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What buying crypto really costs.
The advertised fee is not the price. Skontro measures what crypto really costs — trading, moving, holding.
You spend
You buy
BTC — Bitcoin
Cheapest of 6 with USD books · right nowCheapest of 6 · right now · USD
Binance
You get $997.85 in bitcoin
0.011712 BTC for $1,000.00 · $2.15 in costs · $10.09 more than the priciest
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Binancebase rate · promos may lower
cheapest
$997.85 arrives
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →2
Bybit
-$1.21
$996.64 arrives · ≈ 0.12% less
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →3
Kraken
-$2.06
$995.79 arrives · ≈ 0.21% less
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →4
Bitstamp
-$2.13
$995.72 arrives · ≈ 0.21% less
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →5
Crypto.com
-$3.22
$994.63 arrives · ≈ 0.32% less
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →6
Coinbase
-$10.09
$987.76 arrives · ≈ 1.01% less
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →Also sells BTC for USDT (a dollar stablecoin) · ranked separately
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MEXCbase rate · promos may lower
999.22 USDT
arrives
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →·
KuCoin
998.78 USDT
arrives
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →·
Bitgetbase rate · promos may lower
998.64 USDT
arrives
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →·
OKX
998.55 USDT
arrives
reliability —
Open trade →Open account →Not priced here: Bitpanda, Bitvavo — no verified dollar order book.
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The Thursday Measure
What crypto really cost this week, measured — one mail, every Thursday.
How cheaply — and safely — can you move it?
Every wallet. Every exchange. One honest total.
See what you actually hold — across chains and exchanges, after costs are counted.
Where do these numbers come from?
16,232 measured observations across 12 exchanges.
No exchange can pay to change a number.