How to delete your Binance account permanently

By Otabek Mamadaliev · Sources last reviewed 21 August 2026 · What this means

Binance does not stop you deleting an account with money in it. This is the opposite of how a bank behaves, and it is the single most important thing on this page. Binance's own article says that if you still have assets in the account you should transfer them out first, because otherwise those assets will be lost and cannot be recovered. Nothing catches this for you.

Export your trade history first — it goes too

Binance states that once the account is deleted you will not be able to access it or view any transaction history or data. Crypto disposals are taxable in most countries and tax authorities can ask years later, so reconstructing your trades without the exchange record ranges from painful to impossible. Export before you touch anything else.

Consider disabling instead

Binance documents disabling an account as a separate action from deleting it. Disabling locks the account down and can be undone; deletion cannot. If your reason is security, a break, or wanting to stop using it for a while, disabling is the action that matches — and it does not put your balance at risk.

Before you delete

• Withdraw every asset — spot, funding, earn, staking and any locked products.
• Close open positions in futures or margin, and repay any outstanding loans so your collateral is released.
• Export your full transaction and trade history.
• Delete API keys if you connected bots or portfolio trackers.

Balances too small to withdraw can usually be converted to BNB using Binance's dust conversion tool. That is a tip rather than a required step — but a balance you cannot move is exactly the kind that gets abandoned and lost.

Delete the account on the web

1. Sign in and hover over the Profile icon, then go to Account.
2. Scroll to Account Management and click Delete next to Delete Account.
3. Choose a reason and click Continue.
4. Read the terms, then click Accept & Continue.

Delete the account in the app

1. Open the Binance app and go to Account Center, then tap the profile section at the top.
2. Go to Security and scroll to Manage Account.
3. Tick the acknowledgement box and tap Delete Account.

Binance says it is legally obliged to retain certain personal data after deletion for as long as applicable law requires, naming anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing rules. Deletion ends your access; it does not erase their compliance record of you.

Coming back later starts a 30-day clock. Binance warns that if you open another account after closing this one, identity verification on the new account may be blocked for 30 days or longer. You would also lose referral rebates and eligibility for activities and rewards. If there is any chance you will return, disabling is the option that does not start that clock.

Where money hides on an exchange account

Because nothing stops you deleting an account with a balance, the withdrawal sweep has to be thorough rather than approximate. Assets sit in more places on Binance than on almost any platform here, and the forgotten ones are exactly what gets lost.

• Spot and Funding wallets are separate balances, and people routinely empty one while the other still holds something.
• Earn, Savings and Staking hold assets that must be redeemed first, and locked products may have a fixed term or a redemption delay before the funds are movable at all.
• Margin and Futures carry collateral that is only released once positions are closed and loans repaid.
• Sub-accounts are their own wallets and are easy to forget entirely.
• Dust — balances too small to withdraw — can usually be converted to BNB, which is the only way to get it above a withdrawal minimum.
• Pending deposits and in-flight withdrawals need to settle before you do anything final.

Check the total balance reads zero on the account overview before you delete. Not "I think I moved it all" — the number on screen. This is the one page on this site where being approximate has a directly measurable cost, and no support route afterwards.

The tax record is the other irreplaceable thing

Crypto disposals are reportable in most countries, and the exchange history is the evidence of what you bought, when, and for how much. Once the account is deleted you cannot view any of it.

1. Export the full trade history for every year, not just the current one.
2. Export deposit and withdrawal records, which is how you evidence transfers in and out.
3. Export any tax reports Binance has generated for you.
4. Record the destination addresses for your outbound transfers, so the trail from Binance to wherever the assets went is documented on your side.

Cost basis does not travel with coins you send elsewhere. If you cannot show what you paid, you can end up taxed as though the basis were zero — which on a long-held position is the difference between a modest bill and a serious one.