dYdX fees & measured trading cost
dYdX runs a live order book on-chain, so its advertised fee is only the opening bid — spread and depth decide the real price of a fill. FeeFloor measures dYdX's futures market on BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP, currently $112.43 all-in for $100K BTC futures, ranked against every venue we track. We count only what a market order pays to execute — funding, withdrawals and gas are measured separately.
- Markets measured
- futures
- Assets
- BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP
- Pricing
- on-chain order book
Live verdict · $100K BTC futures · taker
Measured 22:45 UTC · updates every minute
Rank
of 49 venues
Measured cost
fee + spread + slippage
On a $100K trade
what you actually pay
Vs the floor
Lighter sets it at 0.50 bps
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No markup, no paid placement — the ranking above is pure measurement.
Trade on dYdXWhere the cost comes fromat $100K
Fee
5.00 bps
$50.00 on a $100K trade
The published taker fee — the only number most comparison sites show you.
Spread
1.02 bps
$10.24 on a $100K trade
Half the gap between best bid and ask. You pay it the instant your market order fills.
Slippage
5.22 bps
$52.19 on a $100K trade
How far your fill walks down the live order book at this trade size. Grows with size, invisible on fee pages.
What our measurements show
dYdX's rank moves with trade size: #18 of 49 at $10M, but #45 at $100K. Fees are flat — depth is not.
At $100K, dYdX runs 120% above the median venue we track (11.24 bps vs 5.11 bps).
Only 5.00 bps of the 11.24 bps total at $100K is the advertised fee — the rest is spread and slippage the fee page never mentions.
At $10M, slippage alone reaches 17.53 bps — size this venue accordingly.
Patient traders do better here: resting maker orders pay 1.00 bps in fees against the 5.00 bps taker rate — $40.00 back on every $100K filled passively.
Cost by trade size
Fees are flat, but spread and slippage scale with size — so a venue that wins at $10K can be mid-pack at $10M. BTC futures, taker.
| Size | Total cost | In dollars | Vs the floor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10K | 41 | 6.07 bps | $6.07 | +$5.70 vs Lighter |
| $100K | 45 | 11.24 bps | $112.43 | +$107.41 vs Lighter |
| $1M | 39 | 15.93 bps | $1.6K | +$1.4K vs Lighter |
| $10M | 18 | 23.55 bps | $23.6K | +$18.2K vs GMX |
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dYdX: quick answers
What does a $100K BTC trade actually cost on dYdX?
As of 2 August 2026, a $100K BTC futures market order on dYdX costs $112.43 all-in (11.24 bps): 5.00 bps fee, 1.02 bps spread and 5.22 bps slippage. That ranks #45 of 49 venues we measure.
Is dYdX better for small or large orders?
Right now, large orders: dYdX ranks #41 at $10K and #18 at $10M. Fees are flat percentages, but slippage grows with size, so the answer shifts with the venue's live order-book depth.
Does dYdX have hidden costs beyond the trading fee?
Yes — every order-book venue does. On top of the 5.00 bps list fee you pay the live spread (1.02 bps right now) and slippage that grows with order size (5.22 bps at $100K). Neither appears on the fee page, which is exactly why we measure them.
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How FeeFloor measures dYdX
FeeFloor measures dYdX on its futures market for BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP, pricing from the live order book.
The fee component is dYdX’s published standard-tier (VIP0) taker rate; spread and slippage are walked live from its order book at four trade sizes. FeeFloor measures execution cost only — funding, withdrawals, fiat conversion and borrowing are not included.
Regulatory assessment is outside FeeFloor’s scope: we measure execution cost, not whether dYdXis legally available to a given user. Legal-entity and regulatory data are not independently verified by us — see Sources & verification below.
Sources & verification
- Fee schedule (official)
- docs.dydx.xyz · link checked 16 Jul 2026
- Regulatory data
- Not independently verified by FeeFloorFeeFloor measures execution costs and does not determine whether a venue is legally available to a particular user.
- Fee data basis
- Published standard-tier taker rate + live order book · methodology
- FeeFloor market data updated
- 2 Aug 2026, 22:45 UTC
- Source URLs last checked
- 16 Jul 2026 · legal fields pending review
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