Where to buy Ethereum (ETH) in the United Kingdom
The exchanges and buying apps we rank that serve the United Kingdom and list ETH/GBP, ordered by the fee for your purchase. Every fee has its source and the day we read it.
Excluding spread: the gap between the price you are charged and the market price is not measured yet, so no figure here is your whole cost.
£500.00 of ETH in the United Kingdom: the lowest fee for this purchase is Bitstamp's, £2.00.
Fee: bitstamp.net/fee-schedule, read 28 October 2026ETH/GBP listed: bitstamp.net/api/v2/trading-pairs-info, read 29 October 2026
Excluding spread: not measured yet.
Lowest fee for this purchase (1)
Each row serves the United Kingdom and lists ETH/GBP. Ordered by fee; a tie keeps each list's published order. This is a fee sort for one purchase, not our ranking.
- Fee on £500.00£2.000.4% taker fee
Fee: bitstamp.net/fee-schedule, read 28 October 2026ETH/GBP listed: bitstamp.net/api/v2/trading-pairs-info, read 29 October 2026
Bitstamp on the registerFCA (UK): Bitstamp UK Limited (FRN 978690) is registered for cryptoassets under the Money Laundering Regulations since 13 June 2023.
Listed, but not priced (3)
- the rate CB Payments Ltd (UK) charges here is not read
Fee: help.coinbase.com/en/exchange/trading-and-fund…, read 29 September 2026ETH/GBP listed: api.exchange.coinbase.com/products, read 29 October 2026
Coinbase on the registerFCA (UK): CB Payments Ltd (FRN 900635) is registered for cryptoassets under the Money Laundering Regulations since 3 February 2025.
- the rate Payward Ltd. (UK) charges here is not read
Fee: kraken.com/features/fee-schedule, read 29 September 2026ETH/GBP listed: api.kraken.com/0/public/AssetPairs, read 29 October 2026
Kraken on the registerFCA (UK): PAYWARD LTD.
- published as 4 rates (2%, low end of published range; 2.2%, high end of published range; 2.45%, low end of published range; 3.8%, high end of published range): which one you pay is not on record
Fee: uphold.com/en-gb/get-started/service-fees, read 29 October 2026ETH/GBP listed: uphold.com/en-gb/prices, read 29 October 2026
FCA (UK): no register record on file here, so whether it is registered is not known.
Not confirmed (6)
We could not confirm whether these serve the United Kingdom and list ETH/GBP. Each says why.
- ETH/GBP listing not confirmed: no listing read for your country
Bybit on the registerFCA (UK): not on the FCA register.
- ETH/GBP listing not confirmed
What the read found
not read: OKX Terms of Service 9.4 says 'You may not use the OKX Platform or the Services for any commercial purpose unless otherwise explicitly authorized by OKX' (https://www.okx.com/help/terms-of-service, read 2026-10-29), so the public instruments endpoint was not used; the markets pages render client-side and a headless render was refused in this session; needs a hand read of the markets page or OKX's consent
OKX on the registerFCA (UK): not on the FCA register.
- ETH/GBP listing not confirmed
What the read found
Walled: https://www.coinbase.com/explore and https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/cryptocurrencies-and-trading-pairs/supported-cryptocurrencies both returned HTTP 403 cf-mitigated: challenge on 2026-10-29 (curl); a rendered retry was not run (bot-check circumvention not permitted). The api.coinbase.com/v2/currencies/crypto list is coin-level only (no fiat pairing, no region, no buyability) and is not a retail simple-buy pair list; Coinbase Exchange order books not borrowed. Regions here are the fiat home region, not a sourced serving region.
Coinbase (Simple Buy) on the registerFCA (UK): CB Payments Ltd (FRN 900635) is registered for cryptoassets under the Money Laundering Regulations since 3 February 2025.
- ETH/GBP listing not confirmed: no listing read for your country
FCA (UK): no register record on file here, so whether it is registered is not known.
- ETH/GBP listing not confirmed: no listing read for your country
FCA (UK): no register record on file here, so whether it is registered is not known.
- ETH/GBP listing not confirmed
What the read found
Walled: https://www.revolut.com/crypto/ returned HTTP 403 cf-mitigated: challenge (curl, 2026-10-29); no rendered retry (bot-check circumvention not permitted); no other own unwalled source read (Revolut X exchange lists not borrowed). Regions are the fiat home region, not a sourced serving region.
Revolut Crypto on the registerFCA (UK): Revolut Ltd (FRN 900562) is registered for cryptoassets under the Money Laundering Regulations since 26 September 2022.
Do not list ETH/GBP (1)
- says it does not list ETH/GBP
FCA (UK): no register record on file here, so whether it is registered is not known.
20 other products we rank do not serve the United Kingdom, so they are not shown.
How this is computed
- Rows: every exchange and buying app we rank that serves the United Kingdom (our country test, the one the rankings use) and lists ETH/GBP in its own market list or pages, read 29 October 2026.
Fee = amount × fee rate + fixed fee per purchase (at least the minimum fee, where one is published).- Exchanges: the taker fee of a market order, at the rate the entity that serves your country publishes.
- Buying apps: their published purchase fee: a share of the purchase plus any fixed fee per purchase.
- The figure is computed by the same cost engine as the job views and the rankings' cost column.
- The spread (the gap between the price you are charged and the market price) is not measured yet, so it is excluded from every figure. Not counted yet: the spread, deposit and card fees, network fees and withdrawal fees.
- This page sorts by fee for one purchase. It never changes our ranking, which scores much more than fees.
ETH in other countries
The fees come from the Exchanges review read on the date below, and from the fee and listing reads named on each row.
How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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