Bitcoin Liquidation Price Calculator
Work out exactly where your long or short gets force-closed — then check that level against the live liquidation map, the funding you pay to hold, and which side the proven-winner whales are on. No signup.
How this is calculated
Liquidation happens when your losses eat through the margin backing the position, minus the slice the venue keeps as maintenance margin. With isolated margin and a single position the maths is simple:
Long: liq = entry × (1 − 1/leverage + MMR) · Short: liq = entry × (1 + 1/leverage − MMR)
The bankruptcy price is the same calculation without the maintenance margin — the point where your margin is fully gone. Real venues differ, and the difference is not small. Each sets its own maintenance margin rate, and both Hyperliquid and Binance raise it in steps as the position grows, at very different thresholds. Fees are charged when you trade and funding is paid or received every hour, so your margin moves after you open. In cross margin your whole balance backs the position, so the actual liquidation sits further away. Treat this as the planning number, not a promise.
Liquidation price — questions answered
How is the Bitcoin liquidation price calculated?
For an isolated-margin long: entry price × (1 − 1/leverage + maintenance margin rate). For a short the two signs flip. The maintenance margin rate is set by the venue for each coin, and it is not a rounding detail. On Hyperliquid it is 1.25% for BTC and higher for other coins, so the formula above puts a 10x BTC long 8.75% below entry, not 10%, and a 20x long 3.75% below, not 5%. Hyperliquid's own formula gives a slightly larger distance than this one.
What is the maintenance margin rate?
The minimum equity a venue requires you to keep against an open position. Hyperliquid currently sets it at half the initial margin at the highest leverage allowed for that coin at that position size: 1.25% for BTC, about 16.7% for a coin capped at 3x. Most listed coins are capped at 3x or 5x, so their rate is 10% or higher. It also rises with size: BTC goes from 1.25% to 2.5% above 150 million dollars of position value. Binance uses its own tiers, starting near 0.4% for BTC and rising as the position grows.
Why does my exchange show a slightly different liquidation price?
Three usual reasons: your venue uses a tiered maintenance margin for your position size, accrued funding and trading fees are deducted from your margin over time, and cross margin lets the rest of your balance defend the position. Unrealised profit on other positions moves it too.
What are liquidation clusters and why do they matter?
Price levels where a large amount of leveraged positions would be force-closed at once. Because those forced orders add fuel in one direction, price is often drawn toward big clusters — so a stop or a liquidation level sitting inside one is more likely to get hit than a level in empty space. This calculator checks your level against the live map.
Hands these numbers to My positions, where WhaleRoom keeps an eye on them: how close liquidation gets, whether a liquidation cluster moves into the way, what funding costs you, and when the proven whales switch to the other side. Nothing is saved until you press Save there.
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