Cost per point
Farming points leaks money in two places: the fee is charged twice, and the spread takes a bite once. Put your real rates in and you get the cost of each point, the total for a cycle, and how much the tokens have to be worth before you are even.
On the published fee schedule, a standard user pays 0.100% maker and taker on spot, or 0.075% with the BNB discount applied (checked 2026-08; the live page governs). It is charged on the way in and again on the way out — enter one side here.
This never appears on a statement, so you have to estimate it: note for a few days how far your fill price sits from the price you saw when you placed the order. Alpha books are thin, so it is usually wider than on main spot pairs.
Clearing the score does not guarantee an allocation — supply runs out. Enter how many times out of ten you expect to actually receive something.
Cost of each point
0.31USD / point
About 3.07 dollars a day buys 12 points, or roughly 46 dollars over 15 days.
- Points per day
- 12
- Cost per day
- 3.07
- 15-day total
- 46.08
- Break-even token value
- 76.80
Note
How to use this and how to read the numbers
What it is for
People discuss points as a score to be maximised and rarely as a purchase. It is a purchase. Every point above the balance tier is bought with trading volume, and trading volume is bought with fees and spread. This converts the score back into money.
How to use it
Set your balance tier, your daily purchase amount, your actual one-way fee rate and an honest estimate of spread. Add a hit rate if you want the break-even figure to reflect the rounds where you clear the score and still receive nothing.
What the arithmetic does
Daily cost is the purchase amount multiplied by twice the fee rate plus the spread — twice, because you pay on the way in and on the way out. The daily score uses the same rules as the points simulator, including the rule that a zero balance tier voids volume points. The break-even figure divides the 15-day total by your hit rate, so a 50% hit rate doubles what a successful round has to return.
Why the spread field matters most
Because it is the number people set to zero and then forget. On thin Alpha books the round-trip spread frequently exceeds the fees, which means leaving it at zero can understate your real cost by more than half. If you take one thing from this tool, make it a week of noting your actual fills.
What it does not include
Your time, and the price risk of holding a token between buying and selling. Neither is small, and neither can honestly be reduced to a formula — they are discussed in the real cost instead.
What to read next
The full argument is in what farming Alpha Points really costs; why the cut-off moves is here; and the fee side of a referral code is in referral code and fee discount.