Hyperliquid trading fees and funding: what a bot user actually pays

The three costs at a glance

Hyperliquid trading fees

Hyperliquid charges a fee on every fill. A maker order rests on the order book and waits to be filled. A taker order fills immediately against an order already there, and pays the higher rate.

CryptoBoost enters and exits with orders that fill immediately, so expect to pay the taker rate. For perpetuals, the rate depends on your 14-day trading volume:

Most individual accounts are on the first row. Higher tiers and the full schedule are in Hyperliquid's fee documentation.

A worked example

Say the bot opens a 1,000 USDC BTC position and later closes it, both at the base taker rate:

• Opening fee: 1,000 × 0.045% = 0.45 USDC
• Closing fee: 1,000 × 0.045% = 0.45 USDC
• Total Hyperliquid trading fees for the round trip: 0.90 USDC

The fee is charged on the size of the position, not on your deposit. With leverage, a position can be larger than your balance, and so are its fees.

Funding: paid every hour

Perpetual futures have no expiry date. To keep their price close to the real BTC price, Hyperliquid moves funding between traders every hour. When the perpetual trades above the spot price, longs pay shorts. When it trades below, shorts pay longs.

Funding is peer-to-peer: Hyperliquid takes no cut. For you, it can be a cost or an income, depending on the side the bot holds and the market at the time. It only applies while a position is open. See how Hyperliquid calculates funding.

The CryptoBoost fee

CryptoBoost has no subscription and no management fee. It charges 10% of the bot's monthly trading profit, calculated before Hyperliquid trading fees and funding. In a month without profit, there is no fee. How the performance fee works has worked examples.

Some apps on Hyperliquid also charge a builder fee: an extra fee added to each order, which you must approve first. Hyperliquid caps it at 0.1% on perpetuals. CryptoBoost does not add one, so the trading fees you pay are Hyperliquid's own.

Ways to pay less on Hyperliquid fees

• Stake HYPE. Staking tiers give a 5% to 40% discount on trading fees, depending on how much you stake.
• Trade more volume. Rates fall as your 14-day volume rises, though most individual accounts stay on the base tier.

Fees are a small, predictable cost compared with price moves. Don't choose an allocation or a bot to save fees; choose it for the risk you can accept.

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