What Orca's SOL/USDC pool charges
Orca Whirlpool's main SOL/USDC pool takes 0.04% of every swap: 4 basis points. Flip the switch to see what its trades actually paid.
Its median buy of 1–100 SOL paid 0.72 bp against the market mid, fee included, and 91% of its trades paid under 2 bp. Why trades pay less than the fee
Orca Whirlpool · buying · 1–10 SOL
+0.78 bp
median cost against the mid, fee and slippage included
- Middle half of trades
- +0.27 to +1.40 bp
- Trades measured
- 3,245
- On 5.00 SOL (about $504)
- $0.04 at the median
- Network fee and Jito tip
- median 0.03 bp · 42% tipped
Recorded 26 Oct 2026, 16:30–21:57 UTC · one evening, one regime
Look up a trade
Every number here comes from the trades we recorded on the evening of 26 October: SOL/USDC, priced against Binance at the moment each one executed.
All the numbers in one table
| Venue | Size | Buy, median bp | Sell, median bp |
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| Orca Whirlpool | under 1 SOL | 0.71 | 0.52 |
| Orca Whirlpool | 1–10 SOL | 0.78 | 0.68 |
| Orca Whirlpool | 10–100 SOL | 0.60 | 0.52 |
| Meteora DLMM | 1–10 SOL | 0.67 | 0.45 |
| BisonFi | 1–10 SOL | −0.43 | −0.55 |
| Tessera V | 1–10 SOL | 0.08 | −0.04 |
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Public curves like Orca and Meteora, the proprietary AMMs that quote their own price, and an order book.
Pick the size.
Sizes with fewer than a hundred trades on either side stay greyed out, and so do trades under 1 SOL on venues we measure from balances, where account rent muddies small trades.
Buying or selling SOL?
The two sides rarely cost the same, and the difference moves with who is trading.
Put in your own amount.
We turn the median into dollars at the evening's SOL price, about $100.88.
Add what it costs to land.
The venue's median network fee and Jito tip, as a share of your amount, added to the median. Usually noise; for the bots racing to the top of a block, it isn't.
First, we listen to the chain
A Yellowstone gRPC stream at the confirmed level, filtered on the programs of 27 DEXs, with Binance and Coinbase quotes recorded on the same machine and the same clock.
Slot 461,786,283
- processed
- 19:41:10.756 UTC
- confirmed
- 19:41:10.919 UTC
- DEX transactions
- 171
- SOL/USDC trades, 1–100 SOL
- 15, on 6 venues
- Binance SOLUSDT
- about 25 quotes a second
Transaction 567gA4MD…pu2s
- call
- Jupiter → Orca Whirlpool swap_v2
- pool
- Czfq3…44zE (SOL/USDC, 0.04%)
- into the pool
- 1,000.000000 USDC
- out of the pool
- 9.952595529 SOL
- pool balances
- reconcile exactly
Priced at 19:41:10.756 UTC
- Binance bid / ask
- 100.59 / 100.60
- mid, Solana's USDC level
- 100.4691
- fill
- 100.4763
- cost
- +0.72 bp
- fee · Jito tip
- 5,000 · 45,489 lamports
One row of swaps, 2026-10-26
- venue
- orca_whirlpool
- caller
- jupiter
- side
- buy
- base_amount
- 9.952595529
- price
- 100.476303
- cex_mid
- 100.469117
- cost_bp
- 0.72
- jito_tip_lamports
- 45489
- Listen
- Decode
- Price
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Questions
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27 programs. Orca Whirlpool, Meteora DLMM and PumpSwap are decoded swap by swap. Raydium, the rest of Meteora, pump.fun, the proprietary AMMs (Scorch and Kipseli joined after the first analysis) and the Manifest and Phoenix order books are measured from balance changes.
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Against Binance's SOLUSDT mid at the moment the trade's slot was processed, brought to Solana's own USDC price level. Pool fee and slippage are included; the network fee and the Jito tip are kept in their own columns.
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We started recording in October 2026. On-chain history can be rebuilt from archives, and we'll backfill it. The exchange price at the same instant can't be rebuilt later, which is why we record it live, every day.
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