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Two checks — cost and trust

Bybit vs Gemini.

Two different questions decide this matchup: whether you get your money out, and what a trade really costs. Below, each venue’s sourced Reliability Score sits beside the measured all-in cost of the same €1,000 Bitcoin buy — trading fee plus the hidden spread from the live orderbook, withdrawal included where the venue publishes one — measured 2026-07-29 09:28 UTC.

On reliability, Bybit scores 84, Gemini 73 (of 100, sourced & dated). Bybit currently carries the higher score — cheapest and safest need not be the same venue.

Bybit

Published fee (maker / taker)
0.10% / 0.10%
Reliability Score
84 / 100
Measured cost · €1,000 BTC buy
€5.40
You get
0.01760507 BTC
Of which hidden spread
€0.11
BTC withdrawal
€4.29 (0.000076 BTC)

live orderbook · 0s old at measurement

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Gemini

Published fee (maker / taker)
0.60% / 1.20%
Reliability Score
73 / 100

No fresh market snapshot for this venue at measurement time — we show nothing rather than a stale or invented number.

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01

Which is safer?

We don't hand out safety verdicts — we keep a sourced record. On Skontro's Reliability Score, Bybit currently scores higher (84 vs 73 of 100). 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 venue's page. Read the dated record for Bybit and Gemini 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: Bybit · Gemini.

02

Which is cheaper?

Bybit publishes 0.10% maker / 0.10% taker on its base tier; Gemini publishes 0.60% maker / 1.20% 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 the spread your order actually crosses in the live orderbook, a number that exists on no fee page. The cards above measure it for the same €1,000 Bitcoin buy on both venues, timestamped; the ranking can flip between measurements as books move.

Where a venue publishes a fixed BTC withdrawal fee, the live cards include it; where it doesn't, the total honestly excludes withdrawal and says so — a passthrough network fee shown at withdrawal time 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 Bybit or Gemini safer?

We don't issue safety verdicts. On Skontro's sourced Reliability Score, Bybit currently scores 84/100 and Gemini 73/100 — Bybit scores higher. 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 venue pages.

02

What trading fees do Bybit and Gemini charge?

Published base-tier fees: Bybit 0.10% maker / 0.10% taker; Gemini 0.60% maker / 1.20% taker. The published fee is only part of the real cost — execution spread comes on top and is measured live on this page.

03

Has Bybit or Gemini ever halted withdrawals?

Skontro maintains a dated, sourced incident record for every covered venue — including any documented withdrawal pauses — on the venue 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

We walk each venue’s live public orderbook for the exact order size, add the published base-tier fee and the venue’s published withdrawal fee, and rank by what you actually receive. Venues 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.

Some venue links are affiliate links. Skontro earns a commission from the linked platform at no extra cost to you. Ranking is never influenced by affiliate payout. Ranking is always by the measured result of the trade — what you actually receive — never by affiliate relationship.

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.