Perps Arena
The Perp Fee & Slippage Comparator
Perps Arena is VOOI Ultra’s live execution-cost comparator for the top perpetual exchanges. Pick a pair, position size, leverage and direction, and instantly see total entry cost — maker/taker fees, expected slippage and current funding — across Hyperliquid, Lighter, Aster, Extended, Binance, trade.xyz, Kinetiq, Ostium, GMX and gTrade. Find the cheapest venue for your trade size before you commit capital. Updated in real time from live order books and oracle feeds.
Overview
How Perps Arena compares perp DEX execution costs
Perps Arena pulls top-of-book quotes, simulates impact for the chosen notional, adds the venue’s posted fee schedule, and overlays current funding.
The cheapest headline fee isn’t always the cheapest total — funding and slippage can dominate at $500k+ size (per neuralarb.com 2026 analysis: “At $500K+ position size, Hyperliquid slippage (≈12 bps) begins to approach the funding spread itself”).
Venues
Fee snapshot by venue (2026)
Hyperliquid
0.045% taker / 0.015% maker (base tier), no gas, hourly funding. At $500M+ 14-day volume, top maker tier earns a −0.003% rebate (Hyperliquid Docs).
Lighter
0% retail trading fees, zk-rollup on Arbitrum, up to 50x leverage.
Robinhood
0% retail trading fees; white-label Lighter deployment on Robinhood Chain, USDG-collateralized, up to 50x leverage.
Aster
0.035% taker / 0.01% maker, up to 1001x leverage, hidden-order support.
Extended
0.025% taker / 0% maker (maker rebates up to 0.013%), Starknet orderbook perp DEX, up to 100x leverage.
Binance
0.05% taker / 0.02% maker (VIP 0) on USDⓈ-M perps, extra 10% off with BNB, up to 125x leverage, 8-hour funding. Deepest perp liquidity of any venue.
trade.xyz
first HIP-3 deployer on Hyperliquid; 24/7 RWA perps (oil, gold, S&P 500).
Kinetiq
HYPE-staking-anchored perp venue on Hyperliquid.
Ostium
0.04% taker / 0.02% maker, RWA-focused (oil, gold, FX) on Arbitrum.
GMX (v2)
0.04% open / 0.06% close (down from 5/7 bps as of @GMX_IO post, 6 Jan 2025), oracle-priced, Arbitrum. (Older 0.1% references describe GMX v1.)
gTrade (Gains Network)
spread-based effective fees, up to 150x on forex, Arbitrum.
Routing
When does each perp DEX win?
- Scalping
- Lighter (zero fees) or Hyperliquid (deepest BTC book).
- High leverage
- Aster (1001x) or gTrade (150x forex).
- RWA / commodities
- Ostium, trade.xyz.
- Large size (>$500k)
- Hyperliquid (slippage edge).
- Funding-rate sensitivity
- see Arbitrage Desk.
Methodology
How Perps Arena estimates slippage
Simulates a market order against current order-book depth (CLOB venues) or the oracle/pool model (AMM venues), normalized to bps. Surfaces a single all-in cost in the same units across heterogeneous venue models.
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