Perp DEXes compared: taker fees, maker fees, availability

DexSheet tracks 14 live perp DEXes. A perp DEX trades perpetual futures on-chain, so you pay maker and taker fees plus a funding rate while a position is open. Lighter has the lowest base-tier taker fee at 0%. Hyperliquid is the most used, with $85.1M in fees paid by users over the last 30 days (DefiLlama, 2026-10-17).

Checked 2026-10-17 · 14 venues · method

All 14 perp DEXes, ranked

Ranked by 30-day fees paid by users, then by fee. Chains: Solana, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Hyperliquid.

#	Venue	Chains	Taker / maker	Best for	US	Fees paid, 30d
1	Hyperliquid	Hyperliquid	0.045% / 0.015%	Perps traders outside the US who want onchain order-book trading from their own wallet, with fees that drop by volume and HYPE staking.	Not available	$85.1M	Open
2	Jupiter Perps	Solana	0.06% taker	Solana users already on Jupiter who want high-leverage SOL, ETH or BTC perps against the JLP pool.	Not available	$8.0M	Open
3	Lighter	Ethereum	0% / 0%	Non-US, non-UK retail perps traders who want zero trading fees and can accept slower taker execution than paid accounts.	Not available	$5.7M	Open
4	GMX	Arbitrum, Avalanche, Megaeth	0.06% taker	Traders who want oracle-priced perps on Arbitrum or Avalanche, including gold, oil and US index markets, without an order book.	Unverified	$5.4M	Open
5	Aster	Aster Chain, BNB Chain, Arbitrum	0.04% / 0%	Non-US, non-UK traders who want zero maker fees on order-book perps, very high leverage modes, or privacy-shielded orders.	Not available	$4.9M	Open
6	Pacifica	Solana	0.04% / 0.015%	Solana perp traders who want a published volume ladder, 50x leverage on majors and exposure to RWA and pre-IPO markets, and who are outside the United States.	Not available	$3.8M	Open
7	edgeX	Ethereum	0.045% / 0.04%	Non-US, non-Canadian perps traders who want an Ethereum-settled order book with stock and forex perps and an email login option.	Not available	$3.1M	Open
8	Avantis	Base	0.045% taker	Traders who want crypto, forex, commodities and US or Korean equity exposure from one USDC balance on Base.	Unverified	$611K	Open
9	ApeX Omni	Zklink	0.05% / 0.02%	Traders who want a large perp listing with TradFi and stock perps and a staking-based fee discount, and who are outside the United States.	Not available	$330K	Open
10	dYdX	Dydx Chain	0.05% / 0.01%	Non-US, non-UK, non-Canadian traders who want an open-source, order-book perps venue with volume-tiered fees.	Not available	$297K	Open
11	Ostium	Arbitrum	0.06% / 0.06%	Traders who want onchain leveraged exposure to stocks, forex, commodities and indices from a self-custodied wallet, outside the US.	Not available	$163K	Open
12	Paradex	Paradex	0% / 0%	Non-US traders who place orders manually through a web UI and want zero-fee perps plus options from one margin account.	Not available	$54K	Open
13	Backpack Exchange	Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin	0.05% / 0.02%	KYC-verified traders outside the US who want a licensed custodial venue for crypto spot and perps, including EU users via Backpack EU.	Partly available	—	Open
14	Velocity	Solana	0.06% / -0.003%	Solana perp traders who want a Drift-style order book with a published fee ladder and a maker rebate, and who accept a rebuilt protocol with a short track record.	Unverified	—	Open

Perps fees at the base tier

Venue	Taker	Maker	Note
Lighter	0%	0%	Standard (default) account. Premium/Advanced: 0.028% taker / 0.004% maker before LIT staking discounts. LIT Fee Credits can be bought to reach a higher staking tier without staking the full amount.
Paradex	0%	0%	Retail rate. Pro taker 0.045% base (min 0.0175% after discounts); Pro maker 0.003%. Pro taker discounts: up to 30% for $DIME staking, 40% for paying fees in $DIME, 30% FastFills discount when matching Retail orders.
Aster	0.04%	0%	Order-book (Pro) perps, general crypto pairs, VIP 1. VIP status needs both rolling 14-day spot+perps volume and a daily-average ASTER balance across spot, perps and staking.
Pacifica	0.04%	0.015%	Tier 1. The fee page does not break out spot fees separately.
Hyperliquid	0.045%	0.015%	Tier 0 base rates. Maker rebates of -0.001% to -0.003% apply above 0.5% / 1.5% / 3.0% share of 14d weighted maker volume. HIP-3 (builder-deployed) perps can carry an extra deployer fee share of 0-300%; growth-mode HIP-3 markets have reduced protocol fees.
edgeX	0.045%	0.04%	Regular-user rates from the VIP page, matching the default taker/maker rates (0.00045 / 0.0004) on all 187 contracts in the public V2 metadata API. Sub-account volume aggregates with the main account. The docs page says tiers use rolling 30-day volume, while the VIP page says 14-day; the VIP page is used here.
Avantis	0.045%	—	Crypto majors. Upside Perps skip the commission and charge a share of profit on winning closes only.
dYdX	0.05%	0.01%	Tier 1. Staking discounts: Tier 1 gets 25% off with 3,000 staked DYDX or 50% off with 20,000; discounts apply only to net positive fees, not rebates. Docs also state traders currently receive 50% trading rebates after each trade (C factor set to 0 by governance).
ApeX Omni	0.05%	0.02%	Level 1. Grid bot and vault transactions are excluded from VIP discounts and use standard rates.
Backpack Exchange	0.05%	0.02%	Tier rates are futures taker fees. Effective tier is the highest of 30D volume, BP stake, holdings or pre-TGE Mad Lad NFT, recalculated hourly.
Velocity	0.06%	-0.003%	Regular tier on SOL, BTC and ETH perps; negative maker figure is a rebate. Volume counts taker, maker and liquidation fills.
Ostium	0.06%	0.06%	Crypto pairs: 6 bps opening fee for both market and limit orders, 0 bps closing. Other asset classes 1-5 bps. Docs prose states a 3-10 bps range; per-pair values above come from the docs' live fee table.
Jupiter Perps	0.06%	—	JLP markets (SOL, ETH, wBTC) have no maker/taker split: 0.06% base fee per side plus price impact. Beta markets: 0.035% taker, 0.005% maker.
GMX	0.06%	—	GMX has no maker/taker split; the position fee is 0.04% or 0.06% for every order type depending on whether it improves OI balance.

Plus funding while a position is open. Base tier, before volume discounts.

What to compare

Compare the base-tier taker and maker fee, how funding works, the markets listed, and whether the venue is available in your country.

Ranked lists

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Worth knowing

FAQ

Which perp DEX has the lowest fees?

Lighter has the lowest base-tier taker fee at 0%. Fees depend on tier, trade size and token, and network fees are extra.

Which perp DEX is the most used?

Hyperliquid is the most used, with $85.1M in fees paid by users over the last 30 days (DefiLlama, 2026-10-17).

Which perp DEXes are available in the US?

None of these list the US as fully available in their own terms. Some are partly available or unverified, so check each sheet.

What should I compare between perp DEXes?

Compare the base-tier taker and maker fee, how funding works, the markets listed, and whether the venue is available in your country.

How does DexSheet rank them?

Venues are ranked by how much their users paid in fees over the last 30 days (a usage signal from DefiLlama), then by fee. Venues without usage data come after, ordered by fee. Every fee links to the venue's own sheet and source.

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