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Perpetual DEX trading fees for AI agents: Hyperliquid, dYdX, Lighter, Aster, Drift

Checked 2026-11-03 from official docs. Scope: Perpetual futures, entry (lowest-volume) fee tier, default account type, no staking/holding discounts, major crypto markets. Promotions and per-market overrides excluded unless noted.
Order: Ascending by entry-tier taker fee, then maker fee. Venues with unconfirmed rates are listed last. Referral status never affects the order. Machine-readable: /fees.json · /llms.txt. Back to Agent Guide

#Venue / tierMakerTakerFee notes & sourceReferred-user discountReferrer reward (what a referrer such as MoneyTools would earn)Our referral linkRegion restrictions
1Lighter
Standard account (default), regular orders
0%0%Standard: 0 maker / 0 taker on regular perp and spot orders, 1 bp on TWAP/advanced orders and RFQ, 300 ms taker latency. Opt-in Premium/Advanced: 0.0040% maker / 0.0280% taker (no LIT staked), 140 ms. Opt-in Plus: 0.5 bps both sides.
official fee page (checked 2026-11-03)
10% discount on fees paid (relevant to paid account types and advanced orders), rebated weekly in LIT; code must be used at sign-up.
official referral terms
10% of referred users' gross fees (Bronze); 20% (Silver, 15+ active referrals, granted at Lighter's discretion). Paid weekly in LIT.our referral link
goes to https://app.lighter.xyz/?referral=MONEYTOOLS
Not available to persons located in, resident of or organized in the United States, Canada, UK, China, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Syria or comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions.
terms
2Aster
Perpetuals, Crypto - General pairs, base VIP rate
0%0.04%Crypto Group B pairs: 0.1% taker; RWA pairs: 0.0125% taker; all maker 0%. VIP tiers need both volume and ASTER holdings.
official fee page (checked 2026-11-03)
0%-10% of fees, depending on how the referrer splits the default 10% commission.
official referral terms
Default 10% commission (shared with the referee as the referrer chooses); approved affiliates 20% from referred VIP 1 users, 10% from VIP 2+.None. No referral code yet.Services prohibited for those residing in, located in or incorporated in the United States, Canada, UK, China, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Syria or comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions.
terms
3Hyperliquid
Tier 0 (14-day weighted volume up to $5M), perps, base rate
0.015%0.045%HYPE staking discounts 5%-40% not included. Spot and HIP-3 markets use different rates.
official fee page (checked 2026-11-03)
4% discount on trading fees for the referred user's first $25M of volume; not for vaults or sub-accounts.
official referral terms
10% of referred user's fees, net of their discount, for their first $1B of volume.None. Not active: Hyperliquid requires $10,000 of our own volume before a code can be created.Interface not available to persons in the United States or Ontario (Canada), or in/citizens of sanctioned jurisdictions (Terms 1.6).
terms
4dYdX
Tier 1 (30-day trailing volume under $1M)
0.01%0.05%Docs show 5.0 bps taker / 1.0 bps maker and say the dYdX frontend fees page has the latest schedule; whether a fee-holiday promotion is currently active is unconfirmed. DYDX staking discounts not included.
official fee page (checked 2026-11-03)
Referred users start at fee tier 3 (docs table: 4.0 bps taker / 0.5 bps maker).
official referral terms
30% of referred users' taker fees (40% above $1M, 50% above $10M referred 30-day volume); $10k cap per referred user per 30 days.None. No referral link yet.Frontends not available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom or sanctioned countries, among others.
terms
5Drift
Unconfirmed
Unconfirmed (未確認)Unconfirmed (未確認)Unconfirmed: on 2026-11-03 Drift's docs URL redirected (HTTP 307) to docs.velocity.exchange, whose docs describe Velocity as a fork of Drift v2, not Drift itself. We could not find a current fee schedule for the Drift app on an official Drift page, so no Drift rate is shown.
official fee page (checked 2026-11-03)
UnconfirmedUnconfirmedNone. No referral link.Unconfirmed (official terms could not be read on the check date).

"Unconfirmed (未確認)" means we could not find the figure on an official page on the check date; we do not estimate. Fees are only part of trading cost (spread, slippage, funding and latency also matter). Brand names belong to their owners; MoneyTools is not endorsed by them.