Grid Bot Fee Calculator
A grid bot earns the spacing between levels and pays fees on both legs of every cycle. If the step is too tight, the bot trades busily and loses money. Set your exchange, grid step and fill mix below to see your round-trip cost, your break-even step, and what changes with a rebate — the full math is in the grid bot fee guide.
Assumes each completed cycle buys and sells the same notional, so the round trip costs two per-side fees. Standard non-VIP futures rates. The rebate tier follows your monthly volume — up to 50% on Bybit, up to 40% on OKX and Bitget.
Without a rebate you overpay about — a year.
Cut your break-even step by up to half
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Why grid bots are the most fee-sensitive strategy
A swing trader pays the round trip once per idea. A grid bot pays it on every completed cycle, all day — so the fee is not a cost on top of the strategy, it is a term inside it. With maker fills at 0.02% per side, the round trip is 0.04%: a 0.25% step keeps most of its edge, but a 0.1% step hands 40% of gross profit to fees. Tighten the grid further and the bot crosses break-even into guaranteed loss while looking busy the whole time.
What the rebate does to the break-even
The rebate refunds a share of every fee the bot pays, so it lowers the effective round trip and with it the break-even step. At a 40% rebate a 0.04% maker round trip becomes 0.024%; at the 50% tier it is 0.02% — half. That widens the range of viable grid spacings and matters most exactly where grid traders operate: tight steps in ranging markets. Grids whose spacing sits between the two break-evens are unprofitable without the rebate and profitable with it.
Keep your fills maker
Grid orders are resting limit orders, so most fills are maker at 0.02% — but stop triggers, rebalances and manual exits cross the spread as taker at 0.05–0.06% per side, roughly three times the cost. The slider above shows how quickly a taker share moves your round trip; keeping the bot's housekeeping to a minimum is worth almost as much as the rebate itself.
August 15, 2026 — published. Fee rates follow the exchange fee schedules as verified June 11, 2026; rebate tiers match the live Rebatly tier table.
FAQ
Does the rebate change the fee rate my exchange shows?
No. The exchange charges its normal fee and reports it as usual. The rebate is paid back separately in USDT — calculated daily and sent to your exchange account the next day, usually between 04:00 and 12:00 UTC.
Do maker fills qualify for the rebate?
Yes. Every fee-bearing trade qualifies — maker and taker, futures, spot and options — each at its own rate. For a grid bot that is effectively every fill it makes.
Which exchange is cheapest for grid bots?
All three charge 0.02% maker on futures, so maker-only grids cost the same up front. The differences are the taker rate (OKX 0.05%, Bybit 0.055%, Bitget 0.06%) and the rebate ceiling — up to 50% on Bybit against up to 40% on OKX and Bitget — which makes Bybit the lowest effective round trip for most grid setups.
Does grid bot volume count toward the rebate tiers?
Yes — tiers are based on your total monthly volume, and grid bots generate a lot of it. On Bybit the standard 40% rises to 45% above $50M and 50% above $150M of monthly volume, automatically.
What if a day's rebate is less than 1 USDT?
It carries over. The minimum payout is 1 USDT; smaller amounts accumulate on your rebate balance and go out with the next daily payout once the total reaches 1 USDT.