Bitstamp vs Bitvavo.

We don't hand out safety verdicts — we keep a sourced record. The current Reliability Score for Bitstamp and Bitvavo is stated above, each dated to the day it was last written. The score compresses documented withdrawal reliability, proof-of-reserves practice, regulatory standing, security history, support quality and maturity into one number, with every negative data point dated and sourced, and older incidents decaying over 24 months.

The component-level basis — which incidents, which licences, which proof-of-reserves cadence — is one click away on each exchange's page. Read the dated record for Bitstamp and Bitvavo there before weighing the one-number summary; the score is a compression, not a substitute for the sources behind it.

Full sourced basis, incident by incident: Bitstamp · Bitvavo.

Bitstamp publishes 0.30% maker / 0.40% taker on its base tier; Bitvavo publishes 0.15% maker / 0.25% taker on its base tier. On the brochure, Bitvavo looks cheaper — but the published fee is only one part of the real cost. The other part is what execution actually costs above the market reference. For Bitstamp, the card above measures the live orderbook spread for the same $1,000 Bitcoin buy, timestamped. Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book, so it isn't part of this dollar comparison — its card below states that rather than showing an estimate.

Where an exchange publishes a fixed BTC withdrawal fee, the live cards include it; where no fixed number is officially verifiable, the total honestly excludes withdrawal and says so — some exchanges instead pass the live network fee through and disclose it at withdrawal time, which is a data point, not a gap. For your own size and asset, the live comparison recomputes everything in real time.