Futures fees are charged on your full leveraged position, not your profit — and funding quietly bills you every 8 hours. Enter your trade below and we'll itemize every dollar: gross profit, entry fee, exit fee, funding, net. Free, no signup, runs in your browser.
We apply this exchange's standard (non-VIP) USDT-perpetual futures fee schedule. Discounts from VIP tiers or token holdings (e.g. BNB) are not included.
Long = you profit when price rises. Direction matters for the funding sign: longs usually PAY funding, shorts usually receive it.
The price your position was opened at (shown on your position card / trade history).
The price you closed at. For partial closes, run the checker per closed chunk.
Your own money in the trade (the collateral). NOT the position size — that's margin × leverage.
Fees are charged on margin × leverage (the notional). This is the #1 reason fees feel huge: at 50× your fee base is 50× your margin.
Market orders fill instantly but pay the higher taker fee. Limit orders that rest in the book pay the lower maker fee (0% on some exchanges).
Take-profit LIMIT orders usually count as maker. Stop-loss and "Close position" buttons are market = taker.
Perpetuals charge funding every 8h (00:00 / 08:00 / 16:00 UTC). Held under 8h and across no funding timestamp? Leave 0.
0.01% is the market default in calm conditions. In hot markets it can spike to 0.1%+ per cycle. Find the exact history on your exchange's funding page.
If you enter this, we'll reconcile our math against reality and flag any unexplained difference (usually extra funding cycles or a worse fill than you think).
MEXC runs 0.000% maker / 0.020% taker standard futures fees — the lowest of any major exchange. Same trade, same leverage, a fraction of the fee bill.
Trade with near-zero fees on MEXC →Referral link — we may earn a commission at no cost to you. Standard rates as published; always verify on the exchange.
1. Fees are charged on the notional, not your margin. $100 margin at 50× = a $5,000 position. A 0.055% taker fee is $2.75 per side — $5.50 round-trip, even though you "only" risked $100. That is 5.5% of your margin gone before price moves at all.
2. Funding bills you every 8 hours. While your long is open, you typically pay ~0.01% of the notional per 8h cycle. Hold that $5,000 position over a weekend (6 cycles) and it's ~$3 — again, charged on the full leveraged size.
3. You paid taker twice without noticing. The "Close position" button and every stop-loss are market orders — the expensive kind. Entering AND exiting with resting limit orders can cut the round-trip cost by more than half, and to zero-maker on some venues.
Use limit orders where the setup allows it, avoid holding leveraged positions across many funding timestamps for no reason, size positions with the fee bill in mind (the checker above shows fees as a % of your gross profit), and — bluntly — trade where fees are lowest. Practice the whole flow risk-free on our Paper Trade terminal, which since 2026 charges realistic simulated fees and funding, so nothing here surprises you with real money.
Fees are a percentage of the notional (position size × price) taken at entry and exit, plus funding every 8 hours the position is open. On leveraged trades these routinely eat 20–40% of a modest profit. Enter your numbers above to see the exact split.
Most common: more funding cycles than you think (check the exact open/close timestamps vs 00:00/08:00/16:00 UTC), a worse average fill than the price shown (slippage on market orders), partial fills where part of a "limit" order executed as taker, or a VIP/discount tier different from the standard rates we assume.
We use each exchange's published standard non-VIP USDT-perpetual rates. If you hold fee-discount tokens, have VIP volume, or used a fee-discount coupon, your real rates are lower — check the fee page of your exchange and adjust mentally.
MEXC: 0.000% maker / 0.020% taker standard. That's why we suggest it above — the same trade simply costs less there.