Low fees are one of Kraken’s biggest attractions. All fees are charged on a per-trade basis, apart from the deposit and withdrawal fees. Kraken uses a typical maker-taker fee schedule based on the cryptocurrencies being traded and the volume a user has traded in the previous 30 days.
All trading fees fall into four categories: regular trading fees, stablecoin trading fees, dark pool trading fees, and margin trading fees.
Regular trading fees range from 0.16% for the makers and 0.26% for the takers, but they can be as low as 0.00% (maker) and 0.10% (taker) for users trading more than USD 10,000,000 per month.
Different fees apply to trading pairs involving stablecoins. Here, you pay 0.20% or less (based on 30-day volume) per trade regardless of whether you are on the taker or maker side of the deal. Traders exchanging more than USD 1,000,000 a month in stablecoins do not pay any fees.