True cost · Bitcoin · ranked by what you actually receive

The cheapest way to buy Bitcoin in 2026, measured.

“Cheapest exchange for Bitcoin” has no honest static answer — the real cost is the published fee plus the spread your order crosses in the live orderbook, and both move. So instead of quoting fee tables, this page embeds an actual measurement: a €1,000 BTC buy, priced across every covered venue, ranked by the BTC that lands in your account.

At this measurement (2026-07-29 07:48 UTC), the cheapest live-orderbook venue for a €1,000 Bitcoin buy was Bybit, delivering 0.01767591 BTC after fee and measured orderbook spread — €0.07 less total cost than the most expensive live-measured venue. Market conditions and order size change the answer; the live comparison recomputes your exact trade.

Measured — live orderbook · €1,000 BTC buy · 2026-07-29 07:48 UTC

Venue	Published fee (maker / taker)	Measured cost	You receive	Reliability	Data age
01Bybit	0.10% / 0.10%	€1.00	0.01767591 BTC	84 / 100	2s
02Binance	0.10% / 0.10%	€1.04	0.01767577 BTC	72 / 100	0s
03OKX	0.08% / 0.10%	€1.03	0.01767257 BTC	84 / 100	1s
04Bitget	0.10% / 0.10%	€1.07	0.01766556 BTC	73 / 100	0s
05MEXC	0.00% / 0.05%	€0.59	0.01765509 BTC	60 / 100	1s

01Bybit€1.00
You receive: 0.01767591 BTC84 / 100
fee 0.10% / 0.10% · live · 2s old
02Binance€1.04
You receive: 0.01767577 BTC72 / 100
fee 0.10% / 0.10% · live · 0s old
03OKX€1.03
You receive: 0.01767257 BTC84 / 100
fee 0.08% / 0.10% · live · 1s old
04Bitget€1.07
You receive: 0.01766556 BTC73 / 100
fee 0.10% / 0.10% · live · 0s old
05MEXC€0.59
You receive: 0.01765509 BTC60 / 100
fee 0.00% / 0.05% · live · 1s old

5 live-measured venues · ranking = net BTC received after published fee and live orderbook spread · withdrawal not included. Venues without a fresh snapshot are omitted, never invented.

The top two measured venues, in full

Bybit

Published fee (maker / taker): 0.10% / 0.10%
Reliability Score: 84 / 100
Measured cost · €1,000 BTC buy: €1.00
You get: 0.01767591 BTC
Of which hidden spread: €0.00
BTC withdrawal: not included in this snapshot

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Binance

Published fee (maker / taker): 0.10% / 0.10%
Reliability Score: 72 / 100
Measured cost · €1,000 BTC buy: €1.04
You get: 0.01767577 BTC
Of which hidden spread: €0.04
BTC withdrawal: not included in this snapshot

Open Binance ↗affiliate link

Why the fee page isn’t the whole story.

A “0.10% fee” on a €1,000 Bitcoinorder is one euro. The spread between the reference price and the orderbook levels your order actually consumes can be several times that — and it grows with order size, especially in thin books. A “0% fee” venue can still be the most expensive place to buy BTC once the spread is counted.

That spread appears on no fee page, which is why this page ranks venues by the one number that can’t hide anything: the BTC you actually receive. The full anatomy of these costs — advertised fee, hidden spread, withdrawal, convert markup — is in our hidden-fees guide.

Withdrawal adds to the bill.

Buying cheaply matters little if moving the coins out eats the difference. These are the published native-chain BTCwithdrawal fees in our curated dataset — every number from the venue’s own fee page:

Binance0.000015 BTC
Bybit0.000076 BTC
OKX0.000029 BTC
KuCoin0.00009 BTC
MEXC0.0002 BTC
Bitget0.00003 BTC
Crypto.com0.0004 BTC
Kraken0.000015 BTC
Bitpanda0.00000598 BTC

Gemini and Coinbase publish no fixed BTC withdrawal fee by design — the live network fee is passed through and shown at withdrawal time. That’s a data point, not a gap: we never invent a number for it.

Most venues adjust withdrawal fees dynamically — check the venue’s fee page at withdrawal time. EUR equivalents are approximate, at the current reference price. Verification dates and sources are on the full withdrawal-fee table; the cheapest route to a specific chain is the Move check.

How we measure this.

We walk each venue’s public live orderbook for the exact order size, add the published base-tier fee, and rank by the one number that can’t lie: the BTC you actually receive. Venues without fresh data are omitted, never invented; venues without a public orderbook are marked “list price · not live”. The Reliability Score shown next to costs is a sourced, dated record — it is display context, never part of the cost ranking.

The ranking is always cost- and data-based, never moved by affiliate relationships: where a link earns a disclosed commission it is labelled, and the commission never changes a number or a position. The full methodology.

Recompute it live

This page is a snapshot with a timestamp. The live comparison reprices a Bitcoin buy at your order size continuously — fee, measured spread, and an optional withdrawal toggle — without a login.

Live BTCtrue cost →

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Questions, answered

What is the cheapest exchange to buy Bitcoin?

At the most recent measurement (2026-07-29 07:48 UTC), the cheapest live-orderbook venue for a €1,000 Bitcoin buy was Bybit, delivering 0.01767591 BTC after fee and measured orderbook spread. The answer changes with market conditions and order size — the live comparison at skontro.com/true-cost/btc recomputes it in real time.

What are the fees for buying Bitcoin?

At the most recent measurement (2026-07-29 07:48 UTC), the cheapest live-orderbook venues for a €1,000 Bitcoin buy were Bybit (published taker fee 0.10%), Binance (published taker fee 0.10%), OKX (published taker fee 0.10%). The published fee is only part of the bill — the spread your order crosses in the live orderbook is the part no fee page shows, which is why the ranking uses the measured all-in cost. Full live breakdown at skontro.com/true-cost/btc.

Does the withdrawal fee affect the ranking?

Not in the snapshot on this page — it ranks by trading cost only (published fee plus measured spread). The live True-Cost tool has an "include withdrawal" toggle that adds each venue’s published withdrawal fee to the total, which can reshuffle the ranking. Our curated withdrawal dataset covers BTC (native chain, sourced from each venue’s own fee page); venues that publish no fixed fee are excluded from that toggle, never guessed.

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.