Fees

Every fee Candle charges, in one place.

The total cost of a transaction also depends on network fees, its market phase, execution venue, and whether a bridge is involved. The transaction quote and wallet confirmation control for a specific trade; review the amount spent, minimum received, price impact, network costs, and bridge or application fee before signing.

Platform fees

Activity	Fee
Bonding curve buy or sell	1%, the curve’s own pool fee, on every plan
Web swap or agent-built transaction	Your plan’s rate: see Fees by plan
Token launch	No Candle platform fee; network/account costs apply
Migration at graduation	0
Believer NFT mint	Free
Base-pair swap (SOL, USDC, CNDL on Solana; ETH, USDG on Hood)	0, every plan
Bridge between your own wallets on Solana and Hood	0, every plan; Relay’s bridge costs apply
Hyperliquid perps order	Your plan’s builder fee: see Fees by plan

Fees by plan

The three plans (Free, Pro and Max; see Plans, pricing & limits) charge one schedule in the web app and the agent API:

Activity	Free	Pro	Max
Web swap, same-chain	1%	0.5%	0.25%
Web swap, cross-chain (token leg)	1%	0.5%	0.25%
Agent-built transaction (trade or dev buy)	1%	0.5%	0.25%
Hyperliquid perps builder fee	0.1%	0.1%	none
Base-pair swap or own-wallet bridge	none	none	none

Free costs nothing, Pro $50 a month (or no charge with 500,000 CNDL staked or 1,000,000 held) and Max $200 a month, by card or in USDC. A first Pro purchase includes Max for its first 30 days while the promotion runs. GET /api/v1/agent/plans (no key) returns the rates a deployment is charging right now, including any override.

Which asset the fee comes out of

Candle’s swap fee is always taken on the canonical side of a trade (SOL, USDC, CNDL, ETH or USDG) and never out of the token you are buying.

Buying a token: the fee is taken from what you spend, before the swap.
Selling a token: the fee is taken from what you receive.

If you pay with a token that is not one of the canonical assets (a memecoin you already hold, for instance), the fee comes out of that input. The rule is that the fee never touches the token you are acquiring.

Fees Candle does not receive

These are charged by third parties, not by Candle:

Source	Fee
Solana network	Network transaction fees
Hood network	Network gas
Meteora DAMM v2 pool	0.5% on graduated Solana tokens
Uniswap v3 or v4 pool	0.3% static tier on Candle Hood pools
Jupiter	Routing, where a route uses Jupiter
Relay	Bridge costs on cross-chain routes

Pool fees on graduated tokens are charged by the pool to anyone trading it, on Candle or anywhere else.

Launch fee distribution

Launch fees and post-graduation liquidity fees may be divided among Candle, the token’s creator, and the CNDL-staker program according to the launch configuration and chain-specific contracts.

On Hood, each launch receives a dedicated fee-splitter clone. The canonical splitter factory fixes Candle’s share at 50% and assigns the other share to the creator. (A token launched while a streamer was live, before streaming was retired on 2026-09-14, keeps paying that share to the streamer.) A payout that cannot be delivered immediately remains claimable instead of blocking the other party’s distribution.

The creator-selected CNDL-staker allocation is a percentage of token supply, not an additional trading fee.

Staking

Action	Cost
Staking $CNDL	Free, nothing locked on entry
Standard unstake	Free, settles in 7 days
Instant unstake	20% of the unstaked amount

See $CNDL for how staking rewards work.

Where fees go

Platform fees accrue to Candle treasury addresses. Fee collection addresses are receive-only public addresses; Candle publishes them in the codebase rather than holding fee balances in operational wallets.

Candle may change its fees. Material changes are announced in advance where practical, and the current fees are always the ones on this page. See section 6 of the Terms of Service.