Fee Comparisons for Australians
Compare Australian platforms and instruments on the fees they publish. Every figure is read at the source, dated, and linked, never lifted from someone else's comparison table.
Compare 9 platforms on your own plan
Pearler
Stake
Selfwealth
IBKR
CommSec
Superhero
moomoo
CMC Invest
Vanguard PI
Set your amount, your frequency and your market, and the table sorts on what each one would actually charge you. On US shares the currency conversion is usually the bigger half of the bill, and it is almost never on the pricing page.
Open the comparison →What each platform charges to turn Australian dollars into US dollars
- IBKR0.002%
- Pearler0.5%
- Superhero0.5%
- Stake0.55%
- CommSec0.55%
- Selfwealth0.6%
- CMC Invest0.6%
- moomoo0.7020000000000001%
Head to head
7 comparisonsTwo platforms at a time, on the same published figures, each one carried to the point where the answer actually changes hands.
Stake vs CommSec
Same CHESS custody, same 0.55% conversion, no account fee either side. Nothing left but the shape of the brokerage, and a flat A$3 against a ladder that reaches A$29.95.
moomoo vs Stake
The closest pair here: identical on ASX-only over ten years, to the dollar. Two narrow gaps decide it, and they pull in opposite directions.
Stake vs CMC Invest
CMC is free on ASX buys under A$1,000 and A$11 at A$1,000. One dollar a month changes the ten-year bill by A$1,320.
Pearler vs Stake
Both flat-fee, both CHESS. Stake is cheaper on the ASX outright, then a lower conversion rate puts Pearler ahead on US purchases above A$4,580.
Pearler vs Vanguard
Not a price fight. Free for Vanguard ETFs and A$1,957 over a decade for anything else, with no US market and no HIN in your name.
Pearler vs CommSec
The bank-owned platform is the cheaper one under A$1,000 an order. Above it that reverses, and the ten-year row turns on a single dollar.
Platform reviews
9 of 9One platform at a time, ranked on what a single A$1,000 ASX order costs. Each review carries the line that is not on the pricing page: who holds the shares, and the condition attached to the headline rate.
Not sure what to weigh yet? How to choose a share trading platform works through the seven questions in order, and cost is only the fourth.
Super funds, on fees and the performance test
Built from APRA's quarterly MySuper data, which publishes fees, returns and the annual performance test result for every product. A free, official, machine-readable feed that almost nobody uses well.
Not built yet, and we would rather say so than publish a table we cannot source. In the meantime, the share trading comparison is live, and the guides below cover what to weigh before you look at any table.
ETFs, head to head
VDHG against DHHF, IVV against VGS, hedged against unhedged. Management fees, holdings overlap, and what the difference costs you over a decade.
Not built yet, and we would rather say so than publish a table we cannot source. In the meantime, the share trading comparison is live, and the guides below cover what to weigh before you look at any table.
Budgeting and tracking apps
What each app connects to, what it costs, and whether it survives a bank changing its open banking feed. Because that is the day most of them quietly stop working.
Not built yet, and we would rather say so than publish a table we cannot source. In the meantime, the share trading comparison is live, and the guides below cover what to weigh before you look at any table.
How to compare anything
10 guidesWhat to weigh before you look at any table, including the products we do not compare.
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