How much does Terminal charge per trade?

A flat 1% of trade value, applied to the buy and again to the sell. There are no volume tiers, no VIP table and no way to reduce the rate. The only per-account variation is a custom rate that exists in the code but is gated behind a KOL partner account type.

Do Terminal fee discounts exist for high volume?

No. Nothing in Terminal’s production code or in any archived version of the Padre documentation describes a volume-based fee tier. Cumulative volume is tracked, but it feeds the rewards system rather than the fee rate, so a trader doing millions a month pays the same 1% as someone doing their first swap.

What is the total fee on a pump.fun bonding curve trade through Terminal?

Terminal’s 1% sits on top of the venue fee, so a bonding curve buy costs 1% plus pump.fun’s 1.25%, which is 2.25% per side before priority fee and tip. A full round trip is roughly 4.5% of your position. On a mature PumpSwap pool at 0.30% the same round trip is closer to 2.6%.

How much is 35% cashback actually worth?

Cashback is paid on Terminal’s 1% fee, in SOL. On a $500 round trip the Terminal fee is $10, so 35% returns $3.50 against $1.00 at the default 10% rate, a difference of $2.50 per round trip. At 40 round trips a month that gap is $100 a month, or $1,200 a year.

Can I switch to the 35% cashback rate later?

No. The rate is bound at signup by whether a referral code was already stored in your browser, and there is no way to attach one to an existing account. The 35% figure is confirmed in live in-app copy; the 10% default floor comes from archived documentation and we have not been able to re-verify it in the current app.

How much does Terminal charge per trade?

A flat 1% of trade value, applied to the buy and again to the sell. There are no volume tiers, no VIP table and no way to reduce the rate. The only per-account variation is a custom rate that exists in the code but is gated behind a KOL partner account type.

Do Terminal fee discounts exist for high volume?

No. Nothing in Terminal’s production code or in any archived version of the Padre documentation describes a volume-based fee tier. Cumulative volume is tracked, but it feeds the rewards system rather than the fee rate, so a trader doing millions a month pays the same 1% as someone doing their first swap.

What is the total fee on a pump.fun bonding curve trade through Terminal?

Terminal’s 1% sits on top of the venue fee, so a bonding curve buy costs 1% plus pump.fun’s 1.25%, which is 2.25% per side before priority fee and tip. A full round trip is roughly 4.5% of your position. On a mature PumpSwap pool at 0.30% the same round trip is closer to 2.6%.

How much is 35% cashback actually worth?

Cashback is paid on Terminal’s 1% fee, in SOL. On a $500 round trip the Terminal fee is $10, so 35% returns $3.50 against $1.00 at the default 10% rate, a difference of $2.50 per round trip. At 40 round trips a month that gap is $100 a month, or $1,200 a year.

Can I switch to the 35% cashback rate later?

No. The rate is bound at signup by whether a referral code was already stored in your browser, and there is no way to attach one to an existing account. The 35% figure is confirmed in live in-app copy; the 10% default floor comes from archived documentation and we have not been able to re-verify it in the current app.

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Terminal Fee Calculator

Terminal takes a flat 1% and the venue underneath takes its own cut, and both get charged on the way in and again on the way out. Enter a trade size and this works out what the round trip actually costs, how far the token has to move before you are flat, and what your cashback rate is worth in dollars.

What does a round trip cost?

Trade Size (USD, one side)

What you put in on the buy. The round trip costs this twice over.

Venue

1.25% total: 0.30% creator + 0.95% protocol, no LP cut.

Priority Fee (SOL)

Tip (SOL)

Terminal defaults to 0.001 SOL priority fee and 0.0001 SOL tip. Inferno mode raises the tip to 0.012 SOL. Both are charged per transaction, so a round trip pays them twice.

SOL Price (USD)

Round Trips / Month

Your Cashback Rate

Set at signup by whether a referral code was stored first. It cannot be changed later.

Round-Trip Cost

$19.33

3.87% of your trade, after cashback

Break-Even Move

+3.87%

how far it has to run just to get flat

Cost Breakdown, Buy and Sell

Terminal fee (1.00% × 2): $10.00
Venue fee (1.25% × 2): $12.50
Priority fee + tip (× 2): $0.33
Gross cost: $22.83
Cashback at 35%, paid in SOL: - $3.50
Net cost: $19.33

What the Referral Rate Is Worth

$1,200.00 a year

$2.50 more back per round trip at this size, $100.00 a month at your trade count. The 1% fee itself is identical either way, so this is the only thing the link changes.

Gross Cost, No Cashback

$22.83

4.57% of your trade

Monthly Net Cost

$773.20

at your round trips per month

Estimates only. Terminal charges a flat 1% with no volume tiers, applied to both sides of a round trip. Venue rates come from pump.fun's published fee schedule; canonical PumpSwap pools sit on a sliding scale between the two figures shown. Priority fee and tip are converted at the SOL price you entered, so update it. Slippage, price impact and the rent on token accounts are not included, and on a small trade slippage will cost you far more than any of this. Not financial advice.

What are Terminal's trading fees?

Terminal charges a flat 1% of trade value, with no volume tiers and no discounts. That 1% is Terminal's own cut and sits on top of whatever the venue charges: 1.25% on the pump.fun bonding curve, 0.30% on a non-canonical PumpSwap pool, and a sliding 1.25% down to 0.30% on canonical pools depending on market cap. Priority fee and tip are paid per transaction on top of both. Cashback comes back against Terminal's fee only, in SOL, at 10% by default or 35% if you signed up through a referral link.

Why is there no fee tier table here?

Because Terminal does not have one. The fee is set in the app's code as a single value of 100 basis points and applied uniformly, and no tier schedule exists anywhere in the production bundle or in any archived version of the Padre documentation. Cumulative volume is tracked per account, but it drives the rewards system, not the rate you pay. The one exception is a custom discount field that exists in the code and is gated on a KOL partner account type, which is not something a normal user can reach.

This matters when comparing against other terminals, because several of them do tier their fees downward with volume. Our Terminal vs Axiom comparison puts the cited numbers next to each other rather than the marketing claims.

What does the venue charge on top?

The venue fee is the larger of the two on a bonding curve trade, and it is the one most people forget. These figures are published by pump.fun and are current as of 6 August 2026.

Venue or action	Fee	Breakdown
pump.fun bonding curve	1.25%	0.30% creator + 0.95% protocol, no LP cut
PumpSwap, canonical pool	1.25% down to 0.30%	Slides down by market cap, bottoming out above $20M
PumpSwap, non-canonical pool	0.30%	0.05% protocol + 0.25% to liquidity providers
Token creation	0 SOL	Free on pump.fun
Graduation to PumpSwap	0.015 SOL	One-off, paid when a curve completes

Source: pump.fun's published fee schedule. Terminal also routes to sixteen Solana venues beyond pump.fun and PumpSwap, including Raydium, Orca and Meteora, each with its own rate. Use the custom option in the calculator for those. Full context in the fees guide.

What does that look like in dollars?

A $500 round trip on the bonding curve costs about $22.50 in fees before cashback, which means the token has to run roughly 4.5% before you are back to even. The same trade on a mature PumpSwap pool costs about $13. Three cases, with priority fee and tip at Terminal's defaults and SOL at $150:

$500 round trip, pump.fun bonding curve, 35% cashback

Terminal fee, both sides: $10.00
Venue fee at 1.25%, both sides: $12.50
Priority fee + tip, both sides: ≈ $0.33
Cashback at 35%: - $3.50
Net round-trip cost: ≈ $19.33 (3.87%)

$500 round trip, mature PumpSwap pool, 35% cashback

Terminal fee, both sides: $10.00
Venue fee at 0.30%, both sides: $3.00
Priority fee + tip, both sides: ≈ $0.33
Cashback at 35%: - $3.50
Net round-trip cost: ≈ $9.83 (1.97%)

What the referral rate is worth, 40 round trips a month at $500

Terminal fee per round trip: $10.00
Cashback at 10% vs 35%: $1.00 vs $3.50
Difference per round trip: $2.50
Difference per year: ≈ $1,200

Illustrative. Put your own numbers into the calculator above for an exact result.

The fee is usually not what costs you the most

Worth saying plainly on a page about fees: on a small position, slippage will take more from you than every fee above combined. Terminal ships with a 20% default slippage tolerance in the normal interface, and 50% in the Inferno presets. Traders have reported putting in $16 and getting $2 back out without understanding why. That is the setting, not the fee schedule, and it is a two-minute fix.

Read why small trades lose money on Terminal before you worry about optimizing 25 basis points of cashback.

How does this calculator work?

It charges Terminal's 1% and the venue rate against your trade size twice, once for the buy and once for the sell, then adds the priority fee and tip twice, converted from SOL at the price you enter. Cashback is applied to Terminal's fee only, because that is the fee it is paid on. The break-even figure is simply the net cost as a percentage of your position, which is how far the token has to move before the trade is worth nothing rather than costing you something.

Terminal's 1% and the default priority fee and tip come from its production JavaScript bundle. Venue rates come from pump.fun's published fee page. Nothing here comes from the old Padre documentation, which has been offline since spring 2026. Our methodology page explains how those sources are weighted and what happens when they disagree.

Excluded on purpose: slippage and price impact, which dominate on small trades and depend on the pool rather than the fee schedule; the rent on Solana token accounts, which is small but real; and the mobile surcharge of up to 0.1% pump.fun applies to certain transactions on its own app rather than in Terminal.

Related Tools & Guides

Terminal Fees Explained covers every layer, sourced, including what cashback does and does not cover
Referral & Cashback explains how the 10% and 35% rates are set, and why it has to happen at signup
Why Small Trades Lose Money is the 20% default slippage trap, which costs more than the fees do
Terminal vs Axiom is the only comparison with real search demand behind it
The Trader's Stack lists the wallets, tax software and trackers that sit around Terminal

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The calculator prices the gap for your own trade size. Terminal charges 1% either way, but cashback is 10% if you sign up cold and 35% through a referral link, decided the moment you create the account.

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