Trading fees
Fees differ by venue. This page explains what you pay and who charges it.
The cost that applies to your order is shown in the order panel before you confirm it.
1. Fees by venue
Stock orders carry no Alphio fee — you pay only what your broker charges. On Hyperliquid and Polymarket, Alphio earns a builder fee on orders routed through it, charged at execution. Tokens trades carry an Alphio service fee plus network costs. Alphio does not take a share of your profits.
Alphio's fee rates (percentages are of the trade's notional value):
| Venue | Alphio fee |
|---|---|
| Hyperliquid (perps, spot and HIP-3 markets) | Builder fee 0.1% on every fill |
| Tokens: meme coins on Solana | 1% (minimum $0.10 per trade), plus a flat $0.20 service fee on buys |
| Tokens: meme coins on EVM chains (BSC, Robinhood Chain) | 0.5% |
| Tokens: blue-chip tokens routed on Solana | 0.05%, plus a flat $0.20 service fee on buys |
| Tokens: blue-chip tokens on EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, BSC, Monad) | 0.5% (a minimum fee may apply on Ethereum) |
| Polymarket | Builder fee 0.6% on taker orders, 0.1% on maker orders |
| Stocks, KuCoin / Kraken / OKX | No Alphio fee |
Active traders get part of the Alphio fee back as cashback on Hyperliquid and Tokens trades (sections 3 and 4).
| Venue | Fee components | Who charges | Settlement currency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broker (stocks) | Broker commission + regulatory fees | Your connected broker | USD |
| Hyperliquid (Perps) | Taker / maker fee + Alphio builder fee + funding rate | Hyperliquid (+ Alphio) | USDC |
| Tokens | Alphio service fee + network gas (+ a bridge fee on some routes) | Alphio (+ network) | Shown in the trade panel |
| Polymarket | Polymarket taker fee + Alphio builder fee | Polymarket (+ Alphio) | pUSD |
| KuCoin, Kraken, OKX (earlier connections) | Exchange trading fees | The exchange | Per your exchange account |
Custom Credits purchases (used inside Alphio for AI features, not for trading) are a separate path covered in section 8.
2. Broker (stock) fees
Stock orders execute at your connected broker. Alphio adds no fee — what you pay is what the broker charges.
- Per-share commission — some brokers charge a small fee per share routed.
- Per-trade commission — other brokers (especially zero-commission US brokers) charge nothing per share but may charge for special order types or markets.
- Regulatory fees — small SEC / TAF / exchange fees pass through unchanged.
Your broker's estimate of price and fees is shown when you check an order, before you confirm it.
3. Hyperliquid fees
Hyperliquid perp orders carry these costs:
- Taker fee — paid by orders that execute immediately against the book. Charged by Hyperliquid.
- Maker fee — paid (or rebated, depending on tier) by orders that rest on the book. Charged by Hyperliquid.
- Builder fee — Alphio is registered as a builder on Hyperliquid and charges 0.1% of the notional value on every fill of an order placed through Alphio — perps, spot and HIP-3 markets alike, including copy trades. It is charged by Hyperliquid at execution. When you enable trading, you approve Alphio's builder fee up to this 0.1% cap. HIP-3 markets may also carry fees set by the market's deployer.
- Funding rate — periodic payment exchanged between longs and shorts, set by Hyperliquid. Funding can be positive or negative; it accrues against open positions.
The order panel shows your taker / maker rates and an Est. fee for the order — for opening, and for a round trip — as a share of the position size. Hyperliquid's own rates follow its published fee schedule and tier system. See Hyperliquid Perpetuals.
Cashback — from October 30, 2026, 08:00 UTC, part of the builder fee is returned based on your Hyperliquid trading volume over the last 30 days:
| 30-day Hyperliquid volume | Cashback (of notional) | Net Alphio fee |
|---|---|---|
| Under $50,000 | — | 0.100% |
| $50,000 or more | 0.010% | 0.090% |
| $200,000 or more | 0.015% | 0.085% |
| $800,000 or more | 0.020% | 0.080% |
Cashback is added to your Rewards earnings and paid out with them.
4. Tokens fees
Buying or selling on Crypto Trade ▸ Tokens shows the costs in the trade panel before you confirm:
- Service fee — Alphio's fee on the trade:
- Meme coins on Solana — 1% of the amount, with a minimum of $0.10 per trade, plus a flat $0.20 service fee on each buy. On sells there is no flat fee, and the $0.10 minimum never exceeds 10% of the sale. Buy fees come out of the USDC you spend; sell fees come out of the USDC you receive.
- Meme coins on EVM chains (BSC, Robinhood Chain) — 0.5%, no minimum and no flat fee.
- Blue-chip tokens routed on Solana (such as BTC, ETH, SOL, HYPE) — 0.05%, plus the flat $0.20 service fee on buys.
- Blue-chip tokens on EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, BSC, Monad) — 0.5%, no flat fee. A minimum fee may apply on Ethereum; the trade panel shows it.
- Agent trades (Meme Agent / Agent Warrior) pay the same rates without the $0.20 flat fee.
- Gas — the network fee for the on-chain transaction.
- Bridge fee — on routes that move funds between chains, charged by the bridge provider.
On very small trades the minimum and flat fees can be a large share of the amount; if the total cost is too high relative to the trade, the order is rejected as too small.
Cashback — part of the fee comes back based on your Tokens trading volume (buys and sells) over the last 30 days:
| 30-day Tokens volume | Cashback (of notional) |
|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 0.05% |
| $5,000 or more | 0.125% |
| $30,000 or more | 0.15% |
| $200,000 or more | 0.20% |
For tokens whose fee is below 1% (blue-chip tokens and EVM meme coins), cashback is scaled down in proportion to the fee. Cashback never exceeds the Alphio fee on the trade, and the $0.20 flat fee is not part of it.
If a trade is cancelled because the price moved past your max slippage, nothing is traded and no fee is charged. See Meme coins.
5. Polymarket fees
The order ticket shows the fee before you submit:
- Polymarket fee — charged by Polymarket on taker orders (orders that match existing liquidity immediately). It is largest for prices near 50¢ and shrinks toward 0¢ and 100¢. Resting maker orders pay no Polymarket fee.
- Builder fee — Alphio is registered as a builder on Polymarket and charges 0.6% on taker orders and 0.1% on maker orders placed through Alphio, as a share of the order's notional value (shares × price). It is added on top of Polymarket's own fee.
Depositing is an ordinary USDC.e transfer on Polygon, so the network fee is paid by the wallet or exchange you send from. Alphio does not take a share of your winnings. See Prediction Markets.
6. Exchange (KuCoin, Kraken, OKX) fees
If you connected KuCoin, Kraken or OKX earlier, orders you place there through Alphio are charged that exchange's own trading fees, per its published schedule and your fee tier there. Alphio adds no fee to exchange orders.
7. Transfers and withdrawals
Moving funds between your Alphio accounts, or withdrawing USDC from your Solana wallet, carries no percentage fee from Alphio. When Alphio pays the Solana network fee for you, it recovers that cost in USDC (plus 20%, minimum 0.01 USDC). Any bridge or protocol fees on the route (for example Relay, Circle or Hyperliquid's own fees) are shown in the quote before you confirm.
8. Custom Credits purchase fees
Custom Credits (à la carte Credits top-ups, outside the subscription cycle) are paid for through a payment service provider (PSP) — currently Stripe. PSP processing fees apply on every charge.
- Stripe fees — standard card / wallet processing fees per Stripe's published rates for your region.
- No FX margin from Alphio — currency conversion (if any) follows Stripe's published FX handling.
See the Credits documentation for the underlying Credits model.
This page is available as plain Markdown at https://alphio.ai/docs/trade/trading-fees.md. An index of every page, with a one-line summary each, is at https://alphio.ai/docs/llms.txt.