Cheapest exchange this week
Binance · $1.43 all-in avg
$1,000 buy avg · this week
What "0% fee" really costs
MEXC +€1.22 vs cheapest
all-in cost gap (EUR) · latest round
Cheapest way to move USDT at Binance
cheapest: BNB Chain 0.01 USDT · priciest: Tron 1.5 USDT
withdrawal fee · curated
Top reliability score right now
Kraken 88
sourced & dated · never bought
What buying Cardano really costs.
Cheapest of 5 exchanges on the USD railCheapest of 5 · USD rail
You get $998.59 in cardano
for your $1,000.00 — that’s 5,630 ADA
$1.41 in costs · $10.50 more than at the priciest of these 5 exchangesof 5
OKX
cheapest
$998.59 arrives
Kraken
-$2.60
$995.99 arrives · ≈ 0.26% less
Bitstamp
-$2.67
$995.92 arrives · ≈ 0.27% less
Crypto.com
-$3.45
$995.14 arrives · ≈ 0.35% less
Coinbase
-$10.50
$988.09 arrives · ≈ 1.05% less
Also sells ADA — priced on USDT books, ranked separately
MEXCbase rate · promos may lower
998.20 USDT
arrives
Binancebase rate · promos may lower
997.70 USDT
arrives
Bitgetbase rate · promos may lower
997.70 USDT
arrives
Bybit
997.70 USDT
arrives
Not priced here: KuCoin, Bitpanda, Bitvavo — no verified dollar order book, so we leave the number out rather than convert one.
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Why the advertised fee misleads
Spread is a price, not a percentage.
A “0.10% fee” on a $1,000 Cardano order is one dollar. The spread between the reference price and the levels your order actually consumes can be several times that — and it grows with order size, especially in thin books. That is why we rank venues by net ADA received instead of any quoted percentage, and why every figure on this page carries its data age. The full methodology.
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