OKX vs Bybit fees on a $1,000 trade: what the schedules show, and what they don’t

On the standard, publicly posted fee schedules, OKX’s spot maker fee is cheaper than Bybit’s: 0.08% against 0.10%. On a $1,000 trade that works out to $0.80 on OKX — a figure CoinMarketBox calculated directly in its 3 April 2026 guide — against $1.00 on Bybit’s 0.10% maker rate, a figure this page derives by applying the same arithmetic to Bybit’s published rate, since no source reviewed ran that calculation for Bybit specifically. Taker fees are identical at 0.10% on both exchanges, so a $1,000 market order costs the same $1.00 either way. That answers the fee half of the question. It does not answer the spread half: two of the four sources reviewed here name the bid-ask spread as a real cost that sits outside the fee schedule, but none of the four puts a number on it for either exchange, and for a market order that spread is often what decides the real cost of a trade. The posted fee schedules, side by side Four independent fee-comparison outlets — Yieldo (published 27 March 2026, updated 29 March 2026), DataWallet (last updated 7 June 2026), Coin Bureau (last updated 26 June 2026) and CoinMarketBox (published 3 April 2026) — report matching standard-tier numbers for spot trading: OKX at 0.08% maker and 0.10% taker, Bybit at 0.10% maker and 0.10% taker. On futures, Yieldo, DataWallet and Coin Bureau all report OKX at 0.02% maker and 0.05% taker against Bybit’s 0.02% maker and 0.055% taker; CoinMarketBox independently confirms the OKX side of that pair. ProductBybitOKXSpot maker0.10%0.08%Spot taker0.10%0.10%Futures maker0.02%0.02%Futures taker0.055%0.05%These are the standard, non-VIP retail rates as relayed by the four sites above from each exchange’s own fee page. None of the four is a primary exchange filing; all four are secondary readings of the same public schedule. What a $1,000 spot trade actually costs CoinMarketBox ran the arithmetic directly for OKX in its 3 April 2026 guide: on a $1,000 trade, the maker fee is $0.80 and the taker fee is $1.00. No source reviewed here ran the equivalent calculation for Bybit. This page’s own arithmetic, applying Bybit’s published 0.10% maker rate to the same $1,000 trade, produces $1.00 — the same result as OKX’s taker fee, because the two rates happen to be identical. That $1.00 Bybit figure is this publication’s calculation, not one published by CoinMarketBox or any other source for Bybit specifically. In practice, a $1,000 limit order that adds liquidity costs $0.80 on OKX (per CoinMarketBox) and $1.00 on Bybit (by this page’s arithmetic on Bybit’s published rate); a $1,000 market order that takes liquidity costs $1.00 on either exchange, since both taker rates are 0.10%.