MEXC Fees Explained: What You Pay, Why, and How to Pay Less

MEXC fees at a glance

Rates for a regular account. Pairs tagged 0 Fees cost nothing, and oil futures charge takers 0.01%. Paying your fees in MX, MEXC’s own token, takes 20% off spot and USDT futures fees. Holding a futures position through a funding time adds a funding payment, which goes to or comes from other traders, never MEXC.

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Maker or taker: which fee you pay

A market order fills immediately against orders already waiting in the order book. It takes liquidity out of the order book, so you pay the taker fee.

A limit order that goes into the order book and waits adds liquidity, and when another trader fills it, you pay the maker fee. MEXC’s fee page gives an example: with the best ask at 100 USDT, a buy order at 99 USDT enters the order book and pays the maker fee once it fills. On MEXC the maker fee is 0.00% on almost every spot pair and on most futures, so a limit order that waits on the book usually costs nothing.

A limit order priced so that it matches orders already on the book fills at once, and MEXC counts it as a taker order. Our maker vs taker guide has a section on when a limit order pays the taker fee.

MEXC spot fees

On spot you buy the coin itself, and it’s yours. On MEXC’s standard pairs, BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT among them, a regular account pays 0.00% as a maker and 0.05% as a taker.

Buy $1,000 of Bitcoin with a market order and the fee is 50 cents. Sell it again at the same price and you pay another 50 cents, $1 for the round trip. With limit orders that wait on the book, both sides cost nothing.

Binance and Bybit, for comparison, take 0.1% from a regular account as a maker and as a taker, so MEXC’s standard spot rates are lower on both sides. Some exchanges ask much more of a new account: Kraken Pro charges 0.4% as a maker and 0.8% as a taker, and Coinbase Exchange charges 0.4% and 0.6%.

Special Rate pairs cost more

Most spot pairs don’t pay the standard rate. MEXC tags them “Special Rate”, which its fee page defines as a rate “where the user’s actual fee differs from the standard base rate”. On 18 October 2026, 1,101 of MEXC’s 1,471 USDT spot pairs charged takers 0.08% and 182 charged 0.2%, while 184 charged the standard 0.05%. Smaller coins such as LUNA/USDT (0.08%) and MASS/USDT (0.2%) are in these groups, and so are tokenized stocks such as NVDAX/USDT. Makers still pay 0.00% on them. A $1,000 market buy on a 0.08% pair costs 80 cents instead of 50.

MEXC’s fee page also says its displayed rate “applies to the majority of trading pairs for the user”. On spot, that standard rate applied to 184 of the 1,471 USDT pairs.

The list of pairs on the fee page is easy to misread as well. It shows the price with MEXC’s 20% MX discount as the main figure and crosses out the price you pay without MX, so the full price looks like an old one. On BTC/USDT the list shows a taker fee of 0.04% beside a crossed-out 0.05%. You only pay 0.04% if you pay your fees in MX, MEXC’s own token. Otherwise you pay 0.05%.

0 Fees pairs

Pairs tagged “0 Fees” cost nothing for makers or takers. On 18 October 2026 that was XRP/USDT, three stablecoin pairs against USDT and 224 pairs traded against USDC, BTC/USDC and ETH/USDC among them. So BTC/USDC cost nothing to trade that day, while BTC/USDT charged takers 0.05%. MEXC says its zero-fee campaign doesn’t cover API users, institutional accounts, market makers or project teams.

MEXC futures fees

MEXC’s futures are perpetual contracts, perps for short. You trade a contract that tracks a coin’s price instead of the coin itself, so there’s no coin to withdraw. You can go long (bet on a rise) or short (bet on a fall), and leverage lets you trade a bigger position than the money you put in.

On Bitcoin and most other USDT perpetuals, a regular account pays 0.00% as a maker and 0.02% as a taker. The taker rate is lower than on spot, but leverage makes the fee much bigger.

Why leverage makes futures fees bigger

MEXC charges the futures fee on the value of the whole position. In its own example, a 100,000 USDT position on BTCUSDT pays 20 USDT as a taker, 0.02% of 100,000.

Put $1,000 of your own money into a trade at 10x and your position is $10,000. A market order costs $2 to open it and another $2 to close it, because the fee is charged on the full $10,000, not on your $1,000. That $4 round trip is 0.4% of your own money. On spot, buying and selling $1,000 costs $1.

Use limit orders that wait on the book for both sides and the round trip costs nothing at the 0.00% maker rate. Repeat the trade 20 times in a month and the fees add up to $80 with market orders, or nothing with limit orders.

Opening and closing are charged separately

MEXC’s fee guide says “Fees apply to both the opening and the closing trade”. Each side pays the rate of its own order, so a limit order to open the $10,000 position and a market order to close it cost $0 and $2. MEXC charges only the filled part of an order, so orders that never fill and orders you cancel cost nothing.

Funding fees on perpetual futures

Holding a perpetual contract also means funding: at set times, money moves between the traders who are long and those who are short. It doesn’t go to MEXC. Its fee guide says funding is exchanged directly between users and that MEXC Futures does not charge any funding fees. It’s money paid or received in addition to your trading fees.

• Longs pay shorts: if the funding rate is positive, long positions pay short positions. Hold a long position worth $10,000 while the rate is +0.01%, and at the funding time you pay $1, which goes to the short positions.
• Shorts pay longs: if the funding rate is negative, short positions pay long positions. At -0.01%, a short position worth $10,000 pays $1 to the long positions at the funding time.
• When: most contracts settle every 8 hours, at 00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC, BTCUSDT among them. Some contracts use a different interval, and MEXC announces changes contract by contract.
• How much: the position value times the funding rate. On BTCUSDT the rate can’t go beyond 0.18% either way.
• Only open positions count: only positions held at the settlement time pay or receive funding.

Three kinds of futures rates

MEXC’s futures list mixes three kinds of rates, and the labels don’t match what most pairs charge.

• Standard: MEXC calls 0.01% maker and 0.04% taker its standard futures rate. On 18 October 2026, 62 of its 1,085 USDT perpetuals charged it, MNT/USDT among them. On the $10,000 position, a market order there costs $4 each way and a limit order $1.
• Special Rate: Bitcoin and most other perpetuals carry a Special Rate of 0.00% maker and 0.02% taker, 896 of the 1,085 on the same day. Most trades pay this rate, so this guide and TradeGetPaid’s tables use it.
• 0 Fees: 103 perpetuals cost nothing, DOGE/USDT among them. MEXC grants this rate per account after its own regular reviews, each time for a set period, and on some pairs only up to a trading volume limit. Once the limit is used up, the pair goes back to the standard fee.

A few pairs fall outside the three. Ether, Solana and oil charge 0% and 0.01%, and on 18 October 20 small new coins charged 0.04% and 0.1%. The Futures Trading Fee tab of the fee page shows each pair’s rate and tag, so check it before you trade a smaller coin.

Stocks, gold, oil and prediction markets on MEXC

MEXC also lists futures on traditional markets, real US shares and prediction markets.

• Stock and index futures, such as Tesla or the S&P 500, are USDT perpetuals that follow the price, and you never own the share. They cost 0.00% for makers and 0.02% for takers, the same as Bitcoin, and they trade around the clock.
• Gold futures cost 0.00% and 0.02% too. Oil futures, WTI and Brent, are cheaper for takers, at 0.01%.
• RealStocks are real US shares that you buy with USDT, through a broker regulated by FINRA. MEXC charges no commission and no platform fee on them, in a promotion with no end date announced yet. They trade during US market hours, 9:30 to 16:00 Eastern Time, Monday to Friday.
• Prediction markets let you buy YES or NO shares on the outcome of real-world events. They launched in March 2026 with zero fees for a limited time. The live markets we read on 18 and 20 October 2026 charged makers 0% and takers 1.5%, with no settlement fee, although MEXC’s beginner’s guide from September 2026 still says the beta will launch with zero fees. MEXC’s pages don’t say what the 1.5% is charged on, and the markets aren’t available in some countries and regions.

How to pay less on MEXC

1. Trade as a maker. A limit order that waits on the book pays 0.00% on most futures and almost every spot pair. On the $10,000 position from earlier, that saves $2 on each side.
2. Check the pair’s rate before you trade. A Special Rate spot pair can charge takers 0.08% or 0.2%, and a futures pair at MEXC’s standard rate charges them 0.04%. A pair tagged 0 Fees, such as BTC/USDC on spot, costs nothing.
3. Pay your fees in MX. Paying fees in MX takes 20% off on spot and USDT futures: the spot taker fee goes from 0.05% to 0.04%, and the BTCUSDT taker fee from 0.02% to 0.016%. For futures, the MX has to be in your futures account. Some pairs are left out, and fees paid with a bonus get no discount.
4. Size positions with fees in mind. At 20x, $1,000 of your own money opens a $20,000 position, and a market order costs $4 on each side instead of $2.
5. Look at funding before you hold a position for days. Each settlement where your side pays costs money on top of the trading fees.
6. Claim cashback on what you still pay, as the next section shows.

MEXC also has VIP levels, called Alpha Trader since April 2026. The first level, A1, needs 10,000,000 USDT of monthly trading volume on pairs that aren’t zero-fee, or 30,000,000 USDT on zero-fee pairs. The Alpha Trader page also asks for an M-Score of 800 or more. MEXC doesn’t publish the fees for any level: logged out, the Alpha Trader page shows “No Data” in its fee columns.

MEXC fees after cashback

Sign up through TradeGetPaid and 20% of the trading fees you pay MEXC on spot, futures and prediction markets comes back to you, at every VIP level. You pay MEXC its normal rates, and 20% of those fees is returned to you.

On futures, 20% back takes the taker fee from 0.02% to an effective 0.016%, and makers already pay 0.00%. On standard spot pairs, the taker fee of 0.05% turns into 0.04%. Take the $10,000 round trip with market orders again: it costs $4, and with TradeGetPaid it’s $3.20, 80 cents back.

For a trader who uses market orders on futures, a month works out like this at the 0.02% taker rate:

$25 million and $100 million a month would reach Alpha Trader levels, whose fees MEXC doesn’t publish, so the table keeps the regular taker rate for every row. Whatever rate you pay, 20% of it comes back.

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Fees change, so check your own rate on MEXC’s fee page before you trade. Official sources: fee page, fees explained, MX fee discounts, zero-fee pairs, Alpha Trader, prediction markets.

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