fomo Fees: What the fomo App Charges at Each Trade Size

fomo fees look like one number, and the number everyone repeats is 0.50%. That is real for larger trades. It is also not the schedule. On Solana, fomo prices trades in four bands by order size, and the band you land in matters more than the headline does. Here is the whole thing, worked out in dollars, with the date we read each document.

Source: fomo, official product image

The fee schedule, as the help center states it

Every row below comes from help.fomo.family. Rates vary by network, and Solana is the one priced in bands:

Last verified: August 20, 2026. The article carried an "Updated yesterday" stamp when we read it, so the schedule above changed on or about August 19.

The same help-center article says fomo covers "all gas fees, priority fees, and token rent" on Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad and Robinhood Chain, and that on Ethereum "network fees are passed through due to higher on-chain costs." It defines token rent as "the one-time blockchain cost of opening a token account when you buy a token for the first time," which is a real charge on Solana that many apps pass on and fomo says it absorbs. That is fomo's statement about its own product, and it is the reason the percentage above is close to the whole cost everywhere except Ethereum.

One cost in that article is neither fomo's nor the network's: "tokens launched through certain launchpads may include a small contract-level fee," set by the token's creators. Nothing fomo publishes covers what those are on any given token.

The trading fee is not the only line item either. What deposits and withdrawals cost is the other half of the total, and it is the half people forget to add up. A separate thing again is a charge that never lands: if a deposit is declined or an order will not fill, no fee schedule explains it, so when a payment or trade fails covers what each message means and what to do about it.

What each band costs in dollars

The table below is our arithmetic on the bands above. fomo does not publish these effective percentages; they follow from dividing the fee by the order size. Where a band is written as "no more than" an amount, we model the full amount, which states the worst documented case.

Last verified: August 20, 2026, against the same help-center article. Figures are one side of the trade, so double them for a buy and a later sell.

Two things in that table catch people out. The first is that $50 and $100 pay exactly the same 95 cents, because both sit inside the same flat band, which is why the effective rate nearly halves between them without the fee moving at all. The second is that the bands are continuous: 2% of 5 is 0.10, 2% of 47.50 is 0.95, and 0.50% of 190 is 0.95. Sizing an order a dollar over a threshold cannot cost you more than sizing it a dollar under. That is a better-designed schedule than the one it replaced, and it is worth saying so on a page that spends most of its length on what trading here costs you.

The $2 row is there for a specific reason rather than as a curiosity. Two dollars is the smallest position fomo will let you sell at all, so 5% is the worst effective rate anyone can actually pay on a completed round trip. Below that the app blocks the sell outright, which is covered in common problems and how to fix them.

The schedule changed twice in twelve days

This is the part that should shape how much weight you put on any fee page, including this one.

On August 8, 2026 we recorded fomo's help center as setting a $0.95 minimum on Solana orders under 200 USDC. On August 14, 2026 the same article set a minimum of no more than 0.50 USDC on orders under 100 USDC. On August 20, 2026 it carried the four bands above. None of those three schedules is a rounding of the others, and no announcement accompanied any of the changes that we could find.

The Terms of Service moved too, and in a more interesting direction. This page used to run a long section on fomo's two documents contradicting each other, because the Terms stated "a minimum fee of 0.50% per transaction (subject to a minimum fee of $0.95 per transaction)" with no order-size qualifier at all, while the help center said something narrower. That contradiction is gone. fomo rewrote its Terms on August 17, 2026, and section 7 now names no fee figure outside perps:

"The applicable fee depends on factors including the size and type of the transaction, the token involved, and how the transaction is routed. The fee applicable to your transaction is displayed before you confirm the transaction. Fomo may modify its fees at any time in its sole discretion, and the fee shown at the time of your transaction is the fee that applies."

That wording fixes one problem and creates another. The old problem was that two fomo documents disagreed and a reader could not tell which governed; the new Terms point at a single authority instead, the fee displayed in the app before you confirm. The new problem is the second half of the sentence. fomo can change the schedule whenever it likes, and the past twelve days show that is not theoretical.

So the honest caution here is no longer "fomo contradicts itself." It is that every figure on this page is a reading with a date attached, the schedule has moved three times this month, and the only number that binds your trade is the one on your confirmation screen. Read it before you tap, especially if the last thing you read about fomo's fees was written more than a week ago.

Last verified: August 20, 2026, against fomo.family/terms, which carries the date August 17, 2026 on its face.

What fomo's own volume implies about the realized rate

DefiLlama, an independent data tracker, publishes fees and volume for fomo's Solana spot side, which it lists as the child protocol "fomo Wallet." Read on August 14, 2026, it showed $10,038,495 in fees over 30 days against $736,665,782 of 30-day volume. Dividing one by the other gives a realized take rate of roughly 1.36%, close to three times the 0.50% headline.

Both figures are our arithmetic on DefiLlama's numbers, not figures DefiLlama or fomo publish, and what DefiLlama books as protocol fees may not map exactly onto what fomo charges a trader. They were also read against the previous fee schedule, so treat the number as direction rather than a current measurement. The direction still says something: a realized rate near 1.36% is what you would expect if most orders were landing in the bands below 190 USDC, where the effective rate runs between 2% and 0.50%. Under the current schedule a flat 0.95 charge produces a 1.36% effective rate at an order size around $70, which sits inside that flat band. The small-order bands describe the typical trade on this app rather than a rare one.

What perps cost on top

Perps reached through fomo are not run by fomo. Its Terms of Use state that perps are "offered, operated, matched, and settled entirely by independent, third-party decentralized protocols," and fomo's June 11, 2026 launch post credits Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ] as the venues. What fomo charges for the app around them is now stated in the Terms themselves rather than only in support documentation:

• The Terms say, verbatim: "For Perps (as defined below), Fomo charges a fee of 0.05% per transaction. This fee is in addition to any fees charged by the applicable third-party protocol(s), including trading fees and funding rate payments."
• fomo's help center adds that the fee is deducted "both when you open a position and when you close it," so roughly 0.10% round trip in fomo's cut alone, and that "Hyperliquid fees also apply and are shown on the order screen before you confirm."
• hyperliquid Hyperliquid's published fee schedule lists a base taker rate of 0.045% and a base maker rate of 0.015%.

Add fomo's 0.05% to Hyperliquid's base taker rate and a taker order comes to about 0.095% per side. That sum is ours, not a number either company publishes, and it applies to the Hyperliquid-settled crypto perps. We have not found a published rate card for the Trade[XYZ] side, which appears to carry the equity, index and commodity markets, so do not assume these numbers cover those.

Last verified: August 20, 2026 for the fomo Terms figure; the help-center and Hyperliquid rates were last read August 14, 2026. Our sister site HyperliquidGuide has the full mechanics of how builder codes work.

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