Crypto Liquidation Price Calculator
The price at which a leveraged position is closed by the exchange, and how much room stands between it and where you are now.
How liquidation actually works
When you open a leveraged position you post margin. As price moves against you, unrealised loss eats that margin. Once what remains falls below the exchange's maintenance requirement, the position is force-closed — your margin is gone regardless of what price does afterwards. Being right about direction is worthless if you are liquidated before the move happens.
The arithmetic is unforgiving and non-linear. At 10× leverage a roughly 10% adverse move wipes the position; at 25× it takes about 4%; at 100× under half a percent. Since most top-100 coins have a daily ATR above 3%, a 25× position is inside one ordinary day's range of being closed. The leverage number is not a return multiplier, it is a distance-to-ruin divisor.
Maintenance margin, and why this is an estimate
Every exchange applies tiered maintenance margin: the larger your position, the higher the requirement, and the tiers differ by exchange and by contract. This calculator uses a single rate you can set, which is accurate for small and medium positions in the lowest tier and increasingly approximate as size grows. It also ignores funding payments, which drain margin on a position held for days, and fees.
Treat the output as the boundary of the safe region, not a precise number to trade against. Before risking real money, confirm with your own exchange's calculator — their tier table is authoritative and yours may differ from the default here.
Distance is the number to look at
The percentage gap between current price and liquidation is more useful than the liquidation price itself. Compare it with the coin's daily ATR, shown in the result: if liquidation sits inside one ATR, ordinary daily movement is sufficient to end the position, and the leverage is too high for that asset regardless of your view.
Frequently asked questions
Is this calculator exact?
No, and no third-party calculator can be. Exchanges use tiered maintenance margin that rises with position size, and the tiers differ between venues. This is accurate for smaller positions in the base tier; always confirm on the exchange you are trading.
What leverage is safe?
There is no safe leverage, only leverage matched to the asset's volatility. A useful test is whether the liquidation price sits more than three daily ATRs away. On most large caps that means single-digit leverage.
Does adding margin move the liquidation price?
Yes. Adding margin without increasing position size pushes liquidation further away, which is the same as reducing effective leverage. Adding to the position instead moves it closer.
Do funding fees affect liquidation?
Yes, on perpetual contracts. Funding is deducted from margin at each interval, so a position held for days drifts towards liquidation even when price does not move. This calculator does not model it.
Calculations run in your browser. Prices come from the same daily Binance closes that generate the signals on this site, refreshed every day after the 00:00 UTC close. Nothing here is financial advice.