Paradex fees & measured trading cost

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Paradex 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 Paradex's futures market on BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP, currently $68.70 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 20:05 UTC · updates every minute

Rank

#38

of 49 venues

Measured cost

6.87 bps

fee + spread + slippage

On a $100K trade

$68.70

what you actually pay

Vs the floor

+$62.69

Lighter sets it at 0.60 bps

No markup, no paid placement — the ranking above is pure measurement.

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Where the cost comes fromat $100K

Fee

0.00 bps

$0.00 on a $100K trade

The published taker fee — the only number most comparison sites show you.

Spread

3.51 bps

$35.05 on a $100K trade

Half the gap between best bid and ask. You pay it the instant your market order fills.

Slippage

3.36 bps

$33.65 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

Paradex's rank moves with trade size: #5 of 49 at $10K, but #47 at $1M. Fees are flat — depth is not.

At $100K, Paradex runs 38% above the median venue we track (6.87 bps vs 4.99 bps).

Only 0.00 bps of the 6.87 bps total at $100K is the advertised fee — the rest is spread and slippage the fee page never mentions.

At $10M the book genuinely runs out — the venue can't fill that size within 2% of mid, so treat it as a smaller-order venue.

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	Rank	Total cost	In dollars	Vs the floor
$10K	5	3.11 bps	$3.11	+$2.57 vs Lighter
$100K	38	6.87 bps	$68.70	+$62.69 vs Lighter
$1M	47	44.59 bps	$4.5K	depth-limited
$10M	45	44.96 bps	$45.0K	depth-limited

Cheaper right now$100K BTC futures

Crypto.com6.66 bps−$2.09vs

Phemex6.32 bps−$5.51vs

Ostium6.19 bps−$6.77vs

Paradex: quick answers

What does a $100K BTC trade actually cost on Paradex?

As of 2 August 2026, a $100K BTC futures market order on Paradex costs $68.70 all-in (6.87 bps): 0.00 bps fee, 3.51 bps spread and 3.36 bps slippage. That ranks #38 of 49 venues we measure.

Is Paradex better for small or large orders?

Right now, small orders: Paradex ranks #5 at $10K and #45 at $10M. Fees are flat percentages, but slippage grows with size, so the answer shifts with the venue's live order-book depth.

Does Paradex have hidden costs beyond the trading fee?

Yes — every order-book venue does. On top of the 0.00 bps list fee you pay the live spread (3.51 bps right now) and slippage that grows with order size (3.36 bps at $100K). Neither appears on the fee page, which is exactly why we measure them.

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