Trading bot fees explained
Trading bot fees are four lines, not one: the platform rate the tool publishes, gas, the priority fee that gets your order included, and slippage on the fill. The standard is 1% per trade, paid again when you sell. A low published rate is not a low real cost. Here is each line, tool by tool, with the arithmetic.
- What you pay
- 4 linesPlatform fee, gas, priority fee and slippage
- Standard rate
- 1% a tradePaid on the buy, then again on the sell
- Round trip at 1%
- $2 on $100Before gas, priority fees and slippage
- Published range
- 0% to 2%From Sigma on Solana to copyfomo; 0.5% at Banana Gun on manual Ethereum trades Rates tool by tool
- With cashback
- 0.60% neto1.exchange’s top tier; Axiom’s is 0.75%. Both need volume. What the label hides
- Referral discount
- 10% offAt Axiom, Trojan, fomo and copyfomo; GMGN, Maestro and BONKbot publish none. Who gives what
- Slippage on memecoins
- 30–50%GMGN’s advice, and the setting most likely to cost more than the platform fee. The hidden lines
Checked 22 October 2026
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Trading bot fees explained: the four lines in one order
One order carries four costs, and only one of them is the tool’s price. GMGN’s own fee documentation states plainly that gas, priority fee and slippage come on top of its 1%.
- Platform fee
The tool’s cut: a percentage of every trade, so you pay it on the buy and again on the way out.
- Gas
Paid to the network, not to the tool, for each transaction.
- Priority fee
Also paid to the network. On a contested Solana launch it gets your transaction in ahead of others, and it can move sharply.
- Slippage
The gap between the price you expected and the price you accepted: a real cost that scales with order size, not with the tool’s rate.
Platform fees, tool by tool
Most bots charge 1% a trade, with exceptions at both ends. Cashback then pulls the net rate below 1%, further as your volume climbs.
Headline rate, per trade
- Sigma on Solana
- 0%Against 1% on every EVM chain it supports.
- Banana Gun on Ethereum
- 0.5%On manual trades; 1% on snipes and on other chains. No subscription.
- The standard
- 1%GMGN, Photon, Trojan, Axiom, Bloom, Maestro, BONKbot and o1.exchange all publish it.
- copyfomo
- 2%Twice the usual rate, with no documented cashback.
1% minus cashback
Same 1% headline, lower net rate.
- Trojan: 0.80% net on Telegram bot trades, after a 20% cashback
- Axiom: 0.95% net at the first tier, 0.75% at the top, after SOL cashback
- o1.exchange: 0.80% down to 0.60% net, with 0.20–0.40% cashback tiers
- Maestro: 15–30% automatic cashback; BONKbot: 5–25% by volume on Telemetry
Priced another way
No ladder to climb.
- fomo: 0.50% a trade, 0.45% with a referral code
- Terminal: no fee schedule, only a ceiling of up to 1% a trade and up to 35% cashback without tiers
- Bankr: priced by plan, free with 5 messages a day, or Bankr Club at $20 a month
Trading Ethereum by hand? Banana Gun charges 0.5% on manual trades there, half the usual 1%, with no subscription.
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A worked example: 1% on $100
Paid on the buy and again on the sell, the rate counts double, and it changes the arithmetic faster than most people expect. To work out your own bill:
- Take the published platform rate and double it: that is the round-trip platform cost.
- Multiply by your typical position size, then by the number of trades you actually place in a week.
- Add gas and priority fees per transaction; they vary with the chain and the day’s congestion.
- Add slippage last: it depends on your own cap and on how thin the pair is.
- Platform fee on the buy
- $1
- Platform fee on the sell
- $1
- Before gas, priority fees and slippage
- $2
A position that ends exactly where it started has still lost 2%. Ten round trips a day like this one: $20 a day.
The same round trip at each rate
- At 0.5%
- $1Banana Gun’s manual rate on Ethereum. $10 on $1,000.
- At 1%
- $2The standard rate. $20 on $1,000.
- At 2%
- $4copyfomo’s rate. $40 on $1,000.
Slippage and MEV are part of the bill
Slippage is the setting most likely to cost more than the platform fee, and MEV is the other invisible line. Neither is a reason to skip a tool, but the published rate is only a floor on the real cost.
- Slippage cap
GMGN’s documentation recommends 30–50% on memecoins, what a thin new pair can require. On a larger order, that tolerance is expensive in dollars.
- MEV protection
GMGN, Maestro, Trojan, Photon, Bloom, Sigma and o1.exchange all document some form of it. Photon calls its own Smart-MEV.
- Protection has limits
GMGN users were hit by an MEV sandwich attack in October 2025 despite anti-MEV settings. GMGN reported full compensation.
Referral discounts move the net rate
Six tools in our set publish a benefit for users who sign up through a referral link. Most others publish none: a fact about the tool, not a gap in our data.
What the new user gets
- Axiom, Trojan, fomo, copyfomo
- 10% offOff trading fees, for users who sign up through a referral link or code.
- Bloom
- 0.9%Instead of 1%: the 10% cashback on the standard fee.
- o1.exchange
- 20%Cashback from day one, says its referral page; its fees page starts everyone at that tier.
- Six others
- No perkGMGN, Maestro, BONKbot, Banana Gun, Sigma and Photon publish no referee benefit: the link changes nothing there.
What the cheapest label does not tell you
No tool is cheapest everywhere, and a published rate leaves out what decides the real cost. The number on a homepage is rarely the number a new account pays.
- The fill
1% on a tool that fills your order at a good price can cost less than 0.5% on an order routed through a thin pair.
- Failed orders
They cost network fees without producing a position. BONKbot’s 1% applies per successful swap only: the wording to look for.
- Tiers need volume
Axiom’s 0.75% top tier, o1.exchange’s 0.60% net, Maestro’s 15–30% and BONKbot’s 5–25% cashback all depend on volume.
- Subscriptions
A separate line from the trading fee: Maestro’s Premium plan costs $200 a month for higher limits.
The DegenBench Fee Index prices 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.
Tools used in this guide
Banana Gun
Multi-chain Telegram bot + Banana Pro web · Solana · EVM
You trade Ethereum, Base or BSC launches from Telegram and want the lowest documented manual-trade fee.
- Platform fee
- 0.5% / 1%
- Where it runs
- Telegram, Web
- Referral perk
- None documented
DefiLlama shows $1.51K over 30 days against $911K over the past year: its tracker looks broken, so this card number understates real use.
Axiom
Web trading terminal · Solana · EVM
You trade Solana memecoins on a desktop and your volume is high enough for the fee tiers to matter.
- Platform fee
- 1%
- Where it runs
- Web
- Referral perk
- 10% off trading fees
DefiLlama, 30 days, all chains: about 3% of fees on EVM chains (BSC, Robinhood Chain).
o1.exchange
EVM web terminal (Base, BSC) · Solana · EVM · Hyperliquid
You trade Base or BSC from a desktop browser and want low net fees.
- Platform fee
- 1%
- Where it runs
- Web
- Referral perk
- 20% cashback from day one
DefiLlama, 30 days: 100% of fees on EVM chains, mostly Base and BSC.
copyfomo
Copy-trading Telegram bot · Solana · EVM
You want to mirror proven wallets on Base, BSC, Robinhood Chain or Solana without watching charts.
- Platform fee
- 2%
- Where it runs
- Telegram
- Referral perk
- 10% off the commission, permanently
DefiLlama, 30 days: about 42% of fees on EVM chains, mostly Robinhood Chain. Tracked since 17 Sep 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Which trading bot has the lowest fees?
On published platform rates, no tool is cheapest everywhere: Banana Gun charges 0.5% on manual Ethereum trades and 1% on snipes and other chains, while the cheapest Solana trading bot by rate is Sigma, at 0% on Solana trades against 1% on every EVM chain it supports. fomo charges 0.50% on every trade; most others sit at a 1% headline with cashback tiers.
Do trading bots charge a percentage of my profits?
No. Every tool in our set charges per trade, not on profit: 1% is the standard, 0.5% on Banana Gun’s manual Ethereum trades, 2% on copyfomo. Some document that the fee applies to successful swaps only, as BONKbot does. Subscriptions exist separately, such as Maestro’s Premium plan at $200 a month.
What is a priority fee?
It is the extra you pay the network to have your transaction included quickly, and it is separate from the platform fee. GMGN’s fee documentation lists gas, priority fees and slippage as costs that come on top of its 1%. On a contested launch the priority fee is part of your entry price rather than an overhead.
Do referral links really lower my fees?
For some tools, and it is documented rather than implied. Axiom, Trojan, fomo and copyfomo give referred users 10% off trading fees, Bloom charges 0.9% instead of 1%, and o1.exchange’s referral page promises 20% cashback from day one, a tier its fees page shows everyone. GMGN, Maestro, BONKbot, Banana Gun, Sigma and Photon publish no referee benefit at all, so the link changes nothing there.
Why does copyfomo charge twice the usual rate?
Its card documents 2% per trade with no cashback, against the 1% standard, and it does one job only: mirroring wallets from fomo’s public leaderboard, entries and exits, with position sizing, take profit, stop loss, a market-cap band and a kill switch. You are paying for the copy engine rather than for a full terminal.
How much does a round trip actually cost?
At 1% on a $100 position, $1 to buy and $1 to sell, so $2 before gas and priority fees. At 0.5% it is $1, and at copyfomo’s 2% it is $4. On a $1,000 position those become $20, $10 and $40. Slippage is added on top and depends on the pair you are trading.