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Kraken Plans Pricing

Kraken does not gate API access behind a subscription. API keys are issued free to every verified account. Trading economics are pay-as-you-go and driven by two surfaces: (1) the simplified Kraken consumer app charges a fixed 1.0% spread on instant and recurring trades and 1.5% on custom orders, with an optional Kraken+ subscription that zeroes fees on up to $10,000 USD-equivalent of major pairs per month; (2) Kraken Pro charges volume-tiered maker/taker fees by trailing 30-day USD volume, stepping from 0.25% maker / 0.40% taker at the entry tier down to 0.00% maker / 0.10% taker at $10M+ 30-day volume on the standard Spot fee schedule, with separate (lower) schedules for stablecoin/FX pairs and for Futures. Institutional clients negotiate custom maker/taker schedules, colocation, and FIX connectivity.

Kraken Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Kraken on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 8 plans, covering pay-as-you-go, subscription, tiered, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Kraken (Instant Buy / Recurring), Kraken+, Kraken Pro — Spot (Standard Fee Schedule), Kraken Pro — Stablecoin / FX, Kraken Futures, and 3 more.

Tagged areas include Cryptocurrency, Exchange, Spot Trading, Futures, and Volume-Tiered.

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Plans

Kraken (Instant Buy / Recurring) pay-as-you-go

Default consumer experience. Instant and recurring purchases settle at a fixed 1.0% trading fee plus a quoted spread.

Instant buy / sell / recurring trade (transaction · usage) 1.0% trading fee + market-dependent spread USD
Custom order (consumer app) (transaction · usage) 1.5% trading fee + market-dependent spread USD
Deposits and withdrawals (transaction · usage) see vendor schedule (varies by method and currency) USD
Kraken+ subscription

Opt-in monthly subscription that waives trading fees on up to $10,000 USD-equivalent monthly volume on major pairs.

Kraken+ monthly subscription (month · month) see vendor pricing USD
Trading fees within plan cap (usd_volume · month) 0% on first $10,000 USD monthly volume in major pairs USD
Trading fees beyond plan cap (usd_volume · usage) standard Kraken consumer fees apply USD
Kraken Pro — Spot (Standard Fee Schedule) tiered

Volume-tiered maker/taker fees on the Kraken Pro Spot exchange. Tier is determined by trailing 30-day USD-equivalent traded volume across all assets (excluding stablecoin/FX pairs which have their own schedule).

$0 – $10K 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.25% maker / 0.40% taker USD
$10K – $50K 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.20% maker / 0.35% taker USD
$50K – $100K 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.14% maker / 0.24% taker USD
$100K – $500K 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.12% maker / 0.22% taker USD
$500K – $10M 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.08% maker / 0.18% taker USD
$10M+ 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.00% maker / 0.10% taker USD
Kraken Pro — Stablecoin / FX tiered

Lower volume-tiered schedule applied to stablecoin and fiat-fiat pairs (e.g. USDC/USD, EURT/USD).

$0+ 30-day volume (usd_volume · month) 0.20% maker / 0.20% taker (descending to 0.00% maker / 0.001% taker at $100M+) USD
Kraken Futures tiered

Volume-tiered maker/taker schedule for perpetual and fixed-maturity futures contracts on Kraken Futures (formerly Crypto Facilities).

Entry tier (usd_volume · month) 0.02% maker / 0.05% taker (descending to -0.006% maker at $1B+) USD
Kraken Earn pay-as-you-go

Staking and yield product. APR is paid by the underlying protocol / strategy; Kraken takes a documented allocation/deallocation fee where applicable and surfaces APR ranges per strategy via the Earn API.

Allocation / deallocation (transaction · usage) per-strategy allocation_fee / deallocation_fee field (0.00 – x.xx%) USD
Reward yield (apr · year) see strategy apr_estimate.low / apr_estimate.high USD
Kraken Institutional enterprise

Custom-negotiated arrangement bundling Custody, OTC, Prime brokerage, colocation endpoints, FIX 4.4 / 5.0 SP2 connectivity, and dedicated relationship management.

Custody, OTC, Prime, FIX, Colocation (varies · usage) contact sales USD
Kraken Embed (B2B Partner Platform) enterprise

B2B integration platform letting partners offer Kraken trading, conversion, custody, and Earn primitives inside their own products. Pricing is custom per partnership.

Embed integration (varies · usage) contact sales USD

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