Five words, decoded before they are picked
Exness account types: what the five names are actually saying about the charge
Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread, Zero. Read as labels for kinds of trader they are useless; read as sentences about where the broker’s charge is taken, all five become obvious in a minute. This page decodes the vocabulary — spread-only against commission per lot, cent-denominated balances, the word that is not a name at all — and then says where a name goes to be looked up once it has been given.
Answer first, then where to read it back
The type is displayed, not remembered — and only one screen displays it
Every trading account is listed in the Personal Area with its own line: the number it was issued, the platform it was opened for, and the type it carries. That line is the answer to “which kind of account is this?” for the rest of the account’s life, and it is the only place the question is answered plainly.
Three places that look like they should tell you, and do not
- The terminal login screen. It asks for a number, a trading password and a server name. None of those three names a type, so an account signed into successfully still leaves the question open.
- The installed platform itself. It shows the account it is connected to and what that account holds — the pricing family it was opened under is not a field it was ever given.
- Memory, a week later. Two accounts opened in the same sitting under one registration are told apart by their numbers, not by recollection, and the numbers are exactly the thing nobody memorises.
Which is the practical reason the type belongs on a preparation list at all: it is decided once, in a hurry, and then looked up rather than known. A demo account carries a type in the same way →
Five names, decoded
What each name actually names
Every one of the five is a statement about where the broker’s charge sits, and nothing else. Read that way the list stops being a personality quiz and becomes a short piece of vocabulary.
| Name | What the word refers to | What it is not saying |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Spread-only pricing: the charge sits in the gap between the buy and the sell price, with no commission | That it is a lesser account — it is the default, and most of this site assumes it |
| Standard Cent | The same spread-only pricing, with balances and volumes counted in cents of the account currency | A shorter or simpler procedure — every step is identical, only the scale differs |
| Pro | The professional tier, commission-free: the whole charge stays inside the spread | A per-lot commission to allow for — Pro does not carry one |
| Raw Spread | Raw market pricing on every instrument, with a commission per lot on top | A cheaper account by definition — the cost is split in two, not removed |
| Zero | Spread held at zero on selected top instruments for much of the trading day, plus a commission | Zero everywhere and always — outside those instruments and hours a spread applies as usual |
Swipe the table sideways →
A lot is a standard trade size, which is what makes “commission per lot” a rate rather than a fee. Standard and Standard Cent have no minimum deposit; the three professional names carry a higher one, set by region. Minimum deposit applicable; may vary based on payment method or geographic location. What the payment side expects →
Five names, two answers
The whole list sorts into two families, and the border is where the charge sits
Once the five names are read as sentences about pricing, they stop being a list of five and become a list of two with variations. The border is a single question: is the charge inside the price, or beside it?
Inside the price — spread-only
- Standard and Standard Cent. The charge sits in the gap between the buy and the sell price and appears nowhere else, so a trade has one number to watch rather than two.
- Pro belongs here too, on the professional tier. Commission-free: the whole charge stays inside the spread even though the tier around it changes.
- Reading it: nothing on a ticket is labelled as a fee, which is precisely why people assume there is not one.
Beside the price — commission per lot
Raw Spread quotes raw market pricing on every instrument and puts a commission per lot on top of it.
Zero holds the spread at zero on selected top instruments for much of the trading day, again with a commission; outside those instruments and hours a spread applies as usual.
Reading it: the cost is split into two visible parts rather than removed, which is the point of the arrangement for anyone who wants to watch them separately.
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Cent is the one variation that is not about the charge at all: balances and volumes are counted in cents of the account currency, which changes the scale of everything on the account and nothing about how it is priced. What a volume implies, priced out →
The word that is not a sixth name
“Swap-free” is a version of these accounts, not another one of them
Swap is the fee for holding a position past the end of the trading day. Swap-free versions of the accounts exist for qualifying instruments, and which instruments qualify is shown on the official Exness website — so the word describes a condition attached to the same five names rather than a further entry in the dropdown.
The practical consequence is small and worth knowing anyway: looking for it as a type on the creation form is a search that ends in confusion, and the qualifying list belongs to the source that maintains it rather than to any independent page.
Four assumptions worth dropping
Ways the field gets misread, and what each one costs
In the order they turn up
- “Zero means nothing is charged.” It names a spread held at zero on selected top instruments for much of the trading day, with a commission alongside it — a statement about where the cost is, not about whether there is one.
- “The name describes the trader.” It describes where the charge is taken. Nothing about the five names grants or withholds anything else on the platform.
- “It follows the person.” It follows the account. One registration can carry several trading accounts with different names on them, and each is priced by its own.
- “The terminal will remind me.” It will not, and this is the one that costs an evening: the answer lives in the Personal Area account list and nowhere on the installed side of the path.
Quick answers
Reading and choosing the name — frequently asked questions
How do I find out which type an existing account is?
Open the account list in the Personal Area on the official exness.com: each trading account appears with its number, its platform and its type on the same line. That list is the source, and it is the reason the answer never has to be remembered.
Is a commission-free account automatically the cheaper one?
Not automatically, no. Commission-free means the charge stays inside the spread rather than appearing beside it, so what is being compared is one visible number against two. Which arrangement works out lower depends on what is traded and how often.
Which name is the usual starting point?
Standard: spread-only pricing, one number to watch per trade, and no minimum deposit. The other four exist for specific needs — cent-denominated balances, or professional pricing where the charge is split into a raw spread and a commission per lot.
What separates Raw Spread from Zero?
Both are professional accounts charging a commission per lot. Raw Spread quotes raw market pricing on every instrument. Zero holds the spread at zero on selected top instruments for much of the trading day, and outside those instruments and hours a spread applies as usual.
Will the same five names appear on every form?
Not necessarily. Which types a Personal Area offers, and the minimum printed beside each professional one, belong to the region the account is registered in — so the list on the form outranks any comparison written elsewhere, this one included.
Does a demo account have a type as well?
It does, chosen on the same short form and displayed the same way in the account list. That makes a demo the cheapest way to see what a name looks like from the inside before a real account is created under it. How a demo is opened →
The dropdown does not exist until the registration does
None of these five names can be chosen, read or corrected before there is a Personal Area to open the form inside. That step is a short questionnaire on the official exness.com and it comes before everything on this page. What the form asks for →
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