OKX VIP levels: fee tiers and requirements
assets or 30-day volume, two routes up
VIP 1–9 at a glance
Two points to get straight first. One: OKX has no "Lv.0 to Lv.4" pre-VIP tiers — on the official fee page, the step above regular user is VIP 1, with nothing in between. Two: tiers are not worked out by adding your spot and futures volume together. Under OKX's published fee rules, volume in spot and in futures is assessed separately, alongside account assets; whichever is the highest tier you qualify for then applies across all trading types. So "trade a bit more spot to top up my futures volume" doesn't work — but the reverse is true too: hit the bar on one line and the benefit lands on everything.
The bars below scale each tier's 30-day spot volume threshold so you can see roughly where you sit:
Note: the bars above are the spot line's 30-day volume thresholds; the futures line runs on its own set (see below). Figures checked against OKX's fee page in October 2026; OKX adjusts them from time to time, so go by the "Fees" page you see once logged in. Bar lengths are illustrative, not to scale.
What this page answers
Three questions: do I qualify for VIP 1, what is the fee at each tier, and is it worth adding trades to reach the next one? Both official tables come first, then the arithmetic, so you can judge where you sit and whether the next tier is worth any effort at all.
Full spot fee table: regular user to VIP 9
Start with the spot line. The two threshold columns are an "or": meet the asset bar or the 30-day spot volume bar and you are on that tier.
| Tier | Assets (USD) | or 30-day spot vol. | Maker | Taker | 24h withdrawal cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular user | < $100K | < $1M | 0.080% | 0.100% | $10M |
| VIP 1 | ≥ $100K | ≥ $1M | 0.0675% | 0.080% | $20M |
| VIP 2 | ≥ $200K | ≥ $5M | 0.060% | 0.070% | $24M |
| VIP 3 | ≥ $2M | ≥ $10M | 0.055% | 0.065% | $32M |
| VIP 4 | ≥ $5M | ≥ $20M | 0.030% | 0.045% | $40M |
| VIP 5 | ≥ $20M | ≥ $100M | 0.025% | 0.035% | $48M |
| VIP 6 | ≥ $50M | ≥ $200M | 0.000% | 0.030% | $60M |
| VIP 7 | ≥ $100M | ≥ $500M | -0.001% | 0.023% | $72M |
| VIP 8 | ≥ $250M | ≥ $1B | -0.0025% | 0.020% | $80M |
| VIP 9 | ≥ $500M | ≥ $5B | -0.005% | 0.015% | $80M |
Checked against OKX's fee page in October 2026; tiers are updated daily between 04:00 and 06:00 (UTC+8) and set your fees from then on. Assets are snapshotted daily at 00:00 (UTC+8) across your trading, funding and earn accounts, borrowed assets excluded, and the higher of that daily snapshot and your 30-day average is used. If you reach different tiers in different trading types, you get the highest of them across all. OKX reprices from time to time, so before you trade, go by the tier your own fee page shows once you're logged in.
Note that Maker fees turn negative from VIP 7 up — a resting limit order that fills actually pays you a slice back. That is the working environment of top-tier market makers; retail effectively never gets there.
Full futures fee table: perpetuals and dated
Futures is a separately assessed business line: the asset thresholds match the spot table, but the volume thresholds are different (futures counts notional, and the bars are set higher) and so are the fees. Qualify on either line and every trading type you use runs at the highest tier you reached.
| Tier | Assets (USD) | or 30-day futures vol. | Maker | Taker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular user | < $100K | < $5M | 0.020% | 0.050% |
| VIP 1 | ≥ $100K | ≥ $5M | 0.016% | 0.045% |
| VIP 2 | ≥ $200K | ≥ $10M | 0.015% | 0.036% |
| VIP 3 | ≥ $2M | ≥ $50M | 0.010% | 0.028% |
| VIP 4 | ≥ $5M | ≥ $200M | 0.008% | 0.027% |
| VIP 5 | ≥ $20M | ≥ $600M | 0.005% | 0.026% |
| VIP 6 | ≥ $50M | ≥ $1B | 0.000% | 0.025% |
| VIP 7 | ≥ $100M | ≥ $1.5B | -0.001% | 0.023% |
| VIP 8 | ≥ $250M | ≥ $2B | -0.0025% | 0.020% |
| VIP 9 | ≥ $500M | ≥ $20B | -0.005% | 0.015% |
Checked against OKX's fee page in October 2026; tiers refresh daily between 04:00 and 06:00 (UTC+8). One point that actually matters for retail: the futures VIP 1 bar reads $5M over 30 days, five times the spot line's $1M — but futures counts leveraged notional. At 10× leverage, a single $50K-margin position is $500K of notional, and a few round trips in a month stack up fast. The bigger number isn't necessarily the harder one to reach.
Promotion maths: what tier each monthly turnover buys
The practical question isn't "what does VIP 9 look like" but "I turn over a steady $50K a month, what tier does that get me?" Here are the brackets. All of the below assumes pure spot and assets under $100K; if your balance clears the bar, see the "two routes" section further down.
$50K monthly turnover → still a regular user
The first gate on the spot line is VIP 1's $1M, and there is nothing in between. $50K is 20× short of it, so you are a regular user on 0.100% Taker, roughly $50 of fees a month.
$100K monthly turnover → still a regular user
Doubling it still leaves you 10× short, and the rate doesn't move a basis point: about $100 a month at 0.100% Taker.
$300K monthly turnover → still a regular user
Nothing kicks in by here either — you are still more than two thirds short of VIP 1's $1M. The other route is actually closer: get account assets to $100K and you are VIP 1 without trading at all.
$1M monthly turnover → VIP 1
This is the real watershed on the spot line. $1M of 30-day spot volume qualifies, Taker drops from 0.100% to 0.080% and Maker from 0.080% to 0.0675%. At a 70% Taker / 30% Maker mix, that saves about $177.5 a month (see the break-even section below), roughly $2,130 a year — no longer trivial for a retail account.
$5M monthly turnover → VIP 2
$5M of 30-day spot volume takes Taker to 0.070%. Against a regular user that's about $1,500 a month; against VIP 1 it's only another $500.
Key observations
- There is no tier discount at all below VIP 1 — OKX has no "Lv.1 / Lv.2" pre-VIP tiers. You are either a regular user or already VIP 1;
- VIP 1 to VIP 3 saves from under $200 to a few thousand a month at the turnovers above; VIP 4 and up asks for $20M or more of monthly spot volume, far beyond an individual's normal trading;
- Futures notional stacks up faster than spot — at 5× leverage, $200K of margin is $1M of notional. But it only counts on the futures line and won't fill a gap on spot; once you clear a tier on futures, that same tier applies to your spot trading too.
Volume path vs. asset path: two routes to a tier
Path A: 30-day trading volume
This is the mainstream path. OKX rolls a daily 30-day window over your volume, but spot and futures are counted separately and never summed; whichever line clears the higher bar first sets your tier, and that tier then applies to every trading type you use. Dropping back works the same way, reassessed per line. The futures line counts notional, not margin.
Key point: the notional measure is far kinder to futures. A $1,000 margin position at 10× leverage counts as $10,000 of volume. That means active futures traders tend to clear a tier on the futures line first and carry it over to spot: qualify on one line, benefit everywhere.
Path B: account assets
Keep $100,000 on the account and you have VIP 1; $200,000 gets VIP 2. This is the "couch path" — no trading needed, the balance does it. Two details on how it's measured (OKX fee page, October 2026): the asset figure is the higher of the daily 00:00 (UTC+8) snapshot of your trading, funding and earn accounts and your 30-day average, so whichever of a short-term peak or your longer-run level favours you is the one that counts; and borrowed assets don't count, which closes off the idea of borrowing to inflate the balance.
Risk warning: holding $100,000+ long-term on a CEX goes against keeping long-term holdings in self-custody (see Is OKX safe?). Weighing the VIP fee discount against long-term CEX exposure, in most cases it is not worth it. Unless you genuinely high-frequency-trade, do not lock funds on an exchange for a VIP tier.
$100K of 30-day turnover: what you actually save
Working the published fee schedule through $100K of monthly turnover makes the trade-off concrete. Take a representative 30-day mix:
Spot volume $30K: $20K as Taker, $10K as Maker
Perpetual futures notional $70K: $50K as Taker, $20K as Maker
Two account tiers compared (the VIP 1 line is hypothetical — $100K of monthly turnover is nowhere near VIP 1 on its own, unless you're on the asset path with $100K in the account):
Regular user: spot Taker 0.100% × $20K + spot Maker 0.080% × $10K + futures Taker 0.050% × $50K + futures Maker 0.020% × $20K = $20 + $8 + $25 + $4 = $57
VIP 1: 0.080% × $20K + 0.0675% × $10K + 0.045% × $50K + 0.016% × $20K = $16 + $6.75 + $22.5 + $3.2 = $48.45
Conclusion: at this turnover the tier is worth about $8.55 a month, and only if you already qualify through assets. For a regular user at this size, order type (Maker vs Taker) and not over-trading move the bill more than the tier does.
Regular user to VIP 1: where the break-even sits
Say your natural 30-day spot turnover is $500K, half of what VIP 1 asks for. You could grind the volume up and get there — but is that extra $500K worth paying for? Here's the arithmetic, using a blended rate built from a 70% Taker / 30% Maker execution mix.
Regular user, blended: 0.7 × 0.100% + 0.3 × 0.080% = 0.094%
VIP 1, blended: 0.7 × 0.080% + 0.3 × 0.0675% = 0.07625%
Difference: 0.01775%, call it 0.018%
What the extra $500K actually costs:
a. That second half gets charged at the regular rate on the way up: $500K × 0.094% = $470 (volume added purely to promote)
b. Once promoted, the following month's full $1M runs at VIP 1: $1M × 0.01775% = $177.5 saved
c. Net: $470 − $177.5 = $292.5 out of pocket
Conclusion: if you're adding volume purely to promote, going from regular user to VIP 1 costs about $292.5 a month net — around $3,510 over a year. You do get the cheaper rate; you just pay more than twice the saving to obtain it. Unless your trading needs already sit near the threshold and get you there without any deliberate padding, forcing the climb is a losing trade.
When chasing VIP is worth it
Worth it
- You're a professional or semi-professional trader whose monthly spot turnover is already brushing $1M (or futures notional brushing $5M) without any padding.
- You run cross-venue arbitrage, where every 0.01% of fee difference feeds straight into strategy returns.
- You're a market maker — though note the Maker fee doesn't turn negative (paying you instead of charging you) until VIP 7, which is well past individual trading sizes.
Not worth it
- You're an ordinary investor or DCA-er — a year's turnover might be $50K–$100K, an order of magnitude away from any VIP tier.
- You'd pad volume deliberately to promote — on the break-even above, padding the missing $500K costs about $470 in fees while VIP 1 then saves about $177.5 a month.
- You'd park coins on OKX long-term purely to ride the asset path — leaving $100K sitting there to buy a fee cut of under 0.02% puts far more at risk than it earns.
If you haven't opened an account yet, a referral code is a separate thing from the tier: it can take up to 20% off trading fees, subject to OKX's current terms — see the OKX referral code page.
FAQ
How do you move up OKX VIP tiers?
Tiers are assessed on two measures — account assets and 30-day trading volume — and meeting either one is enough. The detail that matters: spot and futures are graded on their own separate lines and the volumes are never added together; the highest tier you qualify for on any line then applies to everything you trade. Tiers refresh once a day between 04:00 and 06:00 (UTC+8) and set the rate you pay afterwards; the asset figure is the higher of your daily snapshot and your 30-day average, with borrowed funds excluded. OKX adjusts the thresholds, so go by what your fee page shows once you're logged in.
Can ordinary beginners get VIP?
VIP 1 asks for $100K in account assets, or $1M of 30-day spot volume ($5M of notional on the futures line) — most beginners can't reach either, and OKX has no intermediate tier at all between regular user and VIP 1. Below VIP 1, what moves your fee bill is mostly how you trade: limit orders that rest on the book pay the lower Maker rate.
Do VIP tiers auto-demote?
Yes. Tiers are recalculated every day, and if both your assets and your 30-day volume fall below your current threshold you get moved to whichever tier you do qualify for. OKX's page says nothing about a grace period, so don't plan around "grind up to VIP and then coast". The asset path is the steadier of the two — the asset figure takes the higher of your daily snapshot and your 30-day average, so a short dip won't knock you down immediately.
What hidden perks come with higher VIP tiers?
The one that's actually published is the 24-hour withdrawal limit: $10M for a regular user, $20M at VIP 1, stepping up tier by tier to $80M at VIP 8 and VIP 9 — so even the top tier is capped (OKX fee page, October 2026). OKX's fee page doesn't publish other per-tier extras, so treat precise multiples or response times quoted online as unsourced.
Is it worth padding your volume to reach a VIP tier?
No, not at these sizes. Take someone whose natural 30-day spot turnover is $500K, half of VIP 1's bar: padding the missing $500K costs about $470 in fees at the regular blended rate, while VIP 1 then saves about $177.5 on the next month's $1M. The volume you add purely to promote costs you more than twice what the promotion saves. Unless you genuinely trade at that size already, padding volume to chase a tier is a losing trade.