Knowing what you pay is part of knowing what you earn. The fee structure on Hyperbeat Trade is simple and fully visible in the interface, but a few concepts are worth spelling out, along with the costs that are not technically fees but affect your results just as much.
Maker and taker fees
Every order pays a trading fee based on its role in the trade:
- Taker fees apply when your order executes immediately against resting orders, like a market order or an aggressive limit order. You are taking liquidity from the book.
- Maker fees apply when your order rests in the book and someone else trades against it. You are making liquidity, and the market rewards that with a lower rate.
Your current rates are displayed right in the order form, in the Fees row, shown as taker and maker percentages. Rates depend on your trading volume: as your volume grows, your fees shrink through Hyperliquid's fee tiers. Fees are charged on the notional value of the trade, meaning the full position size, not just your margin.
If you want to make sure an order pays the maker rate, place a limit order with ALO (Add Liquidity Only) time-in-force. It will only execute if it rests in the book first.
The Hyperbeat builder fee
Hyperbeat adds a small builder fee of 0.025 percent on trades. This is how Hyperbeat sustains the product while keeping everything else free: no gas, no deposit fees, no subscription. You approve this fee once during your initial trading setup, and the maximum it can ever be is capped onchain, so it cannot be silently increased beyond what you approved.
What you do not pay
- No gas fees. Orders, cancels, deposits, and withdrawals within Hyperbeat do not require you to hold gas tokens or sign gas-paying transactions. Trading feels like a centralized exchange while your funds stay self-custodial.
- No deposit fee from Hyperbeat. Moving money into your trading account is free on Hyperbeat's side. The only exception is an external network's own fee when you deposit from a native chain or bridge in from another network, and it is shown before you confirm.
- No liquidation fee. Hyperliquid charges no separate clearance fee when a position is liquidated, unlike many exchanges.
- No fee on funding payments. Funding flows between traders; the exchange takes no cut.
Costs that are not fees
Some of the biggest trading costs never appear on a fee schedule:
- The spread. Buying at the ask and selling at the bid costs you the spread even if prices never move. Tight on major markets, wider on small ones.
- Slippage. Market orders larger than the top of the book fill at progressively worse prices. The order form estimates this before you submit, and your maximum slippage setting caps the worst case. That cap defaults to 8 percent for market orders and closes, and 10 percent for a triggered take profit or stop loss. Large orders can often be executed more cheaply with limit, Scale, or TWAP orders.
- Funding. If you hold perp positions across funding intervals, you pay or receive funding hourly. Over weeks this can exceed your trading fees many times over. Check the funding rate before opening positions you plan to hold; our funding guide covers this in depth.
Seeing what you actually paid
Transparency lives in the bottom tabs:
- Trade History shows the fee on every fill, alongside price, size, and realized PnL.
- Funding History records every funding payment, exportable as CSV for your records or taxes.
Keeping costs low: a quick checklist
- Use limit orders where your strategy allows; maker fees beat taker fees.
- Check estimated slippage before submitting market orders, and split large orders with TWAP or Scale.
- Mind funding on positions you hold for days or weeks.
- Trade liquid markets when possible; spreads are the silent cost of illiquid ones.
Keep learning
Nothing in this article is financial advice.
