Fees
Real rates, on play money. Every cent of it is counted here.
Across 10 charged fills. The house keeps none of it — the counter in the header is the whole point of charging a fee at all.
Rates
Bybit's standard non-VIP schedule, as published in September 2026.
| Market | Maker | Taker |
|---|---|---|
| Spot | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Leverage | 0.02% | 0.055% |
Funding — not a fee
Charged on open leveraged positions every 8 hours, at 00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC.
A perpetual never expires, so nothing drags its price back towards spot. Funding is what does: the crowded side pays the other one. When the rate is positive longs pay shorts, and when it is negative — which it was for 62 of Bybit's 826 perpetuals in a recent snapshot — shorts pay longs. Hold the unpopular side of a crowded trade and you get paid to wait.
None of it reaches the counter above. The house takes no cut of funding; it is a transfer between the two sides, which is exactly why it is not counted as a fee. Rates come live from Bybit's public API rather than being invented here, because a flat made-up rate would never go negative and would teach the mechanic backwards.
On an isolated position it comes out of the margin, so paying it moves your liquidation price closer — a position can eventually be liquidated by rent alone, even if the price never moves. On a cross position it comes out of your cash.
Two things worth knowing
- Makers pay less than takers
- An order that waits at a price adds liquidity; one that crosses the spread removes it. On leverage that is the difference between 0.02% and 0.055% — nearly three times. So a limit order is not just a better price, it is a cheaper fill. The exception is a stop loss: it triggers into a market order, so it pays the taker rate despite having waited.
- Leverage multiplies the fee, not just the profit
- Leverage fees are charged on the position's size, not on your margin — and again when it closes. $50 at 10x is billed on $500.00 each way, so the round trip costs 1.10% of your margin before the price has moved at all.