FuturesAI Payback: How to Price Limit vs Market Orders
Short answer: On FuturesAI’s payback page, Bitget’s effective market-order fee is 0.015%. Binance’s effective limit-order fee is 0.018%. So a market order on Bitget can cost less than a limit order on Binance. On $200,000 of fills, an all-limit month costs $10 on Bitget and $36 on Binance. An all-market month costs $30 and $90. Know your order mix before you compare exchanges.
Fee tables list two numbers per exchange, and most people read only one. The order type you use decides which one you pay.
Below is a month of fills priced three ways, plus a rule of thumb for what each shift from limit to market orders adds to the bill. This is fee arithmetic only. It says nothing about whether any trade makes money.
What This Prices
- What are the effective limit and market rates?
- What does a $200,000 month cost on each exchange?
- How much does each shift toward market orders add?
- How do you find your own order mix?
What are the effective limit and market rates on FuturesAI’s payback page?
FuturesAI’s payback page lists effective limit and market fees after discount and payback of 0.005% and 0.015% on Bitget, 0.006% and 0.015% on Gate, 0.016% and 0.04% on OKX, 0.016% and 0.044% on Bybit, and 0.018% and 0.045% on Binance, as read on November 3, 2026.
The page defines the effective rate as the fee left after both the exchange discount and the payback. Paybacks on the page range from 10% on Binance to 70% on Gate, and Bitget’s is paid after UID verification.
When I checked the table, I found that the listed (pre-payback) limit fee is 0.02% on every one of those five exchanges. The spread comes from the market fee and from the payback share, not from the limit fee itself.
| Exchange | Payback | Effective limit | Effective market |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitget | 50% | 0.005% | 0.015% |
| Gate | 70% | 0.006% | 0.015% |
| OKX | 20% | 0.016% | 0.040% |
| Bybit | 20% | 0.016% | 0.044% |
| Binance | 10% | 0.018% | 0.045% |
Rates are from the FuturesAI payback page as of November 3, 2026, which says they match each exchange’s detail page. Your own tier or promotions can differ.
What does a $200,000 month cost on each exchange?
Fills totaling $200,000 of notional in a month cost $10.00 on Bitget, $12.00 on Gate, $32.00 on OKX and Bybit, and $36.00 on Binance if every order is a limit order, and $30.00, $30.00, $80.00, $88.00 and $90.00 if every order is a market order.
The math is notional times effective rate. Take Bybit: $200,000 × 0.016% = $32.00 for limit and $200,000 × 0.044% = $88.00 for market. An opened and closed position is two fills, so $100,000 of positions opened and closed once is $200,000 of notional.
| Exchange | All limit | 70% limit / 30% market | All market |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitget | $10.00 | $16.00 | $30.00 |
| Gate | $12.00 | $17.40 | $30.00 |
| OKX | $32.00 | $46.40 | $80.00 |
| Bybit | $32.00 | $48.80 | $88.00 |
| Binance | $36.00 | $52.20 | $90.00 |
The 70/30 column is an assumed mix picked for the math, not a measured average of anyone’s trading. Replace it with your own.
The row that surprises people is the first versus the last. All-market on Bitget ($30.00) costs less than all-limit on Binance ($36.00).
How much does each shift toward market orders add?
Moving 10 percentage points of $200,000 of fills from limit to market adds $2.00 on Bitget, $1.80 on Gate, $4.80 on OKX, $5.60 on Bybit and $5.40 on Binance, because each exchange’s market-minus-limit rate gap multiplies by the $20,000 that moved.
Take Bybit again. The gap is 0.044% − 0.016% = 0.028%. Times $20,000 is $5.60.
So the shape is simple. Where the gap is wide, order type matters more than the choice of exchange. Where the gap is narrow, it matters less.
Honestly, the dollar amounts at this size are small. They scale with volume. At ten times the notional, the same shifts are ten times larger, and the Bybit shift is $56 per 10 points.
Does an exchange with a 0% maker fee change this? It can, for traders who rarely use market orders. Our crossover guide FuturesAI Payback: When Aster’s 0% Maker Fee Beats It works that one out.
How do you find your own limit and market order mix?
Your own limit and market mix is the share of notional filled as maker versus taker, and you can read it from your exchange’s trade history by tagging each fill as maker or taker and adding up the dollar value of each group.
- Export one month of fills from your futures account.
- Add a column for notional (price × size) for each fill.
- Sum notional for maker fills and for taker fills separately.
- Divide each sum by the total. That is your mix.
- Multiply each share by the effective rates in the first table and add the two results.
Here is where people get tripped up. Stop-loss triggers and liquidations usually fill as market orders even if you only ever place limit orders by hand. Count them.
For a longer view, FuturesAI Payback: Work Out a Year by Trading Style turns monthly fees into a yearly figure, and FuturesAI Payback: Break-Even Win Rate After Fees shows how fees move the win rate you need.
Tips
- Price your last full month of fills before switching exchanges.
- Compare effective rates, not the headline fee.
- Re-check the table when an exchange changes its fee schedule.
Warnings
- Fee savings do not make a losing trade profitable. Futures with leverage can lose the full principal.
- Effective rates depend on completing the payback steps, such as UID verification on Bitget.
- Slippage on market orders is not in these numbers. It comes on top of the fee.
FAQ
Is the effective fee charged on both opening and closing a position?
Yes, exchanges charge the fee on each fill’s notional value, so opening and closing a position are two fills. That is why the worked example counts $100,000 of positions opened and closed once as $200,000 of notional.
Does a market order on a high-payback exchange always beat a limit order elsewhere?
Not always. In the November 3, 2026 table, Bitget’s 0.015% market rate beats Binance’s 0.018% limit rate, but it does not beat Bitget’s own 0.005% limit rate. Compare the exact pair you would actually use.
Where do I see the payback for my own account?
Payback depends on registering through the program, and some exchanges, like Bitget, pay only after UID verification. The payback page lists each exchange’s conditions, so read the note on the row you plan to use.
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Not investment advice. Leverage can lose the full principal. Fees are from the FuturesAI payback page as of November 3, 2026 and may change. The 70/30 mix and the $200,000 monthly notional are assumptions for the math. Fact-checked based on public sources as of November 3, 2026.
