# where to change slippage on axiom

Slippage is the Max % field in the settings panel behind the button in the top right, and Axiom's own example is that 1000% accepts up to a 10x price move before it cancels. Same panel as the priority fee and the bribe.

![Axiom's Trading Settings on Preset 1, callout on the SLIPPAGE field at 20%, beside PRIORITY 0.001 and BRIBE 0.01.](https://apebrief.com/assets/media/axiom-slippage.png)

## the trade you are actually making

Low slippage means more failed transactions and fewer terrible fills. High slippage means fewer failures and the occasional fill you will think about for a week. There is no setting that gives you both, and anyone who tells you their number is the correct one is describing their own risk tolerance, not yours.

Axiom's own guidance runs both ways: raise it for highly volatile assets to reduce failed transactions, and keep it low if you are not using MEV protection so the transaction does not get sandwiched. Those two tips are in tension on purpose, because the right answer depends on what you are buying and how contested it is.

## before you raise it

- If a transaction failed, check whether it failed on slippage or on priority. They have different fixes and raising the wrong one costs you money without helping.
- Axiom's own example is 1000%, which it describes as accepting up to a 10x price move before the trade cancels [^s2]. That is an instruction to fill your order at any price up to ten times what you saw.
- Slippage is not the platform fee. Axiom's fee is a percentage of the trade, 1% in its own worked example, and it does not move when you change this field.

If you're setting up a new account, the link below is our referral link.

> **code apebrief.** Open Axiom through https://go.apebrief.com/axiom/slippage-inline?src=md&asset=axiom%2Fslippage&cta=after-resolution and paste the code where the signup shows a code field. Signing up through this link takes 10% off your Axiom trading fees, which signing up without one does not. We get a commission from Axiom, which helps support our work, at no extra cost to you.

## related questions

- **What does Axiom actually charge?** Platform fee starts at 1% of the fill, plus priority you set, plus impact. A referral is a fee cut on the account if the field shows the code. Gas is separate.
- **I swapped on Axiom and the token is gone** Check the tx on a Solana explorer first. Destination address and mint are the ground truth. Then enable that mint in the wallet. Do not swap again to find it.

## how we know: every number on this page

- the slippage field name and what it does **slippage** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/fees/solana-fees), checked 2026-08-28
- Axiom's own worked example of what a large slippage setting means **1000%** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/fees/solana-fees), checked 2026-08-28
- where the setting lives, per Axiom's own figure caption **settings** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/fees/solana-fees), checked 2026-08-28
- Axiom's own guidance connecting slippage to MEV exposure **sandwich** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/fees/solana-fees), checked 2026-08-28
- the platform fee Axiom uses in its own worked example **1%** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/referral-program), checked 2026-08-28
- the only attachment mechanism Axiom documents is signing up through a referral link; the page describes no referee-side code field, no post-signup entry, no retroactive attachment and no cookie, wallet or device behaviour **signup** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/referral-program), checked 2026-09-16
- Axiom gives users who sign up through a referral link a 10% discount on trading fees **10%** (https://docs.axiom.trade/getting-started/referral-program), checked 2026-09-24

## next

- [what instant trade is on axiom, and how its hotkeys work](https://apebrief.com/axiom/instant-trade/): Instant Trade is a popup next to the chart that buys and sells in one click.
- [How do I read bundles, snipers, insiders and dev hold on Axiom?](https://apebrief.com/axiom/token-metrics/): Read them as Axiom's filters, not verdicts: each is a share of a token's supply or of its traders, defined by Axiom in one line.
- [How do I withdraw on Axiom?](https://apebrief.com/axiom/withdraw/): Axiom's screens show no control that sends funds to an outside address: Transfer moves funds between your own Axiom wallets and Convert is a cross-chain swap.
- [What do New Pairs, Final Stretch and Migrated mean on Axiom?](https://apebrief.com/axiom/new-pairs/): New Pairs is tokens just created, Final Stretch is tokens close to completing their launchpad's bonding curve, and Migrated is tokens whose liquidity has moved to a DEX pool.
- [Are Axiom perps just Hyperliquid?](https://apebrief.com/vs/axiom-hyperliquid/): Hyperliquid directly if the fee decides it: Axiom's Perpetuals screen trades on Hyperliquid, and Axiom adds 0.01% per transaction on top of Hyperliquid's own fee.

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