Crypto Leverage Liquidation Calculator

About this calculator

Trading crypto with leverage means borrowing capital to open a position larger than your actual margin, and the liquidation price is the mark price at which your position's losses have eaten through your posted margin to the point the exchange force-closes it to prevent your account from going negative. The liquidation price sits above the bankruptcy price (the theoretical price at which margin hits exactly zero) by a maintenance-margin buffer, and it depends directly on leverage: higher leverage places the liquidation price much closer to your entry price, since a smaller adverse move consumes a thinner margin cushion.

Leveraged traders on perpetual futures and margin exchanges — Binance, Bybit, and similar platforms — calculate liquidation price and its distance from current price before and during a trade to size positions responsibly, to know exactly how much adverse price movement they can absorb, and to decide whether to add margin or reduce leverage as a position moves against them. It's one of the most consulted numbers in leveraged trading, since getting liquidated wipes out the position's margin regardless of whether the market later recovers.

This calculator takes your entry price, leverage, position side (long or short) and margin type, and returns your liquidation price, bankruptcy price and percentage distance to liquidation.