Two checks — cost and trust
Bitstamp vs Bitvavo.
Top score today:Bitvavo84— updated 2026-10-04
Lowest: Bitstamp 75/100, updated 2026-10-04 — 2 exchanges scored.
Bitstamp
- Published fee (maker / taker)
- 0.30% / 0.40%
- Reliability Score
- 75 / 100
- Measured cost · $1,000 BTC buy
- $4.20
- You get
- 0.01169931 BTC
- Of which hidden spread
- $0.20
- BTC withdrawal
- not published — excluded
live orderbook · 50s old at measurement
Open Bitstamp ↗neutral link
Bitvavo
- Published fee (maker / taker)
- 0.15% / 0.25%
- Reliability Score
- 84 / 100
Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book — omitted rather than converted from EUR.
Open Bitvavo ↗affiliate link
Sources & method
- Cost = live public orderbook walked for the exact $1,000 order + published base-tier fee + published withdrawal fee; ranked by what you receive.
- Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book, so it isn't part of this dollar comparison.
- Reliability Score: sourced and dated, never part of the cost ranking; affiliate links never influence either.
- Cost method → · Score method → · Bitstamp record → · Bitvavo record →
Questions, answered
Is Bitstamp or Bitvavo safer?
No safety verdicts — on Skontro's sourced Reliability Score, Bitstamp 75/100 (updated 2026-10-04) and Bitvavo 84/100 (updated 2026-10-04) — Bitvavo scores higher.
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