Flipster fees: trading, funding, deposit and withdrawal fees

A tier is assigned on one of two tests: your trading volume over the last 30 days, or the 24-hour average balance of the assets in your account, measured in USDT. You need to pass one test, not both. A footnote on the live fee page adds that USD1 balances count toward the balance test.

VIP0 is the entry tier and has no requirement. The balance route ends at VIP7, at 500,000 USDT. From VIP8 upward the fee page lists a volume threshold only, starting at 100M USDT over 30 days.

The fee page does not say how often tiers are recalculated or when a new tier takes effect. If your plan depends on a tier change, ask first: see support for fee questions.

The trading fee is charged on perpetual swaps and on spot trades, on every fill. The live fee page gives one formula, and the rate in it is the maker or taker rate of your VIP tier.

Trading fee = filled quantity x executed price x maker or taker fee

Filled quantity times executed price is the notional value of the fill. The fee follows that value, not the margin you post, and it is charged again when you close the position. Opening and closing are two fees.

New to the terms? The glossary has the maker, taker and notional value definitions.

Leverage does not change the fee rate. It changes what the fee means for your account. The fee is a percentage of the notional value, so the less margin there is behind a position, the larger the fee is as a share of that margin.

Take the 10,000 USDT position again, held with 2,000 USDT of margin. A taker round trip is 12 USDT: 0.12% of the notional value, but 0.6% of the margin. The gap widens as the margin shrinks, before any funding payment or price move is counted.

Funding is not a Flipster fee. It is a payment between traders: when the funding rate is positive, longs pay shorts, and when it is negative, shorts pay longs. Flipster’s perpetual swaps guide says traders exchange funding with each other and the platform adds no charge of its own. Funding applies only to positions held at the funding timestamp.

The interval and the cap are set per contract. BTCUSDT.PERP exchanges funding every 8 hours with a cap of 0.3000%; the gold contract, XAUUSDT.PERP, every 4 hours with a cap of 0.5000%. The funding guide shows how funding payments are calculated, and the gold and stock contracts are covered under TradFi perpetuals fees and funding.

Liquidation does carry a fee. When the mark price hits the liquidation price, the position is closed automatically, without prior notice, and a liquidation fee of half of the maintenance margin of that position is charged. Margin left above the fee goes to the Insurance Fund.

This is a separate charge from the maker and taker fees in the tier table. The guide explains what liquidation costs and how the liquidation price is worked out; margin modes and limits are in the perpetual futures contract rules.

Customers of Flipster FZE are on a different schedule because they deal with a different company. Flipster FZE is licensed by the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), Dubai, for Exchange Services under VASP Licence VL/26/07/002, and its Public Disclosure describes spot trading.

That schedule has a taker fee only: 0.05% at the Basic tier, down to 0.025% at VIP6. The disclosure explains that market makers only submit maker orders and pay no fee, while normal users only submit taker orders. Flipster FZE charges no fee for the deposit of virtual assets.

Our sources give the rates but not the volume or balance each UAE tier needs. The licence scope and the register entry are on the page about the VARA licence of Flipster FZE, VL/26/07/002. How the companies relate is covered under the two Flipster companies.

Every number on this page was read from a Flipster page or legal document on the date in the table, and from nowhere else. Rates are for an individual account at VIP0 unless a tier is named.

Not included in any figure or example:

• network fees charged by a blockchain or a sending wallet
• spreads and slippage, which this page does not measure
• funding payments, which depend on the rate at each funding time
• promotional fee credits or discounts

The numbers are checked against the live pages every 30 days, and the page gets an editorial review every 90 days. The review date changes only when a number changes. The editorial policy for sourcing and review has the full process.

One inconsistency on the live site: the home page FAQ says fees “start at 0.025%”. On the fee page, 0.025% is the taker rate of VIP11, the highest tier. A new account starts at VIP0, at 0.02% maker and 0.06% taker.