Crypto Liquidation Price Calculator

How to use the liquidation calculator

Choose long or short, enter the entry price and the leverage. The maintenance margin rate (MMR) is the share of the position value the exchange requires you to keep; for large-cap coins at small position sizes it is commonly around 0.4–0.5%, and it increases for bigger positions and riskier coins. Look it up in your exchange's margin tier table for exact numbers.

If you added extra margin to an isolated position, enter both the position size in coins and the extra margin in USDT — the calculator moves the liquidation price accordingly.

The formula

Liquidation happens when your margin plus unrealized P/L falls to the maintenance margin. With quantity Q, entry E, leverage L and maintenance rate m, the initial margin is Q·E/L. Solving for the price gives:

Example

A 10x long on BTC at $65,000 with a 0.5% maintenance margin rate is liquidated at about $58,794 — a drop of 9.5%. A 10x short from the same entry is liquidated at about $71,144, a 9.5% rise. At 20x the long is gone at about $62,060 (−4.5%), and at 100x at about $64,673 — a move of half a percent, which Bitcoin can make in minutes.

The rule of thumb “liquidation distance ≈ 100% / leverage” is close, but the maintenance margin makes it slightly smaller, and fees and funding make it smaller still in practice.

What this calculator does not include

Exchanges use slightly different formulas. Your real liquidation price can differ because of:

• Mark price vs last price: liquidation is triggered by the exchange's mark price, which can differ from the chart.
• Fees and funding payments that reduce isolated margin over time.
• Liquidation fees or insurance-fund contributions some venues charge.
• Tiered maintenance margin: large positions use higher MMR tiers.
• Cross margin, where the whole account balance supports the position and the liquidation price depends on other positions.

How to stay far from liquidation

Size positions by risk, not by leverage: decide how much you are willing to lose at a stop-loss and use the Position Size Calculator. Make sure the stop sits well before the liquidation price, so a normal stop triggers first. Use lower leverage on volatile coins, and remember that the safest way to reduce exposure quickly is to close part of the position or move to a stablecoin.

Isolated vs cross margin in plain words

In isolated margin, each position has its own small pot of collateral. When the price reaches the liquidation level, only that pot is lost — the rest of the account is safe. That is why a liquidation price for isolated margin can be calculated from the position alone, as this tool does. In cross margin, the whole free balance backs every position. Liquidation comes later, because more collateral is available, but when it comes it can take much more of the account, and the price depends on everything else you hold.

A practical habit: open speculative trades in isolated mode with a modest amount of margin, and add margin deliberately if you decide to give a trade more room. Entering the extra margin in the calculator shows how much further away the liquidation moves — and makes the cost of that decision visible.