No	No
Banking licence	No	No
Segregated client accounts	Yes	Yes
Negative balance protection	No	No
Audited financials	No	No
Disclosed regulatory actions	4	3
Founded	2017	2018
Headquarters	No declared global headquarters; Binance Holdings Ltd. is registered in the Cayman Islands, KY	Dubai, AE

Fees	4.6 — Better	4.4
Safety & regulation	2.4	3.1 — Better
Trading platform	4.6 — Better	4.5
Product range	4.5 — Better	4.4
Mobile app	4.5 — Better	4.4
Research	3.8 — Better	3.6
Customer support	3.2	3.6 — Better
Deposit & withdrawal	3.2	3.8 — Better
Account opening	3.4	4.2 — Better
Education	4.2 — Better	3.7

Reference order EUR 5,000	€5.00	Not offered
Minimum deposit	None	None
Stocks (per order)	0.1 %	Not offered
US stocks	n/a	n/a
ETFs	0.1 %	Not offered
Options	tiered	tiered
Futures	tiered	tiered
Crypto	tiered	tiered
Bonds (order)	n/a	n/a
Funds (order)	n/a	n/a
EUR/USD spread	n/a	n/a
Index CFD spread	n/a	n/a
FX conversion	n/a	n/a
Inactivity fee	None	None
Custody fee	None	None
Withdrawal fee	n/a	n/a
Deposit fee	Crypto deposits are free. Fiat pricing varies by rail and by promotion: SEPA Instant euro deposits have run under a standing zero-fee campaign, while standard SEPA bank transfers have carried a EUR 1 flat fee. Card deposits on Visa and Mastercard cost roughly 1.8% to 2%, and Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal roughly 2%. All fiat deposits from EEA residents are suspended as of 1 July 2026.	Crypto deposits are free. In the EEA, Bybit Payments GmbH holds an Austrian e-money licence and issues dedicated IBANs, which makes SEPA the cheap route; card and third-party payment-provider deposits carry the provider's own percentage charge, typically low single digits. P2P trading is used for local fiat rails in markets without a direct banking connection.
Overnight financing	n/a	n/a
Other fees	Direct Equities (US shares and ETFs): 0.10% trading spread on orders from USD 340, or a flat USD 0.35 platform fee per order below that; promotional 0.05% and USD 0.17 until 30 September 2026, 23:59 UTC. No account, inactivity or custody fee and no minimum balance. Outgoing DTC transfer USD 150.00 per security per submission (ACATS not supported); voluntary corporate action USD 200.00 per election; mandatory corporate actions USD 0.00. Executed by Nest Exchange Limited, cleared by Alpaca Securities LLC BNB fee discount: 25% off spot trading fees and up to 10% off futures fees when the fee is settled in BNB — the single largest lever on Binance's headline pricing Crypto withdrawal: A per-asset network fee that Binance sets itself and updates with chain conditions; it is shown before you confirm but is not a fixed published schedule, and on some networks it has run above the underlying chain cost Convert: Zero explicit commission — the cost is inside the quoted rate, so the spread is the fee. Convert is materially more expensive than the spot order book for anything but very small amounts Cross and isolated margin: Hourly interest that varies by asset and by VIP tier, published per coin, plus a liquidation clearance fee Binance Earn and staking: Advertised yields are quoted net; Binance does not publish a headline commission percentage on locked and flexible products the way Kraken and Coinbase do +1	Perpetual funding rate: Paid between longs and shorts every eight hours on perpetual contracts. It is not a Bybit fee, but for a position held over weeks it is usually the largest single cost — check it before assuming the 0.0550% taker rate is what a trade costs Spot margin: Interest accrues hourly per borrowed asset at rates published per coin; leverage runs to 10x on eligible pairs in the EEA offering Copy Trading: Lead traders take a profit share of up to 10% on the gains of accounts copying them, deducted at settlement on top of ordinary trading fees Crypto withdrawal: A per-asset fee set by Bybit and shown before confirmation, varying by network; not a fixed published schedule Bybit Card: Available in supported markets, with conversion and ATM charges set per region Inactivity / custody fee: None published

Asset classes (of 14)	6	6
Exchanges	n/a	n/a
Stocks	Yes	No
ETFs	Yes	No
Options	Yes	Yes
Futures	Yes	Yes
Forex	No	No
CFDs	No	No
Crypto	Yes	Yes
Bonds	No	No
Funds	No	No
Commodities	No	Yes
Indices	No	Yes
Warrants	No	No
Spread betting	No	No
Social trading	Yes	Yes

Platforms	Binance webBinance desktop appBinance mobile appBinance APITradingView integrationBinance Copy TradingBinance VIP and Institutional	Bybit webBybit desktop appBybit mobile appBybit APIBybit Copy TradingTradingView integrationBybit EU (bybit.eu)
Demo account	Yes	Yes
Fractional shares	Yes	No
Maximum leverage	1:125	1:100
Account opening	Fully online and usually complete within minutes to a few hours once identity verification clears; EEA residents cannot open an account at all as of August 2026	Fully online; registration takes minutes and identity verification usually clears the same day. EEA residents are routed to Bybit EU GmbH under the Austrian MiCA authorisation
Account types	Regular (VIP 0)VIP 1–9Binance Copy TradingBinance VIP and InstitutionalBinance.US	Standard (non-VIP)VIP and Pro tiersBybit EUCopy Trading (lead trader)Bybit Institutional

Payment methods	SEPASEPA InstantBank transferCredit cardDebit cardApple PayGoogle PayPayPalCrypto	SEPASEPA InstantBank transferCredit cardDebit cardApple PayGoogle PayCrypto
Account currencies	USDEURGBPTRYBRLAEDPLN	USDEURGBPTRYBRL
Deposit time	Crypto deposits confirm in minutes; SEPA Instant is near-instant and standard SEPA takes 0–2 business days; card and wallet deposits are instant. Fiat deposits from EEA residents are suspended as of 1 July 2026	Crypto deposits confirm in minutes; SEPA and SEPA Instant through the Austrian e-money entity are same-day to instant; card deposits are instant
Withdrawal time	Crypto withdrawals typically process within minutes once security holds clear; fiat withdrawals 0–3 business days depending on the rail	Crypto withdrawals typically clear within minutes after security holds; SEPA withdrawals 0–2 business days
Free withdrawals	n/a	n/a

Languages	EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishItalianDutchPortuguesePolishRomanianCzech+11	EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishItalianDutchPortuguesePolishCzechTurkish+9
Channels	Live chatEmailTicket system	Live chatEmailTicket system
Availability	24/7 live chat and ticketing; no published retail telephone line	24/7 live chat in multiple languages, backed by a ticket queue; no published retail telephone line

Strengths and weaknesses side by side

Editorial assessment based on the recorded data.

Binance

The deepest liquidity and the cheapest headline fees in crypto — attached to the weakest regulatory record of any venue this size.

3,9

Pros

Spot pricing of 0.1000% maker and taker at VIP 0, dropping to 0.0750% on both sides when fees are settled in BNB — among the cheapest entry rates of any major venue
Futures from 0.0200% maker and 0.0500% taker, with up to 10% off in BNB and a ladder that reaches 0.0000% maker at the top tier
The deepest order books in crypto: roughly 500 listed assets and more than 1,500 trading pairs, which translates directly into lower slippage on size
REST, WebSocket and FIX APIs with a public futures testnet — the reference implementation most third-party crypto trading software is written against first
Binance Academy is the best free crypto education library published by any exchange, and Binance Research produces genuine sell-side quality market work
Full FSRA authorisation in Abu Dhabi Global Market since January 2026 across exchange, clearing, custody and brokerage entities, plus a full VARA licence in Dubai and a JFSA registration in Japan
A mobile app that consistently ranks among the highest-rated finance apps on both stores, with a Lite mode for beginners and near-complete Pro functionality

Cons

No MiCA authorisation. Since 1 July 2026 residents of the EEA cannot sign up, place new spot orders, deposit funds or use Earn and staking — only withdrawals and Convert remain open, and Binance has named neither a replacement jurisdiction nor a date
The 2023 US resolution was a criminal one: guilty pleas to Bank Secrecy Act, unlicensed money transmitting and sanctions offences, more than USD 4.3 billion in penalties, a five-year FinCEN monitorship and a forced exit from the United States
Binance Holdings Ltd. is private, publishes no audited financial statements, and as of 2026 still has no declared global headquarters — the group's own chief executive says the location is undecided
Crypto assets held at Binance are covered by no deposit guarantee and no investor compensation scheme; the SAFU insurance fund is a discretionary company reserve, not a statutory protection
Customer support is chat and ticket only with no published retail phone line, and slow handling of account restrictions is the single most common complaint against the platform
The product surface is overwhelming — spot, margin, futures, options, Earn, Launchpool, Convert, Copy Trading, Card, NFT and more, each with its own risk profile and its own fee logic

Best for

High-volume active tradersCrypto derivatives and perpetuals tradersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot traders outside the EEATraders who need altcoin depth

Bybit

The derivatives exchange that survived the largest theft in crypto history — and then got itself properly licensed in the EU.

4,0

Pros

USDT perpetual contracts at 0.0200% maker and 0.0550% taker, with a deep book that makes Bybit the strongest derivatives alternative to Binance
Spot at 0.1000% maker and taker for non-VIP accounts — three to four times cheaper than Bitstamp's entry tier and well under Kraken's
MiCA Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorisation from the Austrian FMA since 28 May 2025, passported across the EEA, plus an Austrian e-money licence from 4 August 2026 giving EEA clients dedicated IBANs
Absorbed the largest theft in crypto history — about USD 1.46 billion in February 2025 — without passing a cent of it to customers, restoring 1:1 reserves within roughly 72 hours and publishing a third-party audit five days later
A unified v5 API covering spot, margin, perpetuals and options under one account model, with a public testnet and broad third-party bot support
One of the largest copy-trading marketplaces in crypto, with verified lead-trader histories and published drawdown statistics rather than cherry-picked returns
TradFi perpetuals since April 2026 give leveraged exposure to US stocks, global ETFs, gold, silver and crude oil from the same collateral pool as crypto

Cons

EEA residents get spot and spot margin only. Perpetuals, options and TradFi contracts require the global platform, which Bybit EU customers may not use, because those products need a MiFID II licence Bybit has applied for but not obtained
The February 2025 breach was the largest crypto theft on record and stemmed from a compromised multisig signing interface — the response was exemplary, the underlying control failure was not
Bybit Fintech Limited is registered in the British Virgin Islands, is not publicly traded and publishes no audited financial statements; transparency rests on third-party proof-of-reserves attestations
A pattern of entering markets before securing permission: a EUR 2,250,000 fine from the Dutch central bank in 2024, formal warnings and then a full exit in Japan, and a penalty from India's financial intelligence unit
No compensation scheme applies to crypto assets at Bybit anywhere, including under the Austrian MiCA authorisation
Support is chat and ticket only, with no published retail phone line, and the product surface — perpetuals, options, Earn, Copy Trading, Card, launch products, tokenised IPOs — is large enough that risk disclosures are easy to skim past

Best for

Perpetual futures tradersCopy-trading followersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot tradersEEA investors wanting a MiCA venue

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Binance vs Bybit — which broker is better?

Binance or Bybit? Fees, regulation, platform and product range compared side by side — with a verdict drawn from the data.

The verdict in numbers

Four decision axes, each derived from the recorded data.

Binance · Bybit
Criterion	Binance 3,9 Visit broker	Bybit 4,0 Visit broker

Overall score	3.9	4.0 — Better
Group index	53 of 100	57 of 100
Best for	High-volume active tradersCrypto derivatives and perpetuals tradersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot traders outside the EEATraders who need altcoin depth	Perpetual futures tradersCopy-trading followersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot tradersEEA investors wanting a MiCA venue

Regulation	JFSAFSRAVARAFinCEN	FMAFMAVARAAFSANBG
Top-tier licences	1	2 — Better
Investor protection	None	None
Listed group	No	No
Banking licence	No	No
Segregated client accounts	Yes	Yes
Negative balance protection	No	No
Audited financials	No	No
Disclosed regulatory actions	4	3
Founded	2017	2018
Headquarters	No declared global headquarters; Binance Holdings Ltd. is registered in the Cayman Islands, KY	Dubai, AE

Fees	4.6 — Better	4.4
Safety & regulation	2.4	3.1 — Better
Trading platform	4.6 — Better	4.5
Product range	4.5 — Better	4.4
Mobile app	4.5 — Better	4.4
Research	3.8 — Better	3.6
Customer support	3.2	3.6 — Better
Deposit & withdrawal	3.2	3.8 — Better
Account opening	3.4	4.2 — Better
Education	4.2 — Better	3.7

Reference order EUR 5,000	€5.00	Not offered
Minimum deposit	None	None
Stocks (per order)	0.1 %	Not offered
US stocks	n/a	n/a
ETFs	0.1 %	Not offered
Options	tiered	tiered
Futures	tiered	tiered
Crypto	tiered	tiered
Bonds (order)	n/a	n/a
Funds (order)	n/a	n/a
EUR/USD spread	n/a	n/a
Index CFD spread	n/a	n/a
FX conversion	n/a	n/a
Inactivity fee	None	None
Custody fee	None	None
Withdrawal fee	n/a	n/a
Deposit fee	Crypto deposits are free. Fiat pricing varies by rail and by promotion: SEPA Instant euro deposits have run under a standing zero-fee campaign, while standard SEPA bank transfers have carried a EUR 1 flat fee. Card deposits on Visa and Mastercard cost roughly 1.8% to 2%, and Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal roughly 2%. All fiat deposits from EEA residents are suspended as of 1 July 2026.	Crypto deposits are free. In the EEA, Bybit Payments GmbH holds an Austrian e-money licence and issues dedicated IBANs, which makes SEPA the cheap route; card and third-party payment-provider deposits carry the provider's own percentage charge, typically low single digits. P2P trading is used for local fiat rails in markets without a direct banking connection.
Overnight financing	n/a	n/a
Other fees	Direct Equities (US shares and ETFs): 0.10% trading spread on orders from USD 340, or a flat USD 0.35 platform fee per order below that; promotional 0.05% and USD 0.17 until 30 September 2026, 23:59 UTC. No account, inactivity or custody fee and no minimum balance. Outgoing DTC transfer USD 150.00 per security per submission (ACATS not supported); voluntary corporate action USD 200.00 per election; mandatory corporate actions USD 0.00. Executed by Nest Exchange Limited, cleared by Alpaca Securities LLC BNB fee discount: 25% off spot trading fees and up to 10% off futures fees when the fee is settled in BNB — the single largest lever on Binance's headline pricing Crypto withdrawal: A per-asset network fee that Binance sets itself and updates with chain conditions; it is shown before you confirm but is not a fixed published schedule, and on some networks it has run above the underlying chain cost Convert: Zero explicit commission — the cost is inside the quoted rate, so the spread is the fee. Convert is materially more expensive than the spot order book for anything but very small amounts Cross and isolated margin: Hourly interest that varies by asset and by VIP tier, published per coin, plus a liquidation clearance fee Binance Earn and staking: Advertised yields are quoted net; Binance does not publish a headline commission percentage on locked and flexible products the way Kraken and Coinbase do +1	Perpetual funding rate: Paid between longs and shorts every eight hours on perpetual contracts. It is not a Bybit fee, but for a position held over weeks it is usually the largest single cost — check it before assuming the 0.0550% taker rate is what a trade costs Spot margin: Interest accrues hourly per borrowed asset at rates published per coin; leverage runs to 10x on eligible pairs in the EEA offering Copy Trading: Lead traders take a profit share of up to 10% on the gains of accounts copying them, deducted at settlement on top of ordinary trading fees Crypto withdrawal: A per-asset fee set by Bybit and shown before confirmation, varying by network; not a fixed published schedule Bybit Card: Available in supported markets, with conversion and ATM charges set per region Inactivity / custody fee: None published

Asset classes (of 14)	6	6
Exchanges	n/a	n/a
Stocks	Yes	No
ETFs	Yes	No
Options	Yes	Yes
Futures	Yes	Yes
Forex	No	No
CFDs	No	No
Crypto	Yes	Yes
Bonds	No	No
Funds	No	No
Commodities	No	Yes
Indices	No	Yes
Warrants	No	No
Spread betting	No	No
Social trading	Yes	Yes

Platforms	Binance webBinance desktop appBinance mobile appBinance APITradingView integrationBinance Copy TradingBinance VIP and Institutional	Bybit webBybit desktop appBybit mobile appBybit APIBybit Copy TradingTradingView integrationBybit EU (bybit.eu)
Demo account	Yes	Yes
Fractional shares	Yes	No
Maximum leverage	1:125	1:100
Account opening	Fully online and usually complete within minutes to a few hours once identity verification clears; EEA residents cannot open an account at all as of August 2026	Fully online; registration takes minutes and identity verification usually clears the same day. EEA residents are routed to Bybit EU GmbH under the Austrian MiCA authorisation
Account types	Regular (VIP 0)VIP 1–9Binance Copy TradingBinance VIP and InstitutionalBinance.US	Standard (non-VIP)VIP and Pro tiersBybit EUCopy Trading (lead trader)Bybit Institutional

Payment methods	SEPASEPA InstantBank transferCredit cardDebit cardApple PayGoogle PayPayPalCrypto	SEPASEPA InstantBank transferCredit cardDebit cardApple PayGoogle PayCrypto
Account currencies	USDEURGBPTRYBRLAEDPLN	USDEURGBPTRYBRL
Deposit time	Crypto deposits confirm in minutes; SEPA Instant is near-instant and standard SEPA takes 0–2 business days; card and wallet deposits are instant. Fiat deposits from EEA residents are suspended as of 1 July 2026	Crypto deposits confirm in minutes; SEPA and SEPA Instant through the Austrian e-money entity are same-day to instant; card deposits are instant
Withdrawal time	Crypto withdrawals typically process within minutes once security holds clear; fiat withdrawals 0–3 business days depending on the rail	Crypto withdrawals typically clear within minutes after security holds; SEPA withdrawals 0–2 business days
Free withdrawals	n/a	n/a

Languages	EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishItalianDutchPortuguesePolishRomanianCzech+11	EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishItalianDutchPortuguesePolishCzechTurkish+9
Channels	Live chatEmailTicket system	Live chatEmailTicket system
Availability	24/7 live chat and ticketing; no published retail telephone line	24/7 live chat in multiple languages, backed by a ticket queue; no published retail telephone line

Criterion

3,9

4,0

Overall score

3.9

4.0

Group index

53 of 100

57 of 100

Best for

High-volume active tradersCrypto derivatives and perpetuals tradersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot traders outside the EEATraders who need altcoin depth

Perpetual futures tradersCopy-trading followersAPI and algorithmic tradersCost-sensitive spot tradersEEA investors wanting a MiCA venue

Regulation

JFSAFSRAVARAFinCEN

FMAFMAVARAAFSANBG

Top-tier licences

Investor protection

None

Listed group

Banking licence

Segregated client accounts

Negative balance protection

Audited financials

Disclosed regulatory actions

Founded

2017

2018

Headquarters

No declared global headquarters; Binance Holdings Ltd. is registered in the Cayman Islands, KY

Dubai, AE

Fees

4.6

4.4

Safety & regulation

2.4

3.1

Trading platform

4.6

4.5

Product range

4.5

4.4

Mobile app

4.5

4.4

Research

3.8

3.6

Customer support

3.2

3.6

Deposit & withdrawal

3.2

3.8

Account opening

3.4

4.2

Education

4.2

3.7

Reference order EUR 5,000

€5.00

Not offered

Minimum deposit

None

Stocks (per order)

0.1 %

Not offered

US stocks

n/a

ETFs

0.1 %

Not offered

Options

tiered

Futures

tiered

Crypto

tiered

Bonds (order)

n/a

Funds (order)

n/a

EUR/USD spread

n/a

Index CFD spread

n/a

FX conversion

n/a

Inactivity fee

None

Custody fee

None

Withdrawal fee

n/a

Deposit fee

Crypto deposits are free. Fiat pricing varies by rail and by promotion: SEPA Instant euro deposits have run under a standing zero-fee campaign, while standard SEPA bank transfers have carried a EUR 1 flat fee. Card deposits on Visa and Mastercard cost roughly 1.8% to 2%, and Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal roughly 2%. All fiat deposits from EEA residents are suspended as of 1 July 2026.

Crypto deposits are free. In the EEA, Bybit Payments GmbH holds an Austrian e-money licence and issues dedicated IBANs, which makes SEPA the cheap route; card and third-party payment-provider deposits carry the provider's own percentage charge, typically low single digits. P2P trading is used for local fiat rails in markets without a direct banking connection.

Overnight financing

n/a

Other fees

Direct Equities (US shares and ETFs): 0.10% trading spread on orders from USD 340, or a flat USD 0.35 platform fee per order below that; promotional 0.05% and USD 0.17 until 30 September 2026, 23:59 UTC. No account, inactivity or custody fee and no minimum balance. Outgoing DTC transfer USD 150.00 per security per submission (ACATS not supported); voluntary corporate action USD 200.00 per election; mandatory corporate actions USD 0.00. Executed by Nest Exchange Limited, cleared by Alpaca Securities LLC
BNB fee discount: 25% off spot trading fees and up to 10% off futures fees when the fee is settled in BNB — the single largest lever on Binance's headline pricing
Crypto withdrawal: A per-asset network fee that Binance sets itself and updates with chain conditions; it is shown before you confirm but is not a fixed published schedule, and on some networks it has run above the underlying chain cost
Convert: Zero explicit commission — the cost is inside the quoted rate, so the spread is the fee. Convert is materially more expensive than the spot order book for anything but very small amounts
Cross and isolated margin: Hourly interest that varies by asset and by VIP tier, published per coin, plus a liquidation clearance fee
Binance Earn and staking: Advertised yields are quoted net; Binance does not publish a headline commission percentage on locked and flexible products the way Kraken and Coinbase do
+1

Perpetual funding rate: Paid between longs and shorts every eight hours on perpetual contracts. It is not a Bybit fee, but for a position held over weeks it is usually the largest single cost — check it before assuming the 0.0550% taker rate is what a trade costs
Spot margin: Interest accrues hourly per borrowed asset at rates published per coin; leverage runs to 10x on eligible pairs in the EEA offering
Copy Trading: Lead traders take a profit share of up to 10% on the gains of accounts copying them, deducted at settlement on top of ordinary trading fees
Crypto withdrawal: A per-asset fee set by Bybit and shown before confirmation, varying by network; not a fixed published schedule
Bybit Card: Available in supported markets, with conversion and ATM charges set per region
Inactivity / custody fee: None published

Asset classes (of 14)

Exchanges

n/a

Stocks

ETFs

Options

Futures

Forex

CFDs

Crypto

Bonds

Funds

Commodities

Indices

Warrants

Spread betting

Social trading

Platforms

Binance webBinance desktop appBinance mobile appBinance APITradingView integrationBinance Copy TradingBinance VIP and Institutional

Bybit webBybit desktop appBybit mobile appBybit APIBybit Copy TradingTradingView integrationBybit EU (bybit.eu)

Demo account

Fractional shares

Maximum leverage

1:125

1:100

Account opening

Fully online and usually complete within minutes to a few hours once identity verification clears; EEA residents cannot open an account at all as of August 2026

Fully online; registration takes minutes and identity verification usually clears the same day. EEA residents are routed to Bybit EU GmbH under the Austrian MiCA authorisation

Account types

Regular (VIP 0)VIP 1–9Binance Copy TradingBinance VIP and InstitutionalBinance.US

Standard (non-VIP)VIP and Pro tiersBybit EUCopy Trading (lead trader)Bybit Institutional

Payment methods

SEPASEPA InstantBank transferCredit cardDebit cardApple PayGoogle PayPayPalCrypto

SEPASEPA InstantBank transferCredit cardDebit cardApple PayGoogle PayCrypto

Account currencies

USDEURGBPTRYBRLAEDPLN

USDEURGBPTRYBRL

Deposit time

Crypto deposits confirm in minutes; SEPA Instant is near-instant and standard SEPA takes 0–2 business days; card and wallet deposits are instant. Fiat deposits from EEA residents are suspended as of 1 July 2026

Crypto deposits confirm in minutes; SEPA and SEPA Instant through the Austrian e-money entity are same-day to instant; card deposits are instant

Withdrawal time

Crypto withdrawals typically process within minutes once security holds clear; fiat withdrawals 0–3 business days depending on the rail

Crypto withdrawals typically clear within minutes after security holds; SEPA withdrawals 0–2 business days

Free withdrawals

n/a

Languages

EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishItalianDutchPortuguesePolishRomanianCzech+11

EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishItalianDutchPortuguesePolishCzechTurkish+9

Channels

Live chatEmailTicket system

Availability

24/7 live chat and ticketing; no published retail telephone line

24/7 live chat in multiple languages, backed by a ticket queue; no published retail telephone line