Cheapest corporate bond ETFs by expense ratio

As of Nov 12, 2026, VCIT has the lowest fee of 44 corporate bond ETFs with at least $100m in net assets: 0.03%. 4 funds tie there. See 25 funds ranked by fee, lowest first. Updated Nov 12, 2026.

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1	VCIT	Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF	0.03%	Tie	$68.6bn	−1.5%
2	SCHI	Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF	0.03%	Tie	$11.6bn	−1.4%
3	SPBO	State Street SPDR Portfolio Corporate Bond ETF	0.03%	Tie	$2.1bn	−1.3%
4	VTC	Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF	0.03%	Tie	$1.6bn	−1.4%
5	IGIB	iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF	0.04%	Tie	$19.6bn	−1.5%
6	USIG	iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF	0.04%	Tie	$17.9bn	−1.2%
7	GIGB	Goldman Sachs Access Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF	0.08%		$1.0bn	−1.3%
8	IBDX	iShares iBonds Dec 2032 Term Corporate ETF	0.10%	Tie	$1.8bn	−1.1%
9	BSCW	Invesco BulletShares 2032 Corporate Bond ETF	0.10%	Tie	$1.6bn	−1.1%
10	IBDY	iShares iBonds Dec 2033 Term Corporate ETF	0.10%	Tie	$1.2bn	−1.3%
11	BSCX	Invesco BulletShares 2033 Corporate Bond ETF	0.10%	Tie	$1.2bn	−1.4%
12	IBDZ	iShares iBonds Dec 2034 Term Corporate ETF	0.10%	Tie	$909m	−1.7%
13	BSCY	Invesco BulletShares 2034 Corporate Bond ETF	0.10%	Tie	$667m	−1.5%
14	IBCA	iShares iBonds Dec 2035 Term Corporate ETF	0.10%	Tie	$494m	−2.0%
15	BSCZ	Invesco BulletShares 2035 Corporate Bond ETF	0.10%	Tie	$411m	−2.2%
16	IBCB	iShares iBonds Dec 2036 Term Corporate ETF	0.10%	Tie	$232m	Not measured
17	VCEB	Vanguard ESG U.S. Corporate Bond ETF	0.12%		$1.2bn	−2.0%
18	BYLD	iShares Yield Optimized Bond ETF	0.13%		$420m	−0.4%
19	LQD	iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF	0.14%		$32.9bn	−2.8%
20	QLTA	iShares Aaa - A Rated Corporate Bond ETF	0.15%	Tie	$1.1bn	−1.9%
21	GXIG	Global X Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF	0.15%	Tie	$167m	−1.6%
22	IGEB	iShares Investment Grade Systematic Bond ETF	0.18%	Tie	$1.4bn	−1.2%
23	SUSC	iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF	0.18%	Tie	$1.3bn	−1.5%
24	IG	Principal Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF	0.19%	Tie	$201m	Not measured
25	BBBI	BondBloxx BBB Rated 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF	0.19%	Tie	$121m	−1.4%

Cheapest corporate bond ETFs by expense ratio, ranked by fee, lowest first, as of Nov 12, 2026. Fees are each fund’s net expense ratio from its latest filing, dated Dec 18, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026. Net assets are dated Jun 30, 2026 to Nov 12, 2026, each fund’s latest. 1-year returns run Nov 12, 2025 to Nov 12, 2026, 365 days each. Source: ETFIQ.

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Questions people ask

What is an expense ratio?

An ETF’s expense ratio is the yearly fee taken from its assets, net of any waiver, as its prospectus states it. A fee of 0.03% costs $3 a year on $10,000.

Which corporate bond ETFs have the lowest fee?

As of Nov 12, 2026, VCIT ranks first of 44 corporate bond ETFs with at least $100m in net assets on fee, at 0.03%. SCHI is next at 0.03%.

How these numbers are computed

44 corporate bond ETFs with at least $100m in net assets are listed by ETFIQ with a fee; the 25 with the lowest fee are shown. Across all 44, the median is 0.18% and the range runs from 0.03% to 0.86%.

Lowest first. Funds with the same printed number are marked Tie and ordered by net assets, largest first.

The set is ETFIQ’s own segment, computed from each fund’s filings and holdings. The list sorts one published number, with no scoring or weighting.

Closed funds are not listed. A ranking is not a recommendation.

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