Fees and costs

Our platform fee

	Free	Premium
On every buy	3% of SOL input	1% of SOL input
On every sell	0%	0%

That is the whole platform fee. There is no management fee, no performance fee, no withdrawal fee, and no fee on exits — including partial sells and stop-losses. You are never charged for getting out.

It settles atomically with your buy

The fee is a SOL transfer inside the same transaction as the buy itself.

Solana's atomicity means either both the buy and the fee land, or neither does. There is no state where you are charged for a trade that did not happen.

Your tier, the fee in basis points, the recipient and the exact lamport amount are all frozen onto the position before submission — so a membership change while a trade is in flight cannot retroactively alter what you paid.

A confirmed buy. The fee line states the rate, the exact SOL amount and the tier it was charged at, and the pre-execution value is labelled Signal mcap — the market cap the signal qualified at, not necessarily the one you filled at.

How your tier is decided

Premium comes from your subscription. The Free tier requires the Free channel. Checked when you open or change the autotrader, and every minute while autotrading is on. See Free vs Premium.

Costs that are not ours

These go to the network or the venue, not to us:

Cost	Who gets it	Notes
Network fee	Solana validators	Every transaction.
Priority fee	Solana validators	Auto uses a low automatic fee. Explicit values are capped at 5% of trade size and 0.005 SOL.
Lightspeed tip	The submission provider	0.001 SOL per transaction, only if you selected Lightspeed — and it applies to each partial sell too.
Token-account rent	Recoverable deposit	One-time per token. Returned when the position fully closes.
Pool trading fee	The venue	Charged by Pump.fun / Pump AMM on the swap.
Slippage	The market	Not a fee. The gap between quote and fill.

Token-account rent is recoverable

Opening a position may require creating a token account, which costs a small SOL deposit. This is tracked separately from your trading cost, so it cannot push a fresh position into a false stop-loss.

When an exit consumes the complete bot-attributed balance and no earlier holdings need protecting, the sell transaction also closes the account and returns the rent. Recovered rent is removed from trade proceeds before realised PnL is calculated — so it shows up as wallet maintenance, not as trading profit it never was.

If closing the account would fail, the exit proceeds without it rather than letting rent recovery block your sell.

What your balance has to cover

Before a buy is scheduled, and again before it is submitted, your confirmed balance must cover all of:

  buy size
+ platform fee                (1% Premium / 3% Free)
+ network + priority fee      (exact fee from the built transaction)
+ Lightspeed tip              (if selected)
+ token-account setup buffer

The check is not done on an estimate. The service reads the built transaction message's exact fee, repeats the confirmed-balance check immediately before signing, and simulates the whole thing — buy, fee transfer and any account setup — to confirm the wallet can actually cover it. If it cannot, the entry fails rather than being submitted to fail on chain.

There is no protected reserve: nothing is held back beyond what the buy itself costs. Leaving something for the sell is your call — and the sell needs a network fee too.

A worked example

A 0.1 SOL buy on Premium, Standard route, first time trading this token:

Buy input                    0.1000 SOL
Platform fee (1%)            0.0010 SOL
Network + priority fee      ~0.0000+ SOL   (small, varies)
Token-account rent          ~0.0020 SOL    (recoverable on close)
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Leaves your wallet          ~0.1030 SOL

The same buy on Free pays 0.003 SOL instead of 0.001 SOL. On Lightspeed, add 0.001 SOL — and another 0.001 SOL for each sell transaction.

Figures are illustrative

Network and priority fees vary with conditions, and rent depends on the account type. The exact amounts are always read from the built transaction, never assumed.

What PnL includes

Your realised trade PnL is calculated from buy input, platform fee and entry network fee against your actual proceeds. Account-creation rent is tracked separately and recovered rent never inflates it.

The full wallet SOL outflow is retained for audit — so the number you can reconcile against your wallet and the number describing the trade are both available, rather than one being quietly substituted for the other.