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What other apps add on top
ZeroFee adds 0%. It connects you straight to the protocols, so you pay what the route costs and nothing more. Here is what the same swap costs with each kind of service: every figure all-in, priced the same way and dated. We compare kinds of services, not companies.
- ZeroFee fee
- 0%. No platform fee, no added spread, no subscription. The same in ZeroFee Swap and ZeroFee Pay.
- What you do pay
- The protocols' own fees and network fees, added up and shown in dollars before you start.
- $1,000 ETH → SOL
- 0.20–0.21% on ZeroFee's best deposit route (NEAR Intents, ~1 min). Typical: ~0.6% at a big exchange, 1.05–1.38% through a wallet's swap button.
- Privately, same swap
- 0.25% for a confidential crossing on NEAR Intents, versus 1.5–3.1% at privacy swap services.
How these numbers were made
Cost here means how much less you receive than the market price (the mid-price on a large exchange's order book at the moment of pricing). That catches every fee, spread and fixed delivery cost, however a service labels it. Network gas on the sending chain is left out; it was about a cent on 14 October 2026.
Other services: their own published fee pages, plus live prices from public pricing endpoints, on 14 Oct 2026 between 09:40 and 10:15 UTC. ZeroFee: live prices from our public API, two runs, 10:23–10:30 UTC, compared with the same market price.
$1,000 of ETH on Ethereum → SOL on Solana
- Big exchange0.12%–0.86% · 5–20 min
Account and ID check first; the exchange holds your coins during the trade. Low end = the cheapest base-tier fees.
- Wallet swap button1.05%–1.38% · 1–5 min
The best-known wallets add 0.85–0.88% on top of the route's own cost.
- Bridge or bridge-aggregator site0.31%–0.51% · 1–3 min
Interface fee 0–0.25% plus the bridge's cost.
- No-account instant exchange0.45%–1.9% · 10–60 min
Fee inside the rate; fixed rates cost more than floating ones.
- Privacy swap service1.5%–3.1% · 5–50 min
No published rate. Two swaps in a row, so roughly double a normal swap.
- Privacy pool + bridge0.72%–1.0% · minutes + your wait
Pool fee in and out (or on deposit), plus the bridge, plus gas.
- ZeroFee — best deposit route0.2%–0.21% · ~1 min
NEAR Intents. Send from any wallet or exchange.
- ZeroFee — confidential crossing0.25% · ~1 min
NEAR Intents' confidential mode.
- ZeroFee — through Monero0.85%–0.9% · ~15 min
Measured on 14 October 2026, before the step’s latest update. It now takes about 15 minutes; the swap page shows the live cost before you start.
$250 USDC on Base → BTC on Bitcoin
- Big exchange0.65%–1.3% · 15–70 min
A flat Bitcoin withdrawal fee of $1.25–1.66 is up to ~0.7% by itself at this size.
- Wallet swap button1.08%–1.2% · 3–25 min
Wallet fee plus the route's cost.
- Bridge or bridge-aggregator site0.23%–0.32% · 3–23 min
Cheapest category here.
- No-account instant exchange0.68%–2.25% · 10–60 min
Minimums of ~$10–50 apply.
- Privacy swap service2.0%–4.95% · 5–50 min
Fixed network fees weigh more on small amounts.
- Privacy pool + bridge0.73%–0.82% · minutes + your wait
Plus gas and withdrawal fees.
- ZeroFee — best deposit route0.34% · ~5 min
Relay. Send from any wallet or exchange.
- ZeroFee — confidential crossing0.9% · ~8 min
Includes a ~$1.60 Bitcoin delivery fee.
How each kind of service charges
- Big exchanges. A trading fee of 0.10–0.80% for a new account, plus a flat fee to withdraw each coin. That is about $1.25–1.66 to send BTC out and $0.11–0.53 for SOL. An identity check comes first, and the exchange holds your coins until you withdraw.
- Wallet swap buttons. 0% to 1% on top of the route. The most-used wallets charge 0.85–0.875%.
- Bridge and bridge-aggregator sites. An interface fee of 0–0.25%, plus the bridge's own cost (0.01–0.15% on major coins).
- No-account instant exchanges. Published fees of 0.25–1%, usually inside the rate. Fixed rates cost more than floating ones, and minimum amounts apply.
- Privacy swap services. No published percentage. They describe private mode as roughly double a normal swap. Two swap steps through Monero measured 3.1% (on $1,000) and 4.95% (on $250).
- On-chain privacy pools. 0.25% in and 0.25% out; or 0.5% on deposit; or 0.35% plus a fixed ~$0.64 on the way out. Withdrawal-service fees and gas come on top. A pool stays on one chain, so crossing chains adds a bridge.
- ZeroFee. 0% of its own, straight on the protocols. The swap page shows the total cost, and what's in it, before you start. Fees in detail.
Reading the numbers
- You get the route's own price. ZeroFee's price is the best route's own price with nothing added, so a bridge's own site can tie it on its own pair. On the $250 swap to Bitcoin, the cheapest bridge sites measured 0.23–0.32% and ZeroFee's best route 0.34%. That gap is inside the ~0.15% that market prices differ between sources.
- Small payouts to Bitcoin. Most services charge a flat Bitcoin delivery fee: $1.25–1.66 today at big exchanges and on the confidential route. At $250 that alone is 0.5–0.7%.
- No wallet to connect, by design. ZeroFee uses protocols that issue a one-time deposit address, so you can pay from any wallet or exchange and there is nothing to connect. A wallet-signing aggregator can sometimes price a pair slightly better (about 0% against 0.20% on the $1,000 ETH → SOL example). That is the trade for never connecting your wallet.
- Privacy steps have their own cost. Each one is in the total before you start. Through Monero, the $1,000 swap cost 0.85–0.9%, still well under the 1.5–3.1% privacy swap services charged.
- Payments of an exact amount (ZeroFee Pay links) run on exact-output routes only: Relay or NEAR Intents, whichever asks the payer for less. A $25 payment on a NEAR route measured 0.85–1.92% all-in depending on the coin paid with (worst case, including a margin refunded if unused), because fixed delivery costs dominate small amounts; $250 measured 0.62–0.90%. Relay routes were cheaper in every pair checked: 0.10–1.18% at $25.
A dated snapshot
These are prices, not completed trades, from one day. Prices move, fees change often and gas swings: Ethereum gas was very low (about 0.12 gwei). At 10–30 gwei, any route that starts on Ethereum costs $0.50–1.60 more. Market prices differ by about 0.1–0.15% between sources, so treat smaller differences as a tie. ZeroFee always shows the live cost, and what's in it, before you start.
Check it yourself
Every ZeroFee figure above came from the same public API anyone can call, with no key: POST /api/v1/quote. Compare its amountOut with the market price at that moment. Or open the swap page, enter an amount and read the Cost beside the button.