I just saw a recent tweet from Mithril Project that they are asking CZ to return their 200K BNB deposit as requirements for their token listing after their token recent delist. Im positive this info is part of there NDA which Mithril already break since there partnership is already over so theres no way for them to lie about this info. Binance is really charging a huge fee in the form of buying huge amount of BNB (by that time was 8$ per BNB).
You can check the tweet post on this link
https://twitter.com/mithdotio/status/1603356872303865856?s=20&t=5hIis_1XvXWNjdQh0ubVVgOk that seems weird. So according to Mithril it's a security deposit that they get back, not a listing fee?
What i find weird is that (i don't know the exact specifics because of NDA) least one of the companies i know got listed almost free if i have understood correctly.
According to how i understand binance listing to work, project are charged differently depending on their level of achievements and number of supporter/community backing the project, a project with really huge community stand a chance of getting their token listed on binance for free, I think shiba inu is a good example .
And also a project which really solves real life problems and have achieved a great deal in building out their technology could also stand a chance of getting listed on binance for free or for a very minimal fee.
But like I also understand it, there are other projects that really have a lot of money and want a fast track listing, some projects in this category are the ones we term as pump and dump, on listing, the price of the coin pumps to insane amount, the team and the early investors cash out big leaving the new/late buyers of that token to suffer a loss the token could possibly never recover from, this are the type of projects that spend millions of dollars paying for binance listing, any serious project would not spend such an insane amount of money just on listing.