Every P2P price page treats these as one audience. They're not — a taker and a maker are asking different questions, and the numbers that matter to one are close to irrelevant to the other.
| Taker | Maker | |
|---|---|---|
| What you're doing | Hitting an ad that's already on the board | Posting your own ad and waiting to be hit |
| The core question | Where is the best price right now? | Where should I place, and at what size? |
| Who you're competing with | Nobody — you just take what's offered | Every other maker on the same rail |
| Speed vs. price | Pays for immediacy — crosses the spread | Trades speed for a better price — has to wait to be filled |
| Fee (Binance's published schedule) | 0% | Roughly 0.15–0.35%, by region and fiat |
| What actually matters | The top-of-book price at the moment you trade | Fee-netted breakeven, real fillable size, queue position |
| What most P2P tools are built for | Almost all of them | Almost none of them |
Read the taker guide: reading the book, picking a rail, checking a merchant before you trade.
Read the maker guide: where to place, real fillable size, fee-netted breakeven, queue position.
Unfamiliar terms? The blog has plain-English explainers on spread, rails, and how to read a merchant.
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