Coinbase Advanced Trade (formerly Coinbase Pro) implements a maker-taker fee model designed to reward active and high-volume traders. If you have been using Coinbase's standard interface, switching to Advanced Trade can dramatically reduce your trading costs.
Starting Fee Rates
At the entry level, Coinbase Advanced Trade charges a 0.40% maker fee and a 0.60% taker fee for traders with less than $10,000 in 30-day volume. These rates are higher than Binance's base rates but are still far lower than what standard Coinbase retail users pay.
Fee Reduction by Volume
As your monthly trading volume increases, your fee rates decline. Coinbase Advanced Trade uses a tiered structure where high-volume traders — particularly institutional participants — can achieve maker fees that approach zero. The more you trade, the lower your per-trade cost.
Limit Orders as Maker Orders
On Coinbase Advanced Trade, any limit order that does not execute immediately is treated as a maker order and receives the lower maker fee. A market order is always a taker order. Understanding this distinction allows you to reduce costs on most of your trades by favoring patient limit orders over instant market orders.
Switching from Coinbase's standard interface to Advanced Trade for the same trades can reduce fees by 50% or more for typical retail traders.
Coinbase One Subscription
Coinbase also offers a monthly subscription plan called Coinbase One, which provides zero maker and taker fees on a certain number of trades per month. For traders with moderate activity, this subscription can be cost-effective compared to paying per-trade fees.
Very useful explanation. I switched to Post Only mode on Binance after reading something similar and my monthly fee spend dropped noticeably.
Great breakdown of how maker and taker fees work. Using limit orders has definitely helped me reduce costs.
This is the clearest explanation of the maker-taker model I have come across. The table comparing order types is especially helpful.
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