Crypto.com Fees Overview
- Fees Structure: Crypto.com charges $0.02 to enter a position and another $0.02 to exit for $1 contracts.
- Key Benefit: A balanced trading environment with low fees and high position limits, ensuring fair pricing, strong liquidity, and minimal risk of market manipulation.
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Crypto.com is a legal prediction market app available in 49 U.S. states.
On Crypto.com, users buy and sell contracts tied to real-world outcomes, including sports, politics, weather, and other event markets. Each contract is priced between $0 and $1, and that price reflects how likely the market thinks an outcome is.
Your cost depends on how many contracts you buy and the price you pay for each one. Lower-priced contracts (closer to $0) represent outcomes the market sees as less likely, while higher-priced contracts (closer to $1) represent outcomes seen as more likely.
If your contract wins, it settles at $1. If it loses, it settles at $0. Your profit comes from the gap between the price you paid and the $1 payout on a winning contract.
Crypto.com charges fees when you enter a position and when you close one early. For standard $1 contracts, you'll have to pay $0.02 per contract to buy and another $0.02 per contract to sell, for a total round-trip cost of $0.04.
Crypto.com Pricing & Fees
Pricing on Crypto.com is driven entirely by other traders, with contract values moving as users buy and sell based on how they see the outcome.
Crypto.com charges two types of fees depending on the contract size:
- Exchange Fee (always applies when opening/closing)
- Technology Fee (applies only to $10 and $100 contracts, and only on open/close)
Here’s how the fees break down:
| Action | $1 Contract | $10 Contract | $100 Contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening a position | $0.02 exchange fee | $0.10 exchange fee + $0.10 technology fee | $1.00 exchange + $0.99 tech |
| Closing a position before the game ends | $0.02 exchange fee | $0.10 exchange fee + $0.10 technology fee | $1.00 exchange + $0.99 tech |
| Position settles “in the money” (you were right) | No fees | $0.10 exchange fee only | $1.00 exchange + $0.99 tech |
| Position settles “out of the money” (you were wrong) | No fees; you simply lose your stake | No fees; you simply lose your stake | No fees; you simply lose your stake |
Here's how to interpret the table above:
- For $1 contracts, the percentage cost is usually the lowest. If you buy and hold through settlement, you’re paying about 2% of the max payout. If you open and close the position before the event ends, the effective cost is around 4%.
- For $10 and $100 contracts, the effective take rate typically falls between 3% and 4%. But when a position settles in the money, the fee drops to roughly 1%–2%, which actually makes the larger contracts more efficient than the $1 tier in those cases.
- In both situations, the total cost usually lands at or below what a sportsbook charges per bet, which often sits in the 4%–8% range. The key difference is that Crypto.com prices are set by the market, not by a bookmaker adding a hidden margin.
In short, $1 contracts have the lowest percentage fee most of the time. The only exceptions are when a $10 or $100 contract settles in the money and benefits from that 1%–2% fee, or when you’re trading larger sizes and $1 contracts become impractical because of order book depth and the number of orders needed.
Position Limits
Crypto.com sets limits on the total position size in a single market. This is a standard measure to prevent overexposure and maintain fair and stable trading activity.
Each “Prediction Event” has a maximum cap on the number of open contracts allowed:
- For $1 contracts, the limit is 2,500,000 open positions per event.
- For $10 contracts, the limit is 250,000 open positions per event.
These limits apply to your total exposure across both “Yes” and “No” contracts within the same market.
For most traders, these caps are more than sufficient. They exist to keep markets liquid and ensure that no single user can influence prices or outcomes by holding an outsized position.
How Crypto.com Fees Compare to Other Prediction Markets
Crypto.com fees are broadly in the same range as most other prediction market apps. If you’re looking for lower-cost alternatives, Polymarket, Kalshi, and Novig are more cost-effective options.
Here’s how Crypto.com's fees compare with other prediction market platforms.
| Platform | Fee Model | Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Kalshi | Probability-based maker/taker fee | $0.0007 to $0.0175 per contract for taker orders and $0.000175 to $0.004375 per contract for maker orders |
| Polymarket | Formula-based trading fee | contracts × price × (1 − price). Taker fees range from about $0.0005 to $0.0125 per contract. Maker orders have no fees |
| OG | Flat per-contract fee | $0.02 per contract |
| Novig | No-fee model | No fees |
| Crypto.com | Contract-based fee | $1 contracts: $0.02 to open or close early, with no fee if held to a win. $10 contracts: $0.20 to open or close, reduced to $0.10 on a winning settlement |
| ProphetX | Commission on winnings | 2% commission on winning bets |
| Underdog | Flat per-contract fee | $0.02 per contract |
| Fanatics Markets | Per-contract fee | $0.0034 to $0.02 per contract, depending on contract price |
| Sporttrade | Profit-based commission | 2% on net profit |
| Robinhood | Per-contract fee | $0.02 per contract, with $0.01 paid to Robinhood and $0.01 paid to Kalshi |
| PrizePicks | Per-contract fee | $0.005 to $0.02 per contract |
| FanDuel Predict | Payout-based commission | 2% on potential payout |
| DraftKings Predictions | Flat per-contract fee | $0.02 per contract |
| PredictIt | Profit-based fee | 10% on profits from winning trades |
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