Every cost is on the review panel before you sign. The quickest way to judge a route is Total cost: the USD value you receive compared with the USD value you send, after every fee and price impact.
What you pay
| Cost | Paid to | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| Network cost | The blockchain (validators) | Gas for your transaction on the source chain. Shown as Network cost. |
| Provider fees | The bridge, DEX or solver | What the provider charges to carry out the route, including gas on the destination chain. Part of Fees. |
| Service fee | Daggs | A small percentage of the amount you trade. Part of Fees. |
| Price impact | No one; it's the market | Large trades in thin markets move the price. Included in Total cost. |
The Daggs service fee
- A percentage of the amount you trade that gets smaller as the trade gets bigger, so large trades pay a lower rate. A bigger trade never pays less in total than a smaller one.
- It's collected by the provider inside the same transaction, so there's nothing extra to sign or send. It's already counted in the amount you receive.
- On Relay and Mayan routes, which add their own fee, Daggs charges a lower rate.
- Some routes carry no Daggs fee at all, for example Solana swaps between tokens Daggs can't collect in.
- It's added on the Daggs server, so the same trade costs the same whether you use the site, the API or an AI agent.
The service fee also earns you XP: the more fee a trade pays, the more XP it earns. See XP and referrals.
Slippage is not a fee
The percentage on the settings button (0.5% by default) is your max slippage: how far the price may move between the quote and execution before the trade reverts. You only lose it if the price actually moves; usually you get close to the quoted amount. Min. received shows the worst case.
Paying less
- Keep the default Best return priority: it ranks by what you actually receive, after fees.
- Bridge from a layer 2 rather than Ethereum mainnet when you can; gas is much cheaper.
- Very small trades can be dominated by gas. Check Total cost before you sign.
- Higher slippage doesn't make a route cheaper; it only lets it fill in a moving market.
Failed and refunded trades
If a transaction reverts on chain, nothing is swapped and no service fee is taken, but the network still keeps the gas. If a bridge provider can't deliver, it refunds under its own terms, usually to your address on the source chain.