> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tickside.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Fees

> We charge nothing. The venue still does, and here is when.

## What tickside charges

**Nothing.** No subscription, no seat licence, no software fee, on any order,
maker or taker. There is no volume tier because there is no fee to tier.

## What the venue charges

The venue's own fees still apply, and they are not ours to waive.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Makers pay nothing" icon="clock">
    An order that **rests** and is filled later pays no fee at all. Clicking
    away from the market's price is what makes an order a maker order.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Takers pay on the way in" icon="bolt">
    An order that **crosses** the spread and fills immediately pays the venue's
    taker fee. Clicking into the price is what makes it one.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

The taker fee is not a flat percentage of your stake. It follows the price:

```
fee = rate * shares * price * (1 - price)
```

which is largest in the middle of the book and smallest at the extremes. A
coin-flip market costs the most to cross, a near-certain one the least.

<Note>
  Where the venue reports what it **actually** charged on a fill, that is the
  number we use rather than the formula. The formula is the fallback until the
  real figure arrives.
</Note>

## Where you see it

Fees are already inside every P\&L figure on the desk. See
[net vs gross](/reference/pnl) for what that means, and why our number differs
from the venue's own site.