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Crypto Break-Even Price Calculator

Find the price where your crypto trade breaks even after fees.

How it is calculated

A trade breaks even when the money you receive after selling equals the money you spent buying. The tool assumes the same fee on both sides. Break-even = B × (1 + f) / (1 − f), where B is your buy price per coin in dollars and f is the fee as a fraction, so a fee of 0.1% is 0.001. The buy fee raises what you paid to B × (1 + f), and the sell fee means you keep only (1 − f) of the sale, so the sale price must be higher by that factor. The second figure is the gap between break-even and your buy price, in percent. The fee is optional and an empty field counts as 0%; a negative fee, or one of 100% or more, gives no result, and neither does a buy price of zero or less. Prices of $1 and above are shown to the cent; below $1 the tool keeps about six significant figures instead of rounding to $0.00. There is only one fee field, so for different buy and sell rates use the average.

Worked example

You buy one coin at $60,000 and the exchange charges 0.1% on each trade. The buy fee brings your cost to 60,000 × 1.001 = $60,060. The sell fee keeps 99.9% of the proceeds, so the sale price must be 60,060 / 0.999 = $60,120.12. The gap above the buy price is 120.12 / 60,000 = 0.20%. This is about twice the fee, because it is charged once on entry and once on exit. Selling at $60,100 would still be a small loss.

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Common mistakes

  • Entering the fee as a fraction (0.001). The field is a percentage, so 0.001 means 0.001% and the break-even barely moves above your buy price.
  • Entering the round-trip total (0.2%) as the fee. The same rate is applied to the buy and to the sell, so type the per-trade rate once.
  • Ignoring other costs. Spread, slippage, network or withdrawal fees and taxes are not included in the break-even price.
  • Typing a fee of 100 or more, or a negative one. Those give no result; a fee is a share of each trade, below 100%.
  • Treating the figure as a target. Break-even only recovers your costs, and any price move up to it is not profit.

About this calculator

The price at which a crypto trade truly breaks even is higher than the raw buy price, because trading fees are charged on both sides of the trade — once when buying and again when selling. To recover both the original purchase and both sets of fees, the sell price needs to be roughly buy price × (1 + fee%) / (1 − fee%) when the same fee applies on both sides, not simply equal to what was paid.

Traders who ignore the fee-on-both-sides effect often think they're break-even (or even in profit) at a price that's actually still a loss once fees are accounted for, especially on exchanges with higher trading fees or on frequent, smaller trades where fees compound relative to the position size. One fee percentage is applied to both the buy and the sell, so when the two fees differ their average serves as an approximation.

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