Bybit Fee Discount: Which Ways To Lower Trading Fees Actually Work

A Bybit fee discount is not one switch. Four separate levers change what you pay per trade: paying fees with MNT, reaching a higher VIP tier, using maker orders, and claiming a fee rebate on what is left. Some are worth a few minutes of setup; one is out of reach for most retail traders. In this article, Backcom.io checks each lever against Bybit's own pages as at 13 November 2026 and puts a number on every one.

1. What Does Bybit Charge Before Any Discount?

Bybit's base trading fee is what a Regular User pays on the standard fee schedule, and every discount below is measured against it. On USDT perpetual and futures contracts in the Standard Crypto group, the maker fee is 0.02% and the taker fee is 0.055%. On spot crypto pairs both sides are 0.1%.

Reference rates from the official Bybit fee schedule as at 13 November 2026. Bybit reviews fee groups regularly and says changes are announced at least one week in advance, so check the page before relying on them.

A maker fee applies when your order adds liquidity to the order book, such as a limit order that does not fill at once. A taker fee applies when it removes liquidity, such as a market order. The gap is the first thing to understand, because it decides how much room every other discount has. Our guide to maker vs taker fees in crypto covers the mechanics in more depth.

Other product groups carry different rates. The schedule lists separate columns for TradFi perpetuals, the Innovation Zone and pre-listing contracts, so confirm the group of the contract you trade. For a side-by-side with another exchange, see our Binance vs Bybit comparison.

2. Bybit Pay Fees With MNT: How Much Does The Discount Save?

Paying fees with MNT, the native token of the Mantle ecosystem, gives a fixed discount: 25% on spot and 10% on futures, applied on top of your existing VIP rate, according to Bybit's MNT fee FAQ. It is the quickest of the four ways because it needs no volume and no waiting period, and it is the first setting to check if you want Bybit to reduce trading fees today.

With the discount on, a Regular User pays 0.075% on both sides of a spot trade, and 0.018% maker / 0.0495% taker on standard futures. A VIP 1 user pays 0.036% taker on futures instead of 0.04%.

Worked example (futures). Open and close a $10,000 USDT perpetual position with market orders. At 0.055% taker, each side costs $5.50, so the round trip is $11.00. With the MNT discount the same trade costs $9.90, a saving of $1.10. Spot is more generous: a $10,000 taker buy at 0.1% costs $10, and at 0.075% it costs $7.50.

The conditions matter more than the headline percentage:

• Only MNT in your Unified Trading Account can pay fees. MNT held elsewhere does not count.
• The setting is switched on separately for spot and for futures, and separately for the main account and each sub-account.
• If your MNT balance cannot cover the fee, the standard fee is charged for that order.
• The discount is not available for Pro-tier users, Market Makers, institutions or API orders. It also excludes liquidation orders, Trading Bot orders, Copy Trading followers and RFQ trades, and inverse contracts are not supported.

On the website, open the trading page, click Fee Rate and turn on "Using MNT for fee discount". In the app, use the three-dot icon on the trading page. Then confirm it works:

• Check the Fee Rate panel on the trading page for the rate your next order will use.
• Open Trade History and Order History after a fill, where Bybit shows the fee paid in MNT.
• Watch the MNT balance in your Unified Trading Account, since an empty balance silently returns you to standard fees.

Holding MNT is a price exposure of its own, so keep only what your fees need. The discount is not a reason to hold the token.

3. Bybit Fee Tiers VIP: Which Levels Can A Retail Trader Reach?

A Bybit VIP level is a fee tier you earn by meeting just one criterion, as set out on Bybit's VIP programme page. The main criteria are asset balance, 30-day spot volume and 30-day derivatives volume, and the page adds options, structured products and net borrowing. Bybit assigns the highest tier you qualify for, so you never need to meet every one.

Thresholds from Bybit's VIP programme page, last updated 23 October 2026; fee rates from the fee schedule dated 13 November 2026.

Read the thresholds against your own numbers. VIP 1 means either $100,000 sitting in your account or $10 million of derivatives volume in 30 days. A trader who opens and closes $50,000 positions needs about 100 round trips (each counts $100,000 of volume) just to qualify. Most retail accounts will not reach it, and chasing volume to cut a fee only raises the fees you pay in total.

A few rules from the same page help if you are close:

1. Volume counts across your main account and sub-accounts.
2. Funding fees do not count toward trading volume.
3. Your level is recalculated daily at 07:00 UTC, and the new rates show in your account within about five minutes.
4. Tiers VIP 4 and above, and Supreme VIP, add a limit on API trading volume (20% or less), and Supreme VIP is by invitation on the fee schedule.

The saving between tiers is modest. Moving from Regular to VIP 1 trims taker futures fees from 0.055% to 0.04%, which is $1.50 less per side on a $10,000 market order. Treat VIP as a by-product of trading at scale, not a goal. Our guide to funding rates explains the other recurring cost that VIP status does not touch.

4. Is There A Bybit Maker Fee Discount For Limit Orders?

There is no separate Bybit maker fee discount, but using maker orders lowers your fees because the maker rate is lower than the taker rate on every tier. On standard futures, a Regular User pays 0.02% as maker and 0.055% as taker, so a maker fill costs roughly 64% less per side.

Take the same $10,000 round trip. With limit orders that rest on the book and fill as maker on both sides, the cost is $4.00, against $11.00 with two market orders. Add the MNT discount and it falls to $3.60. That is a bigger saving than any VIP step a retail trader can reach.

There is a catch. A limit order that fills instantly is charged as a taker order, because it removes liquidity. A resting order may also never fill, and in a fast market you can miss the move while waiting. Match the order type to the job:

• Use limit (maker) orders for scaling into a position, taking profit at a set level, or entering when the price is flexible.
• Use market (taker) orders only when speed matters more than the fee, such as exiting a position that is moving against you.
• Avoid chasing a fill: moving a limit order to the best price so it fills at once turns it into a taker order.

For stops, a market order is the safer choice, because a stop that does not fill defeats its purpose. Plan the extra taker fee into your liquidation and risk calculations instead of trying to save on it.

5. How Does A Bybit Fee Rebate Work Next To These Discounts?

A Bybit fee rebate returns a share of the fees you actually paid, after the trade, instead of lowering the fee at the point of execution. That makes it a different kind of lever from MNT, VIP and maker orders. The three discounts change the fee charged. A rebate pays a portion back.

On the Bybit Rebates page, the listed rate is 50% of fees on spot and futures, with the rebate paid every Monday and no minimum volume or time limit. To be eligible, you register a new Bybit account through the link on our exchange page, link your account UID in our app, and link each sub-account you trade from separately. An account you already hold usually cannot be linked retroactively, so ask support before assuming it can.

Whether a rebate adds to the MNT discount is not stated on either page, so do not assume the two stack. Check the credited amount in your own account after the first Monday payout. Rebates reduce the cost of trading; they do not turn a losing strategy into a profitable one, and they are no reason to trade more often. You can read the current terms on the Bybit rebate page.

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Conclusion: Where The Real Savings Are

The real Bybit fee discount comes from stacking small, reliable levers. Switch maker orders on where you can, enable the MNT discount if you are happy to hold the token, and leave VIP as a by-product of your volume. A rebate then reduces the cost of what remains. Check the official Bybit fee schedule before each change, because rates move. For the wider picture on safety and platform checks, read our Bybit review and the crypto exchange rebate comparison.

Disclaimer: This content is compiled by Backcom.io for information only and is not investment advice. Crypto trading carries a high risk of loss, and fee rates, discounts and rebate terms can change; check the current terms before you trade.