What does a white-label crypto exchange cost?
Price the honest version of building in-house — engineers, months, maintenance — against launching on infrastructure that already exists. The calculator below uses your numbers, not ours.
Estimate the in-house build
Set your team size, monthly cost per engineer and time to launch. Maintenance is added at ~25% per year — the industry's usual quiet surprise.
Estimates only — actual costs vary by scope, team and region.
The build is bigger than the trading screen
Each of these is months of specialist work in-house — and already running in production on Monbits.
Wallet & key management
An isolated signing service for Bitcoin, EVM chains and TRON, with keys encrypted under AES-256-GCM and never exposed to the public internet.
Liquidity & live rates
Provider integrations with failover, live spot pricing, configurable spreads and rate-locking at order time.
Payment modules
Fiat rails your users expect — PayPal, Liqpay, PerfectMoney, Advance Cash and bank transfers — each an integration to build and keep alive.
Compliance plumbing
AML screening before funds settle, KYC flows, sanctions checks and immutable audit logs an auditor will actually accept.
Operations tooling
The admin panel your team lives in: orders, currencies, rates, users, reporting, filters and a referral engine.
Keeping it alive
Chain upgrades, security patches, monitoring and on-call — the ~25% a year that never appears in the launch budget.
How launching on Monbits is priced
One number to start, one number to run — and your margin stays yours.
Integrations, analytics, extra support and branding work are listed with prices in the add-ons catalogue, so you can budget the whole launch before talking to anyone.
- A one-time setup fee for your branded platform
- A monthly subscription covering hosting, maintenance and updates
- You set the rates and spreads — the margin on every order is yours
- Optional services priced openly in the add-ons catalogue
Build vs. buy, honestly
| Build in-house | Launch on Monbits | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to market | 6–18 months before the first trade | Live in days |
| Upfront cost | Multi-engineer payroll for months (estimate it above) | One-time setup fee |
| Ongoing cost | ~25% of the build cost per year in maintenance | Monthly subscription |
| Team required | 4–8 specialist engineers, retained | Your business team; we run the rails |
| Compliance | AML, KYC and audit trails designed from scratch | Built in, already in production |
| Where you win | Fully bespoke, at a price | Your brand, your rates, your margin — on shared rails |
Cost questions, answered plainly
The questions buyers actually type into a search bar.
How much does a white-label crypto exchange cost?
On Monbits: a one-time setup fee for your branded platform plus a monthly subscription that covers hosting, maintenance and updates. Optional services — extra integrations, analytics, support and branding — are published with prices in the add-ons catalogue, so you can budget the full launch before a sales call.
What does building an exchange in-house cost?
A realistic minimum is a small specialist team for the better part of a year — wallet infrastructure, liquidity, payment rails, compliance and an admin panel — plus roughly 25% of that build cost every year in maintenance. The calculator on this page turns your own team size and salary assumptions into a number.
What's included in the Monbits subscription?
Hosting, maintenance and platform updates, the operator admin panel with reporting, and the standard payment modules. Revenue mechanics — your spreads and margins on every order — are yours, not shared.
When does building in-house actually make sense?
When the exchange itself is your core technology bet — you need custom market-making, exotic instruments or full control of every component, and you're prepared to fund a permanent engineering team for it. For operators whose edge is brand, audience or distribution, buying the rails and spending the difference on growth wins.
Skip the build. Keep the margin.
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