MEXC's headline is its published trading schedule. Spot trading charges makers 0% and takers 0.05% at the base tier, and the exchange's zero-fee campaign has extended 0% to both sides of most spot pairs with no volume, holding or registration requirement. Futures charge makers 0% and takers a small fee. Crypto deposits are free. The costs that remain are withdrawal fees, set per coin by MEXC, and a recovery fee for coins sent on the wrong network that reviewers single out as unusually high.
The zero-fee model has a shape. MEXC earns on futures takers, on withdrawals, on listings, and on the spread inside the partner checkout it uses for card purchases, where the fee is whatever the processor shows at the last step. There is no published card rate on MEXC's own fee page. And the risk-control freezes that fill its reviews are, in the cynical reading, the cost of being an exchange that competes on price and lists everything.
None of it is available to a U.S. resident. Anytime Capital's pricing is a buying price rather than a trading fee: from 4% with the spread included, with the amount you pay and the crypto you receive shown before you confirm, and larger orders go through an OTC desk against a same-day wire. On a $1,000 card order that is from $40, and the number does not change once you reach checkout.