Trading bot fee index: what a trade really costs
The price of a buy and the matching sell on 15 crypto trading bots, worked out from their own fee pages: platform rate, cashback, referral discounts and the conditions in the small print.
$1,000 round trip on Solana · median#F01
$19
Median platform cost of buying then selling $1,000 on Solana for a new account, across the 13 bots that publish a firm Solana rate. It runs from $0 on Sigma to $40 on copyfomo. Gas, priority fees and slippage come on top.
Source: How we calculate
What the fee pages show
40%
The most cashback gives back
40% of the fee is returned at o1.exchange’s top tier. A new account gets 20% back: cashback rewards volume, so the advertised rate is rarely the rate you start on.
Source: o1.exchange5 / 15
Referral links that lower the fee
5 bots cut the fee for users who sign up through a referral link. On the others, a referral link pays the person who shared it and changes nothing for you.
Source: fomo, Trojan, Axiom, Bloom, and copyfomo5%
Fees nobody can check
5% of the 30-day fees DefiLlama tracks went to Terminal, which publishes only a ceiling, “up to 1%” a trade, with no schedule behind it.
Source: TerminalCalculate what your trading costs
Enter your usual trade size and how many round trips you make in a month. Each bot is priced with its own schedule for your chain, with or without a referral link.
USD
One round trip is a buy and the matching sell.
Cheapest on these settings: Sigma, $0 a month. At a flat 1%, the same trading would cost $400.
| Rank | Bot | Rate per side | Per round trip | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sigma | 0% | $0 | $0 |
| 2 | fomo | 0.5% | $10 | $200 |
| 3 | Trojan | 0.8% | $16 | $320 |
| 4 | o1.exchange | 0.8% | $16 | $320 |
| 5 | Maestro | 0.85% | $17 | $340 |
| 6 | Axiom | 0.95% | $19 | $380 |
| 7 | BONKbot | 0.95% | $19 | $380 |
| 8 | Based Bot | 0.95% | $19 | $380 |
| 9 | GMGN | 1% | $20 | $400 |
| 10 | Terminal | ≤ 1% | ≤ $20 | ≤ $400 |
| 11 | Photon | 1% | $20 | $400 |
| 12 | Bloom | 1% | $20 | $400 |
| 13 | Banana Gun | 1% | $20 | $400 |
| 14 | copyfomo | 2% | $40 | $800 |
≤ marks a published maximum rather than a schedule: Terminal.
No published rate on Solana: Bankr.
Platform fees only. Gas, priority fees, MEV tips and slippage are paid to the network and the market and come on top.
The fee index, bot by bot
Bots are ordered by what a $1,000 round trip on Solana costs a new account. Open a row for the exact rule, the conditions and the official page each number comes from.
$1,000 round trip · Solana
SigmaFull schedulePublished rate0%per sideNew account$0With referralNo discountTop tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- Sigma’s fee table lists 0% for trading on Solana.
- No cashback documented.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $20 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. 1% on trades and snipes on every EVM chain in its fee table.
- The fee table does not list Arbitrum or Blast, although Sigma supports both, and the page was last updated over a year ago.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account |
|---|---|
| $100 | $0 |
| $1,000 | $0 |
| $10,000 | $0 |
fomoFull schedulePublished rate0.5%per sideNew account$10With referral$9Top tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- On Solana, smaller orders pay a flat amount that depends on the route: as low as 0.10 USDC, or a 0.95 USDC minimum. The index uses the 0.95 minimum, so 0.5% applies from about $190. fomo covers Solana gas, priority fees and token rent.
- No cashback documented.
- A referral code takes 10% off every trade, for good: 0.45% instead of 0.50%.
- On EVM chains: 0.5% per side, so $10 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. Network fees come on top on EVM chains.
- Select major tokens, flagged in the app, trade at 0.05%.
- Perpetual futures are a separate product: 0.05% plus Hyperliquid’s own fees.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | With referral |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.90 | $1.71 |
| $1,000 | $10 | $9 |
| $10,000 | $100 | $90 |
TrojanFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$16With referral$14.40Top tier$13
How the fee works
- 1% per successful trade on the Telegram bot and on Trojan Terminal.
- Every Telegram bot user gets 20% of the fee back in SOL. On Trojan Terminal, cashback follows your Arena rank, from 10% (Degen) to 35% (Titan), and Trojan advertises up to 45% with quests.
- Trojan’s site promises 10% off trading fees through a referral link. It does not say how this combines with cashback.
- Priority tip presets are 0.0015 SOL (Fast) and 0.0075 SOL (Turbo), paid to the network even when a transaction fails.
- Some launchpads and Token-2022 tokens add their own fee or tax.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | With referral | Top tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.60 | $1.44 | $1.30 |
| $1,000 | $16 | $14.40 | $13 |
| $10,000 | $160 | $144 | $130 |
o1.exchangeFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$16With referralNo discountTop tier$12
How the fee works
- Cashback from 20% of the fee (Tier 1, 0.80% net) to 40% (Tier 5, 0.60% net). The fees page presents the ladder to everyone; the referral page presents 20% from day one as a referral benefit. The index starts every account at Tier 1.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $16 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. One spot rate on every chain.
- Partner (KOL) referral links start at 45% cashback, 0.55% net, since 10 April 2026.
- Perpetuals carry a separate 0.01% builder fee on Hyperliquid.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | Top tier |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.60 | $1.20 |
| $1,000 | $16 | $12 |
| $10,000 | $160 | $120 |
MaestroFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$17With referralNo discountTop tier$14
How the fee works
- Automatic cashback from 15% of the fee (Bronze) to 30% (Diamond). Maestro does not publish the volume for each tier or say that a new account starts at Bronze; the index assumes it does.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $17 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. Outside Solana the fee accrues on your account and is collected once it passes a chain minimum.
- Maestro Premium costs $200 a month for higher limits and extra tools.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | Top tier |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.70 | $1.40 |
| $1,000 | $17 | $14 |
| $10,000 | $170 | $140 |
AxiomFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$19With referral$17.10Top tier$15
How the fee works
- Cashback in SOL rises with your volume multiplier: 5% of the fee at 1X, which a new account starts on (0.95% net), up to 25% at 5X (0.75% net). Axiom does not publish the volume each tier needs.
- Users who sign up with a referral link get 10% off trading fees. Axiom does not say how this combines with cashback.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $19 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. Axiom’s fee pages cover Solana, BSC and Ethereum with the same ladder.
- On Solana, the priority fee and the bribe default to 0.001 SOL each; both go to validators, not to Axiom.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | With referral | Top tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.90 | $1.71 | $1.50 |
| $1,000 | $19 | $17.10 | $15 |
| $10,000 | $190 | $171 | $150 |
BONKbotFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$19With referralNo discountTop tier$15
How the fee works
- 1% per successful swap, on the Telegram bot and on Telemetry.
- Cashback in SOL on Telemetry, BONKbot’s web terminal, from 5% of the fee (Iron) to 25% (Platinum III), by trailing volume. Thresholds are not published; the index assumes a new account starts at Iron. The Telegram bot’s fee page mentions no cashback.
- No discount documented for referred users.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | Top tier |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.90 | $1.50 |
| $1,000 | $19 | $15 |
| $10,000 | $190 | $150 |
Based BotFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$19With referralNo discountTop tier$15
How the fee works
- Cashback by lifetime volume: 5% of the fee from $0 (X1 Novice) up to 25% from $1M (X5 Legend), claimable from $10.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $19 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. One flat rate on every chain, taken from the trade.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | Top tier |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $1.90 | $1.50 |
| $1,000 | $19 | $15 |
| $10,000 | $190 | $150 |
GMGNFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$20With referralNo discountTop tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- No cashback documented.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $20 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. GMGN publishes one flat rate for every chain.
- Copy trades pay the same 1%, on top of the amount and the priority fee.
- On Solana, priority fees and tips start at 0.0001 SOL each and go to validators, not to GMGN.
- Launchpads such as pump.fun charge their own fee on their tokens, on top.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account |
|---|---|
| $100 | $2 |
| $1,000 | $20 |
| $10,000 | $200 |
TerminalPartly publishedPublished rateup to 1%per sideNew account≤ $20With referralNo discountTop tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- Terminal states a fee of “up to 1%” per transaction in its terms, with no schedule behind it. The index shows that ceiling.
- Terminal advertises “up to 35%” cashback, with no tiers, volumes or starting level published.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $20 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account.
- Its documentation domain now redirects to the app, so the terms line on padre.gg is the only written rate.
- Bridging adds a relayer fee, origin-chain gas and an app fee, shown in the quote.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account |
|---|---|
| $100 | ≤ $2 |
| $1,000 | ≤ $20 |
| $10,000 | ≤ $200 |
PhotonFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$20With referralNo discountTop tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- Collected in SOL, from the amount being swapped.
- No cashback documented.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $20 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. Ethereum: 1% on every buy and sell; transfers between your wallets are free.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account |
|---|---|
| $100 | $2 |
| $1,000 | $20 |
| $10,000 | $200 |
BloomFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$20With referral$16Top tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- No cashback without a referral. A higher rate for Bloom Partners is mentioned but not quantified.
- A referral link lowers the fee to 0.9% and adds 10% cashback on the standard 1% fee: 0.8% net per trade.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $20 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. Bloom charges the same 1% on every chain.
- Rewards can be claimed every 6 hours above a minimum per chain, such as 0.1 SOL.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | With referral |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $2 | $1.60 |
| $1,000 | $20 | $16 |
| $10,000 | $200 | $160 |
Banana GunFull schedulePublished rate1%per sideNew account$20With referralNo discountTop tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- Trades outside Ethereum pay 1%, manual or not.
- The Banana Bonus pays back fees times a multiplier between 0.05 and 1, in $BANANA. The live multiplier is not published, so the index counts no cashback.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: 1% per side, so $20 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account. Manual buys and limit orders on Ethereum pay 0.5%; snipes on Ethereum and every trade on other EVM chains pay 1%. The index uses 1%.
- The website FAQ still says “0.5% for manual trades” without naming a chain; the fee table limits it to Ethereum.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account |
|---|---|
| $100 | $2 |
| $1,000 | $20 |
| $10,000 | $200 |
copyfomoPartly publishedPublished rate2%per sideNew account$40With referral$36Top tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- copyfomo hid the section stating its 2% from its docs page on 8 September 2026; the figure is still in the page source and the referral discount is still shown.
- No cashback documented.
- A referral link takes 10% off the fee for good: 1.8% per trade.
- On EVM chains: 2% per side, so $40 for a $1,000 round trip for a new account.
- A copy is never placed under $3, and the network’s own cost is passed on top.
- $COPY holders get a share of revenue, which is a token reward rather than a fee rebate.
Other trade sizes
| Trade size | New account | With referral |
|---|---|---|
| $100 | $4 | $3.60 |
| $1,000 | $40 | $36 |
| $10,000 | $400 | $360 |
BankrNot publishedPublished rateNot publishedNew accountNot publishedWith referralNo discountTop tierNo tiers
How the fee works
- No cashback documented.
- No discount documented for referred users.
- On EVM chains: no published rate.
- Bankr charges by plan instead of by trade: a free tier with 5 messages a day, Bankr Club at $20 a month or $198 a year, or pay-as-you-go Max Mode. No page states a cut on ordinary swaps.
- Tokens launched through Bankr carry a 1.75% swap fee in their own pool, paid by anyone who trades them.
- Solana limit and stop orders run through Jupiter and pay 0.5% when they fill. Gas is sponsored on most EVM chains, up to 10 transactions and $3 a day per wallet.
Published rate against what users paid
DefiLlama measures both the fees each bot collects on chain and the volume it routes. Dividing one by the other gives the average rate users paid over 30 days, before the cashback bots pay back later. We read each DefiLlama adapter to keep only the bots where the two figures are measured separately.
| Bot | Published rate | Fees ÷ volume | 30-day fees | 30-day volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fomoIn line with fomo’s published 0.5% on most trades. | 0.5% | 0.51% | $29.1M | $5.74B |
| GMGNVolume adds up every hop inside a trade, which inflates it on EVM chains: on Solana alone the ratio comes out near 1%. | 1% | 0.81% | $37M | $4.59B |
| AxiomAbove the published rate because the volume leaves out swaps on venues DefiLlama does not decode, and the fees include referral payouts funded inside each swap. | 1% | 1.31% | $39.3M | $2.99B |
| TerminalSlightly above the “up to 1%” ceiling in Terminal’s terms, a gap within how the two series are measured. With no schedule published, this is the only public reading of what it collects. | up to 1% | 1.19% | $5.7M | $480M |
| TrojanFees are counted before the cashback Trojan pays out twice a day, so they sit at the 1% headline. | 1% | 1.08% | $1.1M | $102M |
| PhotonConsistent with Photon’s flat 1%. | 1% | 1.13% | $361K | $32.1M |
| BloomThe least stable ratio of the set from one day to the next, so read the 30-day figure as a rough level. | 1% | 0.91% | $278K | $30.4M |
| BONKbotBoth figures come from the same third-party Dune table; half the published 1% points to fees being missed, not to a lower rate. | 1% | 0.56% | $116K | $20.6M |
Together these 8 bots collected $113M on $14B of trades in 30 days. DefiLlama fees and volume, 30 days to 7 October 2026; adapters read on 7 October 2026. DefiLlama dimension-adapters
Why the other bots are not in this table
- Sigma: No independently measured fee and volume series is available for this bot in this index.
- o1.exchange: DefiLlama computes o1.exchange’s volume as its fees × 100, so the ratio is 1% by construction.
- Maestro: DefiLlama publishes no volume for Maestro.
- Based Bot: No independently measured fee and volume series is available for this bot in this index.
- Banana Gun: Fees and volume cover different contracts: BSC shows $15.8M of volume against no fees at all.
- copyfomo: Fees include gas copyfomo bills back and creator fees on its token, so the ratio overstates the trading fee.
- Bankr: No volume series, and Bankr’s fees are mostly launchpad and creator fees rather than trading fees.
Who publishes what
A fee you cannot read is a fee you cannot compare. This is what each bot puts in writing on its own pages.
| Bot | Rate | Cashback terms | Referee discount | Failed swaps | Network costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sigma | Published | None offered | None offered | Not published | Not published |
| fomo | Published | None offered | Published | Not published | Published |
| Trojan | Published | Published | Published | Published | Published |
| o1.exchange | Published | Published | None offered | Not published | Not published |
| Maestro | Published | Published | None offered | Published | Published |
| Axiom | Published | Published | Published | Not published | Published |
| BONKbot | Published | Published | None offered | Published | Not published |
| Based Bot | Published | Published | None offered | Published | Not published |
| GMGN | Published | None offered | None offered | Not published | Published |
| Terminal | Ceiling only | Not published | None offered | Not published | Not published |
| Photon | Published | None offered | None offered | Not published | Not published |
| Bloom | Published | Partly | Published | Not published | Not published |
| Banana Gun | Published | Not published | None offered | Published | Not published |
| copyfomo | Published | None offered | Published | Published | Not published |
| Bankr | Not published | None offered | None offered | Not published | Published |
What the index leaves out
Network fees. Solana charges 5,000 lamports (0.000005 SOL) per signature, plus an optional priority fee that you set; EVM chains charge gas that moves with congestion. Both go to the network, not the bot, and they weigh more on small trades. Solana docs: fees
Tips and MEV protection. Several bots add a validator tip or route orders through protected relays. The amount is a setting you choose, not a fee schedule, so it stays out of the comparison.
Slippage and price impact. On a thin memecoin pair they can cost more than the platform fee, and they depend on the token and your settings rather than on the bot.
How the index is calculated
Every rate comes from the bot’s own documentation, help center or app, read on the date above. Nothing here comes from a test trade.
- One scenario for every bot
- A manual market buy and the matching sell, priced in US dollars. Snipes, limit orders and copy trades can cost more: the conditions sit in each row.
- Cashback and referral discounts
- Cashback is counted as a share of the fee returned to you, at the level a new account starts on and at the top tier. Where a source does not say how a referral discount and cashback combine, the discount is applied first, then the cashback.
- Unknown stays unknown
- A bot without a published rate is listed with its usage and left out of every average, ranking and calculation. We never estimate a rate a bot does not publish.
- Platform fees only
- Gas, priority fees, tips and slippage come on top for every bot. They depend on the chain, the moment and your settings, not on the schedule.
- Refreshed with the fee pages
- A weekly job compares every official fee page with the previous week’s copy and flags changes for review. When a schedule changes, the index changes with it.
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The CSV has one line per bot and chain: published rate, size bands, cashback and referral shares, the computed round trips at $100, $1,000 and $10,000, the conditions and the source pages. Please cite the page and the check date.
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DegenBench. “Trading bot fee index.” Fee pages checked 7 October 2026. https://degenbench.com/en/data/trading-bot-fee-index