Binance scores 12 points above Bitvavo, led by asset protection. Binance ranks #4 and Bitvavo #10 of 17 published exchanges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Binance75
vs
Bitvavo63
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #4 and #10 of 17
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−0.1
Reproduced gap+11.4
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below7563+12.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Binance's lead rests on lighter criteria: Bitvavo is ahead on trading cost, which carries more weight (30) than any criterion Binance leads on (18).
BinanceScore 75Deepest-liquidity global exchange with a published 0.10%/0.10% base spot tier table (25% BNB discount) — now contracting all users through three FSRA-regulated Abu Dhabi (ADGM) entities with trust-based custody, after pleading to U.S. charges in 2023 and exiting the EEA entirely on 1 July 2026 without a MiCA licence.Strength: Withdrawal incident record — 7/10Watch-out: The surface a new account actually lands in — Convert/instant buy — prices in a spread Binance nowhere quantifies behind a 'no additional fees' framing, and the account's freeze grounds are explicitly non-exhaustive and 'may be based on confidential criteria' Binance is 'under no obligation to disclose'; an EU, US or UK buyer cannot open this account at all.BitvavoScore 63AFM-licensed Dutch MiCA CASP (licence 41000010) serving the SEPA zone only, with a fully published 10-tier 0.15%/0.25% fee schedule, free SEPA in/out, a stichting-based bankruptcy-remote asset structure written into its terms, a third-party proof-of-reserves attestation its help centre describes as quarterly, and a self-disclosed, customer-guaranteed handling of its Genesis/DCG lending exposure (EUR 280M per contemporaneous reporting).Strength: Withdrawal incident record — 9/10Watch-out: The guaranteed-price buy flow — the interface the venue itself promotes for beginners as protection from slippage — carries a market-maker mark-up over mid-price that Bitvavo nowhere quantifies, and the counterparty on those trades is its own affiliate Inveniam B.V.; the buyer who never opens the order book will pay a spread with no published number on every trade, despite a pricing-policy sentence claiming 'No hidden costs or spreads beyond those published'.
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactBinanceBitvavo
Pro taker feeSnapshotBinance spot fee rates, read 29 September 2026 at https://www.binance.com/en/fee/trading (curl receives an empty HTTP 202 challenge; read through a rendering fetch). Maker / taker, and with the "BNB 25% off": "Regular User" "< 1,000,000 USD" or "≥ 0 BNB" "0.100% / 0.100%", "0.07500% / 0.07500%"; "VIP 1" "≥ 1,000,000 USD" and "≥ 5 BNB" "0.090% / 0.100%"; "VIP 3" "≥ 20,000,000 USD" and "≥ 100 BNB" "0.040% / 0.060%"; "VIP 5" "≥ 150,000,000 USD" and "≥ 1,000 BNB" "0.025% / 0.031%"; "VIP 9" "≥ 4,000,000,000 USD" "0.011% / 0.023%". Volume rule on the same page: "Trade volume includes all Spot volumes from Spot, Margin, Convert, Copy Trading and Trading Bots." Convert, the instant surface (https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/frequently-asked-questions-on-binance-convert-3289b5fb64634df8ab99d5f3d99b87ab, "Updated on 2026-04-20"): "Binance Convert pricing does not include traditional trading fees when converting cryptocurrencies." and "There are no additional fees beyond the quoted price.", while "the quoted prices for simple conversions may vary from time to time and from the price available on other markets" with no number published for that spread. Per-asset withdrawal fees sit behind "Log in and see a full overview of your fee and transaction history".Bitvavo fees, read 29 September 2026. The fee schedule itself (https://bitvavo.com/en/fees) answered every fetch path today with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403 to curl, to a rendering browser and to a reader proxy), so its tier table is not restated here. From Bitvavo's help article "What is the trading fee when I buy or sell crypto?" (https://support.bitvavo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405175148689, "Updated September 23, 2026"): fees depend on "Your 30-day trading volume tier."; for orders that do not fill immediately "we reserve the maximum fee of 0.25%"; the page's own worked example: "€1000 x 0.25% = €2.50 fee." and "You will receive €997.50 after the fee is deducted."; and "Trading pairs involving USDC (USD Coin) typically have lower fees than Euro-based pairs." Crypto withdrawal fees are published per asset in Bitvavo's public API (https://api.bitvavo.com/v2/assets): Bitcoin "withdrawalFee":"0.000018", Ethereum "withdrawalFee":"0.0003". Euro withdrawal (https://support.bitvavo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405188690065): "It also confirms that there are no fees for withdrawing euros." Price Guarantee orders (https://support.bitvavo.com/hc/en-us/articles/25974760217873): "the market maker adds a spread to account for any unforeseen price fluctuations during this period", with no number published for that mark-up.
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotasia, mena, latameurope
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Binance
75#4 of 17
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Binance if asset protection matters most — it scores 7/10 to Bitvavo's 6/10 there (weight 18).
Strength
Withdrawal incident record — 7/10
Tradeoff
The surface a new account actually lands in — Convert/instant buy — prices in a spread Binance nowhere quantifies behind a 'no additional fees' framing, and the account's freeze grounds are explicitly non-exhaustive and 'may be based on confidential criteria' Binance is 'under no obligation to disclose'; an EU, US or UK buyer cannot open this account at all.
Bitvavo
63#10 of 17
Pick it when
Pick Bitvavo if trading cost matters most — it scores 7/10 to Binance's 5/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Withdrawal incident record — 9/10
Tradeoff
The guaranteed-price buy flow — the interface the venue itself promotes for beginners as protection from slippage — carries a market-maker mark-up over mid-price that Bitvavo nowhere quantifies, and the counterparty on those trades is its own affiliate Inveniam B.V.; the buyer who never opens the order book will pay a spread with no published number on every trade, despite a pricing-policy sentence claiming 'No hidden costs or spreads beyond those published'.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
BinanceLeads
Choose Binance if asset protection matters most
Asset protection: 7/10 against 6/10 for Bitvavo (weight 18)
BinanceScore 75Deepest-liquidity global exchange with a published 0.10%/0.10% base spot tier table (25% BNB discount) — now contracting all users through three FSRA-regulated Abu Dhabi (ADGM) entities with trust-based custody, after pleading to U.S. charges in 2023 and exiting the EEA entirely on 1 July 2026 without a MiCA licence.Strength: Withdrawal incident record — 7/10Watch-out: The surface a new account actually lands in — Convert/instant buy — prices in a spread Binance nowhere quantifies behind a 'no additional fees' framing, and the account's freeze grounds are explicitly non-exhaustive and 'may be based on confidential criteria' Binance is 'under no obligation to disclose'; an EU, US or UK buyer cannot open this account at all.
Bitvavo
Choose Bitvavo if trading cost matters most
Trading cost: 7/10 against 5/10 for Binance (weight 30)
Withdrawal track record: 9/10 against 7/10 for Binance (weight 28)
Licence coverage: 9/10 against 5/10 for Binance (weight 24)
BitvavoScore 63AFM-licensed Dutch MiCA CASP (licence 41000010) serving the SEPA zone only, with a fully published 10-tier 0.15%/0.25% fee schedule, free SEPA in/out, a stichting-based bankruptcy-remote asset structure written into its terms, a third-party proof-of-reserves attestation its help centre describes as quarterly, and a self-disclosed, customer-guaranteed handling of its Genesis/DCG lending exposure (EUR 280M per contemporaneous reporting).Strength: Withdrawal incident record — 9/10Watch-out: The guaranteed-price buy flow — the interface the venue itself promotes for beginners as protection from slippage — carries a market-maker mark-up over mid-price that Bitvavo nowhere quantifies, and the counterparty on those trades is its own affiliate Inveniam B.V.; the buyer who never opens the order book will pay a spread with no published number on every trade, despite a pricing-policy sentence claiming 'No hidden costs or spreads beyond those published'.
Criterion by criterion
Scorecard
Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology
Trading cost
by 2 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Bitvavo leads
Binance5/10 out of 10
Bitvavo7/10 out of 10
Withdrawal track record
by 2 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Bitvavo leads
Binance7/10 out of 10
Bitvavo9/10 out of 10
Licence coverage
by 4 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Bitvavo leads
Binance5/10 out of 10
Bitvavo9/10 out of 10
Asset protection
by 1 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Binance leads
Binance7/10 out of 10
Bitvavo6/10 out of 10
Score dimensions
weights sum to 86
The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.
Availabilityweight 20 of 86
Binance12/20Bitvavo6/20
Binance leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Binance14.2/30Bitvavo18.9/30
Bitvavo leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Binance2.7/10Bitvavo2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Binance3.2/8Bitvavo3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Binance13.2/18Bitvavo10.1/18
Binance leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Binance unless the term Bitvavo leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Bitvavo if trading cost matters most — it scores 7/10 to Binance's 5/10 there (weight 30).
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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
Scored by When this venue broke, did people get their money out — and how would I know? · 28% (Binance 7/10, Bitvavo 9/10)
Insolvency failure: the firm or issuer that owes you cannot pay.
Scored by If this exchange fails — or freezes me — are the coins legally mine, and on whose terms? · 18% (Binance 7/10, Bitvavo 6/10)
Regulatory failure: no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.
Scored by Whose licence actually covers me in my country — and can I find it on the register? · 24% (Binance 5/10, Bitvavo 9/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: What will I actually pay here at my volume — including the spread they don't print? (30%).
Questions
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Binance scores 12 points above Bitvavo, led by asset protection. Published scores, out of 100: Binance 75 (rank 4 of 17 exchanges), Bitvavo 63 (rank 10 of 17).
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