Paradex fees: zero base rate, measured cost and tiers
Paradex fees at a glance
Retail orders on Paradex pay 0% maker and 0% taker. Pro and API orders use a separate volume ladder. The rates come from docs.paradex.trade, read on September 23, 2026. A short ladder of 5 levels takes the taker rate to 0.035% from $25M. Paradex was one of the 3 cheapest venues for a $10,000 BTC market buy on September 25, 2026: 1.22 bps, rank 2 of 43. That is 3.91 bps less than Binance in the same sweep (5.13 bps).
Paradex splits orders into two classes. Retail orders pay nothing, and Pro orders pay a volume-based taker rate. The Pro ladder runs from 0.045% at Pro 0 to 0.035% at Pro 4.
Paradex measured cost: rank 2 of 43 on BTC
Paradex charged no trading fee, so the full 1.22 bps of the $10,000 BTC buy came from spread and impact. At $1,000,000, the sweep gave Paradex no BTC rank, because the order book could not fill the order. A $10,000 ETH buy cost 0.99 bps more than the BTC buy.
| BTC order size | Place | Fee, bps | Half of spread, bps | Impact, bps | All-in, bps | All-in, USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | 2 of 43 | 0.00 | 1.22 | 0.00 | 1.22 | $1.22 |
| $100,000 | 2 of 42 | 0.00 | 1.22 | 0.00 | 1.22 | $12.19 |
| $1,000,000 | Not ranked | 0.00 | — | — | — | — |
| ETH order size | Place | Fee, bps | Half of spread, bps | Impact, bps | All-in, bps | All-in, USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | 3 of 43 | 0.00 | 2.21 | 0.00 | 2.21 | $2.21 |
| $100,000 | 3 of 42 | 0.00 | 2.39 | 0.00 | 2.39 | $23.89 |
| $1,000,000 | Not ranked | 0.00 | — | — | — | — |
Paradex Pro and API fee tiers
Paradex sets the level from combined 14-day Pro volume across main account and subaccounts. The maker rate never reaches zero on this ladder. It stops at 0.003% at Pro 4. The largest taker cut is from Pro 1 to Pro 2: 0.042% to 0.039%.
| Level | 14-day volume from | Maker | Taker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro 0 | $0 | 0.003% | 0.045% |
| Pro 1 | $1M | 0.003% | 0.042% |
| Pro 2 | $5M | 0.003% | 0.039% |
| Pro 3 | $10M | 0.003% | 0.037% |
| Pro 4 | $25M | 0.003% | 0.035% |
What a zero Paradex fee leaves to pay
With no fee, the spread and the price impact are the full cost of a market order.
| Rate | Percent | bps | Fee on $10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maker | 0% | 0 bps | $0.00 |
| Taker | 0% | 0 bps | $0.00 |
Paradex fees vs Binance and Hyperliquid
With Retail orders, Paradex undercuts both Binance and Hyperliquid on the base taker rate, by 5 and 4.5 bps.
| Metric | Paradex | Binance | Hyperliquid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base maker | 0% | 0.020% | 0.015% |
| Base taker | 0% | 0.050% | 0.045% |
| Lowest ladder taker | 0.035% from $25M | 0.017% from $25B | 0.024% from $7B |
| Measured BTC buy, $10,000, bps | 1.22 | 5.13 | 4.56 |
| Funding interval, hours | — | 8 | 1 |
Paradex discounts and fee conditions
- Retail orders pay 0%. Pro and API orders pay a 0.003% maker rate and a taker rate from a 14-day volume ladder, with a taker floor of 0.0175%. docs.paradex.trade, read September 5, 2026.
- DIME staking, fee payment in DIME and FastFills give more discounts. The registry does not model them. docs.paradex.trade, read September 5, 2026.
- The class is set per order. Web orders and API orders with an interactive JWT count as Retail. RPI orders are post-only maker orders that match only Retail takers. docs.paradex.trade, read September 23, 2026.
Worked example: a $10,000 round trip on Paradex
Hypothetical: a $10,000 Paradex position opens and closes at one price, so only the trading fees apply. The fee total is zero, so the market-order cost on Paradex is only the spread and the price impact.
| Leg | Taker + taker, base |
|---|---|
| Fee to open | $0.00 |
| Fee to close | $0.00 |
| Fee for both legs | $0.00 |
Paradex funding interval and leverage cap
Paradex has no single fixed funding interval. The fact record gives: continuous (index updated each second; rate quoted per 8 hours). The Paradex BTC perpetual allows leverage of up to 50x.
- Funding accrues continuously. The markets API quotes an 8-hour period, with a cap of 2% per 8 hours on BTC, ETH and SOL. docs.paradex.trade, read September 23, 2026.
More on Paradex
Sources
- Base rates: docs.paradex.trade, read September 23, 2026
- BTC leverage cap: api.prod.paradex.trade
- Funding interval: docs.paradex.trade
- Measured cost: PerpFinder cost methodology