Broker costs · forex
8 brokers · 21 accounts · 29 regulated entities · checked 20 Sep 2026
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Cost in dollarsOne market at a time. Lower is cheaper.
What opening and closing 1 lot of EUR/USD costs
Spread ($10 a pip) plus commission. Only average spreads count, not “from” figures.
Brokers ranked5 of 8publish a usable EUR/USD cost
Cheapest per lot$4.60Fusion Markets
Most expensive$8.00Pepperstone
Gap per lot$3.40between cheapest and priciest
- 1Fusion MarketsZero Account · 0.01 pips ($0.10) + $4.50 commissionaverage, 1–5 June 2026 (minimum 0.00)The trading-conditions page loads this table from a Google Sheet Fusion publishes itself (output=tsv); the quote is that row as the page receives it. Columns are spreadMin then spreadAvg per the sheet's header row.$4.60per lot, round turn
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“CURRENCY {{SYMBOL_EUR_USD}} {{PRODUCT_EUR_USD}} {{ASSET_CLASS_CURRENCY}} 0.00 0.01”
Trading conditions · all trading products “**Average Spreads from 1st to 5th of June 2026. The above table is measured in pips with the exception of Indices, US Stocks and Cryptocurrencies.”
What the averages cover - 2TickmillRaw Account · 0.1 pips ($1.00) + $6.00 commissiontypical (live table; minimum 0)The live table is not labelled by account type and states no unit; Tickmill says its MT4/MT5 charts show raw spreads and tells Classic users to add their own markup, so the table is read as the Raw account. The page states spreads are measured in pips for currency pairs.$7.00per lot, round turn
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“{"symbol":"EURUSD","url":"\/instruments\/eurusd","min_spread":"0","typical_spread":"0.1","swap_long":-6.1,"swap_short":3.2}”
Spreads and swaps “Important note: MT4/MT5 charts display prices aligned with raw spreads regardless of your account type. If you trade with a Classic account, factor in the associated spreads when analyzing your charts.”
Spreads and swaps “Spreads are measured in pips (the smallest unit of price movement for a currency pair).”
Spreads and swaps - 3FP MarketsRaw · 0.11 pips ($1.10) + $6.00 commissionaverage, table headed February 2026 (minimum 0)$7.10per lot, round turn
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“Symbol | Product | Standard A/c | Raw ECN A/c | Min | Avg | Min | Avg | … EURUSD | Euro vs US Dollar | - | 1.21 | 0 | 0.11”
Spreads “Spreads | (February 2026) | Spreads on our | MetaTrader 4 | platform are variable, with quotes from major international financial institutions. During liquid times our industry-leading spreads can go as low as 0.0 pips. Our more typical spreads are listed below.”
What the table is - 4IC MarketsRaw Spread · 0.1 pips ($1.00) + $7.00 commissionaverage (IC states no averaging window)IC's own global spread table prints 0.01 in the Raw AVG column for EURUSD, a tenth of the 0.1 its prose states twice; the same row's Standard AVG (0.1) is below its Standard MIN (0.8), so the row looks misaligned. We use the prose figure and publish the table as a contradiction. The CySEC site shows a Raw average of 0.06.$8.00per lot, round turn
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“Our average EUR/USD spread is 0.1 pips, with only a small commission of $3.50 per lot payable per side.”
Trading accounts overview “SYMBOL | DESCRIPTION | MIN | AVG | MIN | AVG … EURUSD | Euro vs United States Dollar | 0 | 0.01 | 0.8 | 0.1 | Major | Raw Spread Account | Standard Account”
Spreads (global table) “IC's spreads are among the lowest across all major and minor currency pairs. In particular, our average EUR/USD spread* of 0.1 pips is one of the lowest in the world.”
Spreads “EURUSD | Euro vs United States Dollar | Raw Spread Account | MIN: 0 | AVG: 0.06 | Standard Account | MIN: 0.80”
Spreads and swaps (CySEC entity) - 5PepperstoneRazor · 0.1 pips ($1.00) + $7.00 commissionaverage over 01/08/2026–31/08/2026, all sessions incl. rollover; minimum 0$8.00per lot, round turn
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“Symbol | Razor Min Spread | Razor Avg Spread | Standard Min Spread | Standard Avg Spread … EURUSD | 0 | 0.1 | 1 | 1.1 … 1 All spreads are generated from data between 01/08/2026 and 31/08/2026, covering all trading sessions, including rollover periods.”
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