Fees
What you pay on a live trade, Hyperliquid's trading fees plus syntaka's 0.01% fee, and where you can see each one.
When you trade live, you pay two kinds of fee on each order that fills:
Hyperliquid's trading fee
Goes to Hyperliquid. 0.045% taker and 0.015% maker on the base tier.
syntaka's fee
0.01% of the order's value, the same for every live order.
Funding is a separate cost (or income) on open positions. It is not a fee charged by syntaka. Practice trades and practice copies cost nothing real.
Hyperliquid's trading fees
Hyperliquid charges its own fee on every fill. How much depends on how the order fills:
| How it fills | Base tier fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Taker | At once: a market order, a trigger, or a limit order through the price. | 0.045% of the order's value |
| Maker | It rests on the book and is filled later. | 0.015% of the order's value |
Hyperliquid lowers these rates for accounts with more trading volume. Some markets created by third parties on Hyperliquid set their own rates; the order form shows them when you pick such a market.
syntaka does not set or receive Hyperliquid's fees.
syntaka's fee: 0.01%
syntaka charges 0.01% of the value of each live order. It is the same for every order type, and the same for your own orders and your live copies.
| Order value | syntaka's fee |
|---|---|
| $100 | $0.01 |
| $1,000 | $0.10 |
| $10,000 | $1.00 |
How it is charged
The fee is a Hyperliquid "builder fee". You approve it once, with the second signature when you turn on live trading. After that:
- every live order carries syntaka's fee, and no live order is sent without it;
- Hyperliquid takes the fee from your account when the order fills, together with its own fee;
- you pay on what actually fills: an order that never fills costs nothing.
syntaka can't take money from your account any other way: its trading key can't withdraw or move funds.
The rate never changes silently
If your wallet's approval of the fee is missing, syntaka asks you to sign it again. It never sends an order without the fee and never changes the rate silently. Hyperliquid itself does not let a front end charge more on a perpetual order than the rate your wallet approved.
Where you see the fees
Fees are always shown in dollars:
| Where | What you see |
|---|---|
| Before you place an order | The Fees row of the order summary shows both, for example "$0.45 Hyperliquid + $0.10 syntaka". |
| In the confirmation of each live order | The fees are part of the words you confirm. |
| In your trade history | Each fill shows Hyperliquid's fee and syntaka's fee. |
| In your Portfolio | The costs line by line: Hyperliquid's fees, syntaka's fee (0.01%), funding, and what is left After costs. |
Funding is not a fee
Perpetual positions pay or receive funding while they are open. It flows between traders who are long and traders who are short, not to syntaka. Your Portfolio shows it as Funding paid or Funding received. See the Glossary.
Depositing and withdrawing
Deposits and withdrawals happen on Hyperliquid, not in syntaka. syntaka charges nothing for them. Moving USDC to Hyperliquid costs a little ETH on Arbitrum for gas. See Funding your account.
Small orders add up
On a small account, fees and funding can be a large share of your results. Your Portfolio's After costs line shows what you kept.