Phantom vs Rabby
Rabby is cheaper: a $1,000 buy-and-sell costs $5.00 in platform fees vs $15.30 on Phantom. Pick Phantom if you are solana-first users who want one self-custodial app for swaps, cross-chain swaps, Hyperliquid perps and predictions. Pick Rabby if you are eVM users who want pre-signing transaction simulation and approval controls, with low-fee in-wallet swaps across many chains. For US users: Rabby is available; Phantom is partly available.
Checked 2026-10-16 · both venues' fee pagesPhantom is a self-custodial multi-chain wallet (Solana, Ethereum, Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Bitcoin, HyperEVM and others) with built-in swaps, cross-chain swaps, Hyperliquid-powered perps, prediction markets and a Cash stablecoin account. It charges a 0.85% Phantom fee on most swaps.
Rabby is an open-source, self-custodial wallet for Ethereum and EVM networks (80+ natively integrated) with transaction simulation, approval management, built-in swap and bridge aggregators and Hyperliquid-powered perps. It charges a 0.25% fee on swaps and bridges, waived on same-chain stablecoin and ETH-token pairs.
Rabby saves $10.30 per $1,000 round trip.
Side by side
| Phantom | Rabby | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Wallet | Wallet |
| Status | live | live |
| Chains | Solana, Ethereum, Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Bitcoin, HyperEVM, Robinhood Chain, Arc | Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Linea, Zksync, Scroll, Mantle, Monad, HyperEVM, Sonic, Unichain |
| Platforms | ios, android, extension, web | extension, ios, android |
| Custody | non-custodial | non-custodial |
| KYC | onramp-only | none |
| Platform fee, round trip | 1.7% | 0.5% |
| $1,000 round trip | $17.00 | $5.00 |
| Sign-up perk | 10% of own eligible trading fees rebated for 3 months, paid in CASH | — |
| Perps taker / maker | 0.095% / — | — |
| United States | Partly available | Available |
| United Kingdom | Partly available | Available |
| European Union | Partly available | Available |
| Launched | — | — |
| Reported incidents | 3 | 0 |
What your trade costs on each
Cost of a round trip (buy + sell). Platform fee only; network and pool fees are extra.
Features
| Feature | Phantom | Rabby |
|---|---|---|
| swaps | ✓ | ✓ |
| cross-chain swaps | ✓ | — |
| perps | ✓ | ✓ |
| prediction markets | ✓ | — |
| copy trading | ✓ | — |
| limit orders | ✓ | — |
| gasless transactions | ✓ | — |
| cash account | ✓ | — |
| debit card | ✓ | — |
| staking | ✓ | — |
| hardware wallet support | ✓ | ✓ |
| mobile app | ✓ | ✓ |
| browser extension | ✓ | ✓ |
| web terminal | ✓ | — |
| bridge | — | ✓ |
| transaction simulation | — | ✓ |
| approval revoke | — | ✓ |
| risk alerts | — | ✓ |
"—" means the feature was not in the sources we checked, not proof it's missing.
Phantom: watch out for
- 0.85% swap fee on most swaps (1.7% for a buy-and-sell round trip), on top of network fees and price impact.
- Perps are unavailable in the US and UK; tokenized stocks are blocked in the US, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
- Dropped Monad (Aug 2026) and Sui (Sep 2026) support; Arbitrum, Optimism and Avalanche are not supported.
Rabby: watch out for
- EVM only: no Bitcoin, Solana or Tron.
- Extension supports Chrome, Brave and Edge only; any Firefox listing is fake per Rabby.
- Perps carry a Rabby builder fee (0.04% standard) on top of Hyperliquid fees.
FAQ
Is Phantom better than Rabby?
Rabby is cheaper: a $1,000 buy-and-sell costs $5.00 in platform fees vs $15.30 on Phantom. Pick Phantom if you are solana-first users who want one self-custodial app for swaps, cross-chain swaps, Hyperliquid perps and predictions. Pick Rabby if you are eVM users who want pre-signing transaction simulation and approval controls, with low-fee in-wallet swaps across many chains. For US users: Rabby is available; Phantom is partly available.
Which is cheaper, Phantom or Rabby?
Rabby. On a $1,000 round trip: Rabby $5.00 vs Phantom $15.30, platform fees only.
Can I use Phantom or Rabby in the US?
Phantom: partly available. Rabby: available. Based on each venue's own terms.
Sources
Last checked . Fees and terms change often; the venue's own page wins if it disagrees with ours.
- Swap crypto in Phantom (Phantom Help) — checked 2026-10-16
- Trade perps in Phantom (Phantom Help) — checked 2026-10-16
- Understanding perp trading in Phantom (Phantom Help) — checked 2026-10-16
- Supported networks (chains) in Phantom — checked 2026-10-16
- Ending support for Monad in Phantom — checked 2026-10-16
- Ending support for Sui in Phantom — checked 2026-10-16
- How to use Rabby Swap (Rabby Support) — checked 2026-10-16
- How to use Rabby Bridge (Rabby Support) — checked 2026-10-16
- 0% Swap Fee Token Pairs (Rabby Support) — checked 2026-10-16
- Understanding Rabby Perps Fees — checked 2026-10-16
- What is Rabby Wallet? — checked 2026-10-16
- Supported Networks & Tokens (Rabby Support) — checked 2026-10-16