It depends on the method
Deriv minimum deposit
Deriv does not publish one minimum deposit, and that is not an oversight: funds go into a Wallet first, and each payment method carries its own floor. Those floors run from 1 USD on a USDT transfer to 50 USD on Ethereum, so any page quoting a single figure for Deriv is quoting one method's minimum as though it were the broker's.
Checked against Deriv's own pages
How funding works at Deriv
Money goes to a Wallet, which Deriv describes as the central hub for managing funds: you deposit, store, transfer and withdraw through it, in USD or in a cryptocurrency. From there you transfer into the trading account you want to use — MT5, cTrader or another.
That two-step structure is why the question has no single answer. The threshold that binds is the payment method's, not the trading account's, and the methods differ by country as well as by type.
The published table makes the spread visible: 1 USD on a USDT transfer, 5 on most mobile money, 10 on cards and bank transfers, 15 on several payment processors, and 50 on Ethereum. For crypto specifically Deriv notes the minimum varies with the coin and with network fees, and tells users to check it before sending.
Minimum deposit by method, as Deriv publishes it
| Minimum | Methods at that floor |
|---|---|
| USD 1 | USDT (TRC20) and TRX transfers, where the limit is set by the network |
| USD 5 | M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Tigo and most mobile money; Volet, Airtm, Astropay, SticPay, Jetonbank; Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, TON |
| USD 10 | VISA and Mastercard, Skrill, Neteller, bank wire and bank transfer, PIX, Ozow, ZingPay, Dogecoin, XRP, Cardano |
| USD 15 | Help2pay, UPI, BinancePay, Virtual Account, Polygon, Chainlink, Solana, Tether (ERC20/TRC20/BEP20) |
| USD 20 | Bitcoin |
| USD 25 | USD Coin, BNB, Voucherry |
| USD 50 | Ethereum, Pay Retailers |
Source: Deriv's payment methods page, captured 23 August 2026. Withdrawal minimums are set separately and are not always the same figure; both are per transaction and quoted in USD.
What to check instead of a headline figure
The minimum for your chosen method, on Deriv's payment methods page, in the currency you will send. Then the withdrawal minimum for the same method, because they are set separately and the second one is what matters when you want the money back.
And what the deposit is for: a minimum that gets you funded is not the same as an amount that lets you trade sensibly. Our page on minimum deposits works that arithmetic out across nine brokers — a 0.01-lot position on EUR/USD costs about $5 per fifty pips, which is the number to size the deposit against.
Questions people ask
What is Deriv's minimum deposit?
There is no single figure. Its published floors run from 1 USD on a USDT transfer through 5 USD on mobile money, 10 USD on cards and bank transfers, to 50 USD on Ethereum — funds enter a Wallet first, and the method sets the minimum.
Why do other sites quote one number for Deriv?
Because they are quoting the minimum of one payment method as if it applied to the broker. The common answers — 5 USD and 10 USD — are the mobile money and card floors respectively, and both are real for the method they describe.
How much should I actually deposit?
Enough to trade the smallest position and survive a run of losses at that size: about $5 per fifty pips on a 0.01-lot EUR/USD position, plus room for several of them. And never more than you can lose entirely.
The broker itself is reviewed on our Deriv page, its instruments on synthetic indices, and the entity question across all nine brokers on regulated forex brokers.