Binance Liquidation Calculator
Liquidation price for BTCUSDT on Binance, using Binance's own margin tiers.
Every exchange liquidates on the same principle and none of them arrive at the same number. This page uses Binance's published maintenance margin ladder for BTCUSDT, so the answer matches what Binance itself would show rather than a generic approximation.
Binance maintenance margin tiers
For BTCUSDT, as published on 2026-07-22. Other symbols have their own ladders — check yours before sizing.
| Tier | Position value | Maintenance margin rate (%) | Max leverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 – 50k | 0.40 % | 125× |
| 2 | 50k – 600k | 0.50 % | 100× |
| 3 | 600k – 3000k | 1.00 % | 75× |
| 4 | 3000k – 12000k | 2.00 % | 50× |
| 5 | 12000k – 70000k | 5.00 % | 25× |
| 6 | 70000k – 100000k | 10.00 % | 20× |
| 7 | 100000k – 230000k | 12.50 % | 10× |
| 8 | 230000k – 480000k | 15.00 % | 5× |
| 9 | 480000k – 600000k | 25.00 % | 4× |
| 10 | 600000k – 800000k | 50.00 % | 3× |
| 11 | 800000k – 1200000k | 100.00 % | 2× |
How it works
Binance closes a position when its margin falls to the maintenance requirement, measured against the mark price rather than the last trade. The requirement is a percentage of the position's value at that moment — which is why the maintenance rate divides rather than adds, and why the widely copied 'entry × (1 − 1/leverage + rate)' is close but never exact.
Binance charges the closing fee against what is left after liquidation rather than folding it into the requirement, so it does not move the liquidation price itself. It still reduces what you get back.
Sources — Binance documentation
Every rate and formula on this page is taken from Binance's own documentation for BTCUSDT and was last checked on 2026-07-22. Exchanges revise these tables without notice.
- Liquidation price formula for USDⓈ-M futures
- Leverage and margin tier tables, per symbol
- Futures fee schedule
- API: leverage brackets endpoint (machine-readable tiers)
Independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Binance. Confirm against your position's own margin details before trading.
Where the exchanges differ
The same 0.5 BTC position at 10× on a 60,000 entry, priced under each venue's published rules.
| Exchange | Liquidation | Distance | Exit fee in margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binance | 54216.87 | 9.64 % | not counted |
| Bybit | 54271.36 | 9.55 % | not counted |
| OKX | 54244.10 | 9.59 % | counted |
| Gate.io | 54244.10 | 9.59 % | counted |
The same calculation on other exchanges
Margin ladders differ enough to move the liquidation price on identical inputs.
Or use the generic calculator with your own maintenance rate →Liquidation price on Binance
Binance liquidates a USDⓈ-M futures position when its margin falls to the maintenance requirement, measured against the mark price rather than the last traded price. The requirement is not a single percentage: it steps up through a ladder of notional brackets, and Binance is the only major venue that smooths those steps with a maintenance amount.
What the maintenance amount actually does
Binance publishes two numbers per bracket: a maintenance margin rate and a maintenance amount. The requirement is rate × position value minus that amount. Without the second term, growing a position by one dollar across a bracket boundary would re-charge the entire position at the higher rate and jump the liquidation price discontinuously.
The amount is not a free parameter — each one is fixed by the bracket below it, so that the requirement matches from both sides exactly at the boundary. A position of 600,000 USDT pays the same maintenance whether you read it as the top of the 0.5% bracket or the bottom of the 1% one. What it does not do is make the liquidation price identical across the step: liquidation happens well below entry, and the two brackets charge different rates down there.
Isolated and cross margin are different calculations
This calculator models isolated margin in one-way mode, where the position's own margin is all that stands behind it. Binance's published formula also covers cross margin, where the wallet balance, every other position's maintenance margin, and their unrealised PnL all enter the same equation — a position can then be liquidated by a loss somewhere else entirely.
In Multi-Assets mode the picture widens again, because non-USDT collateral is haircut before it counts. If you trade cross or multi-asset, treat the number here as a floor on your risk rather than an answer, and read it against your account's own margin ratio.
Why the number differs from the formula you have seen
The version that circulates on forums is entry × (1 − 1/leverage + maintenance rate). It charges the maintenance requirement against the entry value, but Binance charges it against the position's value at the moment of liquidation, which is lower for a long. The correct arrangement divides by (1 − rate) instead of adding it.
The gap is a few tenths of a percent — immaterial when you are sizing a position, decisive when you are deciding whether a wick reached you. This page uses the exact form.
FAQ
Does Binance use the last price or the mark price to liquidate?expand_more
The mark price, which is derived from an index of other venues plus a funding basis. This is deliberate: it means a brief wick on Binance alone does not liquidate you, and it is also why your position can survive a print below your calculated liquidation price.
Why did my liquidation price move without me doing anything?expand_more
Either the position crossed a bracket boundary — adding to a winner is enough — or you are in cross margin and something else in the account moved. On Binance, unrealised profit elsewhere props up a cross position and disappears when it reverses.
Is the liquidation price the price I actually get closed at?expand_more
No. Liquidation triggers there; the position is then closed at whatever the liquidation engine can achieve, and the difference is absorbed by the insurance fund or, in the worst case, by auto-deleveraging. Treat the liquidation price as where control is taken away from you, not as a fill.
How do I avoid being liquidated at all?expand_more
Set a stop-loss well inside the liquidation price and size the position so that the stop, not the liquidation, is what closes it. The position size calculator works backwards from the loss you accept to the size that makes it true — which is the only ordering that keeps liquidation theoretical.