🪙 Crypto Converter
Live dataPrices are a market-wide average, cached for a few minutes. They are a reference figure, not a tradable quote. Data by CoinGecko.
Convert Bitcoin, Ethereum and the other major coins into dollars, euros or pounds at the latest market price. The price used, its source and how long ago it was fetched are shown with every result, because a crypto price without a timestamp is not worth much.
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How crypto pricing works, and why two sites never quite agree
A crypto price is not a fact the way a weight or a distance is. There is no central exchange and no closing bell: Bitcoin trades continuously on hundreds of venues, each with its own order book, and at any instant they disagree. The number on this page is a volume-weighted average across major exchanges, which is the closest thing to a single answer — but it is an average, not a price you can trade at.
That is why the figure here, the one on your exchange and the one a news site quotes will differ by a fraction of a percent, and occasionally by more when markets move fast. None of them is wrong. They are measuring slightly different things.
Using the converter
- Enter the amount of coin you hold or want to buy.
- Pick the coin, then the currency to convert into.
- If you want a realistic figure rather than a reference one, put your exchange's trading fee in the fee box — most are between 0.1% and 1.5%.
- Read the price used, and the timestamp beside it. If it says the data is an hour old and the market is moving, refresh before relying on it.
The table underneath shows the major coins at the same moment in your chosen currency, with the 24-hour change. It is there so you can sanity-check a single conversion against the wider market: if one coin has moved 30% while everything else is flat, that is worth understanding before acting on it.
Mid-market price against what you actually get
The gap between the reference price and your result has three parts, and together they are much larger than people expect on a small trade.
| Cost | Typical | On $1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Reference price | — | $1,000.00 |
| Spread (buy above mid) | 0.05% – 0.5% | $0.50 – $5.00 |
| Trading fee | 0.1% – 1.5% | $1.00 – $15.00 |
| Network fee to withdraw | Fixed, varies | $0.50 – $15.00 |
| Total friction | — | $2.00 – $35.00 |
The spread is the part that hides: an exchange advertising “zero commission” is almost always taking a wider spread instead, which costs the same money without appearing on the receipt. Compare the price you are actually offered against the reference price here, and the difference is the real fee.
Buying and selling are not symmetrical. You buy above the mid price and sell below it, so a round trip pays the spread twice before any commission. The crypto profit calculator works out the price a position has to reach before it is level.
Stablecoins are not all the same
Tether and USD Coin are designed to hold a value of one dollar, and most of the time they do, trading within a fraction of a cent. They are not dollars, though. A stablecoin is a claim on an issuer who says they hold reserves, and that claim has broken before — in March 2023 USDC fell to about 88 cents for a weekend when part of its reserves sat in a failed bank, and recovered when the deposits were guaranteed.
So a conversion into USDT or USDC is not the same as a conversion into dollars, even when the number is almost identical. If the point is to hold value rather than to move between trades, the distinction matters.
Why the price moves so much
Crypto has no earnings, no yield and no central bank setting a rate, so there is no anchor that pulls the price back to a fundamental value the way a dividend does for a share. Price is set entirely by what the next buyer will pay. Add a market that never closes, leverage that is widely available, and a supply that is often concentrated in few hands, and daily moves of 5% are ordinary where the same move in a currency pair would be extraordinary.
It is worth being plain about what that means: volatility is not a temporary feature that settles down. It is a consequence of how the asset is priced. Converting a figure today tells you about today.
A worked example
You hold 0.25 BTC and want to know what it is worth in euros. At a reference price of €62,700, that is €15,675. Your exchange charges 1.5%, so you would receive about €15,440 — €235 less. If you then withdraw the euros to a bank, there may be a further fixed fee. The reference figure was never wrong; it simply answered a different question from “what lands in my account”.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Where do these crypto prices come from?
From CoinGecko, which aggregates order books across major exchanges into a volume-weighted average. The page shows the source and how long ago the data was fetched, because a crypto price without a timestamp tells you very little.
How often do the prices update?
The page caches prices for a few minutes rather than calling the price feed on every visit, so the figure can be up to a few minutes old. The timestamp beside the result tells you exactly how old. In a fast-moving market, refresh before acting on it.
Why is the price here different from my exchange?
Because there is no single crypto price. Each exchange has its own order book, and this figure is an average across many of them. Your exchange also quotes you a buy price above the mid and a sell price below it, so its number will differ by the spread even at the same instant.
Does the converter include fees?
Only if you enter one. Leave the fee box at zero and you get the reference mid-market figure; enter your exchange's trading fee and the result reflects what you would actually receive. The spread and any network withdrawal fee are on top of that.
Is a stablecoin the same as a dollar?
No. A stablecoin aims to track the dollar and usually does, but it is a claim on an issuer rather than a bank deposit. USDC traded near 88 cents for a weekend in March 2023 when part of its reserves were caught in a bank failure, which is a reminder that the peg is a design goal, not a guarantee.
Can I use this for tax or accounting?
Treat it as an estimate. Most tax authorities require the rate at the exact time of the transaction from a consistent, documented source, and some specify which. Use your exchange's own records as the primary document and this as a cross-check.
Which coins are included?
The fifteen largest by market capitalisation, which covers the overwhelming majority of trading volume. Smaller coins are deliberately left out: thin order books make their quoted prices much less reliable, and an average across venues means less when only one venue has real liquidity.
Sources
The formulas and reference figures on this page were checked against the primary sources below.