Initial margin
The collateral assigned when the position opens. More leverage means less initial margin and less room for price to move against you.
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Crypto Liquidation Calculator
Estimate where a leveraged long or short could be liquidated using labeled mark prices, tiered maintenance rules, and account-level cross inputs.
Long & short Isolated & cross Mark price labeled Risk tiers & deductions
Contract setup
Position inputs
01 / Market
Manual priceBTC / USDT
Preset risk tierRisk tier 1 · 0.400%
Tier max leverage125x
02 / Direction & margin
Position side
Margin mode
03 / Exchange risk rules
Exit order type
Live tiers come from public exchange risk endpoints when available. Binance uses a clearly labeled base-tier preset because its leverage-bracket endpoint requires an authenticated account request.
What is a liquidation price?
It is the estimated mark-price level where your position equity can no longer cover the exchange's required maintenance margin and closing costs.
Maintenance margin
The minimum equity required to keep the position open. This can increase in tiers as position size grows.
Mark price
Exchanges usually trigger liquidation from a fair-value mark price, not the last traded price shown on the chart.
Exchange-aware linear perpetual math
Calcoring models USDT- or USDC-margined linear contracts. It selects the risk tier from position notional, applies the tier maintenance deduction, and solves the point where remaining equity equals maintenance margin plus the selected closing fee. Bybit uses its published entry-notional convention; the other presets solve maintenance at the estimated liquidation notional.
LONG
Equity at price = Collateral + Quantity × (Price − Entry)SHORT
Maintenance = Notional × Tier MMR − Maintenance deductionHow each exchange input is treated
The calculator keeps price data and risk rules separate. A live mark price can succeed while a risk-tier endpoint falls back to a labeled preset, so the result never silently presents spot data or a flat rate as exchange-perfect.
- OKX, Bybit, and Hyperliquid public endpoints can supply tier schedules without an account key.
- Binance mark price is public, but leverage brackets require authenticated account data, so the tier remains a labeled preset.
- For cross margin, wallet equity, other unrealized PnL, and other maintenance reserves are modeled separately.
- Always treat the exchange's own position panel as authoritative.
Base-tier preset; manual override supported
Public premium indexPublic position tiers converted from contracts to notional
Public mark + tier APIsRisk limit, MMR, max leverage, and deduction
Public ticker + risk limit APIsMargin table, max leverage, and continuous deduction
Public meta + asset contextsCommon liquidation questions
Does leverage change my liquidation price?
Yes. Higher leverage reduces the initial margin supporting the same notional position, so liquidation is generally closer to the entry price.
Why does adding margin move the liquidation price?
Extra collateral absorbs more unrealized loss before position equity falls to the maintenance requirement.
Is cross margin always safer than isolated margin?
Not automatically. Cross margin can use more account collateral, but it also exposes that shared collateral to the position and to other open positions in the same risk pool.
Does this calculator support inverse contracts?
This version is designed for USDT-margined linear perpetuals. Inverse coin-margined contracts use different PnL and liquidation math.
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