Two checks — cost and trust
Bitvavo vs Bybit.
Top score today, tied:Bitvavo and Bybit84— updated 2026-08-10 or later
Two different questions decide this matchup: how reliably each exchange operates, and what a trade really costs. Below, each exchange’s sourced Reliability Score sits beside the all-in cost of a $1,000 Bitcoin buy — trading fee plus spread, measured from the live orderbook where this page can measure it, withdrawal included where published — measured 2026-08-10 16:51 UTC. Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book, so it isn't part of this dollar comparison.
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.
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Bybit
- Published fee (maker / taker)
- 0.10% / 0.10%
- Reliability Score
- 84 / 100
- Measured cost · $1,000 BTC buy
- $8.27
- You get
- 0.01552404 BTC
- Of which hidden spread
- $2.41
- BTC withdrawal
- $4.86 (0.000076 BTC)
live orderbook · 3s old at measurement
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01
Which is safer?
We don't hand out safety verdicts — we keep a sourced record. The current Reliability Score for Bitvavo and Bybit 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 Bitvavo and Bybit there before weighing the one-number summary; the score is a compression, not a substitute for the sources behind it.
02
Which is cheaper?
Bitvavo publishes 0.15% maker / 0.25% taker on its base tier; Bybit publishes 0.10% maker / 0.10% taker on its base tier. On the brochure, Bybit 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 Bybit, 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.
Questions, answered
01
Is Bitvavo or Bybit safer?
We don't issue safety verdicts. On Skontro's sourced Reliability Score, Bitvavo scores 84/100 (updated 2026-08-10) and Bybit scores 84/100 (updated 2026-08-10) — level today. The score is built from documented withdrawal reliability, proof of reserves, regulatory standing, security history, support and maturity; every negative data point is dated and sourced on the exchange pages.
02
What trading fees do Bitvavo and Bybit charge?
Published base-tier fees: Bitvavo 0.15% maker / 0.25% taker; Bybit 0.10% maker / 0.10% taker. The published fee is only part of the real cost — execution cost above the market reference comes on top — measured live from the orderbook where this page can measure it; Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book, so it is not part of this dollar comparison.
03
Has Bitvavo or Bybit ever halted withdrawals?
Skontro maintains a dated, sourced incident record for every covered exchange — including any documented withdrawal pauses — on the exchange pages at skontro.com/exchanges. The Reliability Score's withdrawal-reliability component weighs that record, with older incidents decaying over 24 months.
Method, in one paragraph
Where we can measure an exchange, we walk its live public order book for the exact order size, add the published base-tier fee and withdrawal fee, and rank by what you actually receive. Bitvavo has no public USD or USDT order book, so it isn't part of this dollar comparison. Exchanges without fresh data are omitted, never faked. The Reliability Score is sourced and dated, and never part of the cost ranking — and ranking is never influenced by affiliate commissions. Cost methodology · Score methodology.
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Not investment advice. Skontro is not a CASP under MiCAR. Reliability Scores are information, not recommendations: every negative datapoint is dated and sourced, the methodology is public, and no exchange can pay to change a score.