Meteora fees explained: what you pay, and who earns it

1. The Solana network fee

Every transaction on Solana pays a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature. A lamport is one billionth of a SOL, so that is 0.000005 SOL. You can add a priority fee to get processed faster when the network is busy.^[1] Meteora's settings let you choose a speed (Fast, Turbo or Ultra) and either a maximum you'll pay or an exact amount. DLMM transactions currently always go through Jito, a service that bundles transactions, which means paying a Jito tip.^[2]

2. Rent: deposits you usually get back

Solana charges rent, a deposit in SOL, to store data such as a new position. Most of it comes back when the data is deleted.^[2]

The last row is standard on Solana, not a Meteora fee: our Solana beginner's guide ↗ explains it.^[6] Before you confirm a DLMM deposit, the app's “Show cost details” lists the refundable and non-refundable parts.^[7]

3. The trading fee, and who gets it

Traders pay a fee on every swap. The pool's LPs share most of it; Meteora keeps a fixed share called the protocol fee. If the trade came through a referral partner, that partner's cut is taken out of Meteora's share, so traders never pay extra for it.^[3]

Meteora collects its share in whatever tokens were traded, such as SOL, USDC and MET, and does not turn it into dollars automatically.^[3]

How big is the trading fee?

DLMM: a base fee set with the pool plus a variable fee that rises in fast markets, never more than 10% in total.^[4] Busy pools can be very cheap: on 29 Sep 2026 the busiest SOL-USDC DLMM pool charged a 0.04% base fee.^[8]

DAMM v2: a base fee from 0.01% up to 99% and an optional dynamic fee, with the total capped at 99% on current pools.^[5] The published presets settle at 0.25%, 0.3%, 1%, 2%, 4% or 6%; the launch versions start at 50% and step down.^[9] That is why buying a brand-new token in its first minutes can cost far more than usual: check the pool's current fee first.

DAMM v1: fixed, usually 0.25%; stable pools 0.01%.^[10]

4. Taxes built into some tokens

Some tokens made with Solana's Token-2022 standard charge a transfer fee every time they move, and DAMM v2 accepts them without special approval.^[11] That fee is set by whoever controls the token, not by Meteora or the pool, and it is charged on the way in and again on the way out. Check a token's details on an explorer before you trade or deposit it.

Putting it together

A simple DLMM deposit therefore costs: a network fee or Jito tip, about 0.059 SOL of rent that comes back when you close, and possibly 0.075 SOL per new bin array that doesn't. Your earnings are 90% (or 80%) of the trading fees your bins collect, minus nothing on deposit, and they wait in your position until you claim them.^[2][3][12]