Crypto order routing
When you buy or sell crypto through your Robinhood Crypto account, we send your order to third-party liquidity providers for execution. If you trade in the app, you can choose to have your orders routed to non-exchange liquidity providers (“market makers”) or through one or more exchange liquidity providers (“partner exchange(s)”). If you trade on Robinhood Legend, your orders will be routed via one or more partner exchanges. If you trade using web classic, only market maker routing is available.
Market maker routing is the default setting for orders placed in the app and on web classic. For orders using market making routing, Robinhood receives a portion of the dollar value of each executed order from its market makers. That amount is included in the spread. As of June 15, 2026 for every $100 of notional crypto order volume executed through market maker routing, Robinhood Crypto receives $0.95 from its market maker.
Robinhood Crypto doesn't disclose the names of partner market makers.
If you place a $100 buy order and the buy spread is 0.96%, Robinhood Crypto will receive $0.95 of the $0.96 buy spread. The same applies to sell orders. For example, with a $100 sell order, Robinhood Crypto receives $0.95 of the $0.96 sell spread.
Orders are filled at the bid or ask price, not at the mid price. The buy spread is the difference between the ask and mid prices, while the sell spread is the difference between the bid and mid prices. Let’s break down what those prices mean:
You can view the current bid and ask prices on the order review screen before placing a trade.
When you trade using the app, you can choose to have orders of certain crypto routed to one or more partner exchanges via exchange routing.
Robinhood Crypto doesn’t receive a rebate from its partner exchanges. Instead, these orders qualify for fee tiers based on your 30-day trading volume of exchange routing orders. As your trading volume increases, your fee rate decreases. Learn more in Crypto fee tiers.
You can set your default to exchange routing from the order type menu. Once exchange routing is on, it will remain your default for orders of supported crypto until you turn it off.
Exchange routing is the only routing setting available for crypto orders placed on the mobile ladder and Robinhood Legend. It isn’t supported on web classic.
Order types
Be advised that because limit and stop-limit orders rest on a single order book, there’s a risk that these orders won’t execute if the target price is only available on an alternate exchange.
If one exchange is temporarily unavailable to process orders of certain crypto, those exchange routing orders will be routed to the next available exchange.
You can turn exchange routing on and off each time you place an order of supported crypto in the app. Once the setting is on, it remains the default for future in-app orders until you turn it off.
Exchange routing is the only routing setting available for crypto orders placed on mobile advanced charts, the mobile ladder, and Robinhood Legend. However, on mobile advanced charts, orders of crypto ineligible for exchange routing will use market maker routing. Exchange routing isn’t supported on web classic.
Exchange routing is currently unavailable for residents of North Carolina.
Use this table to compare key features of Robinhood Crypto’s order routing settings.
| Feature | Exchange routing | Market maker routing |
| Trading venue routed to | Exchange(s) | Market makers |
| Rebate Robinhood Crypto receives from trading venues | 0.00% | 0.95% |
| Fees | 0.00%-0.95% | No fees |
| Traditional in-app trades | Available for certain tradable crypto. | The default, available for all tradable crypto. |
| Mobile advanced charts | The only routing setting, available for certain tradable crypto | Available only for tradable crypto that are ineligible for smart exchange routing |
| The mobile ladder | The only routing setting, available for certain tradable crypto | Unavailable |
| Robinhood Legend | The only routing setting, available for certain tradable crypto | Unavailable |
| Web classic | Unavailable | The only routing setting, available for certain tradable crypto |
Your all-in costs may be higher or lower with exchange routing compared to market maker routing, depending partly on volume traded. Pricing may vary across routing settings, and neither guarantees better pricing execution.
View the Fee schedule for the latest rates. Customers may have access to lower fees depending on access to promotions.
Review Crypto availability for the full list of crypto currently available with each routing setting.
For orders of certain crypto placed in the mobile app, you can choose between market maker routing and exchange routing. You can’t change your routing setting for a given order after the order has been placed, but you can switch it between orders.
Routing of recurring orders changes dynamically based on the setting you have enabled in the app at the time each order is placed. If you switch from market maker to exchange routing, future recurring orders will use exchange routing—unless the crypto isn’t supported. In that case, your recurring orders will continue using market maker routing.
Exchange routing is the only routing setting available for crypto orders placed on the mobile ladder and Legend. It isn’t supported on web classic.
You’ll be charged a percentage fee on the dollar value of the executed amount. Robinhood Crypto doesn't receive a rebate from its partner exchanges. Instead, these orders qualify for fee tiers based on your 30-day trading volume of exchange routing orders. As your trading volume increases, your fee rate decreases. Learn more in Crypto fee tiers and review the Fee schedule for more details.
For buy orders, the total cost is equal to the notional value of the order (i.e., the dollar value of the coin amount) plus the fee. For sell orders, the total credit is equal to the notional value of the order minus the fee.