Fees
Every fee on mallow: what it is, who pays it and when, for selling, minting, collecting, swapping and staking.
A figure with a green dot is the current amount, read from mallow when you opened this page. A figure without one was correct when the page was last updated. Either way, mallow shows you the exact amounts before you sign a transaction.
What you pay falls into two groups, and this page keeps them apart:
- mallow fees are what mallow charges: either a percentage of a sale or a small fixed amount in SOL
- Solana network costs are what the network charges to run a transaction and store an artwork. None of that goes to mallow
Selling
Sale Fee
mallow takes a percentage of the price when an artwork sells at a fixed price, as an edition, through an accepted offer, or at auction. The seller pays it out of the sale price, so the buyer pays exactly the price they see.
| Fixed price, editions and offers | Auctions | |
|---|---|---|
| First sale | 5% | 5% |
| Resale | 2.5% | 2.5% |
| First sale, priced in SMORES | 4% | 4% |
| Resale, priced in SMORES | 2% | 2% |
- A first sale is a creator selling their own artwork. A sale by any later owner is a resale
- Programmable NFTs (pNFTs) and compressed NFTs always pay the resale rate
- Listings and auctions priced in SMORES get 20% off the sale fee. The last two rows show the result
- A listing or auction keeps the rate it was created with. If the rate changes later, only new listings use the new one
- Making or cancelling an offer has no mallow fee. The sale fee applies when the owner accepts one, and the owner pays it
Royalties
A creator sets the royalty when minting: anywhere from 0% to 15%, shared between up to five wallets. mallow pays royalties on every resale it handles. Like the sale fee, they come out of the sale price.
How a Sale Is Split
Both the sale fee and the royalty are worked out from the full sale price.
Resale. An artwork resells for 10 SOL. The sale fee is 2.5% and the creator set a 5% royalty.
| Amount | |
|---|---|
| Buyer pays | 10 SOL |
| mallow sale fee (2.5%) | − 0.25 SOL |
| Creator royalty (5%) | − 0.5 SOL |
| Seller receives | 9.25 SOL |
First sale. A creator sells a new artwork for 10 SOL at a 5% sale fee. mallow keeps 0.5 SOL and the other 9.5 SOL goes to the artwork's creators, divided by the shares set at minting. No royalty is taken, because the creators are the ones being paid.
The listing form shows the split for your artwork before you sign.
Gumball
See Gumball for how each mode works.
| Fee | Amount | Who pays | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sale fee | 5% of each sale | The seller, out of the price | At each draw |
| Curator fee (collaborative Gumballs) | 0% to 10%, set by the curator | Each collaborator, out of what is left after the sale fee | When proceeds are settled |
| Artwork storage (New artwork mode) | $0.015 per MB uploaded, paid in SOL | The creator | When loading artworks |
- Creating a Gumball has no mallow fee. You pay Solana rent, which is returned after the sale
- Pre-minted artworks pay royalties after the sale fee and curator fee: a creator's own artwork pays out in full to its creators, and a resold artwork pays its royalty percentage
- The SMORES discount doesn't apply
Collectors pay a separate fee per draw on some Gumballs. See Gumball and Jellybean draws.
Sweepstake
A Sweepstake is a Gumball, so the 5% sale fee applies. It's taken only from winning tickets, because every other deposit is refunded.
Each collector who enters pays a 0.011 SOL entry fee, which is kept whether or not their ticket is selected. It's refunded only if the sweepstake is cancelled, is never drawn, or an entry is still unresolved 7 days after entries close.
Jellybean
See Jellybean.
| Fee | Amount | Who pays | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sale fee | 5% of each sale | The creator, out of the price | At each draw |
| Print fee | 0.011 SOL | The collector | At each draw that lands on an edition. A 1/1 has no print fee |
- The other 95% is paid straight to the wallets in your proceeds split at each draw
- Creating a Jellybean has no mallow fee. You pay Solana rent, which is refundable
- The SMORES discount doesn't apply
Raffle
Raffles run on the raffle program of mallow's partner, Famous Fox Federation, and that program sets these fees.
| Fee | Amount | Who pays | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raffle fee | 2.5% of ticket sales | The seller, out of the proceeds | When proceeds are claimed |
| Holder-only mode | 1 SOL | The seller | When the raffle is created |
- Creating a raffle also takes a Solana rent deposit that grows with the ticket supply. It's returned when the raffle ends
- Collectors pay the ticket price and nothing more
- The SMORES discount doesn't apply
Minting and Editing
These are fixed amounts in SOL, paid by the creator.
| Fee | Amount | When |
|---|---|---|
| Mint fee | 0.011 SOL | Each time you mint an artwork, an edition or a collection |
| Edit fee | 0.005 SOL | Each time you edit an artwork or a collection. Adding artworks to a collection, or removing them, is free |
| Airdrop fee | 0.005 SOL | For each edition sent in an airdrop |
Minting also carries Solana network costs, which are shown beside the mallow fee before you sign.
Paying With Cream
Cream is mallow's minting credit. Paying with it covers the whole cost of a mint (the mallow fee and the Solana costs), so you spend no SOL.
- A Core mint costs 1 Cream and a Legacy mint costs 3 Cream
- Cream also pays for edits, airdrops, and the minting cost of collecting an edition or making a draw
- A wallet holds at most 50 Cream
- A free mint ticket, given to newly approved creators, covers one Core mint in the same way
Collecting
As a collector, you pay no mallow fee to buy an artwork at a fixed price, win an auction, make an offer or buy a raffle ticket. You pay the price and Solana's network fee. See Buying.
mallow adds a fee to the price in these cases:
| Purchase | mallow fee | When |
|---|---|---|
| Edition | 0.011 SOL print fee | For each edition you collect |
| Gumball draw, New artwork mode | 0.011 SOL mint fee | At each draw |
| Jellybean draw | 0.011 SOL print fee | At each draw that lands on an edition |
| Sweepstake entry | 0.011 SOL entry fee | When you enter |
| Magic Eden listing | 0.005 SOL | For each artwork you buy |
These fees are paid in SOL, whatever token the artwork is priced in.
Gumball and Jellybean Draws
A draw that creates a new artwork shows a Mint & transaction fee. It's the mallow fee from the table above plus what Solana charges to create the artwork. A draw from a Gumball of pre-minted artworks has no mallow fee.
Magic Eden Listings
When you buy a Magic Eden listing through mallow, the price you see is the seller's price plus Magic Eden's 2% fee and the creator's royalty. mallow's 0.005 SOL fee is added on top and shown in the purchase window.
Swapping
Swapping tokens on mallow, on the web or in the mallow wallet, has a 0.5% fee. It's included in the quote you see, on top of any spread or routing cost from the exchange.
- The same 0.5% applies when you pay for an artwork with a different token, because mallow swaps it for you
- Sending, receiving and holding tokens in the wallet is free
Staking
There's no fee to stake or unstake. Instead, a share of the staking rewards is kept before they reach you:
| Share of rewards kept | By | |
|---|---|---|
| Native staking | 5% | mallow's validator, as its commission |
| mallowSOL | 2.5% | The mallowSOL stake pool |
Converting between SOL and mallowSOL on the Stake page is a swap at the market rate. mallow adds no fee to it.
Solana Network Costs
None of these go to mallow. They're shown next to mallow's own fee so you see the full cost, and they're paid to the network and to Metaplex, the standard artworks are minted with.
- Network fee. Every transaction pays one, in SOL. It's usually a fraction of a cent, and includes the priority fee you can set from the user menu
- Account rent. Solana holds a small SOL deposit for every account it stores. Rent for something temporary, such as a listing, a raffle or a Gumball, comes back when it closes. Rent for the artwork itself stays with the artwork
- Metaplex fee. Metaplex charges a small fee each time an artwork is created
The mint form estimates the last two for each new artwork:
| Account rent | Metaplex fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Core 1/1 artwork | 0.0025 SOL | 0.0015 SOL |
| Core editions artwork or collection | 0.0015 SOL | 0.0015 SOL |
| Legacy artwork | 0.01 SOL | 0.01 SOL |
Collecting an edition or drawing a new artwork creates one too, so its Mint & transaction fee includes rent and a Metaplex fee as well.