Uniswap launchpad fees compared: who keeps your trading tax? (November 2026)
11 November 2026
When you launch a token on a Uniswap v4 launchpad, what matters is how much of your trading fees and tax ends up with you. Most launchpads take a share of the fees or tax you set. Here is how the main ones compare, from their own docs, as of November 2026.
The short version
- Cheapest for a plain launch: Uniswap Labs' own pools.trade charges no launchpad fee, but every token gets the same fixed setup.
- Cheapest once you want your own tax or rules: UniHooks. A flat 0.20% per trade, and you keep 100% of any tax or fee you set.
- Most take a cut of your tax: Zora keeps half of the trading fee, Hookr keeps 20% of block fees by default, and Clanker takes a share of your tax.
Side by side
| Platform | Platform keeps | You keep | Your own rules |
|---|---|---|---|
| UniHooks | flat 0.20% | 100% of your tax | Yes, 15 rules |
| pools.trade (Uniswap Labs) | nothing | optional 0.05% | No, fixed setup |
| Zora | about 6% of the fee, plus 20% to the app the coin was made in | 50% of the fee | No |
| Hookr | 20% of block fees by default (up to 50%), at least 0.1% of each trade | the rest | Yes, hook blocks |
| Clanker v5 | the larger of 10% of your tax or 0.5% of the trade, up to 1% | 50% to 90% of your tax | Tax only |
| Clanker v4 | 20% on top of your fee | your fee | No |
| Doppler | 5% of trading fees | the rest | Limited |
| Flaunch | no platform fee today | 0% to 100%, you choose | Limited |
What "keep 100%" means on UniHooks
On UniHooks you set your own rules when you create the pool: a Treasury fee on buys, a Sell tax, or both. Every cent of those goes straight to your wallet on each trade, or is split between up to 8 wallets with Revenue split. Nobody takes a percentage of it, us included.
Our only fee is a flat 0.20% of each trade, the same whether your tax is 0% or 10%. It is fixed in the contract, so it can't be raised later.
An example
Say your token does $1,000,000 of trading and you set a 5% tax.
- UniHooks: your tax brings in $50,000 and you keep all of it. Our fee on that volume is $2,000.
- Hookr (default 20% of block fees, if your tax is one): the platform keeps $10,000 of the $50,000, leaving you $40,000.
- Clanker v5 (10% of a 5% tax): the platform keeps $5,000, leaving you $45,000.
The bigger your volume and tax, the bigger the gap.
When another platform makes more sense
- You want no tax and the lowest possible cost: pools.trade is hard to beat, though you can't add your own rules.
- You want a social, creator-coin style launch: Zora's app and audience are built for that.
- You want a bonding curve or auction launch: Doppler, Flaunch and similar launchpads are built around those.
Before you launch anywhere
- Check the fee in the platform's own docs on the day you launch. Fees change often.
- Keep your tax reasonable. A high tax keeps some buyers away, however much of it you keep.
- Look at what the hook can do. Every launchpad's hook has a page on UniHooks with a plain-English explanation and a safety report.
Set up a pool with your own tax in Create, or read how to add a buy or sell tax and how to earn from your token's trading volume.
Sources: Zora docs, Clanker docs, Hookr, Doppler docs, Blocmates on Flaunch, KuCoin on pools.trade. Checked 11 November 2026.