Moon.com Rakeback Explained: 3.5% of Every Fee, Win or Lose

Rakeback is the one cost line on Moon.com that moves money back in your direction. It is not a bonus and not free credit: it is a standing 3.5% rebate on the fees you pay, and it pays out on the bets you lose as well as the bets you win. That last detail is what makes it worth understanding properly.

This page explains what rakeback covers, the two ways of switching it on, what 3.5% returns in real numbers, and where its limits sit. If you have not read the underlying fee structure yet, start there, because rakeback only makes sense once you know what you are being rebated on.

What Moon.com rakeback actually is#

Moon returns 3.5% of all fees you pay on the platform to your balance. Not 3.5% of your losses, not 3.5% of your turnover, and not 3.5% of your deposits — 3.5% of fees. Because Moon charges a fee simply for opening a bet, that means the rebate applies to positions that end in a bust just as much as it applies to positions that close in profit. You do not need to win anything to generate rakeback. You only need to pay a fee, and you pay a fee the moment a bet goes live.

That is a different mechanic from a deposit bonus or a free-bet credit. Bonuses are one-off, usually carry conditions, and are designed to pull in a first deposit. Rakeback is structural: it applies to bet one and bet ten thousand at the same rate, and there is nothing to wager through. Two things are worth knowing up front: the rebate is claimed inside the platform rather than appearing in your balance by itself, and Moon's terms of service allow any promotion to be modified or withdrawn (§10.4), so it is a standing offer rather than a permanent entitlement. It also means rakeback scales with your activity rather than with your results — a high-frequency bettor having a poor month can accrue more rakeback than a cautious bettor having a good one.

Which fees count toward rakeback#

The three named fees are all in scope: the 1% opening fee charged on your stake, the holding fee assessed every eight hours a position stays open — calculated from your wager and your leverage, at a rate Moon describes as dynamic — and the performance fee of at least 10% taken from realised profit. The last row of the table is worth noting as well. Moon’s terms state that bets settle against Moon’s own quoted price, which contains a spread in Moon’s favour. That spread sits inside the price rather than being itemised as a fee, so it is not part of the rebate base.

Moon does not publish the payout cadence — whether rakeback lands per bet, daily, or on another schedule. Your own balance history after the first handful of bets will show you how it arrives on your account.

The two ways to switch rakeback on#

This is the part that matters financially. Rakeback is not on by default, and there are two routes to switching it on.

Sign up through our link and rakeback is active from your first bet, with no minimum deposit tied to it: the link carries sign-up code 1000x, so it applies itself. If you reach Moon some other way, entering code 1000x at sign-up does the same job — code or link, the rebate is the same 3.5%. Our referral code page walks through both routes. Rakeback can also unlock later via the VIP program, once Moon assigns you a VIP manager.

What 3.5% actually returns: three worked examples#

Percentages are easy to over-read. Here is what the rebate looks like against realistic fee totals built from Moon’s two published rates — a 1% opening fee on stake and a performance fee of at least 10% on realised profit. Holding fees are left out of the arithmetic because Moon publishes no fixed rate for them and they depend entirely on how long each position stays open; whatever they come to, they push the fee totals, and therefore the rakeback, somewhat higher.

1. Example 1 — a mixed month. 100 bets at a $100 stake, $10,000 staked in total. Opening fees: $1 × 100 = $100. Say 40 of those bets close in profit averaging $60 each, for $2,400 of gross profit. Performance fees: 10% of $2,400 = $240. Total fees paid: $340. Rakeback at 3.5%: $11.90.
2. Example 2 — a losing run. 100 bets at a $100 stake, every single one busts. Opening fees: $100. Performance fees: $0, because losing bets owe none. Rakeback at 3.5%: $3.50 returned against $10,100 lost. A small figure — but it is still returned on a run where nothing won.
3. Example 3 — high volume. 200 bets at a $500 stake over a month, $100,000 staked. Opening fees: $5 × 200 = $1,000. 80 winners averaging $300 profit gives $24,000 gross profit, so performance fees of $2,400. Total fees: $3,400. Rakeback at 3.5%: $119.

Reframe example 1 as a drag on turnover and the scale becomes clear. Fees cost 3.40% of everything staked; rakeback returns 0.119% of it. Your effective fee drag falls from 3.40% to roughly 3.28%. That is a real improvement and it compounds over hundreds of bets, but it is a rounding adjustment on your cost base — not a source of profit and not something to size your bets around.

A discount on cost, not an edge#

Rakeback of 3.5% on fees is a cost reduction, not a change to the economics of the product. Moon’s terms of service set out that Moon is the counterparty to every bet — the House, in the terms’ own wording — with a disclosed financial interest in the outcome, and that its settlement price carries a spread in its favour. A rebate on the itemised fees applies to those fees only; it does not touch the spread.

Nor does it change the risk profile. Maximum loss on Moon is your stake, which is a genuine protection compared with margin trading — there is no negative balance and no margin call. But at extreme leverage the bust price sits a fraction of a percent away from your entry, so ordinary market noise is enough to take the whole stake. This is high-risk entertainment: with a house spread inside every settlement and three fees on top, the average bet carries a negative expected value, and losing the full stake is an ordinary outcome rather than an unusual one. Treat rakeback as a discount on your costs, not as a strategy.

How Moon’s rakeback compares#

Set against comparable products, 3.5% on fees is a modest number. Rollbit — one of the closest comparisons, offering the same headline 1000× leverage as a feature inside a casino rather than as a standalone platform — structures cost differently: you pick between a profit-share model that takes a cut of your winnings in place of an entry and exit fee, or a flat 4 basis point charge (0.04%) per trade that falls further if you hold its RLB token. On Rollbit, positions held beyond eight hours also incur hourly funding payments. Those are structurally different mechanisms rather than a rival rebate rate, and there is no published like-for-like rakeback percentage to set against Moon’s 3.5%.

What Moon offers instead is breadth of application. A token-linked discount applies when you hold the token, and a profit-share model applies when you win. Moon’s 3.5% applies to every fee category it charges, on every bet, regardless of result — and on a platform where the opening fee is levied on your stake rather than your leveraged exposure, that fee base is predictable enough to plan around. It is a modest number applied to a simple rule.

Who this matters most for#

• ▸High-frequency bettors: rakeback scales with the number of bets, not the size of your wins. If you open dozens of positions a week, the rebate accumulates into something you can see.
• ▸Anyone still testing the platform: activate it before you start, because the play-money mode costs no fees and therefore generates none — the clock only starts when you bet real funds.
• ▸Bettors who hold positions across 8-hour windows: holding fees stack, and every one of them is rebated at 3.5%.
• ▸Less of a factor for: anyone expecting the rebate to offset the spread built into the settlement price — it applies to the named fees only.

For the full picture on the licence and the regulatory position, we have covered it separately.