Moon.com fees, in the operator's own terms
Four costs, and Moon documents all of them: an opening fee, a holding fee, a performance fee, and a house edge that its own terms describe as separate from and in addition to the fee schedule. Between them, they are also the entire base 3.5% rakeback is calculated from. Getting the sizes right is the difference between a fee schedule you can budget for and a surprise every 8 hours.
The whole schedule
| Fee or cost | Basis | Timing | Important qualification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening fee | 1% of the wager amount | When the bet is opened | Charged on the wager, not on leveraged exposure. Moon’s own example: a 1,000 wager at 10x controls 10,000 of exposure and pays a 10 opening fee. |
| Holding fee | Dynamic, not a fixed published percentage | Assessed every 8 hours while the bet stays open | Moon says the rate varies with market conditions, volatility, liquidity and funding costs. The terms describe holding fees as periodic and amendable. |
| Performance fee | Charged on realised profit | When a bet is closed at a profit | Moon documents a minimum of 10% of realised profits and states that no performance fee is charged on losing bets. Deducted before settlement. |
| House edge | Spread or pricing edge built into Moon’s quoted price | Present throughout the bet | Moon’s terms state the House Edge is separate from, and in addition to, the fee schedule. |
| Withdrawal and other charges | Set out in Moon’s published fee schedule | On the relevant transaction | The terms reference betting fees, holding fees, withdrawal fees and other charges, amendable prospectively on notice. Fees are stated to be non-refundable except where law or the schedule says otherwise. |
Copied from Moon’s Help Centre and Terms. Amounts in the examples below are Moon’s own, without a currency symbol, because the schedule is written in percentages.
Opening fee
1% of your wager, charged when you open the bet. Not 1% of the leveraged exposure. Moon’s example: a 1,000 wager at 10x controls 10,000 of exposure and pays 10 in opening fee.
If it were charged on exposure, the same bet would cost you 100. It isn’t, so it doesn’t. This is the one place Moon is cheaper than you feared, so enjoy it, because the holding fee is coming.
Holding fee
Every 8 hours your bet is still open, Moon takes a holding fee. There is no published rate. Moon says it moves with market conditions, volatility, liquidity and funding costs, which is four ways of saying “it depends”. The terms also reserve the right to amend it on notice.
Nobody quoting you an average has a source, because there isn’t one. What matters in practice is that a bet you left open overnight is not the same bet in the morning, and holding a position for days is a genuine cost that you cannot budget for in advance from anything Moon has printed.
Performance fee
Win a bet, hand back at least 10% of the profit before it settles. Lose a bet, no performance fee. Moon documents 10% as a minimum, so it can be higher.
Call it a haircut on winners rather than a cost of entry. It also means the fee base rakeback comes off gets bigger when you close in profit, which is the closest thing to good news in this section.
House edge
Moon’s terms state, in writing, that Moon.com acts as the House, the principal counterparty to every bet, with a direct financial interest in the outcome of every bet, and that the house edge sits separately from and on top of the fee schedule.
It never shows up on a statement, because it is baked into the price you get quoted rather than itemised afterwards. Moon says so in its own terms, which is more than most operators manage. Rakeback does not touch it. 3.5% comes off the fees, and the edge is not a fee.
Why fees are the whole rakeback story
Rakeback is a slice of fees. That means the fee schedule is the entire input. Small number of short-held wagers, few fees, small rebate. Lots of fees, bigger rebate, and also lots of fees. The rebate scales with the thing you are trying to minimise.
Sit with that before treating rakeback as a reason to bet more. The rebate is 3.5% of the fee. The fee is 100% of the fee.
Related: how the 3.5% rakeback figure works andwhat leverage does to the size of a wager.
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Sources
Primary operator material only. Competitor pages are not treated as factual authority.
- How do the fees on Moon workMoon.com Help Centre · checked 3 September 2026
- Moon.com Terms of ServiceMoon.com · checked 3 September 2026
- How does leverage workMoon.com Help Centre · checked 3 September 2026