Jupiter
The Solana aggregator that takes no percentage of your trade — scoring 10 out of 10 on both cost and custody, which nothing else in that rating does.
- Founded
- 2021
- Registered
- Decentralised
- Site
- jup.ag
The short answer
It routes across every meaningful Solana venue, signs from a wallet you control, and takes no percentage of the trade — which earns 10 out of 10 on both cost and custody, a combination nothing else in our trading tools rating achieves. It holds three cards with us, and the weakest is jupSOL: the best-yielding major Solana staking token at 5.70%, and a $404m token whose deepest direct on-chain pool is about $200,000.
Key facts
| Cost | 10 out of 10 — takes no percentage of the tradeas of 14 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|
| Custody | 10 out of 10 — signs from a wallet you control; it never holds your fundsas of 14 Jul 2026 |
| Execution | 9 out of 10, routing across every meaningful Solana venueas of 14 Jul 2026 |
| jupSOL yield | 5.70% net — the best-yielding major Solana staking token, close to the full network rateas of 14 Jul 2026 |
| jupSOL depth | A $404m token whose deepest direct on-chain pool is about $200,000 — roughly 0.05%as of 14 Jul 2026 |
| Jupiter Perps | Second-largest perpetuals venue by fees at $15.8m over thirty days, and the default way leveraged exposure is taken on Solanaas of 14 Jul 2026 |
| Rating cards | Three: trading tools, liquid staking and perpetual DEXsas of 14 Jul 2026 |
An aggregator that does not take a cut
Jupiter scores 10 out of 10 on cost and 10 out of 10 on custody, and nothing else in our trading tools rating manages both. The reason is simple and rare: it routes your trade across every meaningful Solana venue to find the best price, it signs from a wallet you control so it never holds your funds, and it takes no percentage of the trade for doing it.
That is worth spelling out because the category norm is the opposite. Most swap interfaces — including the one built into the most-used wallet in crypto — add a fee on top of the route they select, and disclose it in a support article rather than on the screen where you approve the trade. Jupiter is the reference point that makes the rest of the category legible: once you know a free, non-custodial, best-execution router exists, every fee elsewhere becomes a choice rather than a cost of doing business.
Execution scores 9 out of 10. Coverage scores 6, which is the honest limit — it is a Solana product, and outside that ecosystem it does nothing for you.
jupSOL: the best yield, and almost no direct market
jupSOL pays 5.70% net, the best of the major Solana staking tokens and close to the full network rate, which is a genuinely good number and earns 9 out of 10 on yield.
The depth behind it is the problem. This is a $404m token whose deepest direct on-chain pool holds about $200,000 — roughly 0.05% of the token’s size. Liquidity scores 3 out of 10 for that, the lowest mark Jupiter carries anywhere.
The qualification is real: routed liquidity through aggregators is better than the raw pool number suggests, because a sale can be broken across venues rather than dumped into one pool. But that routing depends on the wider Solana market functioning, and the moment you would most want to exit a staking token is the moment that assumption is under stress.
The practical reading is that jupSOL is a hold-to-maturity instrument dressed as a liquid one. If you intend to unstake through the protocol and wait, the yield is the best available. If you are relying on selling it quickly at par, the market behind it is thinner than the label implies.
Incident record
No recorded incidents since 2021, verified 14 Jul 2026.
In our ratings
Compared with
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Questions people ask
Does Jupiter charge a fee?
It takes no percentage of the trade, which is why it scores 10 out of 10 on cost. You still pay Solana network fees and whatever price impact the route incurs, but Jupiter itself does not add a cut on top — unlike most wallet-embedded swap interfaces.
Does Jupiter hold my funds?
No. You sign from a wallet you control and the funds never leave it except into the trade, which earns 10 out of 10 on custody. There is no account, no deposit and nothing for Jupiter to freeze or lose.
Is jupSOL a good staking token?
Its yield is the best of the major Solana staking tokens at 5.70% net, close to the full network rate. Its direct market is the thinnest here — a $404m token whose deepest on-chain pool is about $200,000 — so treat it as hold-to-maturity rather than something you can exit quickly at par.
Why does Jupiter have three rating cards?
Because it is three products: an aggregator in trading tools, jupSOL in liquid staking, and Jupiter Perps in perpetual DEXs, which is the second-largest venue in that category by fees at $15.8m over thirty days. Each is scored on its own category’s criteria.
What changed
- 27 Sept 2026 — Profile published. Covers three rating cards: the aggregator, jupSOL and Jupiter Perps.