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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "bybit",
 "name": "Bybit",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "bybit.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Crypto & trading",
 "summary": "Crypto exchange covering spot, perpetuals and options. No subscription — spot is 0.1% maker and taker for non-VIP, derivatives around 0.02% and 0.055%, with volume tiers cutting lower. Funding rates on perpetuals are a recurring cost the fee table does not show, and availability differs per country.",
 "best_for": "active traders who want deep liquidity, low derivatives fees and a broad product range (spot, perps, options) with volume-tiered discounts",
 "skip_if": "you're a buy-and-hold beginner (a simple euro-native exchange is safer territory), or derivatives aren't available to you locally",
 "honest_knock": "Derivatives are the draw and the danger: leverage cuts both ways, and funding rates on perpetuals are a real recurring cost the fee table doesn't show. Regulation-wise, check what Bybit may offer in YOUR jurisdiction before funding an account — availability and product range differ per country, and that's the part most fee comparisons skip.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "No subscription — per-trade fees, re-verified 2026-09-05 against Bybit's own fee schedule, which the page says was last updated on 2 September 2026. At VIP 0 (non-VIP): spot 0.1000% maker and 0.1000% taker; perpetuals and futures 0.0200% maker and 0.0550% taker; options 0.0200% maker and 0.0300% taker. The VIP ladder cuts those toward zero — at Supreme VIP spot is 0.0300% maker and 0.0450% taker, derivatives 0.0000% maker and 0.0300% taker, options 0.0050% and 0.0150%. Note that the top derivatives maker rate is zero rather than a rebate: we found no negative maker fee in the published table. That base table is not the only one, and the others start higher: fiat-crypto spot pairs cost 0.2000% taker and 0.1500% maker under $100,000 of 30-day volume, the Spot Adventure Zone and xStocks 0.2000% both ways at VIP 0, and Pre-Market Perpetuals and the Innovation Zone 0.0400% maker and 0.1000% taker — so a new account trading the newest listings pays about double the headline rate. Your VIP level is set by your asset balance, your 30-day average net borrowing or your trading volume over the past 30 days, whichever qualifies you higher, and it refreshes daily at 07:00 UTC. Bybit adds that actual rates can vary by region and points you to your own My Fee Rate page.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-05",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Bitvavo or Kraken",
  "why": "Bitvavo is the euro on/off-ramp specialist, Kraken the regulated all-rounder — Bybit wins on derivatives depth"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/bybit.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/bybit-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/bybit/",
  "vendor_site": "https://bybit.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.bybit.eu/invite?ref=43R9RJE",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "bybit:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "bybit:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "bybit:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "bybit:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": {
   "what": "Official trading MCP with 206 tools across market data, orders, positions and account. The 22 market-data tools work read-only without any API key.",
   "plan": "Price not stated; read-only market data works without a key.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://github.com/bybit-exchange/trading-mcp",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}