Moon.com Fees Explained (2026): Opening Fee, Holding Fee, Performance Fee & Spread, With Three Worked Bets
Moon.com charges four things on a leveraged bet: a 1% opening fee on the stake, a holding fee every 8 hours, a performance fee of at least 10% of profit, and an undisclosed spread. Three bets run through the arithmetic, which fee you can avoid entirely, and how 3.5% rakeback offsets the rest.
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Hey, welcome back to Moon Leverage. Episode 3, and this one is the Moon.com fees. What every bet actually costs, in dollars, and which of the fees you can avoid.
Quick recap. Moon.com is the up or down betting site from the people behind Stake. You pick a market, call up or down, choose your leverage, and Moon charges four things on that bet. Two of them are published as numbers, one is published as an interval, and one isn't published at all.
Number one, the opening fee. 1% of your stake, charged the moment the bet opens. And this is the one people get wrong. It's 1% of the stake, not the exposure. A $100 bet costs $1 to open at 1x, and $1 to open at 1000x. Leverage changes how far the price can move before you're liquidated. It never changes the entry cost.
Number two, the holding fee. Moon charges it every 8 hours the bet stays open, at a rate it calls dynamic and doesn't publish as a number. So a bet closed inside 8 hours pays no holding fee at all. A bet held for a day meets it three times. A bet held over a weekend meets it nine times.
Number three, the performance fee. At least 10% of your realized profit, taken when you close a winning bet. Nothing on a loss. Moon says minimum 10%, so 10% is the best case you can assume.
Number four, the spread. Moon's terms reserve a spread, or a pricing edge, in Moon's favour, built into the price you open at and the price you close at. It never appears as a line item and its size isn't disclosed. So every example that follows is slightly kinder than a real bet.
Three examples. Same formula every time. Stake × leverage is your exposure. Move × exposure is your gross result. Then the fees come off.
Example one. $100 on Ethereum at 100x, and the price goes your way by 0.5%. You close inside 8 hours. Your exposure is $10,000. 0.5% of that is $50 gross. Opening fee, $1. Performance fee, 10% of $50, $5. Net, $44. So a 0.5% move became a 44% return, and fees took $6 of the $50, 12% of the win.
Example two. Same bet, same direction, but Ethereum falls 1% instead. At 100x, a 1% move against you is the whole stake. The bet closes automatically. You've lost the $100, plus the $1 opening fee that was already gone, so $101 out of pocket. No performance fee, because there was no profit. Because the spread sits inside the price, the real liquidation point arrives slightly before a full 1% move.
Example three. $100 on Bitcoin at 10x, held for a full day, and Bitcoin rises 3%. Exposure is $1,000, so $30 gross. Opening fee, $1. Performance fee, $3. Now the holding fee. 24 hours is three 8-hour intervals. Moon doesn't publish the rate, so this is illustrative. If it were 0.1% of your stake per assessment, that's 30 cents over the day, and you net about $25.70. If instead that same rate applied to the $1,000 exposure rather than the stake, it would be $3 for the day, and your net drops to about $22.70. To learn your own number, open a bet and watch what your account shows.
So what does all that mean for how you bet? Three things.
Decide your close before you open. The holding fee is the only fee 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 move of 0.01% in your favour covers the $1 fee on a $100 bet. At 1x, you need a full 1% move just to get back to even.
And count the performance fee as a haircut on every win. $50 gross is $45 before anything else, and losers pay nothing extra, so over a lot of bets that 10% is the difference between breaking even and not.
One more thing. Rakeback returns 3.5% of the fees you pay. On those three bets, the published fees were $6, $1 and $4. $11 total, and 3.5% of that is about 39 cents. Small per bet, adds up with volume, and it's the only fee reduction Moon offers, because there's no welcome bonus right now. The code that switches it on is moonlev. Episode 2 covers rakeback properly if you want the detail.
If you want the tables, they're at moonleverage.com, under fees. And for a month of your own numbers, what you staked, what you won, what you paid in holding fees, the calculator is at moonrakeback.com.
18+ only, and Moon isn't available in the US, the UK or Australia. Cheers, catch you next time.
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