Solana Network Fees on Axiom, Explained

The five costs in one trade

• Network base fee. Solana charges a tiny fixed amount for every signature. You don't set it and will rarely notice it.
• Priority fee. A tip to the validator for a better place in the block. Axiom's default is 0.001 SOL.
• Bribe. A second tip, the one Jito validators act on and MEV protection uses. Also 0.001 SOL by default.
• Axiom fee. 1% of each buy and each sell, or 0.8% on an account opened with code TradeNow, minus cashback.
• Pool or launchpad fee. Set by the venue. Pump.fun's bonding curve, for instance, charges its own fee on every trade.

The two you control

The priority fee and bribe are set per preset in Trading Settings, for buys and sells separately. Axiom suggests values from live network traffic. Its docs advise raising the priority fee when the network is congested, and they call a higher bribe safer for execution but not fully effective, so paying more is a trade-off, not a guarantee. The full explanation is in How to Set the Priority Fee and Bribe.

Why small trades pay most

The two tips are fixed amounts, so their weight depends on the trade. On a 0.1 SOL buy, 0.002 SOL of tips is 2% of the trade before Axiom's fee, and the sell pays it again. On a 5 SOL buy the same tips are 0.04%. If most of your trades are tiny, a lower-fee preset for ordinary coins saves more than any discount.

The token account deposit

The first time a wallet buys a token, Solana creates an account to hold it, which needs a small deposit of about 0.002 SOL. It is not a fee: closing the empty account later returns it. Wallets that buy many coins slowly lock up SOL this way.

See what you paid

Axiom counts fees inside your PnL, a change added in June 2025, so profit figures are after costs. Each token's header also shows Global Fees Paid, what all traders have spent on tips for that coin. The Axiom fees page lists every tier, and How to Claim Axiom Cashback covers getting part of Axiom's fee back.