Two checks — cost and trust
Bitvavo vs Kraken.
Top score today:Kraken88— updated 2026-10-04
Lowest: Bitvavo 84/100, updated 2026-10-04 — 2 exchanges scored.
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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Kraken
- Published fee (maker / taker)
- 0.25% / 0.40%
- Reliability Score
- 88 / 100
- Measured cost · $1,000 BTC buy
- $5.26
- You get
- 0.01168686 BTC
- Of which hidden spread
- -$0.02
- BTC withdrawal
- $1.28 (0.000015 BTC)
live orderbook · 20s old at measurement
Open Kraken ↗neutral 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 → · Bitvavo record → · Kraken record →
Questions, answered
Is Bitvavo or Kraken safer?
No safety verdicts — on Skontro's sourced Reliability Score, Bitvavo 84/100 (updated 2026-10-04) and Kraken 88/100 (updated 2026-10-04) — Kraken scores higher.
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