Platform fees & tiers
What VortexDeployer charges on trades and launches, how fee tiers lower your rate, and what has no fee.
VortexDeployer takes a platform fee on each buy and sell your wallets make. The rate depends on your fee tier. The more fees you have paid in total, the lower your rate.
Fee tiers#
| Tier | Total fees paid | Fee rate |
|---|---|---|
| New | $0 | 2% |
| Bronze | $5,000 | 1.6% |
| Silver | $10,000 | 1.3% |
| Gold | $20,000 | 1.05% |
| Diamond | $40,000 | 0.8% |
- Your tier comes from the total platform fees you have paid, in US dollars, on both chains together.
- There is no subscription. You move up by yourself when your total crosses a step.
- Silver unlocks browser sign-in with a password. See Sign in & accounts.
- Dev warmup on the Wallets page needs the highest tier.
- Support can give an account a different rate or tier.
Your tier is not shown in the app
The app does not show your tier or your rate. Ask Support if you want to know them.
What the fee is charged on#
- Buys — the amount you spend. The fee is paid on top. A 1 SOL buy at 2% costs 1 SOL plus 0.02 SOL.
- Sells — the lowest amount your sale may return under your slippage setting. For a market sell, such as Sell all, it is the amount the sale is expected to return.
- The dev buy at launch — the same rate as a buy. The launch itself has no room for the fee, so it is collected from your wallets on that chain right after the launch.
The fee is charged whether the trade makes or loses money.
How each chain pays#
Solana
- The fee is part of the same transaction as your trade. If the trade fails, no platform fee is taken. You still pay the network fee.
- Trades priced in USDC, USD1 or a tokenized stock also pay the fee in SOL. It is worked out from the trade's dollar value.
- The very first fee a wallet pays is at least 0.00089088 SOL. That is the smallest balance a new Solana account may hold.
Robinhood Chain
- The fee is a separate ETH transfer, sent after your trade lands.
- A fee under $1 is not sent at once. It is added to the next fee. Fees still owed are collected from your wallets on that chain about every 30 minutes.
- A trade with no ETH in or out, for example one paid only in USDG, has no platform fee.
What has no platform fee#
- Moving funds — Fund, Collect, Transfer and the mixer. You still pay network fees. The mixer service charges its own fee.
- Pro trader boost buys — that task charges its own price in SOL instead, once for each run. See Pro trader boost.
- Claiming creator fees — the claim pays only the network fee, and sometimes rent. See Claim creator fees.
- Network fees, rent and launchpad fees — these go to the chain and the launchpad, not to VortexDeployer. Rent is a small deposit a new account must hold.
Where you see the fee#
- MAX and percent buys keep back enough for the platform fee and network costs.
- Your P&L counts platform fees as a cost.
- The sell review notes when its amounts are "Before platform fees."
Fees add up on busy tasks
Volume tasks buy and sell many times. Every one of those trades pays the fee. Count it in your budget before you start a long task.