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Crypto Break-even Calculator
Find the exact price you need to sell at to break even on any crypto position — fully accounting for fees on both your entry and your exit. Useful before setting a stop-loss, planning a flat exit, or reasoning about how much price recovery you need after averaging down. Works for any coin, any size, any fee structure.
A common mistake — even on the busiest trading desks — is treating "sell at the buy price" as break-even. That's off by exactly twice the fee rate, which sounds small until you do it at scale: 0.1% per side leaves you 0.2% under water at the "break-even" sell price, which on a six-figure position is several hundred dollars.
Break-even sell price
$62,769
+0.20% above your buy price — that's the fee drag you have to recover.
- Total cost (incl. buy fee)
- $62,706
- Buy fee paid
- $62.64
- Sell fee at break-even
- $62.77
Break-even = buy × (1 + buyFee) ÷ (1 − sellFee). Sell below it = loss, above it = profit.
How it's calculated
Break-even sells the position for exactly what it cost. With buy-side and sell-side fees, that means breakEvenPrice = buyPrice × (1 + buyFee) ÷ (1 − sellFee). For the typical 0.1% per-side fee structure on Binance / Bitget / Coinbase Pro, that lifts your break-even about 0.2% above your buy price.
The calculator also surfaces the dollar value of fees you paid going in and the fees you'd pay coming out at break-even, so you can see the round-trip fee total in absolute terms — useful for VIP-tier negotiations or for benchmarking whether a smaller venue's lower fees would actually move the needle on your strategy.
Worked example
Buy 1 ETH at $3,000 with a 0.1% buy fee and a 0.1% sell fee. Naive break-even = $3,000 — wrong. Actual break-even = $3,000 × 1.001 ÷ 0.999 ≈ $3,006.01. You needed roughly $6 of price recovery just to cover the round-trip fees, before any profit.
Scale that up: buy 100 ETH at $3,000 (same fee structure). Break-even still sits at $3,006.01 per ETH, but the round-trip fee total in dollars is now $600 — material enough that an order routing optimisation or a VIP-tier discount becomes worth chasing. Use the calculator to size that question before committing to a venue contract.
Break Even Point Calculator: where fees push you
Break-even point is the sell price at which your closed position returns exactly what you put in. Without fees that's identical to your buy price. With fees on both sides — typical on every centralised exchange — break-even sits slightly above the buy price for a long. The calculator surfaces both numbers (buy price vs break-even price) and the fee-gap percentage that separates them, so you can decide whether a tight take-profit target above break-even is realistic or unprofitable after costs.
Break Even Price Calculator: planning exits
Setting a stop-loss at break-even on a winning position is a common risk-management move — sell at break-even or above, capture nothing-or-positive instead of nothing-or-negative. Set the calculator to your actual buy price and fee structure, get the break-even sell price, and use that as your stop-loss trigger. Going one step further: set your stop a few basis points above break-even to cover funding charges or interest on margin, then there's truly no scenario where the closed trade is a loss.
Averaging down and break-even reset
If you averaged into a position at multiple prices, your true cost basis is total spent ÷ total coins held — the calculator's buy-price field accepts that blended number directly. The result is your new break-even, which is typically lower than your first buy (you got a lower-priced lot somewhere in the average). Useful before a recovery exit: "do I need price to come back to my first buy, or just back to my blended cost basis?" The break-even calculator answers definitively.
FAQ
What is a break-even price in crypto?
It's the price at which selling returns exactly what you put in — zero profit, zero loss. Above it you're in profit; below it you're at a loss. Fees push your break-even price slightly above your average buy price.
How do fees affect break-even?
Both buy and sell fees raise the price you need to recover. If you paid a 0.1% fee each way, your break-even sits a little above your purchase price to cover those costs. The calculator factors both fees in automatically.
How do I calculate break-even after averaging down?
Your break-even is your total amount spent divided by your total coins held. Buying more at a lower price lowers your average cost, and therefore your break-even. Enter each buy and the calculator blends them for you.
Why does my break-even matter?
It tells you the minimum exit price to avoid a loss, which helps you set realistic targets and stop-losses instead of guessing.
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