Moon.com fees: what every bet actually costs

Moon.com fees come to four items: a 1% opening fee on your stake, a holding fee assessed every 8 hours, a performance fee of at least 10% of realized profit, and a spread built into the price you bet at. The opening fee never scales with leverage, so a $100 bet costs $1 to open at 1x or at 1000x, and rakeback hands 3.5% of what you pay in fees back to you. Sign up through our referral link, place your first bet on the play-money balance, and you can watch each fee land before any real crypto is on the line.

Below: the full fee stack in one table, three worked examples with the arithmetic shown, and how rakeback offsets part of the bill. If you want the mechanic itself first, read how Moon works.

• 1% Opening fee, on stake
• every 8h Holding fee
• 10%+ Performance fee, on profit
• 3.5% Rakeback on fees

What are the Moon.com fees?

Moon’s help center article on fees and its terms of service describe four charges. Two are published as numbers, one is published as an interval, and one is not published at all.

The opening fee is flat across leverage. Because it’s 1% of the stake, $100 costs $1 to open whether it controls $100 or $100,000. Leverage changes your exposure and your liquidation distance, covered on the leverage page, but never the entry cost.

The holding fee is the clock. Moon assesses it every 8 hours at a rate it adjusts and does not publish. A bet closed inside 8 hours can avoid it entirely; a bet held for 24 hours meets it three times, and one held over a full weekend meets it nine times.

The performance fee is a floor. Moon states a minimum of 10% of realized profit. Every example on this page uses exactly 10%, the best case you can assume.

The spread never appears as a line item. Moon’s terms reserve a spread or other pricing edge in Moon’s favor, so the price you open at is tilted slightly against you and so is the price you close at. Its size isn’t disclosed, so the examples below leave it out and are a little kinder than reality.

Three worked examples

Each example uses the same formula: stake × leverage = exposure, move % × exposure = gross result, then fees. The opening fee is listed as a separate cost rather than netted from the stake; the total is the same either way. Spread is excluded because its size is undisclosed.

Example 1: $100 at 100x, wins on a 0.5% move

You bet Up on ETH with $100 at 100x. The price rises 0.5% and you close within the first 8 hours, so no holding fee applies.

Stake	$100
Leverage	100x
Exposure	$100 × 100 = $10,000
Move	+0.5% in your favor
Gross result	0.5% × $10,000 = +$50.00
Opening fee (1% of $100 stake)	−$1.00
Performance fee (10% of $50 profit)	−$5.00
Net	+$44.00

A 0.5% move became a 44% return on your stake. Fees took $6 of the $50 gross, or 12%. Rakeback at 3.5% of that $6 would return $0.21, which is small on one bet and adds up across a hundred of them.

Example 2: the same bet, liquidated

Same stake, same leverage, same direction. This time ETH falls 1% instead of rising 0.5%.

Stake	$100
Leverage	100x
Exposure	$10,000
Move	−1.0% against you
Gross result	−1.0% × $10,000 = −$100.00 (liquidated)
Opening fee (1% of $100 stake)	−$1.00
Performance fee	$0 (no profit, no fee)
Net	−$101.00

The bet closes automatically when the loss reaches the stake, so $100 is the most the price move can take from you. The $1 opening fee is already gone, which is why the total out of pocket is $101. Nothing beyond that is owed. Because the spread sits inside the price, the real liquidation trigger arrives slightly before a full 1% move; the leverage page covers where that point sits at every tier.

Example 3: $100 at 10x, held for 24 hours

You bet Up on BTC with $100 at 10x and hold it for a full day, closing after Bitcoin has risen 3%. Twenty-four hours is three 8-hour intervals, so the holding fee is assessed three times.

Moon publishes the interval but not the rate, so the holding line below is illustrative. If the rate were 0.1% of your stake per assessment, the arithmetic would look like this:

Stake	$100
Leverage	10x
Exposure	$100 × 10 = $1,000
Move	+3% in your favor
Gross result	3% × $1,000 = +$30.00
Opening fee (1% of $100 stake)	−$1.00
Holding fee, illustrative (0.1% × $100 × 3 assessments)	−$0.30
Performance fee (10% of $30 profit)	−$3.00
Net, illustrative	+$25.70

Two things to take from this. First, the base matters as much as the rate: the same illustrative 0.1% applied to the $1,000 exposure instead of the $100 stake would be $1.00 per assessment, $3.00 over the day, and the net would drop to $22.70. Moon publishes the interval and calls the rate dynamic, nothing more, so the way to learn your own number is to check what an open bet shows in your account. Second, time is a cost you choose: the identical bet closed inside 8 hours would have paid no holding fee at all.

How rakeback offsets the fees

Moon’s rakeback returns 3.5% of the fees you pay. It’s activated through approved affiliates and streamers or when you reach Bronze VIP, and any bonus funds it produces carry wagering requirements before they can be withdrawn. On the three bets above, the published fees paid were $6.00, $1.00 and $4.00 (leaving out the illustrative holding line), a total of $11.00, and 3.5% of that is about $0.39. It’s a modest return per bet that scales with volume, and it’s the only fee reduction Moon currently offers, since there is no welcome bonus at the time of writing.

Whether our referral link switches rakeback on for your account isn’t something we can promise. The promo code page explains the activation paths, and the practical step is to check your rewards tab after signing up.

What the fees mean for how you bet

Decide your close before you open. The holding fee is the only charge you can avoid entirely, and you avoid it by not crossing an 8-hour boundary. A bet held for a week meets it 21 times.

Judge the opening fee against the move you need. At 100x, a 0.01% move in your favor covers the $1 fee on a $100 bet. At 1x, you need a full 1% move just to get back to even.

Count the performance fee as a haircut on every win. A $50 gross profit becomes $45 before anything else, and losers pay nothing extra, so over many bets the 10% cut is the difference between breaking even and not. On the largest wins we have recorded on Moon, listed on the biggest wins page, that minimum 10% alone runs to thousands of dollars per trade.

All figures come from Moon’s help center fee article and its terms of service, checked on the date at the top of this page. If Moon changes a rate, the review will note it, and availability by country is covered in the FAQ.