A savings plan is the one investment decision you make exactly once. After that the order keeps running without your involvement, month after month, often for years. That is precisely why it
A savings plan is the one investment decision you make exactly once. After that the order keeps running without your involvement, month after month, often for years. That is precisely why it barely registers what a single execution costs: on a 50 euro instalment, one percentage point sounds like 50 cents, and after ten years it has become 120 executions.
So we did not ask which crypto savings plan is the best, but which terms the providers publish at all. cryptoticker.io compiled this survey itself on August 14, 2026. The method in one sentence: retrieval of the publicly accessible fee, savings plan and terms pages of nine providers advertised in Germany, and adoption solely of the figures that stood there on the survey date. Nine objects were reviewed: three could be evaluated in full, two in part, four not at all.
The finding first: only three of the nine providers state figures complete enough on their own pages for the cost of a savings plan execution to be derived from them. Those are Bison, justTRADE and Kraken. Two others, finanzen.net zero and Scalable Capital, name trading terms but no complete savings plan details for crypto assets. For the remaining four, no reliable figure could be obtained on the survey date.
That is already the first practical result. If you want to know what your savings plan costs, a look at the product page is usually not enough. You end up in the help section, in the price and services list as a PDF, or nowhere at all. Anyone wanting to weigh providers against each other will find the continuously maintained overview in the hub buying bitcoin with a savings plan.
Bison, the app of Boerse Stuttgart, states a proportional spread on its fee page: 1.25 percent on bitcoin, 1.25 percent on ethereum and 1.75 percent on all other cryptocurrencies. No separate order fee is listed there. Account opening, account maintenance, custody including insurance cover, euro withdrawals, crypto withdrawals and deposits and withdrawals by standard and instant SEPA are free of charge according to the same page. For instant deposits by credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, Bison names 2.49 percent.
The savings plan page itself names no costs and describes only the mechanics. The plan can be set up from an amount of 0.01 euros, and the purchase can run weekly, monthly or quarterly. With weekly execution the weekday can be chosen; with monthly execution the choice is between the 1st and the 15th of the month; with quarterly execution, between the 1st and the 15th of the new quarter. According to the page, one or several savings plans can be created for each cryptocurrency, and they can be paused or cancelled at any time.
The spread is a measured gap, not a price tag on the statement. In the fee schedule for its app, Kraken states a trading fee of 1 percent on instant and on recurring buys, and 1.5 percent for custom orders. For members of the Kraken+ programme these fees fall away, according to the page, on trading volume up to 10,000 US dollars a month, where it is expressly noted that spreads and card charges still apply. In the spot order book, the schedule starts at 0.40 percent for maker orders and 0.80 percent for taker orders.
The gap between the two routes is the actual finding. A recurring buy through the convenience function costs two and a half times a maker order in the order book, going by the stated schedule. Anyone who values the automation pays for it. The fee page we retrieved carried no figure for a minimum instalment on recurring buys.
On its savings plan page, justTRADE lists 290 securities eligible for savings plans in total, among them 177 ETF plans, 15 ETC plans, more than 55 wikifolio plans and 43 available crypto ETPs; bitcoin, ethereum and solana are named among others. The minimum instalment is 25 euros according to the page, and the upper limit is 5,000 euros per ISIN and execution. Execution takes place on the first exchange trading day of a month from 16:00. On costs, the page states: 0 euros for the savings plan execution, plus the trading venue spread.
Several of the providers reviewed charge their price mainly through the spread, that is, through the gap between the buying and selling price. This type of cost has an awkward property: no fee line appears in the portfolio statement, only a purchase price. Whether that price sat one and a half percent above the reference price is hard to reconstruct after the fact.
A plain comparison rule follows from this. A provider stating 0 euros in execution charges plus a spread is not thereby cheaper than one naming a 1 percent fee while keeping the spread tight. The models only become comparable once both components are added together, and the second component appears as a fixed figure on the page of none of the nine providers.
It can be checked all the same, and before the first savings plan rather than after the hundredth. In the app, open the buy and the sell dialogue for the same coin one straight after the other and note both prices. The difference, divided by the buying price, gives the spread at that moment. The measurement takes a few minutes and replaces any estimate from a comparison article, ours included.
The providers reviewed fall into two groups, and that division weighs more than any tenth of a percentage point. Bison and Kraken sell you coins that are held in house and can in principle be withdrawn to an address of your own. justTRADE and Scalable Capital carry crypto ETPs, that is, exchange-traded securities tracking the price. At Scalable Capital, crypto ETPs are expressly named among the tradable categories on the terms page; the order fee via gettex sits at 0.99 euros there, and at 0 euros in the PRIME+ tariff from an order volume of 250 euros. Details on savings plan costs or a minimum instalment did not appear on that page.
For custody this means: an ETP sits in the securities portfolio and cannot be transferred to a wallet. Anyone aiming for self-custody is in the wrong group, and a pure fee comparison reliably hides that. Which houses operate with authorisation in Germany for this is broken down in the hub best regulated crypto exchanges.
A minimum instalment and a small-order surcharge work like a narrow opening. The minimum instalments sit far apart: 0.01 euros at Bison, 25 euros at justTRADE. finanzen.net zero names a minimum order size of 0.01 euros for crypto trading and advertises that investing is possible from 1 euro. At the same time, a commission of 1 percent plus a reduced spread is stated there, and on orders below 500 euros a small-order surcharge of 1 euro is added. The page lists 59 tradable cryptocurrencies.
This surcharge is why small instalments become expensive where fixed cost components exist. One euro on an instalment of 50 euros is two percent, one euro on an instalment of 400 euros is a quarter of a percent, and the percentage commission comes on top in both cases. Anyone wanting to start small should therefore check first whether the model has a fixed component at all. Whether finanzen.net zero offers savings plans on crypto assets could not be clarified on the crypto page we retrieved.
The execution day is mostly overlooked, and yet it is the setting you most easily control yourself. With monthly execution, Bison leaves the choice between the 1st and the 15th, while justTRADE executes on the first exchange trading day of a month from 16:00. Anyone saving there always buys at the start of the month and cannot move the date.
Four of the nine objects supplied no usable information on August 14, 2026. That belongs in this text just as much as the figures from the other five.
At Bitpanda, no fee page could be found. The address bitpanda.com/de/preise answered with code 200 but showed a price table for shares; the subpage on cryptocurrencies contained explanatory texts on price formation, yet no fee or spread details. Several obvious paths for fees and savings plans ran into error pages. The help area at support.bitpanda.com rejected automated retrieval with code 403, and help.bitpanda.com did not respond at all. This text therefore carries not a single figure on Bitpanda, even though the house advertises savings plans on its pages.
At Trade Republic, the crypto page answered with code 200 but, in the state retrieved, contained only navigation and no terms; the paths checked for the price list and costs did not exist under the expected addresses. Bitvavo and Coinbase each rejected automated retrieval with code 403. In a browser these pages are reachable as normal; our survey could not evaluate them, and we refrained from filling the gaps with figures from other comparison articles.
Clearest of all was a pattern in the page architecture. The savings plan pages explain the mechanics and stay silent on the price, while the fee pages name the price and do not mention the savings plan. Bison shows this most plainly: both pages are complete and public, but only read together do they produce a statement about cost. Anyone opening only the savings plan page is shown a product that appears to be free.
Over the years, a savings plan produces many individual investments rather than one. Every execution is an acquisition in its own right with its own date, and the tax treatment hangs on that. Section 23 paragraph 1 sentence 1 number 2 of the German Income Tax Act covers, in its wording, "disposals of other economic goods where the period between acquisition and disposal is no more than one year". For directly held coins this means the period runs separately for each instalment, and twelve months after the respective execution that particular instalment falls out of scope.
Section 23 paragraph 3 sentence 5 of the Act sets the exemption limit as follows: "Gains remain tax-free if the total gain achieved from private disposals in the calendar year came to less than 1,000 euros." An exemption limit is not an allowance. Exceed it and the entire gain is taxable, not merely the excess.
With crypto ETPs this framework does not apply as a matter of course, because an ETP is a security rather than the economic good itself. How a specific product is taxed depends on how it is structured; that cannot be answered in a blanket way and belongs settled before the first savings plan. We derived the mechanics of the holding period on monthly purchases on August 11, 2026 in bitcoin savings plans and tax.
(As of August 14, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)
