Crypto liquidation price calculator

Q: Why does my exchange show a slightly different liquidation price?

Your position may sit in a higher maintenance-margin tier, exchanges deduct fees and funding from margin, and they liquidate on mark price rather than last price. The standard formula gets within a fraction of a percent; the exchange's own number is the binding one.

Q: Does adding margin move my liquidation price?

Yes. Adding margin to an isolated position lowers its effective leverage, pushing the liquidation price further from entry. Effective leverage is position notional divided by total margin posted.

Q: Why can't it compute cross-margin liquidation?

Cross margin has no per-position answer: the whole account equity backs every position, so the liquidation point depends on everything held at that moment.

Q: Is being liquidated the same as losing my whole account?

On isolated margin you lose the margin posted to that position. On cross margin, potentially the whole account. The loss is roughly posted margin minus the maintenance buffer, worsened by cascade slippage.

Where a leveraged long or short gets force-closed, from entry price, leverage and maintenance margin. The formula is on the page, and so is what it ignores.

Your positionEdits recompute instantly

Market

Side

Entry price

USD

Prefilled with the live price; type over it.

Leverage

Maintenance margin

Position size

USD

Size does not move the liquidation price, only the margin and loss figures.

0.4% is the lowest Binance USD-M tier; big positions sit in higher tiers. Your exchange lists its own table.

Liquidation priceIsolated margin, fees ignored

Position is liquidated at

Fill in entry and leverage

Entry price--

Move to liquidation--

Margin posted--

Approx. loss at liquidation--

liq = entry × (1 − 1/leverage + maintenance margin)

What leverage costs youDistance to liquidation across the whole range

Drawn at your maintenance margin. The cliff is on the left: most of the buffer is gone by 25x, and the stretch from 50x to 125x barely moves the price at all.

About this data

Updated Sep 2026

Figures are shown as the source publishes them, and anything we calculate is explained below. How the data is made Report an error General information, not financial advice.

The formula

For a linear USDT-margined perpetual on isolated margin, ignoring fees:

Long: liquidation = entry × (1 − 1/leverage + maintenance margin)
Short: liquidation = entry × (1 + 1/leverage − maintenance margin)

The intuition: at 10x leverage your margin covers a 10% move against you. The exchange does not wait for the full 10%. It closes the position when the remaining margin hits the maintenance requirement, which is why the maintenance term pulls the liquidation price slightly toward your entry.

What maintenance margin is

The buffer the exchange insists on keeping, expressed as a fraction of position value. On Binance USD-M it starts at 0.4% for small positions and steps up through tiers as notional grows: a $5M BTC position carries a higher rate than a $5K one, which moves its liquidation price closer to entry. The default here is the lowest tier; if you trade size, look up your tier and type it in.

Why cross margin is different

This calculator models isolated margin, where one position has its own collateral and its own liquidation price. On cross margin your whole account balance backs every open position, so there is no per-position liquidation price at all. The account is liquidated on total equity, and one losing position can drag down every other. No calculator can give you a single honest number for that without knowing your entire account, which is why this one does not pretend to.

Using the number

Check what stands between price and your liquidation: A liquidation price sitting just below a dense long cluster on the liquidation heatmap is far more fragile than the raw percentage suggests: a cascade through that cluster reaches you fast.
Work backwards, not forwards: The better question is rarely "where does 20x put my liquidation" but "what leverage keeps my liquidation behind the level my idea is wrong at". That is a position sizing question.
Assume you get liquidated slightly earlier than computed: Fees, funding payments and mark-price wicks all eat margin the formula does not see.

Not investment advice

This tool does arithmetic on numbers you type. It does not know your exchange's exact tier table, your funding costs, or whether the trade is a good idea. Leveraged trading can lose more than you put in.

Questions

Why does my exchange show a slightly different liquidation price?

Three usual reasons: your position sits in a higher maintenance-margin tier than the rate you entered here; the exchange deducts fees and funding from your margin, which this formula ignores; and exchanges liquidate on mark price, not last price. The formula gets you within a fraction of a percent. Treat the exchange's own number as the binding one.

Does adding margin move my liquidation price?

Yes. Adding margin to an isolated position is equivalent to lowering its effective leverage, which pushes the liquidation price further from entry. Recompute here with the new effective leverage: position notional divided by total margin posted.

Why can't it compute cross-margin liquidation?

Because cross margin has no per-position answer. Your whole account equity backs every position, so the liquidation point depends on everything you hold and every other position's unrealised P&L at that moment. Any calculator that prints a single cross-margin liquidation price is guessing.

Is being liquidated the same as losing my whole account?

On isolated margin, no: you lose the margin posted to that position. On cross margin, potentially yes. Either way the loss at liquidation is roughly the posted margin minus the maintenance buffer the exchange keeps to close you out, and cascade slippage can make it worse.