What fomo Actually Charges

What Does Each Chain Charge?

Sourced directly from help.fomo.family, checked 2026-08-20: Base, BNB Chain, Monad and Robinhood Chain charge 0.50%, and Ethereum charges 0.50% plus network fees.

Solana is priced in four bands by order size: a flat 0.10 USDC under 5 USDC, 2% of the order from 5 to 47.50 USDC, a flat 0.95 USDC from 47.50 to 190 USDC, then 0.50%.

Select major tokens are charged 0.05% instead, with orders under 1,000 USDC paying a flat minimum of no more than 0.50 USDC.

The same page says fomo covers all gas fees, priority fees and token rent on every chain except Ethereum, so the fee above is close to your whole cost. That is fomo describing what it absorbs, not something we can see from outside.

Screenshot added to this site on 2026-08-09. The schedule above was last checked against fomo's help center on 2026-08-20, and the figure that binds your trade is the one on your own confirmation screen rather than this one.

The bands are worth reading twice, because the shape looks like a trap and is not one. They meet exactly at every edge: 2% of 5 USDC is 0.10, 2% of 47.50 is 0.95, and 0.50% of 190 is 0.95.

So the cost of a trade never jumps as you cross a threshold, and the effective rate falls smoothly the more you trade.

A schedule is still only half the bill. Every month we measure what a Solana trade actually costs this month on six venues at four order sizes, adding the price impact from a live quote and the network cost on top of whatever the published rate says.

Ethereum, for what it is worth, was missing from this article entirely when we read it on 2026-08-14 and is named again now. We record what each document said and when, rather than reading intent into an edit.

How Often Do the Fees Change?

Three different Solana schedules in twelve days. On 2026-08-08 the help center set a $0.95 minimum below 200 USDC. On 2026-08-14 it set a minimum of no more than 0.50 USDC below 100 USDC.

On 2026-08-20 it carried the four bands above, stamped “Updated yesterday.” None of the three is a rounding of the others.

This page used to run a section on fomo's two documents contradicting each other, because the Terms of Use stated “a minimum fee of $0.95 per transaction” with no order-size qualifier while the help center said something narrower.

That contradiction is gone. fomo rewrote its Terms on 2026-08-17, and section 7 now names no figure at all outside perps.

It says the fee “depends on factors including the size and type of the transaction, the token involved, and how the transaction is routed,” that it “is displayed before you confirm the transaction,” and that fomo “may modify its fees at any time in its sole discretion.”

That is a fair thing for a contract to say and it leaves you in a specific position: the schedule below is a reading with a date on it, not a promise, and the only figure that binds your trade is the one on the confirmation screen.

Read it before you tap, particularly if the last thing you read about fomo's fees was written more than a week ago.

Verified against help.fomo.family and fomo.family/terms, checked 2026-08-20.

The dollar and effective-rate columns are that help-center schedule worked out at each size, not figures quoted by fomo.

The fee column is one side of the trade, so double it for a buy and a later sell.

The $50 and $100 rows pay the same $0.95 because both sit inside the same flat band, which is why the effective rate nearly halves between them without the fee changing at all.

What fomo's Own Volume Implies

DefiLlama, an independent data tracker, showed fomo's spot trading collecting $8,693,076 in fees over 30 days on $547,753,905 of Solana volume when we read it on 2026-08-08. That is a realized rate of 1.587%, more than three times the 0.50% headline.

Under the schedule fomo publishes now, a realized rate that high only happens if most orders are landing in the bands below 190 USDC, where the effective rate runs between 2% and 0.50% rather than at the advertised figure.

This is our arithmetic on a third party's numbers rather than anything fomo published, and it was read against an older schedule, so treat it as direction rather than a current measurement.

The direction is that the small-order bands describe the typical trade on this app, not a rare one.

When Does the 10% Discount Apply?

fomo's help center states it directly, and we read it there on 2026-08-20: signing up through a referral link brings your rate from 0.50% down to 0.45%, automatically, on every trade, for as long as you use the account.

This is a rate discount applied at the point of trade, not cashback you have to go and claim.

fomo words it as taking the standard rate down and says nothing about the Solana bands, so on Solana we treat it as reaching your bill from 190 USDC up, where that standard rate is what you are actually being charged.

Below there you are paying a flat amount or the 2% band, and a discount off a rate you are not being charged is worth nothing.

The catch, from the same page: a code can only be added at signup, and there is no documented way to apply one to an account that already exists. Full mechanics on the referral code page.

What Does a Perp Really Cost?

A perp you open in fomo routes to Hyperliquid through a builder code. fomo's own terms say fomo does not operate or settle it.

Per fomo's help center, fomo charges 0.05% per trade on both opening and closing a position, which is roughly 0.10% round trip in fomo's fee alone, and that sits on top of Hyperliquid's published ~0.045% taker fee.

All in, about 0.095% per side, so close to double the cost of going to Hyperliquid directly.

Phantom documents the same 0.05%, which is a fair sign this is the going rate rather than an outlier. Full mechanics in how fomo perps actually work.

Worth noticing: fomo's spot fee (0.50%) is ten times its perps fee (0.05%), which is the reverse of how a lot of trading platforms price the two.

One cost sits outside every number on this page: getting the money in. Trading fees only start once you have a balance, and buying that balance with a card or Apple Pay runs through a third-party payment provider that prices it separately from anything fomo charges.

We break down what card and Apple Pay funding costs so you can add it to the trade-size arithmetic above rather than discovering it at checkout.