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Cheapest S&P 500 index ETFs

As of Oct 14, 2026, 4 index ETFs track the S&P 500 by their own prospectus. SPYM is the cheapest at 0.02% a year. See 4 funds ranked by fee, lowest first. Updated Oct 14, 2026.

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Cheapest S&P 500 index ETFs
#	Ticker	Fund	Fee ↑	Net assets	Total return 1Y	12-month yield	Index it names
1	SPYM	State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF	0.02%	$185.2bn	+17.5%	1.2%	S&P 500 Index
2	VOO	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF	0.03%	$1.0tn	+17.6%	1.2%	S&P 500 Index
3	IVV	iShares Core S&P 500 ETF	0.03%	$886.5bn	+17.5%	1.3%	S&P 500
4	SPY	SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	0.09%	$823.2bn	+17.5%	1.1%	S&P 500 Index

Cheapest S&P 500 index ETFs, ranked by fee, lowest first, as of Oct 14, 2026. Total return 1Y runs over each fund’s year, from Oct 14, 2025 to Oct 14, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

Method

Index ETFs whose own prospectus names the S&P 500 as the index they track, lowest fee first.

The rest of the method

4 funds qualify and every one is listed, in this order: fee, lowest first. Figures are rounded to the digit printed before they are compared with a line. Each row’s own dates are in screener.json, which holds every figure on this page and the rule that selects it. The list sorts one published figure, with no scoring or weighting. Every ETF ETFIQ covers is eligible. A fund that has closed is on no list.

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Where these figures came from

SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings ↗SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds ↗Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ↗

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