Freya's pricing is built to be fair: you mostly pay when you make money. There are two parts to it — an optional subscription for features, and a performance fee on your profits — plus the trading fees your exchange charges separately. This guide lays out all three.
Key Takeaways
- Freya's pricing has two parts: an optional subscription (Plus/Pro) for features, and a performance fee on profits.
- The performance fee is 20% of the profit on each profitable trade — you're never charged on losing trades or on your principal.
- That fee is capped at 40 USDT per month for every user (all tiers); once you hit the cap, the rest of the month's profits are fee-free. It resets monthly.
- The performance fee comes out of your platform balance, not your exchange account.
- Separately, your exchange charges its own trading fees (and futures funding) — those go to the exchange, not to Freya.
Two Parts to Freya's Pricing
It helps to separate the two things you might pay Freya:
- The subscription — Plus or Pro, billed monthly, which unlocks features and higher limits.
- The performance fee — a share of your profits, charged only when you actually make money.
They're independent: the subscription is about features, the performance fee is about results.
The Subscription (Optional)
Freya has three plans — Free, Plus (15 USDT/month), and Pro (30 USDT/month) — paid from your platform balance. Higher plans unlock more backtests, AI analysis, more bots, marketplace publishing, and other features. You can run bots on the Free plan; paid plans simply give you more room. The full breakdown is in Freya Finance Plans: Free, Plus & Pro Explained.
The Performance Fee: 20% of Profit, Capped Monthly
This is the core of how Freya earns — and it's designed so Freya only does well when you do:
- 20% of the profit on each profitable trade.
- Nothing on losing trades, and nothing on your principal — the fee only ever touches gains.
- Capped at 40 USDT per month, for every user regardless of plan. Once your fees for the month reach 40 USDT, the rest of that month's profits are fee-free.
- Resets each month, so the cap is fresh every billing month.
- Deducted from your platform balance (not from your exchange account).
A bot closes a deal with 100 USDT of profit. Freya's performance fee is 20 USDT (20% of 100), taken from your platform balance — you keep 80 USDT of the profit.
Because of the monthly cap, once you've paid 40 USDT in fees in a given month (that's 200 USDT of profit), every further profitable trade that month costs you 0 in Freya fees.
What This Means for You
The model lines Freya's incentives up with yours: if your bots don't profit, you don't pay a performance fee. And because the fee is capped at 40 USDT a month, the more you earn beyond the cap, the smaller the effective fee becomes — heavy, successful traders aren't penalized for scale. Smaller traders, meanwhile, only ever pay a fifth of what they actually made.
Don't Forget: Your Exchange Has Its Own Fees
Freya's fees are separate from your exchange's fees. When your bot places orders, your exchange charges its usual trading fees (maker/taker), and on futures there can be funding payments too. These go to the exchange, not to Freya, and they apply to any trading you do anywhere. It's worth knowing your exchange's fee schedule so you understand your full cost of trading.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Freya charge a fee on my trades?
Yes — a performance fee of 20% of the profit on each profitable trade, capped at 40 USDT per month across your whole account. You're never charged on losing trades or on your principal, which is the part that makes this model different from a percentage-of-assets fee: if your bots have a flat month, Freya earns nothing from your trading. The fee is settled from your Freya platform balance rather than from your exchange account, so your trading capital and your fee payments stay in separate places. Once you reach the monthly cap, every further profitable trade that month costs you nothing in Freya fees. This structure is deliberate — it aligns the platform's income with your results instead of with how often you trade, which removes any incentive to nudge you toward more activity.
Do I pay the fee on losing trades?
No. The performance fee only ever applies to profit. If a trade loses money or breaks even, there's no fee — Freya earns a share only when you actually make a gain. This matters more than it first appears when you are running a DCA strategy, because such strategies can spend long stretches holding an open position that is currently underwater before it closes in profit. During that time you owe nothing, and the fee is assessed only when a deal actually closes with a gain. It also means the fee cannot compound a bad month: a strategy that loses money costs you the market loss and your exchange's trading fees, but nothing additional from Freya on those trades.
Is the performance fee different on Plus or Pro?
No. The 20% rate and the 40 USDT monthly cap are the same for everyone, on every plan including Free. The Plus and Pro subscriptions buy features and limits — things like more backtests per month, longer backtest history, more comparison slots and longer data retention — not a different fee rate. Keeping the performance fee flat across tiers is intentional: it means you never have to calculate whether upgrading changes what you keep from a winning trade, and a Free-plan trader is charged exactly the same share of profit as a Pro one. Decide on a subscription based on whether you need the extra capability, not on any expected effect on your trading costs.
What exactly is the monthly cap?
Freya's performance fees are capped at 40 USDT in any given calendar month, across your entire account rather than per bot. Since the fee is 20% of profit, you reach the cap after 200 USDT of profit in a month; every USDT of profit beyond that point incurs no further Freya fee at all. The cap resets at the start of each month. The practical effect is that the fee is meaningful for small accounts and becomes negligible as your results grow — a trader clearing 2,000 USDT of monthly profit pays the same 40 USDT as one clearing 200 USDT, which works out to 2% rather than 20%. Note that your exchange's own trading fees are separate and are not covered by this cap.
Where is the performance fee taken from?
From your Freya platform balance — not from your exchange account, and never from your open positions. This separation is deliberate: it means the platform never needs any ability to move funds on your exchange, which is exactly why your API key can stay trade-only with withdrawals disabled. The practical implication is to keep a small balance topped up so that fees on profitable trades settle smoothly without interrupting anything. You can check your balance and see every fee that has been charged, with the trade it relates to, in your account's transaction history — each entry is itemised rather than deducted as a lump sum.
Does paying for Plus or Pro remove the performance fee?
No. The subscription and the performance fee are separate charges that answer different questions: the subscription pays for capability (how many backtests you can run, how much history you can analyse, how many bots and comparison slots you get), while the performance fee is Freya's share of the results you actually achieve. Bundling them would mean either charging losing traders more or charging winning traders less, and neither matches the design intent. Think of it this way: the subscription is what you pay to have better tools available, and the performance fee is what you pay only when those tools produce a gain — capped, so it never scales indefinitely with your success.
What about my exchange's fees?
Those are separate and go entirely to your exchange, not to Freya. Your exchange charges its own trading fees (usually different maker and taker rates) on every order the bot places, and futures positions can additionally incur periodic funding payments depending on market conditions. These rates vary by exchange, by market type, and often by your own trading volume or token holdings, so check your exchange's current fee schedule rather than assuming a figure. They matter for strategy design as much as for cost: because both the entry and the exit are charged, a take-profit target set very low can be largely consumed by exchange fees before Freya's performance fee is even considered.