Pricing
One fee, taken only when funds leave a launch wallet
Ballistic charges one platform fee: 5%, taken when funds leave a launch wallet, such as a withdrawal, the sweep of sale proceeds, or proceeds a new launch spends again. New funds you send to launch carry no Ballistic fee, and primary wallet withdrawals are free. Network gas and launchpad fees are separate.
What you pay
| Item | Ballistic fee | When |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | 5% | When funds leave a launch or worker wallet |
| Create, set up, fund, launch | None on new funds | Sale proceeds reused from an earlier launch pay the fee at the funding stage |
| Buys and sells | None at the trade | Proceeds carry the fee when they leave the launch wallet |
| Primary wallet withdrawals | Free | Always |
| Network gas and launchpad fees | Not charged by Ballistic | Paid to the chain and the launchpad |
The rate is the same on every chain and every launchpad. Some accounts carry a lower negotiated rate; the system can only lower the rate below 5%, never raise it, and if an account’s rate cannot be read it falls back to the standard 5% rather than to zero.
When exactly the fee is taken
The fee is charged when sale proceeds leave the wallets a launch uses, or are spent again, not on new funding and not on buys. In practice that is one of five moments:
- You withdraw from a launch or worker wallet, on any chain.
- Ballistic sweeps a launch’s sale proceeds out of its wallets after you sell.
- Sale proceeds come out of a Reserve position.
- An airdrop is sent from a launch’s wallets.
- You launch again from wallets still holding sale proceeds: the fee is taken on those proceeds at the funding stage and shown in the funding figure.
Your primary wallet is not a launch wallet: moving funds out of it is free.
A worked example
When you empty a launch wallet on Solana, the amount that leaves it is split so the fee is 5% of what you receive. A wallet that sends out 1.05 SOL after gas pays 1.00 SOL to you and 0.05 SOL in fees. Put another way, you receive the amount divided by 1.05, and the fee is about 4.76% of what left the wallet.
When you withdraw a set amount of a stable coin, such as USDC, the fee is 5% of that amount: withdrawing 100 USDC costs 5 USDC in fees.
The withdraw screen shows what you will receive and the fee before you confirm. Those figures come from the backend, not from a calculator in your browser.
Costs that are not Ballistic’s
A launch also pays the chain and the launchpad. Ballistic does not add to these and does not take a share of them.
| Cost | Where | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Bundle tips | Solana | Block-0: 0.001 SOL per bundle on the default relay (the relay’s minimum), one per bundle in the funding figure. Reserve launch bundle: at least 0.005 SOL, following live tips up to 0.05 SOL, plus at least 0.002 SOL per resend, up to five |
| Pons launch fee | Robinhood Chain | 0.0005 ETH (Pons config 0) |
| Pons curve fee | Robinhood Chain | 1% of each curve trade (Pons config 0) |
| pump.fun and StonkFun fees | Solana | Set by each launchpad |
| flap.sh fees | BNB Chain | Set by flap.sh |
| Gas | Every chain | Paid in the chain’s coin: SOL, BNB or ETH |
The funding page adds all of this into one figure before you launch, so you send one amount and nothing is topped up at launch time. Launchpads open to everyone today: pump.fun, Pons, flap.sh and StonkFun.
| Launchpad | Chain | Launch modes | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
 pump.fun | Solana | Block-0, Reserve | Open to everyone |
 Pons | Robinhood Chain | Block-0, Reserve | Open to everyone |
 flap.sh | BNB Chain | Block-0, Reserve | Open to everyone |
 StonkFun | Solana | Block-0, Reserve | Open to everyone |
Questions
Do I pay Ballistic anything upfront to launch?
Not on new funds. The money you send to create, set up, fund and launch carries no Ballistic fee. The 5% fee is taken when funds leave a launch wallet, and on sale proceeds from an earlier launch that a new launch spends again; that part is taken at the funding stage and shown in the funding figure.
Is selling free?
There is no fee at the trade itself. The proceeds of a sell sit in the launch wallets, and the 5% fee is taken when they leave them, for example when Ballistic sweeps proceeds or you withdraw.
Are withdrawals from my primary wallet charged?
No. Your primary wallet is not a launch wallet, so moving funds out of it is free.
Is the fee the same on every chain?
Yes. It is 5% on Solana, Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain, on every launchpad.
Is the fee 5% of the balance or 5% of what I receive?
When a Solana launch wallet is emptied, the fee is 5% of what you receive, so you get the amount that leaves the wallet divided by 1.05. When you withdraw a set amount of a stable coin, the fee is 5% of that amount.