ETF comparison
VBIL vs VTIP
US Treasury (Short) vs TIPS.
Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBIL and VTIP would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VTIP is 3 bps cheaper than VBIL. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VBIL.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with VBIL vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VBIL
26 total- United States Treasury Bill 6.78%
- United States Treasury Bill 6.10%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.61%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.41%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.18%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.17%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.15%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.12%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.02%
- United States Treasury Bill 4.72%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VBIL
- VBIL vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 54.3%
- VBIL vs SGOV · iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF 50.1%
- VBIL vs SHV · iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF 45.1%
- VBIL vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 35.9%
- VBIL vs TBIL · F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund - ETF Class Shares 3.6%
- VBIL vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.