Find out where you can do it. We compare live order books of 10 exchanges and show how much Bitcoin you really get for your GBP, after all costs.
Splitting the order across exchanges brings no benefit here. Best to buy everything on Revolut X.
For 2,500 GBP you currently get the most BTC on Revolut X: 0.04080942 BTC. The least favourable exchange (Kanga Global) gives you the equivalent of 33.71 GBP (1.35%) less.
Exchanges with a direct BTC/GBP market: Revolut X, Coinbase, Bitstamp, Kraken. Elsewhere you need a currency conversion or an intermediate currency, which usually adds cost.
Counting only the trading fee and slippage, Binance wins, but once deposit, conversion and withdrawal are included, Revolut X comes out cheapest.
Revolut X leads both for 250 GBP and for 25,000 GBP, so it also has the deepest market for this pair.
Even for 25,000 GBP, splitting the order across exchanges brings no benefit, so one exchange is enough.
GBP deposits: Faster Payments (Kraken, Coinbase, Bitstamp); Card (Coinbase); Revolut account (Revolut X).
Calculated at 21:38, with all costs included. The calculator above runs live for your amount.
Bitcoin is the first and largest cryptocurrency (since 2009), with a supply cap of 21 million coins. When buying, the rate is only part of the story: the withdrawal fee to your own wallet is a fixed amount of BTC, so on small purchases it can eat several percent. Some exchanges let you withdraw via the Lightning Network, which is usually cheaper. For large purchases order book depth matters more than the fee, because a big order eats through ever more expensive offers.
You will usually deposit pounds via Faster Payments: typically free and instant (e.g. Kraken, Coinbase). Kraken, Coinbase, Bitstamp and Revolut X have GBP markets, but they are thinner than EUR or USD, so for larger amounts the calculator often picks a route via EUR or USDT.
Enter an amount in any of 30+ currencies (dollars, euro, pounds, złoty and more) or in stablecoins, and choose what you want to buy: Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT or USDC.
We pull hundreds of live offers from every exchange and check every buying route, including currency conversion and intermediate currencies, e.g. GBP → USDT → BTC.
Slippage for your amount, trading fee, currency conversion, deposit and withdrawal. No hidden costs and no comparing headline rates alone.
You get a ranking with the exact amount you will receive and, for large orders, the optimal split across several exchanges.
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According to our ranking of 10 exchanges: for 250 GBP it is Revolut X; for 2,500 GBP it is Revolut X; for 25,000 GBP it is Revolut X. The answer depends on the amount, because market depth matters for larger orders.
The total cost on the best exchange (Revolut X) is about 0.21% of the amount: fee, slippage, conversion and withdrawal. On the most expensive one (Kanga Global) it is about 1.19%.
Exchanges with a direct BTC/GBP market: Revolut X, Coinbase, Bitstamp, Kraken. Elsewhere you need a currency conversion or an intermediate currency, which usually adds cost.
GBP deposits: Faster Payments (Kraken, Coinbase, Bitstamp); Card (Coinbase); Revolut account (Revolut X).
Even for 25,000 GBP, splitting the order across exchanges brings no benefit, so one exchange is enough.
We pull order books live from the exchanges' public APIs, the market rate from exchange median and FX rates from the ECB. The calculator compares costs and is not investment advice.