# Network fee vs platform fee: what each one pays for on ripr

> Solana network fee vs trading platform fee: what each charge pays for, who receives it, and where ripr shows both before you confirm a trade.

- URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/solana-network-fee-vs-platform-fee
- Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade)
- Author: ripr Editorial Team
- Published: 2026-11-15
- Category: Guides

On ripr, a Solana network fee and a trading platform fee are two separate charges on the same trade. The network fee pays the blockchain for processing your transaction; the platform fee is what the app charges for arranging the trade. Trading on ripr uses a [total 1% swap fee on both Buy and Sell transactions](https://ripr.trade/support/what-fees-are-charged-during-trading), and Solana's network (gas) fee is charged separately at transaction time.

Telling the two apart stops you blaming an app for a blockchain charge, or missing a platform charge you never noticed. Here is which is which, and which one your trade size moves.

## Solana network fee vs trading platform fee: who charges what

A Solana network fee is what the blockchain charges to process one transaction, whatever that transaction does. A trading platform fee is what the app you trade through charges for arranging the trade itself. Both come out of the same trade.

They go to different places. The network fee goes to the Solana network for the work of including and confirming your transaction, which [Solana's own documentation on transaction fees](https://solana.com/docs/core/fees) describes in detail. The platform fee goes to the app, and on ripr part of it goes to the coin's creator.

They are also worked out differently. The network fee attaches to a transaction, so it is the same whether you buy a few dollars of a coin or a few hundred. The swap fee is a share of the amount you enter, so it moves up and down with your trade size.

|  | Solana network fee | Platform fee on ripr |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it pays for | Processing your transaction on Solana | Arranging the trade in the app |
| Who receives it | The Solana network | 0.75% to the platform, 0.25% to the coin's creator |
| How it is worked out | Per transaction, charged separately at transaction time | A total 1% of the amount you enter, on buys and sells |
| What moves it | How many transactions you send | How much you trade |

*Table 1. Network fee and platform fee at a glance*

## What does the Solana network fee cover?

On ripr, the network fee covers one thing: getting your signed transaction accepted by Solana. The app prepares every trade with Solana's base network fee and no priority fee, so that line is the network's own charge for the transaction. It works out to a fraction of a cent in SOL, charged separately at transaction time, which is why it still appears on a trade worth a few dollars. Size does not change it.

The app also caps that figure. A prepared trade whose network fee would come out above the limit it sets is refused instead of sent, so a surprise network fee never gets as far as your signature.

Because the fee attaches to transactions rather than amounts, it follows how often you trade rather than how much. A buy now and a sell later are two transactions, not one, and our walkthrough on [how to sell a Solana meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-sell-a-solana-meme-coin) covers the second. On one busy Solana coin in ripr's market data, about 12,000 wallets traded roughly 140,000 times inside a day: around a dozen trades each, every one of them carrying its own network fee.

So keep a little SOL spare rather than trading your balance down to nothing. The help centre page on [why a swap fails](https://ripr.trade/support/why-did-my-swap-fail) names low SOL for fees as the first thing to rule out.

## What the 1% swap fee covers on ripr

The swap fee is ripr's platform fee, and it is taken out of the amount you enter: a total 1% on both Buy and Sell transactions. Of that, 0.25% goes to the coin's creator and 0.75% to the platform.

It is one fee with two destinations, not two charges.

The creator's share is real income for whoever launched the coin: creators earn 0.25% of the volume traded on their coin while it sits on ripr's bonding curve, paid in SOL. A bonding curve is the pricing formula a brand-new coin trades on before it moves into a pool: the price rises as people buy and falls as they sell. The help centre has a plain explanation of [what a bonding curve is](https://ripr.trade/support/what-is-a-bonding-curve-in-simple-terms).

Once a coin leaves that curve it trades in a pool, and pools charge a fee of their own. When ripr routes your trade to one it applies a 1% router fee, and the pool's own fee applies too, which comes out at roughly 1.25% for a graduated coin.

One thing worth knowing if you arrived through someone's link or a livestream: referral and streamer commissions on bonding-curve trades are paid out of the platform's share rather than added to what you pay.

## Where ripr shows the network fee before you confirm

On ripr's iOS and Android apps, the trade sheet lists the network fee, any router fee and the refundable account deposit before you confirm. Give those lines a proper read on your first buy, so the numbers are familiar by your tenth.

The deposit on that line is not a fee at all. Your first buy of a coin opens a token account for it with a refundable deposit of about 0.0015 SOL, and you get that deposit back when the account is closed.

Before your wallet signs, the app checks the prepared transaction on your device against the amount, slippage and fee limits you set, and refuses it if anything differs. That check is about the transaction matching what you asked for — it says nothing about whether the coin itself is worth buying.

If a sell or a send lands under your estimate, the help centre page on [why a received amount is lower than expected](https://ripr.trade/support/why-is-the-received-amount-lower-than-expected) points you at two things: the fee breakdown, and the gap between the amount sent and the receive estimate. Our walkthrough on [how to buy a Solana meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-buy-a-solana-meme-coin) shows where that sheet sits in the flow.

## When you pay a network fee and no platform fee applies

Some actions on ripr carry the network fee alone, and these are the ones readers most often mistake for an app charge. Claiming creator rewards is one: the help centre states there is [no platform fee for claiming creator rewards](https://ripr.trade/support/are-there-fees-when-claiming-rewards), and only blockchain network (gas) fees apply at transaction time.

Getting those deposits back is another. The app can close your empty token accounts and return their deposits to you in SOL, and a full sell can close a coin's account automatically. Each close is its own transaction, so the network fee is the whole cost of collecting them.

The pattern is the same every time.

A network fee with no platform fee beside it is Solana charging for a transaction, and every Solana transaction carries one.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does ripr charge a platform fee on both buys and sells?

Yes. Trading on ripr uses a total 1% swap fee on both Buy and Sell transactions, taken out of the amount you enter, and Solana's network fee is charged separately on each one. A buy now and a sell later are two transactions, so each carries its own network fee as well.

### Who receives the Solana network fee?

The Solana network receives it, not ripr. That fee pays for processing and confirming your transaction on the blockchain, and every Solana transaction carries one whichever app it was sent from. The app prepares each trade with Solana's base network fee and no priority fee.

### Is the refundable deposit on a first buy a platform fee?

No. On ripr, your first buy of a coin opens a token account for it with a refundable deposit of about 0.0015 SOL, and that deposit comes back to you when the account is closed. The app can close your empty token accounts and return those deposits in SOL, and a full sell can close a coin's account automatically.

### Is the creator fee part of the platform fee on ripr?

It is part of the same charge. On ripr's bonding curve the total 1% swap fee splits 0.25% to the coin's creator and 0.75% to the platform, so it is one fee with two destinations rather than an extra line. Creators earn that 0.25% of the volume traded on their coin while it is on the curve, paid in SOL.

## Check both fees before your next trade on ripr

The two fees answer two different questions, and you control them in different ways. The network fee answers "how many transactions did I send?" — so it rewards trading deliberately rather than tapping through a dozen small trades. The swap fee answers "how much did I trade?" — a total 1% of the amount you enter, with a quarter of that going to the coin's creator.

Next time you open a coin on ripr, read the fee lines on the trade sheet before you confirm, and keep a little SOL spare so the network fee is always covered. The help centre page on [what fees are charged during trading](https://ripr.trade/support/what-fees-are-charged-during-trading) is the one to bookmark.

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*Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.*