Affiliate disclosure
How FeeFloor makes money
Last reviewed July 2026
The short version
When you click through to an exchange from FeeFloor and open an account, the exchange may pay FeeFloor a commission — usually a share of the trading fees you later pay. It costs you nothing extra. In many cases the same link also gives you a fee discount you would not get by signing up directly. That is the entire business model: no ads, no paywall, no selling of your data.
How referral discounts show up
- Where we hold a live referral code, the discounted fee is applied by default and the original list fee is shown struck through, so you can see exactly what the code is worth.
- The referral toggle in the control panel removes every discount at once and shows plain list prices — useful when you want to compare venues on their standard fees.
- A discount is only ever applied to the fee component. Spread and slippage are paid to the market, and no referral code discounts them — we never pretend otherwise.
- We never claim a discount for a link that doesn’t carry a working code. If there’s no code, there’s no struck-through price.
Why this can’t change the rankings
This is the part that matters. The order of the table is computed from measured cost alone — fee plus spread plus slippage, sorted ascending. There is no paid placement, no “sponsored” or “featured” row, and no way for a venue to buy its way up the list. Several venues that rank near the top pay us nothing at all; they’re there because they’re cheap. A venue that pays a generous commission but measures expensive will sit exactly where its cost puts it — near the bottom.
The one place commission could create a conflict is that a discounted fee lowers a venue’s measured cost. That’s not a thumb on the scale — it’s a real discount you actually receive through the link, which is why it belongs in the number. Switch the referral toggle off and you see the undiscounted ranking for yourself.
How links are marked
Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored" so search engines and browsers can identify them as paid links, in line with Google’s guidance and standard disclosure practice. Links to sources, documentation and regulators are ordinary links and earn us nothing.
Not advice, and your own risk
FeeFloor measures what trading costs; it does not tell you whether to trade, or where. Nothing here is financial, investment or tax advice. Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose money — cheap execution doesn’t change that. Trade only what you can afford to lose, and only where it’s legal for you to do so. See the terms for the full disclaimer.
Questions
If anything about how we earn is unclear, ask: contact@feefloor.com. You can read how the rankings are built on the methodology page and who stands behind them on the about page.