# Total fees when trading Solana meme coins: what you pay on ripr

> On ripr, a Solana meme coin trade costs a 1% swap fee, Solana's network fee and a refundable first-buy deposit. Here is the full cost list.

- URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/total-fees-trading-solana-meme-coins
- Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade)
- Author: ripr Editorial Team
- Published: 2026-11-14
- Category: Guides

The fees you pay when trading Solana meme coins on ripr come down to three things: a 1% swap fee, Solana's own network fee, and — the first time you buy a particular coin — a small refundable deposit. If the coin has already moved into an outside liquidity pool, that pool's own trading fee counts too. Here is what each part pays for, and where the app puts it in front of you before you confirm.

## What fees do I pay when trading Solana meme coins?

A Solana meme coin trade on ripr costs you a percentage of the trade, a network fee paid to Solana, and — on your first buy of a particular coin — a one-time deposit. Only the first two are fees in the ordinary sense, because only those two are collected by someone. The deposit is money that comes back to you.

| Cost | What it is | Roughly how much |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Swap fee | A share of the trade, charged on buys and on sells | 1% of the amount you enter |
| Pool fee | An outside pool's own trading fee, where the coin trades in one | Commonly a quarter to a third of a percent |
| Network fee | What Solana charges to process the transaction | A fraction of a cent in SOL, per transaction |
| Account deposit | Opens your account for that coin on your first buy | About 0.0015 SOL, refundable |

*Table 1. What one trade costs*

Two more costs are not fees at all, because nobody collects them: slippage, and the effect of your own order size on the price. They are the easiest part of a trade's cost to overlook.

## The 1% swap fee on every buy and sell on ripr

ripr charges a total 1% swap fee on both buys and sells. The help centre page on [the fees charged during trading](https://ripr.trade/support/what-fees-are-charged-during-trading) gives the split: 0.25% goes to the coin's creator and 0.75% to the platform. The fee comes out of the amount you enter, so on a buy it is taken from the SOL you spend before the rest reaches the coin, and on a sell it comes out of the SOL the trade returns to you.

Because it is a share of each trade, what you pay over a day depends on how often you trade as much as on how much. Active coins see plenty of trading: market data for one busy Solana coin showed about 12,000 wallets making roughly 145,000 trades in a day, close to a dozen each. So the cost is easy to plan for — pick your size in advance and you know what the 1% comes to before you confirm.

## The pool fee when a coin trades outside ripr's bonding curve

A pool fee only enters the picture once a coin has left ripr's bonding curve and trades in an outside liquidity pool. It is what an automated market maker charges the trader who swaps against it, and it is paid to the pool itself. A bonding curve is a pricing formula that raises a coin's price as more of its supply is bought, and while a coin is still on the curve the 1% swap fee is the only percentage on your trade.

Coins graduate from the curve into a liquidity pool, and the pools the app routes to set their own rates, commonly a quarter to a third of a percent. Buying or selling a graduated ripr coin comes to about 1.25% of the trade once the pool's rate is counted. On iOS and Android, the trade sheet lists any router fee on a routed trade, so you see that part before you confirm.

## Solana's network fee, charged separately at transaction time

Solana's network fee is what the chain charges to process your transaction, and on ripr it is charged separately at transaction time rather than taken from the amount you enter. You pay it in SOL, per transaction rather than as a share of your amount, which is why a large buy and a small one carry the same network fee. On Solana that works out to a fraction of a cent, and the fee on any confirmed transaction is visible on [Solana's block explorer](https://explorer.solana.com/).

ripr prepares each trade with Solana's base network fee and no priority fee, and it keeps a ceiling on that figure: a prepared trade whose network fee would come in above the limit is refused rather than sent. Each action is its own transaction, so a buy is one and the sell that follows is another. Keep a little SOL spare in your wallet so both are covered, and the help centre's guide to [adding SOL to your app wallet](https://ripr.trade/support/how-do-i-deposit-sol-into-my-app-wallet) covers the top-up.

## The refundable deposit on your first buy of a coin

Your first buy of a particular coin on ripr opens a token account for it in your wallet, with a refundable deposit of about 0.0015 SOL. Solana calls that deposit rent, and it is what keeps the account on the chain. It stays yours: you get it back when the account is closed, and you pay it once per coin, not once per trade.

ripr returns it for you in two ways. Selling your whole balance of a coin can close that coin's account automatically, and the app can also close the empty token accounts left over from past coins and return their deposits to your SOL balance. On iOS and Android the deposit is listed in the trade sheet before you confirm, so you see it on a first buy.

## Slippage and price impact: the costs that are not fees

Slippage is the maximum price change you allow between the quote you see and the trade that goes through, and the help centre page on [slippage and how to set it](https://ripr.trade/support/what-is-slippage-and-how-should-i-set-it) suggests leaving the default or Auto setting on if you are new. Auto slippage on ripr is on by default and sizes your limit from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%. You can also set the number yourself.

Nobody collects slippage, so it is not a fee. It is still a cost: a fill at a worse price than the one you saw is money out of your trade. When the price moves past your maximum, the app tells you that nothing was bought and only the network fee was spent, and you can raise the limit or try again.

Order size works the same way. The bigger your order next to what the coin's market can absorb, the further your own buying or selling moves the price against you. The help centre page on [how buy and sell size affect price](https://ripr.trade/support/how-do-my-buy-size-and-sell-size-affect-price) gives the routine: start with a small test order, watch the quote impact before you confirm, and break a big trade into steps. If the expected output drops sharply after you enter an amount, the order is too big for that market.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does the 1% swap fee on ripr come out of my SOL or my coins?

It comes out of the amount you enter. On a buy, ripr takes the 1% from the SOL you spend before the rest reaches the coin. On a sell, it comes out of the SOL the trade returns, so you receive the remainder.

### Do I pay a fee if my trade does not go through?

If the price moves past your maximum slippage, the app tells you that nothing was bought and only the network fee was spent. The swap fee applies to the trade itself, so a trade that does not fill does not pay it. You can raise your slippage limit or try again.

### Do I pay a fee to add money to ripr?

Adding money to ripr by card, Apple Pay, or UPI and bank transfer in India goes through payment providers, and those providers set their own fees and show them at checkout before you confirm. If you are sending SOL in from somewhere else instead, the sending platform applies its own withdrawal and network costs.

### Does trading through a referral link change what I pay?

No. Referrer and streamer commissions on ripr bonding-curve volume are paid out of the platform's share of the 1% swap fee, not added to what the trader pays. A trade through a referral link costs the same 1% as any other trade.

## How to check what a trade costs before you confirm on ripr

ripr puts the numbers in the sheet you confirm the trade from. On iOS and Android, the trade sheet lists the network fee, any ripr router fee and the refundable account deposit before you confirm. Give those lines a read on your first buy of a coin.

Then the app runs one more check on your behalf. Before your wallet signs, ripr checks the prepared transaction on your device against the amount, slippage and fee limits you set, and refuses it if anything differs. That is a check of the transaction, not of whether the coin itself is worth buying.

A short routine covers the rest:

1. Start with a small test order and read the quote for that size.
2. Leave Auto slippage on, or set a limit you are comfortable with.
3. Read the fee lines in the trade sheet.
4. Keep enough SOL in your wallet to cover the fee on the sell as well as the buy.

The total fees when trading Solana meme coins are a short list: 1% of the amount you enter, a network fee in SOL, the pool's own rate where the coin trades in a pool, and a refundable deposit the first time you hold the coin. Read the help centre page on [the fees charged during trading](https://ripr.trade/support/what-fees-are-charged-during-trading) once, then put it to work with our guides to [how to buy a Solana meme coin on ripr](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-buy-a-solana-meme-coin) and [how to sell a Solana meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-sell-a-solana-meme-coin).

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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.*