What Indodax, Tokocrypto and Pintu Actually Charge You Per Trade
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Buy Rp10,000,000 of crypto on Indodax with a market order, then sell it back the same way, and Rp60,000 of that never comes back to you in exchange fees alone. Do the exact same round trip on Tokocrypto, and it's Rp20,000. The coin can move up or down and you'd still lose that difference either way, because it happens before the trade even has a chance to make you money. Most people pick a crypto exchange based on the app, not the fee schedule. Here is what each of Indonesia's three biggest platforms actually charges, using their own published numbers.
Every exchange in this comparison prices a trade as either a maker or a taker.
If you tap buy or sell and expect it to happen immediately, you are almost always paying the taker fee.
These are each platform's own published rate for a regular retail account, no VIP tier and no token discount applied.
| Exchange | Maker fee | Taker fee | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indodax (IDR market) | 0% | 0.3% | Indodax's own help center |
| Tokocrypto (spot) | 0.1% | 0.1% | Tokocrypto's own transaction fee page |
| Pintu Pro (spot) | 0.12% | 0.17% | Pintu's own FAQ |
| Pintu (standard app) | No separate fee, built into the price | No separate fee, built into the price | Pintu's own FAQ |
Indodax's rate is slightly different again on its USDT trading pairs, closer to 0.295% maker and 0.325% taker rather than the IDR-market numbers above, per the same help center page.
Buying and then selling back is where the fee hits twice. Using each platform's own taker rate, since a market order is what most people actually use:
| Exchange | Fee per side | Round trip cost | On Rp10,000,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indodax | 0.3% | 0.6% | Rp60,000 |
| Tokocrypto | 0.1% | 0.2% | Rp20,000 |
| Pintu Pro | 0.17% | 0.34% | Rp34,000 |
That gap compounds if you trade often. A trader doing this same round trip once a week for a year pays roughly Rp3,120,000 a year in exchange fees on Indodax's standard taker rate, against about Rp1,040,000 on Tokocrypto's, for the identical Rp10 million of activity. Nothing about the trade itself changed. Only the platform did.
Pintu's standard app doesn't quote a separate percentage at all. Its own FAQ states plainly that there is no separate trading fee: the buy and sell prices you see already have the cost built in, and the gap between those two prices (the spread) moves with market conditions rather than sitting at one fixed number. That can still cost you real money, you just cannot read it off a fee schedule the way you can with the other three.
The published rates above are the entry-level tier. Both Indodax and Tokocrypto discount from there, but only if you trade a lot:
For context, $5 million in 30-day volume is well outside what an ordinary retail trader does in a year, let alone a month. If you are placing occasional trades rather than running a high-frequency strategy, the standard entry-level rate in the first table is the one that actually applies to you.
Two more costs sit outside any exchange's own fee schedule, and neither is specific to Indodax, Tokocrypto or Pintu.
The second cost is a government tax, not a platform fee, and it applies regardless of which exchange settles the trade: selling or exchanging a crypto asset in Indonesia carries a final Income Tax (PPh Pasal 22) of 0.21% on the transaction, up from 0.1% before, under Finance Ministry regulation PMK No. 50 of 2025, effective 1 August 2025. The separate VAT that used to apply to buying the asset itself was removed the same date, since crypto assets are now treated like securities for that purpose.
If you place occasional trades and use market orders, the fee schedule alone puts Tokocrypto's standard rate below Indodax's and below Pintu Pro's standard rate, before any volume or token discount. That is not a recommendation to use any specific platform, since fee schedules change and liquidity, coin selection and your own trading pattern matter too. It is a reason to check the current, official fee page of whichever exchange you actually use before assuming a round-trip trade is close to free.
If you trade Bitcoin or another major coin regularly, the fee side of that activity is only half the picture. What actually matters to your net worth is what you kept after fees, taxes and price movement combined, not the gross number your app shows you. NetWort's Capital Gains view strips your deposits back out and shows what your capital has actually earned, across every asset you hold, so the fee comparison above turns into an actual number for your own portfolio instead of a hypothetical one.
Fees are only one line item in the total cost of trading crypto. If you also move coins off an exchange into your own wallet, the network gas fee is a separate cost on top of anything covered here.