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BNB Network Fee and Minimum Deposit: Doing the Sum Before You Send
A deposit has three amounts, and mixing them up is the commonest way to send something that is never credited: the minimum the cashier states, the amount you mean to send, and the amount that actually arrives once the network has taken its fee.
No fee figures appear below. Network fees change between two reads of the same page, and a number printed here would be wrong before it was useful. Only the arithmetic is stable.
Which amount does the minimum measure?
The operator that spells this out is Sportsbet.io: its deposit minimums are the amount it receives after network fees, and it tells the sender to send slightly more than the floor. Rollbit’s article is less explicit on which side of the fee its 0.01 BNB figure sits, which is a reason to treat the amount received as the safe reading everywhere.
Cloudbet gives the same instruction a different shape. Its guide says some tokens have a minimum deposit amount, that anything below won’t be credited, and that the figure appears on the deposit screen. Its configuration puts the BNB deposit minimum at 0.0001 and the withdrawal minimum at 0.001, in different fields, so a deposit floor is not a withdrawal floor.
Who pays the fee, and where is it taken from?
From a wallet that holds BNB, the network fee is paid in BNB beside the amount: you send what you typed and the wallet needs a little more on top. From an exchange withdrawal, the screen often deducts the fee from the amount and shows what will arrive. Both are common, and the send screen says which one you are in.
Rollbit says it charges no fee on deposits and that you will need to pay on-chain gas fees when sending from your deposit source address. Cloudbet likewise states it does not charge deposit fees. The operator’s side being free does not make the transfer free, and a deposit sized to the minimum with nothing set aside for the fee fails at the wallet or arrives short.
A sum you can do in your head
Today’s figure, from the deposit screen, not from a page that copied it.
A fixed fee weighs more on a small transfer than on a large one, so the smaller the deposit, the larger the proportional margin.
If the send screen shows what will be received, that number has to clear the minimum with room to spare.
If the sum only works with the margin removed, the deposit is too small to be worth sending.
Short answers
Does a fee-free cashier mean a fee-free deposit?
No. Cashiers that charge nothing on deposits still leave the network fee to the sender.
Is a withdrawal minimum the same as a deposit minimum?
No. Cloudbet’s data keeps them as two separate figures for BNB.