Banana Gun Fees vs Telegram Sniper Bot Fees (2026)

Q: What are Banana Gun's exact fees on Ethereum?

On Ethereum mainnet, Banana Gun charges a 1.0% fee on auto-snipes (block-0 and pending launch snipes) and a 0.5% fee on manual buys, manual sells, limit orders, and copy trades. These fees are deducted automatically from the ETH or tokens passing through the Banana Gun router.

Q: Does Maestro charge higher fees than Banana Gun?

Yes, on manual swaps and exits. Maestro charges a flat 1.0% fee on every buy and 1.0% on every sell, whereas Banana Gun charges 1.0% on auto-snipes and 0.5% on manual swaps and sells. Neither bot offers a flat-fee unlimited trading option.

Q: Does a Banana Gun referral code eliminate the 1% snipe fee?

No. Entering a banana gun code typically gives you a 10% rebate on the fee (reducing a 1.0% fee to an effective ~0.90% fee). To eliminate percentage-per-trade fees completely, you must use a non-custodial flat-fee bot or your own open-source Flashbots script.

By Merunas Grincalaitis, founder of MEV DAO and a developer who builds MEV, sniping and trading bots on Ethereum. Last updated: October 2026.

TL;DR: Banana Gun fees are 1.0% on Ethereum auto-snipes and 0.5% on manual buys, sells, and limit orders, while Maestro fees and most competing telegram bot fees are 1.0% on every buy and 1.0% on every sell. Because percentage fees apply to your entire position size (principal + profit), an active Ethereum sniper trading 1.5 ETH per launch over 25 trades a month pays 0.55 to 0.90 ETH ($1,500–$2,500+)/month in router taxes alone—compared to 0% per-trade fees with a flat-fee sniper bot like MEV DAO.

Traders researching Banana Gun fees or comparing sniper bot fees across Telegram bots rarely calculate how a 1% tax behaves over dozens of trades. A 1% fee sounds harmless when you read it on a landing page, because retail traders mentally compare it to 1% of their profit. In reality, every custodial Telegram trading bot deducts 0.5% to 1.0% of your gross notional volume on entry and again on exit—whether your trade makes money, breaks even, or stops out at a loss.

Below is the complete 2026 breakdown of banana gun fees, maestro fees, Sigma/Unibot fees, builder bribe overhead, and how much you keep when switching to a flat-fee Ethereum sniper bot.

2026 Telegram sniper bot fees compared side by side

Bot / Platform	Auto-Snipe Entry Fee	Manual Buy Fee	Sell / Take-Profit Fee	Round-Trip Fee on 1 ETH → 2 ETH Win	Referral / Rebate System (`banana gun code`)
Banana Gun	1.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.020 ETH (1% of 1 ETH + 0.5% of 2 ETH)	10% referral split + `$BANANA` cashback
Maestro Bot	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.030 ETH (1% of 1 ETH + 1% of 2 ETH)	Referral commission tiers
Sigma Bot	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.030 ETH	Referral rebate
Unibot / Trojan ETH	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.030 ETH	Token holder + referral discount
MEV DAO Sniper Bot	0%	0%	0%	0.000 ETH (Flat monthly membership)	3-day free trial + flat fee

For a broader look at execution speed and key custody across these platforms, read our full Banana Gun vs Maestro vs MEV DAO: ETH Sniping Compared and Banana Gun Alternatives for Ethereum: Flat-Fee Sniping vs 1% Per Trade.

How Banana Gun fees work on Ethereum (auto-snipe vs manual swap)

When you look up how Banana Gun fees are charged on-chain, the fee is hardcoded into the Banana Gun Router transaction flow:

Auto-Snipe (1.0% fee): When you set up a pending-launch snipe on Ethereum mainnet (targeting block 0 of a Uniswap V2 or V3 pool), Banana Gun deducts 1.0% of the ETH you spend. If you commit 1.0 ETH to the snipe, 0.01 ETH goes to Banana Gun's fee collector and 0.99 ETH enters the pool.
Manual Buy, Sell, and Limit Orders (0.5% fee): When you buy an already-live token or sell your sniped tokens back to ETH, Banana Gun takes 0.5% of the gross ETH output. If your 1 ETH snipe grows to 3 ETH and you sell 100%, Banana Gun takes 0.015 ETH on the exit.
Builder Bribes and Priority Gas (extra): Neither the 1.0% snipe fee nor the 0.5% sell fee includes your Ethereum network basefee or the block.coinbase builder tip required to win the block-0 auction. You pay 100% of the builder bribe out of pocket.

Many users search for a banana gun code hoping to cut these fees in half. In practice, referral codes and $BANANA token cashback rebates return only a small fraction (typically 5% to 15% of the fee paid, fluctuating with platform volume epochs), leaving you paying ~0.85%–0.95% on snipes and ~0.43% on sells.

The compounding math: Why a 1% fee eats 25%+ of an active sniper's net profit

To see why telegram bot fees quietly wreck active Ethereum traders, let's model a realistic month for a sniper learning how to use telegram bots as a primary bot for crypto trading.

Assume you take 30 snipes in a month with a 1.0 ETH position size per trade:

12 trades are winners averaging a 1.8x exit (1.8 ETH out).
10 trades are scratch/small losers exiting around 0.85 ETH.
8 trades are stop-losses exiting around 0.50 ETH.
Total gross PnL before bot fees: You put in 30.0 ETH total volume and got back 34.1 ETH (+4.1 ETH gross trading edge before gas/bribes).

Now apply maestro fees (1% buy + 1% sell) or banana gun fees (1% snipe + 0.5% sell):

Total volume traded: 30.0 ETH on entry + 34.1 ETH on exit = 64.1 ETH notional volume.
On Maestro (1% + 1%): You pay 0.30 ETH + 0.341 ETH = 0.641 ETH (~$1,700+) in router fees.
On Banana Gun (1% + 0.5%): You pay 0.30 ETH + 0.1705 ETH = 0.4705 ETH (~$1,250+) in router fees.

After subtracting ~1.6 ETH in Ethereum basefees and builder bribes across those 30 trades, your true net profit before bot taxes was 2.5 ETH. Handing over 0.47 to 0.64 ETH to a Telegram router means the bot provider took 19% to 26% of your entire net trading income—while taking zero market risk on your losing trades!

Hidden costs beyond the 1% router fee

The explicit percentage fee is only part of what you pay when using a mass-market custodial Telegram bot:

Shared router gas overhead: Custodial bots route swaps through complex multi-hop fee-splitting proxy contracts that consume 35,000 to 65,000 more gas per swap than a lean direct-to-pair executor contract. During a 40 gwei Ethereum launch spike, that extra gas costs an additional $5–$15 per trade.
Copy-trader and MEV leakage: Because Banana Gun and Maestro route all user trades through publicly tagged router addresses, MEV searchers monitor those routers to detect retail buy pressure and price-impact tolerance.
Custodial wallet risk: Storing your trading bankroll inside a Telegram bot's cloud database exposes you to platform exploits—a topic we cover in detail in Best ETH Sniper Bot in 2026: Fees, Speed & Key Custody.

How flat-fee sniping with MEV DAO eliminates volume taxes

We built the MEV DAO Ethereum Sniper Bot and MEV DAO Premium Sniping Group around a simple premise: software infrastructure should cost a flat subscription, not a percentage of your winning trades.

When you snipe with MEV DAO:

0% buy fee and 0% sell fee: Whether you snipe 0.5 ETH or 20 ETH, you keep 100% of your tokens and 100% of your exit proceeds.
Direct Flashbots bundle submission: Your transactions are bundled via eth_sendBundle directly to Flashbots, Titan, Beaverbuild, and Rsync with zero gas wasted on reverted bundles.
100% self-custody: Your private keys stay on your own machine, never inside a custodial Telegram database.

Frequently asked questions

What are Banana Gun's exact fees on Ethereum?

On Ethereum mainnet, Banana Gun charges a 1.0% fee on auto-snipes (block-0 and pending launch snipes) and a 0.5% fee on manual buys, manual sells, limit orders, and copy trades. These fees are deducted automatically from the ETH or tokens passing through the Banana Gun router.

Does Maestro charge higher fees than Banana Gun?

Yes, on manual swaps and exits. Maestro charges a flat 1.0% fee on every buy and 1.0% on every sell, whereas Banana Gun charges 1.0% on auto-snipes and 0.5% on manual swaps and sells. Neither bot offers a flat-fee unlimited trading option.

Do I still pay fees if my snipe fails or reverts?

If your transaction is submitted as a private Flashbots bundle (First Bundle or Fail / eth_sendBundle) and fails to land in the target block, it drops without landing on-chain, so you pay neither gas nor bot fees. However, if you sell a token that lost 50% of its value, custodial bots still deduct their 0.5%–1.0% fee from your remaining principal on the exit.

Does a Banana Gun referral code eliminate the 1% snipe fee?

No. Entering a banana gun code typically gives you a 10% rebate on the fee (reducing a 1.0% fee to an effective ~0.90% fee). To eliminate percentage-per-trade fees completely, you must use a non-custodial flat-fee bot or your own open-source Flashbots script.

At what trading volume is a flat-fee sniper bot cheaper than Banana Gun or Maestro?

Because a round-trip 1 ETH trade on a custodial bot costs 0.015 to 0.02 ETH ($40–$55+) in router fees alone, any trader executing more than 2 to 3 ETH of total buy/sell volume per month saves money immediately by switching to a flat-fee subscription.

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