Best Online Brokers in Hungary in 2026 (compared)

eToro tops our list in Hungary. It is an international online broker with more than 4 million funded accounts, offering stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and CFDs on forex, commodities and indices. It has been listed on the Nasdaq since May 2025, and Hungarian clients are served by eToro (Europe) Ltd, regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). It is best known for its social trading feature, which lets you copy the trades of other investors, picking them by past return, risk profile or other criteria.

The platform gives access to thousands of instruments, including real stocks and ETFs. You can also invest in ready-made Smart Portfolios, which group assets or traders around a theme or strategy.

eToro offers commission-free ETF trading in Hungary. Real stocks carry a commission of $1 or $2 per trade, depending on the exchange and your country of residence. There is no inactivity fee, and withdrawals from the USD account cost $5.

Opening an account and depositing is easy, and there is a demo account to practise with. On the downside, spreads can be high on some products, and currency conversion is a meaningful cost for a Hungarian investor funding in forint. Note also that eToro does not offer a TBSZ account.

If you want to learn more, check out our eToro review.

Interactive Brokers is our pick as the best online broker in Hungary overall, and it offers TBSZ accounts to Hungarian tax residents through Interactive Brokers Ireland Limited, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

Founded in 1978, Interactive Brokers is one of the largest international brokers, listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker IBKR and part of the S&P 500 since August 2025. It had 5.58 million client accounts at the end of September 2026, is regulated by several top-tier authorities and has no minimum deposit for a standard account.

It suits both beginners and professional investors looking for a full product range across 170 markets in 40 countries (bonds, ETFs, shares and more), an efficient platform, advanced technical and fundamental tools, and solid educational material.

Interactive Brokers supports several account base currencies, including EUR, USD and GBP, though funding is limited to bank transfers. It offers some of the tightest spreads in the market, and its commissions are tiered, varying with your monthly volume. For a Hungarian investor converting forint to buy foreign assets, the currency conversion cost is the number worth comparing most closely, and here IBKR stands out: 0.002% of the amount, with a $2 minimum.

Its TBSZ account requires a 25,000 HUF first deposit and has no custody fee, but a minimum monthly fee of 2,000 HUF applies when your commissions in the month are lower than that. For a buy and hold investor who trades rarely, that makes it more expensive than the free TBSZ accounts at Lightyear and XTB.

For investors who prefer to trade on the go, there is the IBKR Mobile app.

IBKR GlobalTrader is another mobile app from Interactive Brokers, built for simple worldwide trading, with fractional shares and a simplified interface aimed at newer investors.

On the downside, the number of buttons and features on each platform can overwhelm a new investor. Interactive Brokers does provide extensive educational material and video tutorials to help you navigate them.

Want to know more? Check our comprehensive Interactive Brokers review and visit IBKR’s website.

Lightyear is a European investment app operating through Lightyear Europe AS, authorised and regulated by the Estonian Financial Supervision Authority (EFSA, licence number 4.1-1/31), with client assets covered up to €20,000. For Hungarian investors, its main draw is a free TBSZ account, with no fees to open or hold it and a 25,000 HUF minimum, in line with the legal requirement. It can hold stocks, ETFs and money market funds, but not crypto.

There are no Lightyear execution or custody fees on ETFs (fund manager fees still apply). For stocks, US shares cost 0.1% per order (minimum $0.10, maximum $1), UK shares £1, euro-denominated shares €1, and shares on the Budapest Stock Exchange 0.1% (minimum 200 HUF). Currency conversion is 0.35%, which you can reduce by holding balances in its multi-currency account. Cryptocurrency trades cost 0.45%.

Lightyear also offers Savings Vaults, which invest your cash in money market funds, including in forint. Note that this is an investment rather than a bank deposit, so no deposit guarantee applies and the return moves with central bank rates.

The platform suits beginners and intermediate investors, with fractional shares and more than 4,000 US stocks, plus UK, European and Hungarian shares and a wide choice of ETFs.

There are downsides. The product range is limited, with no options, futures or bonds, and there is no demo account.

Lightyear also offers a free share worth up to €100 with our promo code INVESTINGINTHEWEB.

Still have doubts? Go through our Lightyear review.

Founded in 2004, XTB is a major player in the brokerage industry with more than 2.9 million clients. It has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2016 and is supervised by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), among other regulators.

The platform offers 0% commission on stocks and ETFs up to €100,000 of monthly turnover (0.2% above that, with a €10 minimum), plus a 0.5% currency conversion fee.

For Hungarian investors, the standout is its free TBSZ account: no opening or custody fees, a 25,000 HUF minimum and the same commission terms as the standard account. The TBSZ can hold stocks and ETFs, but not CFDs.

Opening an account and transferring money is quick and hassle-free. Beginners get a demo account and educational tools, while more experienced investors will find plenty of technical and fundamental analysis tools.

XTB also offers CFDs on commodities, indices, forex and cryptocurrencies, and its forex costs are low. You will also face an inactivity fee of €10 a month if you have not traded for a year and have not deposited in the last 90 days.

Still have doubts? Go through our XTB review.

Founded in 2008, Plus500 is a CFD provider offering contracts for difference (CFDs) on forex, indices, shares, commodities, options, ETFs and cryptocurrencies. It operates in 65 countries under 17 licences and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. With a CFD you trade on the price movement of an asset without owning it, and leverage magnifies both gains and losses.

As a side note, Plus500 Futures, available only to US users, is also part of the Plus500 group.

The main platform is WebTrader, Plus500’s own, offering a stable experience across devices including a mobile app. You can test the features with a free demo account.

Customer support is helpful and reachable through a chat that stays visible on the platform. Plus500 earns mainly through the spread, and also charges overnight funding on positions held open, a currency conversion fee of up to 0.7% and an inactivity fee of up to $10 a month after three months without logging in.

It is regulated by authorities including the FCA and CySEC, so the investor protection scheme depends on the entity you sign with. European investors typically contract with Plus500CY Ltd, with protection up to €20,000, and Plus500 provides negative balance protection on CFD trading for retail clients in the EU.

Want to know more? Check our Plus500 review.

Trading 212 is a London-based fintech that aims to democratise investing through a simple mobile app, letting anyone invest in over 10,000 stocks and ETFs. It offers a free fractional share worth up to €100.

In Trading 212 you will find stocks and ETFs with no commission (other fees may apply, see terms and fees), fractional shares and an automatic investment system. A 0.15% FX fee applies when converting funds. Other fees may apply.

Opening an account is quick and easy. On the downside, the product range has gaps, notably no bonds or options, and it does not offer a TBSZ account.

Its best known feature is Pies & AutoInvest, which lets you build a portfolio of stocks and ETFs with target weights and fund it with scheduled deposits.

If you want to learn more, check our Trading 212 review.