MEXC charges 0% maker fees on every spot pair and a standard 0.05% spot taker fee, higher on some Special Rate pairs, while BTCUSDT perpetual futures cost 0% maker and 0.02% taker; funding passesMEXC charges 0% maker fees on every spot pair and a standard 0.05% spot taker fee, higher on some Special Rate pairs, while BTCUSDT perpetual futures cost 0% maker and 0.02% taker; funding passes
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MEXC Fees Explained: Complete Trading, Futures & Withdrawal Fees Guide
MEXC charges 0% maker fees on every spot pair and a standard 0.05% spot taker fee, higher on some Special Rate pairs, while BTCUSDT perpetual futures cost 0% maker and 0.02% taker; funding passes between traders, crypto deposits are free, and each withdrawal carries a network fee set by coin and chain.
This guide separates the MEXC costs that are genuinely zero from the ones that are not, and shows where to confirm the rate on your own account.
Key Takeaways
- Spot maker orders cost 0% on every MEXC pair, while the standard taker fee is 0.05%, or 0.04% with MX deduction.
- Pairs tagged 0 Fees charge nothing on either side, but some Special Rate spot pairs charge more than the standard, such as 0.08% on LUNA/USDT.
- BTCUSDT perpetual futures cost 0% maker and 0.02% taker, ETHUSDT 0% and 0.01%, and API orders pay a separate 0.06% maker and 0.08% taker.
- Funding passes between long and short holders, usually every 8 hours, and MEXC takes no share of it.
- Crypto deposits and transfers to other MEXC users are free, while USDT withdrawals cost from nothing on Plasma to 0.5 USDT on Tron on the October 8, 2026 schedule.
- The rate recorded in your trade history is the one that applies, because promotions and regional pricing can change it.
MEXC Fees at a Glance: Which Costs Are Really Zero?
MEXC's zero lines are spot maker orders, maker orders on BTCUSDT and other major perpetuals, pairs and contracts tagged 0 Fees, crypto deposits and transfers to other MEXC users, while taker fills, API orders, liquidations and on-chain withdrawals still cost money, as the table below shows line by line.
Cost | MEXC rate | Zero? | What to check |
Spot maker | 0.0000% on every pair | Yes | Nothing; it applies to every resting limit order |
Spot taker | 0.0500% standard; 0.0400% with MX deduction; higher on some Special Rate pairs | Only on pairs tagged 0 Fees | The tag on your pair, such as 0 Fees or Special Rate |
Futures maker | 0.000% on BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT; 0.010% on standard-tier contracts | On major pairs and 0 Fees contracts | The contract's rate on the fee page |
Futures taker | 0.020% on BTCUSDT; 0.010% on ETHUSDT; 0.040% on standard-tier contracts | Only on 0 Fees contracts | The full schedule runs up to 0.100%; MX deduction takes 20% off |
Futures via API | 0.06% maker; 0.08% taker | No | In force since June 1, 2026; 0-fee events and MX deduction do not apply |
Funding | Set by the market and paid between traders | Not a MEXC fee | Usually every 8 hours; see the countdown on the trading page |
Liquidation | 0.04% on BTC futures; set per contract | No | Zero-fee promotions do not cover it |
Crypto deposits | Free | Yes | The sending platform may charge its own withdrawal fee |
Transfers to MEXC users | Free | Yes | Send to the recipient's MEXC deposit address |
On-chain withdrawals | Fixed network fee per coin and chain | No, except free routes such as USDT on Plasma | The live fee on the withdrawal page |
Data verified as of October 8, 2026 against MEXC's official fee page, help center and announcements.
Comparing these lines with other exchanges takes more than one headline rate.
Our Crypto Exchange Fee Index prices the same trading year on twelve platforms, our comparison of the lowest futures fees covers perpetual costs, and our check of zero-fee exchanges shows which schedules stay at zero on every line.
What Does a Month of Trading Cost on MEXC?
Trading fees look small on a single order, but they compound with every fill.
On MEXC, the order type decides most of the bill, because limit orders that rest on the book pay the 0% maker rate on every spot pair and on BTCUSDT futures.
Take a trader who moves 50,000 USDT through BTC/USDT spot and 500,000 USDT through BTCUSDT perpetual futures each month.
How the volume is filled | Spot fees | Futures fees | Month | Year |
All maker orders, web or app | 0 USDT | 0 USDT | 0 USDT | 0 USDT |
Half maker, half taker, web or app | 12.50 USDT | 50 USDT | 62.50 USDT | 750 USDT |
All taker orders with MX deduction | 20 USDT | 80 USDT | 100 USDT | 1,200 USDT |
All taker orders, web or app | 25 USDT | 100 USDT | 125 USDT | 1,500 USDT |
All taker, futures sent through the API | 25 USDT | 400 USDT | 425 USDT | 5,100 USDT |
Illustrative month at the rates on MEXC's fee page on October 8, 2026; promotions, regional pricing and funding are left out.
Filled entirely as taker orders on the web or app, that month costs 125 USDT, or 1,500 USDT a year, while the same volume filled as maker orders costs nothing.
Switching on MX deduction trims the all-taker month to 100 USDT, paid in MX.
Sending the futures side through the API lifts the month to 425 USDT, because API orders pay 0.08% taker and never qualify for 0-fee events or MX discounts.
Funding comes on top for any position held through a settlement, which the funding rate section below covers.
If MEXC serves your country, you can open an account and check the 0 Fees tag on the pairs you trade before your first order.
What Are MEXC Futures Trading Fees?
MEXC futures trading fees depend on the contract: BTCUSDT costs 0.000% maker and 0.020% taker, ETHUSDT 0.000% and 0.010%, standard-tier contracts 0.010% and 0.040%, contracts tagged 0 Fees 0% on both sides, and API orders a separate 0.06% maker and 0.08% taker.
Maker and Taker Fees on MEXC Futures
In MEXC Futures trading, users may act in two roles:
- Maker: A limit order that does not immediately match with current Maker orders, but is placed in the order book as a pending order waiting to be filled. This adds liquidity to the market.
- Taker: A limit order or market order that directly matches with current Maker orders, removing liquidity from the market.
On MEXC's fee schedule, BTCUSDT perpetual futures charge 0.000% for maker orders and 0.020% for taker orders.
Other major contracts carry their own Special Rate: ETHUSDT and OIL(WTI)USDT charge 0.000% maker and 0.010% taker, and GOLD(XAU)USDT matches BTCUSDT at 0.000% and 0.020%.
Standard-tier contracts such as ZECUSDT charge 0.010% maker and 0.040% taker, while contracts tagged 0 Fees, which on October 8, 2026 included XRPUSDT and several US stock perpetuals, charge nothing on either side.
Across the full schedule, futures rates run from 0.000% to 0.040% maker and from 0.000% to 0.100% taker, depending on the contract and your region.
Promotions and regional pricing can lower the rate on some accounts, so the fee recorded in your trade history is the one that applies to you.
If you switch on MX deduction and move MX into your Futures wallet, MX pays your futures fees at a 20% discount until the balance runs out, although some pairs are excluded and API orders never qualify.
Example: A user opens a short position worth 100,000 USDT in BTCUSDT Perpetual Futures:
- If executed as a Maker order: Fee = 100,000 × 0.000% = 0 USDT
- If executed as a Taker order: Fee = 100,000 × 0.020% = 20 USDT
Fees apply to both the opening and the closing trade, so closing that position as a taker at the same price adds another 20 USDT, while maker orders on both sides keep the round trip at 0 USDT.
With MX deduction switched on, the BTCUSDT taker rate falls to 0.016%, or 16 USDT on each side of that trade.
Note: Fees are charged only on the filled part of an order, so unfilled or canceled orders incur no fees.
In addition, some MEXC Perpetual Futures contracts can run on a tiered fee schedule, in which the rate steps down as your counted trading volume rises.
High-volume traders can also qualify for Alpha Trader, the name MEXC gave its VIP program in April 2026, with tiers A1 to A7 set by monthly trading volume starting at 10,000,000 USDT on pairs that are not 0-fee.
Two futures costs sit outside these rates.
Orders placed through the API pay a separate schedule of 0.06% maker and 0.08% taker on pairs outside the Innovation Zone, in force since June 1, 2026, and that schedule takes precedence over web and app rates, 0-fee events and MX discounts.
If you trade by API, our crypto trading API comparison sets those rates against other exchanges' developer terms.
If a position is liquidated, MEXC charges a liquidation fee from the remaining margin, 0.04% on BTC futures, and zero-fee promotions do not cover it.
How Does the MEXC Funding Rate Work?
The funding rate is a mechanism set by cryptocurrency exchanges to keep the price of perpetual futures aligned with the price of the underlying asset. It applies specifically to perpetuals and functions as a funding exchange between long and short traders. The exchange itself does not collect this fee; instead, the mechanism adjusts the cost or returns of holding positions, encouraging the price of perpetuals to remain close to the underlying asset price.
On MEXC, the funding rate keeps the perpetual futures price anchored to the spot index price.
In general, the rules for funding payments are as follows:
- If the funding rate is positive, long positions pay funding fees while short positions receive funding fees. Conversely, if the funding rate is negative, long positions receive funding fees and short positions pay funding fees.
- Only users holding positions at the funding timestamp are required to pay or receive funding fees. If the position is closed before the funding occurs, there is no need to pay or receive funding fees.
- Funding settlement can run up to 15 seconds late because of batch processing, so a position opened a few seconds after the timestamp, such as at 08:00:05 UTC, may still be included in that settlement. Funding fees are exchanged directly between users, and MEXC Futures does not charge any funding fees.
On most MEXC contracts, funding settles every 8 hours, at 00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC, and some contracts use a different interval, shown by the countdown on the trading page.
Each payment is calculated as funding fee = position value × funding rate.
Example: at a funding rate of 0.01%, a 100,000 USDT long position pays 10 USDT to short holders at that settlement, and it would receive 10 USDT if the rate were -0.01%.
Held through all three settlements of a day at that rate, the same position pays 30 USDT, more than the 20 USDT taker fee it cost to open.
That is why traders who run funding rate arbitrage watch this line more closely than the trading fee.
What Are MEXC Spot Trading Fees?
MEXC spot trading fees are 0.0000% for maker orders on every pair and 0.0500% for taker orders as standard, or 0.0400% with MX deduction, while pairs tagged 0 Fees charge nothing and pairs marked Special Rate follow their own schedule, which can be higher.
Similar to futures, MEXC Spot trading also has two roles: Maker and Taker.
- Maker: A limit order that does not immediately match with existing Maker orders, but is placed in the order book as a pending order waiting to be filled. This adds liquidity to the market.
- Taker: A limit order or market order that directly matches with existing Maker orders, removing liquidity from the market.
On MEXC’s fee schedule, the standard spot rates are 0.0000% for Maker orders and 0.0500% for Taker orders. If the fee page offers MX deduction for your account, switching it on lets MX pay your spot fees at a 20% discount, which cuts the standard Taker fee to 0.0400%.
Some pairs are excluded from MX deduction, and the discount stops once your MX balance runs out.
Pairs tagged 0 Fees charge 0% on both sides while the tag is shown, and MEXC's 0-fee spot campaign does not cover API users, institutional accounts, market makers or project teams.
The quote currency can change the fee: on October 8, 2026, BTC/USDC and ETH/USDC carried the 0 Fees tag, while BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT charged the standard 0.0500% taker fee.
Pairs marked Special Rate run on their own schedule, and some cost more than the standard rate, such as LUNA/USDT at 0.0800% taker and MASS/USDT at 0.2000%.
Example: A user sells BTC worth 100,000 USDT in the BTC/USDT Spot market:
- If executed as a Maker order: Fee = 100,000 × 0.0% = 0 USDT
- If executed as a Taker order: Fee = 100,000 × 0.05% = 50 USDT
With MX deduction switched on, the same Taker order costs 40 USDT.
Note: Fees are charged only on the filled part of an order, so unfilled or canceled orders incur no fees.
What Does It Cost to Deposit and Withdraw on MEXC?
MEXC does not charge to receive crypto deposits or to send crypto to another MEXC user, but on-chain withdrawals carry a fixed network fee that depends on the coin and the chain you pick, with a few free routes such as USDT on Plasma, and the withdrawal page shows the live amount before you confirm.
The fee covers the blockchain's cost of moving your coins, and MEXC can adjust it when a network is congested.
That makes the network your biggest lever on this layer.
On MEXC's fee schedule of October 8, 2026, the same USDT withdrawal costs very different amounts depending on the chain:
Network | Withdrawal fee | Minimum withdrawal |
Plasma | Free | 10 USDT |
Avalanche C-Chain | 0.000074 USDT | 4 USDT |
Polygon | 0.0065 USDT | 5 USDT |
Optimism | 0.0078 USDT | 3 USDT |
BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) | 0.01 USDT | 0.2 USDT |
Conflux eSpace | 0.01 USDT | 1 USDT |
Toncoin (TON) | 0.017 USDT | 8 USDT |
Celo | 0.05 USDT | 2 USDT |
Arbitrum One | 0.05 USDT | 1 USDT |
Ethereum (ERC20) | 0.094 USDT | 8 USDT |
Aptos | 0.1 USDT | 10 USDT |
Solana | 0.18 USDT | 10 USDT |
NEAR Protocol | 0.2 USDT | 2 USDT |
Tron (TRC20) | 0.5 USDT | 2 USDT |
Kaia | 1 USDT | 2 USDT |
Polkadot AssetHub | 1 USDT | 2 USDT |
Withdrawal fees and minimums as shown on MEXC's fee schedule on October 8, 2026, where every network listed charges no deposit fee; network fees change, so check the live figure on the withdrawal page.
A USDT withdrawal over Tron therefore costs 50 times as much as one over BNB Smart Chain, provided the receiving platform supports the cheaper network.
Bitcoin follows the same logic, at 0.00002 BTC on the Bitcoin network and 0.000001 BTC over Lightning on the same schedule.
Check that support before you withdraw, because crypto sent on a network the receiving address does not support may not be credited or recovered.
When you deposit to MEXC, the platform you send from may charge its own withdrawal fee.
Our guide to the crypto exchanges with the lowest withdrawal fees compares these routes across platforms.
Where Can You Check Your MEXC Fee Rate?
You can check MEXC fees on the official Trading Fees page on the web and under Fee Settings in the app, and your own trade history records the rate actually charged on every fill, which settles any doubt when a promotion or regional rate applies.
Once you log in, the top of the fee page shows the maker and taker range for your account and the switch for MX deduction.
MEXC Web
Visit the official MEXC website and go to the Trading Fees page to view detailed information on both Futures and Spot trading fees.
MEXC App
Open the MEXC App, tap the profile icon in the upper-left corner, open User Center and select Fee Settings, which shows current fees and lets you switch on MX deduction.
Note: Fee rates may vary across different countries, regions, and trading pairs. Please refer to the rates displayed on the MEXC Trading Fees page as the standard. When trading on MEXC, always pay attention to any changes in fee rates to better plan your trading costs.
Your Trade History and Funding Records
Your order history shows the fee charged on each fill, and MEXC's fee page points to that record whenever rates vary by event or region.
Funding you paid or received appears on the web under Orders, then Funding Fees, and in the app from the profile icon under Transactions, Futures Orders, then Capital Flow, filtered by Funding Fee.
Our MEXC app download guide explains the Android and iOS installation options.
How Can You Keep Your MEXC Fees Low?
Knowing MEXC's trading fees and funding rates lets you price a strategy accurately and see whether it still works after costs.
Whether in Spot or Futures, mastering fee structures is an important step toward more professional trading.
The two habits that cut MEXC fees most are resting limit orders on the book to pay the 0% maker rate and switching on MX deduction where it is offered. On 500,000 USDT of monthly BTCUSDT futures volume, the gap between all-taker and all-maker execution is 100 USDT a month, or 1,200 USDT a year.
MEXC also runs a rotating 0 Fee Fest campaign that takes selected futures pairs, including some stock contracts, to 0% on both sides for eligible users in selected regions. End times vary by pair, API trading is excluded, and liquidation fees still apply, so check the event page before you count on a 0% rate.
If MEXC is available where you live, the cheapest start is to check the 0 Fees tag on the pairs you trade and place limit orders that pay the 0% maker rate.
The button below is for readers outside the United States, the United Kingdom and the EU and EEA.
Recommended Reading:
- Why Choose MEXC Futures? Gain deeper insight into the advantages and unique features of MEXC Futures to help you stay ahead in the market.
- How to Trade Futures on MEXC App: Complete Beginner's Guide Understand the full process of trading Futures on the app and get started with ease.
- MEXC Review 2026: see how fees fit into a full review of MEXC's products, limits and trade-offs.
- MEXC alternatives, compared honestly: weigh the reasons traders leave MEXC against the reasons they stay.
FAQ
What are MEXC's cryptocurrency exchange fees in 2026?
Spot trading costs 0% maker on every pair and 0.05% taker as standard, and BTCUSDT perpetual futures cost 0% maker and 0.02% taker.
Pairs tagged 0 Fees are free on both sides, while API orders, liquidations and most on-chain withdrawals still carry fees.
What are MEXC futures trading fees?
BTCUSDT charges 0% maker and 0.02% taker, ETHUSDT 0% and 0.01%, standard-tier contracts 0.01% and 0.04%, and the full schedule runs up to 0.04% maker and 0.10% taker.
API orders pay 0.06% maker and 0.08% taker.
What are MEXC spot trading fees?
Every spot pair has a 0% maker fee, and the standard taker fee is 0.05%, or 0.04% with MX deduction.
Pairs tagged 0 Fees charge nothing, while some Special Rate pairs charge more, such as 0.08% on LUNA/USDT.
Does MEXC charge withdrawal fees?
Yes, most on-chain withdrawals pay a fixed network fee set by coin and chain, shown live on the withdrawal page.
On the October 8, 2026 schedule, USDT cost 0.5 USDT on Tron, 0.01 USDT on BNB Smart Chain and nothing on Plasma.
Does MEXC charge deposit fees?
No, MEXC does not charge to receive crypto deposits, and transfers between MEXC users are free.
The platform you send from may still charge its own withdrawal fee.
Does MEXC charge funding fees?
No, funding passes directly between long and short holders, usually every 8 hours, and MEXC takes no share.
When the rate is positive, longs pay shorts.
How can I lower my MEXC trading fees?
Rest limit orders on the book to pay 0% maker, favor pairs tagged 0 Fees, and switch on MX deduction for 20% off where it is offered.
Check the current tags and rates on the MEXC fee page.
Do MEXC API orders pay the same fees as web and app orders?
No, API futures orders follow a separate schedule of 0.06% maker and 0.08% taker since June 1, 2026.
Zero-fee events and MX discounts do not apply to API trading.
Risk Warning and Regional Notice
Perpetual futures and leverage amplify both gains and losses, and positions can be liquidated for the full margin amount.
At 500x, a move of roughly 0.2% against a position can trigger liquidation, so high tiers suit only experienced traders with strict risk controls.
This article is informational for readers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where MEXC may not be available or authorised.
In the EU and EEA, MEXC is not authorized under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).
The Dutch regulator AFM has placed MEXC on its register of non-compliant entities, which ESMA republishes, and readers in those regions should factor this status into any decision.
Nothing here is investment advice, and fees, leverage tiers, and availability change, so confirm current terms on MEXC's official fee page before trading.
Disclaimer: This material does not constitute advice on investments, taxes, legal matters, finance, accounting, consulting, or any other related services, nor is it a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any assets. MEXC Learn provides information for reference only and does not constitute investment advice. Please ensure you fully understand the risks involved and invest cautiously. All investment decisions and outcomes are the sole responsibility of the user.
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