DEGIRO Review 2026
DEGIRO offers access to 50+ exchanges worldwide at low fees. Ideal for internationally diversified portfolios.
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Verdict: DEGIRO review
DEGIRO built its reputation on one promise: global market access at a fraction of traditional bank pricing. The Dutch broker, founded in 2013 and supervised by the AFM together with BaFin, suits self-directed stock pickers who buy companies in Tokyo or Hong Kong as readily as in Frankfurt — and who don't need hand-holding along the way.
Its reach remains exceptional for the price. More than 50 exchanges worldwide are tradeable, including Xetra, Euronext, NYSE, NASDAQ, the LSE, the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Hong Kong's HKEX. European stock orders cost €2 plus 0.03%, US orders €2 plus 0.05% — a €2,000 US trade comes to €3, which undercuts every traditional bank broker in this comparison. Options and futures are available on top, Asian market access is genuine rather than ADR-based, and the cost structure stays transparent. Our rating: a solid 4.0.
What DEGIRO deliberately does not do matters just as much. There are no savings plans whatsoever — automated monthly ETF investing, the default strategy for most European retail investors, simply isn't supported. There are no fractional shares, no crypto, and idle cash earns 0%. A small but irritating connectivity fee of €2.50 per exchange per year applies, Austrian investors should note it is not a tax-simple broker, and order handling assumes you know what you are doing.
The natural comparison is Interactive Brokers, which offers three times as many venues, USD interest up to 4.33% and professional-grade tools — but behind a platform that overwhelms most private investors. DEGIRO occupies the sensible middle ground: international breadth with a learnable interface. Against Trade Republic the contrast is starker: the Berlin app wins on savings plans and simplicity, DEGIRO wins on everything involving a non-German exchange.
Verdict in practice: DEGIRO is a good fit for experienced, internationally minded investors who place individual orders and want Asian and pan-European market access without IBKR's learning curve. If your strategy is a monthly MSCI World savings plan, this is the wrong tool — pick Trade Republic or Scalable Capital and revisit DEGIRO when you start buying individual foreign stocks.