# Fees, credits and limits

> What's free, what costs money, how levels lower fees and raise limits, and the limits on projects, strategies and wallets.

## What's free

- Signing up, paper trading, backtests, optimizations and paper runs.
- Shared market data, and indexing pools through ftw.trade's hosted RPC up to your level's daily quota.
- Flowscript and TypeScript sources and scripts in ftw.trade's sandbox.
- Connecting your own AI over MCP, the CLI and the skills.
- The assistant, up to a daily allowance.

## Trading fees

- **Live sells** pay a small platform fee, taken in the chain's coin (never in the token), with the exact rate chosen before the trade is signed and shown on the fill.
- The rate **falls as your volume grows** and as your level rises.
- **Launch-curve sells** (a token still on its curve, or just graduated) start from a higher rate that decays to the normal one over the days after graduation.
- **Liquidity deposits** are never charged, and a liquidity strategy's rebalances pay the normal rate.
- **Paper** is free.

Venues, protocols, bridges and the chain charge their own fees and gas, as they would anywhere.

## Credits

Credits are one prepaid dollar balance for usage past the free tiers:

| Pays for | Price |
|---|---|
| Hosted RPC past your daily quota | Per million requests |
| A machine source | From $5 a month, charged daily |
| Assistant messages past the free allowance | What the model cost, plus a small markup |

Add credits by paying in ETH on Robinhood Chain from Account → Credits. Without credits, hosted chains wait for the next UTC day once the quota is spent, or you can read a chain through your own RPC.

## Levels

Points come from trading (the fees your fills pay) and from first steps (a first project, backtest, running strategy and live trade). Points add up to a level, and each level lowers your fees and raises your limits:

| Level | Name | Fee discount | Free RPC a day | Projects | Assistant messages a day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starter | — | 100,000 | 10 | 40 |
| 2 | Builder | 10% | 250,000 | 15 | 60 |
| 3 | Trader | 20% | 500,000 | 20 | 100 |
| 4 | Pro | 35% | 1,000,000 | 30 | 150 |
| 5 | Desk | 50% | 2,500,000 | 50 | 250 |
| 6 | Whale | 65% | 5,000,000 | 100 | 400 |

## Limits

| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Wallets per project | 200 |
| Strategies in a project document | 20 |
| Launches per project | 10, of 20 supply steps each |
| Dashboard tabs per project | 30, of 24 widgets each |
| Strategy settings | 20 |
| Workflow steps | 20 |
| Wallets tracked by address | 50 |
| Script state | 64 KB |
| Pushed source events | 100,000 accepted a day |

Paper and live trading also follow each venue's own minimums: Hyperliquid refuses an order under $10, and a deposit there is at least 5 USDC.