Which ETFs Can You Buy on Interactive Brokers in 2026?

Quick Answer

Interactive Brokers carries every mainstream UCITS ETF European investors search for: VWCE, CSPX, SXR8, VUAA, IWDA/SWDA, EIMI, FWRA and AGGH (as EUNA) — all eight machine-verified on 25 August 2026 against IBKR's own public product database, no account needed. That includes AGGH, the global aggregate bond fund — publicly confirmable at only one other broker in our comparison (DEGIRO, via its published list). EU residents trade through Interactive Brokers Ireland (regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland) on Pro pricing: 0.05% per trade, minimum €1.25, capped at €29 on Xetra, with the industry's cheapest currency conversion at 0.002% (min $2) and no custody, inactivity or minimum-balance fees. The honest catch: the famous "$0 commissions" of IBKR Lite is US-residents-only, and the €1.25 minimum means a €100 monthly buy costs 1.25% in commission — below roughly €2,500 per order, zero-commission brokers are proportionally cheaper; above it, IBKR's percentage pricing and €29 cap take over.

The ETFs people actually search for

Every row below was verified on 25 August 2026 by querying Interactive Brokers' public product database (the same secdef endpoint IBKR's own platform uses), which returns each instrument's listing exchange and all routable order books. This is the only broker in our comparison whose catalog can be machine-checked from outside — no app, no account.

TERs come from the fund issuers via justETF profile pages. The AGGH row is worth pausing on: at Trading 212 the only public evidence is from 2022, and at Revolut nothing can be confirmed from outside the app — IBKR and DEGIRO (whose published Core Selection list carries the fund as EUNA) are the two places this bond fund's availability is publicly checkable.

One contract, many exchanges — IBKR doesn't make you pick a "line" the hard way

IBKR models each fund as one contract per currency, SMART-routed across every connected order book — so you don't pick an exchange "line" the way you do at app brokers, and choosing "wrong" never costs an FX fee within the same currency.

Example: the EUR contract for the iShares Core MSCI World fund (shown as IWDA) lists Amsterdam as its home exchange but routes to Xetra, gettex, Tradegate, Frankfurt and Milan — you buy "the fund in EUR" and IBKR hunts the best price across all of them. That's why you won't find an "EUNL" ticker at IBKR even though the Xetra order book is directly reachable: it's the same EUR contract.

Practically: pick the contract in the currency you hold (EUR contracts for a EUR account), and let SMART routing handle the venue. If you specifically want the USD lines (CSPX, VUAA, EIMI on the LSE), converting first costs 0.002% — see the fee math below.

What Interactive Brokers charges

All figures read from IBKR's own pricing pages on 25 August 2026. EU residents are onboarded by Interactive Brokers Ireland Limited (Central Bank of Ireland, ref. C423427; member of the Irish Investor Compensation Scheme).

Third-party exchange and regulatory fees are passed through where they exist under Tiered pricing; the schedule prints them per venue.

The minimum-commission math decides who IBKR is for. 0.05% only starts to apply above €2,500 per order — below that you pay the €1.25 floor: 1.25% on a €100 buy, 0.25% on a €500 buy, 0.05% from €2,500 up. At the other end the Xetra cap kicks in: a €100,000 VWCE order costs €29 (0.029%) — the cheapest large-order execution in our EU ETF broker comparison. Zero-commission apps win the €100-a-month game; IBKR wins from a few thousand per order upward, and its 0.002% FX (vs 0.5% at XTB or 0.15% at Trading 212) is unmatched whenever currency conversion is involved — with one caveat: the $2 minimum makes tiny conversions proportionally expensive too, so convert in chunks, not per-trade driblets.

Fractional shares and Recurring Investments — now on European ETFs too

Two things changed since most older reviews were written:

• Fractional trading covers European instruments. IBKR's fractional-shares page states you can invest "as little as USD 1 in eligible U.S., Canadian, or European stocks", and the European commission schedules print explicit fractional-order pricing (0.05%, min €1.25 on Xetra). Eligibility is per-instrument — the order ticket shows whether your fund accepts fractions.
• Recurring Investments covers European shares. IBKR's own feature page now says you "select from available US, Canadian and European shares" on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule, executed via fractional shares shortly after market open. Whether a specific UCITS ETF is eligible shows when you set the plan up in-app. Full mechanics and the tax angle are in our IBKR Recurring Investments guide.

For a small monthly DCA the commission floor still applies per execution — €1.25 on a €250 monthly plan is 0.5% per buy. Batching to quarterly buys of €750+ pulls that under 0.17%.