Hyperliquid Builder Fees for Copy Traders: What You Approve vs. What You Pay

Last checked against the product: 2026-10-19

The short answer

A builder fee is a small fee an app can earn on the orders it sends for you on Hyperliquid. You approve a maximum once. Each order then carries its own fee, which can be at or below that maximum. The maximum you approve and the fee you are charged are two different numbers.

What a builder fee is

Per Hyperliquid's builder-code documentation, an app that sends orders for you can tag them with a builder code and collect a fee on the fills. The fee is set per order. Builder codes are processed on Hyperliquid itself, as part of its fee logic.

Hyperliquid's own trading fees are separate. They apply with or without a builder fee.

The maximum you approve

Before an app can charge you, you approve a maximum builder fee for that app's address. Hyperliquid calls the action ApproveBuilderFee. Its documentation says your main wallet must sign it, not an agent wallet. It is a message you sign, so it costs no gas. Hyperliquid's documentation says you can revoke the permission at any time.

The approval is a ceiling. It lets the app charge up to that rate. It is not a charge, and it does not let anyone withdraw your funds.

Hyperliquid's documentation sets the most a builder can charge at 0.1% on perpetual futures. Hypertide copies only perpetual markets, so that is the cap that applies to its orders. Hyperliquid's documentation also says each user can have at most 10 active builder approvals at a time.

What you are charged on each order

Each order carries its own fee in the order itself. Hypertide sets it before every order, from your recent opening volume. The Standard rate is 0.10% and the VIP rate is 0.05%.

Both fills are charged: the one that opens a position and the one that closes it. If an order only partly fills, the fee is on the part that filled.

VIP applies once the trades Hypertide opened for you in the last 30 days add up to $10,000. Only trades that open a position or add to one count toward that. Closing trades are charged but do not count. It is a rolling 30 days, so the lower rate lapses if your recent opening volume falls under $10,000.

Hypertide asks you to approve 0.1%. At the Standard rate that equals what we charge. At the VIP rate we charge half of the ceiling you approved.

A worked example

At the Standard rate, a $1,000 order that fills in full costs $1.00 in builder fee. Closing that $1,000 position costs another $1.00, so a round trip is about $2.00.

At the VIP rate the same round trip is about $1.00. If only $600 of a $1,000 order fills, the Standard fee is $0.60.

These are fee amounts only. They do not include Hyperliquid's trading fees or funding, and they say nothing about whether a trade makes or loses money.

How to approve it with Hypertide

Connecting asks for two signatures: one for the agent key and one for the builder fee. See hypertide.app/guides/what-you-sign-when-you-connect for what each one allows. If Hyperliquid refuses an order because the fee has not been approved, see hypertide.app/guides/builder-fee-has-not-been-approved.

Checking what you approved

Hyperliquid's documentation says the maximum a user approved for a builder can be read with its public maxBuilderFee request. It is a developer interface, not a button in an app, so we do not give steps for it.

What this page does not tell you

It does not tell you whether to connect or whom to follow. It describes the app as of 2026-10-19. The Hyperliquid facts come from its builder-code documentation, read on 2026-10-19, and Hyperliquid may change them. The full fee page is hypertide.app/fees. A copied trade can lose money, and so can you.