Moon.com fees, explained in dollars
Moon's entire fee schedule is three lines: a 1% opening fee on your wager, a rolling fee every 8 hours while a bet stays open, and a performance fee of minimum 10% on realized profit. None of them touch your leveraged notional — that one design choice is most of the story. Here it is with real numbers.
| Fee | When | Charged on | $100 wager at 1000× |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening fee — 1% | Once, on open | Your wager, never notional | $1.00 |
| Rolling fee | Every 8h while open | Dynamic rate — exact % unpublished | Varies |
| Performance fee — min. 10% | On close, wins only | Realized profit | $0 unless you profit |
Per Moon's published fee documentation, July 2026 — subject to change; verify current terms on moon.com. New to the platform? Start with how Moon works.
1% of your wager. Not your exposure.
Wager $100 at 1000× leverage and you're holding $100,000 of market exposure. Moon's opening fee is 1% of the wager: $1. The exposure figure never enters the calculation.
Run the same exposure on a futures exchange charging ~0.05% taker on notional and opening costs ~$50 — fifty times as much for the identical position — then roughly the same again to close. Billing the wager instead of the notional is the structural difference, and at high leverage it dominates everything else. Full side-by-side: Moon vs Bybit vs Binance.
Rolling fee: rent, every 8 hours
Keep a bet open and Moon charges a rolling fee every 8 hours — its equivalent of futures funding. The rate is dynamic, and Moon has not published an exact percentage; it moves with market conditions. Two honest consequences: you can't precompute holding costs to the cent, and multi-day holds accumulate them. A scalp closed within hours barely notices; a position parked for a week is paying rent three times a day. One asymmetry worth knowing: futures funding can flip in your favor, while Moon's rolling fee is always a cost.
Wins pay min. 10% of profit. Losses pay nothing.
Close a winning bet and Moon takes a performance fee: a minimum of 10% of realized profit. Win $200 on a $100 wager and the fee is at least $20 — you keep up to $180 plus your wager back. It's charged on winning bets only, and only on the profit, never the stake. No mid-trade arithmetic needed either: the live P&L you see before closing is already net of the fee.
Lose, and the ledger is shorter: you pay nothing beyond the wager. No close fee, no liquidation penalty, no margin call, no ADL — a bust settles as a lost wager, and that's the maximum possible damage.
- Winning bet: min. 10% of profit, shown in live P&L before you close
- Losing bet: $0 — max loss is the wager itself
- Very large positions: liquidity-adjusted close pricing applies
Cheap to open. Not free to hold.
The fair summary: Moon is dramatically cheaper to open at high leverage, unknowable-in-advance to hold, and takes a real cut of wins that futures exchanges don't. Whether that trade-off favors you depends on how you trade — we work through it line by line, against Bybit's and Binance's published schedules, in the full Moon vs Bybit vs Binance comparison. And note: on very large positions Moon applies liquidity-adjusted close pricing, so size traders should expect closes adjusted for market depth. All figures here follow Moon's published fee docs as of July 2026 and can change; the docs are linked in the footer.
Trade the fee structure, not against it.
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