Pump.fun Fees: 1% Trading, 0.05% Creator Fee (2026)

Pump.fun charges approximately 0.02 SOL to create a token, a 1% trading fee on all buys and sells during the bonding curve phase, and graduation fees when the token migrates to PumpSwap. While the creation cost is low, the total fees over the life of a token can be significant due to the 1% trading fee on all volume. A one-off fee with a Pump.fun alternative and your own Raydium pool costs more up front but takes no cut of your trading volume — on a token that does real volume, that difference dominates the launch cost entirely.

Pump.fun Fee Structure

Token Creation Fee

Cost: ~0.02 SOL

This covers deploying your token to the Solana blockchain. It includes basic metadata (name, symbol, image) and setting up the bonding curve.

Trading Fee (Bonding Curve Phase)

Fee: 1% per trade

During the bonding curve phase (before graduation), Pump.fun charges 1% on every buy and sell transaction. This fee is split between:

• Platform revenue (Pump.fun)
• Creator revenue sharing (0.05%)

Graduation Fee

When your token reaches the ~$69,000 market cap threshold and graduates to PumpSwap, there is a migration fee that covers liquidity pool creation on PumpSwap. See our full breakdown of the graduation process for the timeline, the market-cap math, and why most tokens never get there.

Post-Graduation Fees (PumpSwap)

After graduation, trading moves to PumpSwap with:

• 0.25% trading fee per swap
• 0.05% creator fee — Goes to the token creator
• 0.20% platform fee — Goes to Pump.fun

Creator Revenue Sharing

Pump.fun introduced creator revenue sharing, giving token creators 0.05% of all trading fees. This means:

| Daily Trading Volume | Creator Revenue (0.05%) | |---------------------|------------------------| | $10,000 | $5/day | | $50,000 | $25/day | | $100,000 | $50/day | | $500,000 | $250/day | | $1,000,000 | $500/day |

Revenue is earned passively as long as trading continues.

Total Cost Analysis

Pump.fun Token Lifecycle Cost

| Phase | Fee | Applied To | |-------|-----|-----------| | Creation | ~0.02 SOL | One-time | | Bonding curve trading | 1% per trade | All volume before graduation | | Graduation | Variable | One-time migration | | PumpSwap trading | 0.25% per trade | All post-graduation volume |

Example: Token with $100K Pre-Graduation Volume

• Creation: 0.02 SOL (~$3)
• Trading fees (1% on $100K): $1,000 paid by traders
• Graduation: Variable
• Total platform revenue: $1,000+

Pump.fun vs Direct Launch Costs

| Cost Component | Pump.fun | Direct Launch (SolTokenCreator) | |---------------|----------|--------------------------------| | Token creation | 0.02 SOL | Mint a Solana token, 0.5 SOL | | Ongoing trading fee | 1% (bonding curve) | 0% (no platform fee) | | Post-graduation fee | 0.25% (PumpSwap) | 0.25% (Raydium standard) | | Authority revocation | Not available | Revoke mint authority and freeze, 0.1 SOL each | | LP burning | Not available | Burn LP tokens on Solana — no platform fee, and the emptied token account's rent comes back | | Creator control | Minimal | Full | | Total upfront cost | ~0.02 SOL | 0.7 SOL for the rows above; ~0.89-0.92 SOL once you add a CPMM pool |

The Hidden Cost of Pump.fun

While Pump.fun's creation cost is lower, consider:

1. No LP control — You cannot burn LP tokens or lock the position yourself
2. No authority revocation — Cannot revoke mint/freeze authority yourself
3. Fixed parameters — Cannot customize supply, decimals, or features, the way a Solana token generator lets you set each of them before the mint goes out
4. 1% trading tax — Traders pay more during the bonding curve
5. Under 2% graduation rate — Most tokens never reach PumpSwap

The Direct Launch Advantage

With the Solana token creator at SolTokenCreator.io — or its dedicated meme coin creator, since most Pump.fun tokens are meme coins — you pay more upfront (about 0.94-0.97 SOL vs 0.02 SOL) but gain:

• Full control over supply, decimals, and authorities — you mint a Solana token with the supply and decimals you choose, and you can revoke mint authority on Solana yourself to fix that supply on-chain, which a bonding-curve launch never lets you do. Control cuts both ways: decimals can never be changed afterwards, so the Solana token maker sets out exactly which of those choices are one-way before you spend anything
• A supply split you decide before you pay: create your own Solana coin with the total divided between pool, community, team and treasury, and that allocation carried into the coin's description, published with the coin in the metadata wallets and explorers read — a bonding curve has no equivalent, because the curve owns the supply until graduation
• Ability to burn LP tokens, or lock the pool with Burn & Earn and keep the trading fees (anti-rug proof either way). Burning works on both Raydium pool types, AMM V4 included, and closing the emptied LP account returns its rent, which is larger than the network fee — so the step that proves you cannot rug usually ends up net positive in SOL
• Set your own initial price
• Full post-launch control: create a Raydium liquidity pool, LP burning and locking, and the option to remove liquidity on Solana whenever you choose — all of it reachable from one place to manage a Solana token after launch
• No ongoing platform trading fees
• Immediate Raydium listing (no graduation needed) — a Solana token launcher that runs the whole flow, from mint to pool to after-launch management, in one place

Cheapest Way to Launch on Solana

If cost is your primary concern:

| Platform | Total Launch Cost | Control Level | |----------|------------------|--------------| | Pump.fun | ~0.02 SOL | None | | SolTokenCreator (CPMM) | ~0.94-0.97 SOL | Full | | SolTokenCreator (AMM V4) | ~1.64 SOL | Full |

The gap between those two rows is the extra on-chain rent for the OpenBook market AMM V4 pools require and CPMM pools do not — built automatically when you create a liquidity pool on Solana here, as part of the ~0.94 SOL AMM V4 flow, at no separate platform fee. (A different, standalone Market ID product — 2 SOL platform fee plus its own rent — exists for other interfaces that require an existing market supplied, but isn't part of either row above.) If you do not specifically need an order book behind your pair, the CPMM row is the one to compare against Pump.fun — and it reaches Jupiter just the same. Use the Solana token cost calculator to see your own total for either route.

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