Exness Account Types Read as a Tariff
Part of what an account costs already sits inside the price it quotes; the rest is billed only when something is done. The five Exness tiers differ in where that line is drawn, and the tier that fits follows from what an account already does.
Open Exness Account →Exness prices its five account types as tariffs rather than selling them as products. On Standard, Standard Cent and Pro the quoted spread is the whole charge and commission is $0; on Raw Spread and Zero part of that charge moves out of the quote and is metered instead — up to $3.50 per side per lot on Raw Spread, from $0.20 per side on Zero. No tier removes the cost; each one decides how much of it is visible in the price. Which tier fits follows from the pattern already visible in an account's own record.
What the quoted price already covers, and what is metered
- An account type is priced like a tariff rather than sold like a product: one part of the cost sits inside the number already on the screen, the other appears only after an order is sent.
- Inside the price sits the spread. It is paid by the act of opening, on every tier, whatever else that tier does or does not bill separately.
- On the metered side sits commission. Standard, Standard Cent and Pro bill $0 of it; Raw Spread bills up to $3.50 per side per lot and Zero from $0.20 per side, and neither figure moves until an order is actually sent.
- No tier can be all-inclusive, and the reason is structural: a tariff decides where a cost is shown, not whether it exists. A tier showing a smaller number in the quoted price has moved the difference onto the metered line, not removed it.
- So a tier is not expensive or inexpensive on its own. That property belongs to a tariff together with a pattern of use, and changing the pattern reorders the five tiers without anything about them changing.
- The pattern that settles it is the one already in the account's own record — the sizes actually used, the instruments actually traded — and not the pattern intended for later.
- Standard and Standard Cent have no minimum initial deposit; Pro, Raw Spread and Zero have a region-based minimum. That is a condition of entry to the tariff, not part of its price.
- Reading a tier off its name is the common failure: a name built around a raw quoted price says nothing about the total once the metered line is added back in.
The five tiers, read as tariffs
| Account | Inside the quoted price | Metered separately | The pattern in an account's own record that points here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | The whole entry charge — spreads from 0.3 pips | Nothing — $0 commission | A record where one readable number matters more than the last fraction of a pip |
| Standard Cent | The whole entry charge, quoted on cent-sized lots | Nothing — $0 commission | A short record: the pattern is still forming and the cash consequence of each entry is kept small on purpose |
| Pro | The whole entry charge — spreads from 0.1 pips | Nothing — $0 commission | A settled record on a narrow set of instruments, on an account funded past the region-based minimum |
| Raw Spread | Spreads from 0.0 pips | Up to $3.50 per side per lot | A record where the weight sits in the size of positions rather than in how many were opened |
| Zero | 0.0 pip spreads on top instruments | From $0.20 per side | A record that stays inside the top instruments, where the narrow quoted price actually applies |
Why no tier can be all-inclusive
A tariff is a way of splitting one bill into lines, and splitting is all it can do. Whatever is taken out of the quoted price has to reappear on a line that is billed by the action, because nothing about the service got smaller when the label changed.
That is why a tier that came out ahead on every line at once would be a contradiction rather than a bargain. Standard and Standard Cent put the whole charge into the quoted price and meter nothing. Raw Spread and Zero pull the quoted price down towards zero and meter the difference. Both arrangements are descriptions of the same service.
The consequence is that the comparison is never between tiers alone. It is between a tier and a pattern of use, and the same five tiers can come out in a different order against two different patterns without a single figure about them changing.
Reading the record instead of the label
An account leaves a record of what it actually did: how large the positions were and which instruments they were in. That record is the only input to the tariff question that is not a forecast, and it is already sitting in the account history.
The reading is short. Sizes that stay modest across a wide spread of instruments point at a tariff where nothing is metered, because a per-side charge is indifferent to how small the position was. Sizes that run large inside a narrow set of instruments point the other way, because there the quoted price is the dominant line and pulling it down is worth a separate charge.
What a record cannot support is a tier chosen for the trader someone plans to become. A tariff picked for an imagined pattern is billed against the real one, and the gap between the two is paid on every order until the reading is redone.
Turning a record into a tier, in order
- Take the account's own history rather than an intention: the positions that were actually opened, in the instruments they were actually opened in.
- Split the tariff into its two questions — what the quoted price covers and what is billed on the action — and answer them one at a time.
- Read the typical size first. It decides how much weight the metered line carries, because a per-side or per-lot charge is indifferent to how small the position was.
- Read the instrument set second. A tier whose narrow quoted price holds on top instruments is a different proposition for an account that stays inside that set than for one that does not.
- Check the entry condition last: no minimum initial deposit on Standard and Standard Cent, a region-based minimum on Pro, Raw Spread and Zero.
- Write down which line the choice was made on. A choice recorded as a line rather than as a name can be rechecked later against a record that has moved.
Trading CFDs carries a risk of loss. A tariff that suits a pattern does not make the pattern profitable — it only makes the cost of it legible.