Pump.fun charges a flat 1.25% fee on every buy and sell while a token trades on the bonding curve, and after graduation the PumpSwap fee falls step by step from 1.25% to 0.30% as the token’s market cap grows. The fee is split between three parties: the coin’s creator, the Pump.fun protocol and liquidity providers. Pump.fun’s published fee schedule lists no fee for creating a coin; you pay the Solana network fee for the transaction (Pump.fun fee schedule, pump-public-docs, in force since 1 September 2025).
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Key Facts
- Bonding curve fee: 1.25% per trade – 0.30% to the creator, 0.95% to the protocol, 0% to liquidity providers.
- PumpSwap fee after graduation: 1.25% at 0-420 SOL market cap, falling across 25 tiers to 0.30% above 98,240 SOL.
- Creator share on PumpSwap: peaks at 0.95% in the 420-1,470 SOL tier, then drops to 0.05% at the top tier.
- LP fee on PumpSwap: 0.02% in the first tier, 0.20% in every tier after it.
- Round trip on the curve: a buy plus a sell costs 2.5% of the position before slippage and network fees.
- Coin creation: no platform fee; only the Solana transaction fee.
How the Pump.fun Fee Works on the Bonding Curve
On the bonding curve, Pump.fun takes 1.25% of the SOL value of every trade, whether you buy or sell. The rate does not change with trade size or with how far the token has moved along the curve. Of that 1.25%, the coin’s creator receives 0.30%, the protocol keeps 0.95%, and nothing goes to liquidity providers, because on the curve there are no outside LPs: the bonding curve itself is the counterparty.
The fee is taken in SOL from your side of the trade. When you buy with 1 SOL, about 0.0125 SOL goes to fees and the rest buys tokens. When you sell, the SOL you receive is reduced by the same 1.25%.
PumpSwap Fees After Graduation
When a token completes the curve, it graduates to a PumpSwap pool, and the fee becomes dynamic. PumpSwap reads the token’s market cap in SOL and applies one of 25 tiers, so you can estimate your fee from the market cap shown on DEXScreener. The total fee starts at 1.25%, and the creator’s share jumps to its highest level right after graduation.
| Market cap (SOL) | Approx. market cap (USD) | Creator | Protocol | LP | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonding curve | – | 0.300% | 0.95% | 0% | 1.25% |
| 0-420 | 0-85k | 0.300% | 0.93% | 0.02% | 1.25% |
| 420-1,470 | 85k-300k | 0.950% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.20% |
| 1,470-2,460 | 300k-500k | 0.900% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.15% |
| 4,420-9,820 | 900k-2M | 0.750% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.00% |
| 49,120-54,030 | 10M-11M | 0.300% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.55% |
| 98,240+ | 20M+ | 0.050% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.30% |
Source: Pump.fun fee tiers, pump-public-docs on GitHub. USD ranges are Pump.fun’s own approximations at the time the schedule was published; the SOL thresholds are what the program actually uses. The table shows 7 of the 25 tiers; every step between them cuts the creator share by 0.025 to 0.05 points.
The logic is simple: small, fresh pools pay creators the most, and large tokens get cheaper trading. Above 420 SOL the protocol takes only 0.05%, so most of the fee goes to the creator and to liquidity providers.
What a Trade Actually Costs: Worked Examples
The headline percentage is only part of the cost. A full buy and sell always pays the fee twice, and a new token’s price usually has to move several percent before you are even.
| Scenario | Fee per side | Round trip | Cost on a 2 SOL position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonding curve | 1.25% | 2.50% | 0.05 SOL |
| PumpSwap, 85k-300k cap | 1.20% | 2.40% | 0.048 SOL |
| PumpSwap, 900k-2M cap | 1.00% | 2.00% | 0.04 SOL |
| PumpSwap, 20M+ cap | 0.30% | 0.60% | 0.012 SOL |
On the curve, the token must rise about 2.6% between your buy and your sell just to cover the platform fee (1 / (0.9875 × 0.9875) = 1.0255). On a 20M+ market cap token the break-even move is about 0.6%. These figures exclude slippage, Solana priority fees and any fee your trading bot or terminal adds on top.
Creator Fees: Who Earns From Your Trades
Every Pump.fun trade pays the coin’s creator, which is why “creator rewards” became a business model of its own. On the curve the creator earns 0.30% of volume: 1,000 SOL of trading pays the creator 3 SOL. Right after graduation, in the 420-1,470 SOL tier, the same 1,000 SOL of volume pays 9.5 SOL, more than three times as much.
For traders this matters in two ways. First, a creator has a direct incentive to keep volume high, including through hype and wash trading, so volume alone is not proof of demand (see wash trading and fake volume). Second, creator fees accrue to the creator’s wallet on-chain, so on Solscan you can see whether a dev is collecting fees and selling them, or holding.
Other Costs Pump.fun Does Not Show
The Pump.fun fee is not the only line on your bill. Expect these on top:
- Solana network fee: a base fee of 0.000005 SOL per signature plus an optional priority fee; see Solana transaction fees.
- Token account rent: about 0.0015 SOL the first time your wallet holds a new token, refundable when you close the account.
- Third-party fees: trading bots, Telegram bots and terminals often add their own percentage per trade. Check their fee page before you connect a wallet.
- Slippage and price impact: on a thin curve, a large buy moves the price against you more than the fee does.
When the Fee Matters and When It Does Not
The fee is decisive for frequent, small, short-term trades. If you flip a token on the curve ten times, you pay 25% of your average position in fees alone. For a single buy you plan to hold, the 1.25% entry is small next to memecoin volatility.
What the fee does not do: it does not protect you from a rug, it does not lock liquidity, and a low tier does not mean a token is safe. A 0.30% fee on a 20M+ token only tells you that the token is large, not that it is sound.
How DOLAN Fits: A Fair Launch Without Curve Fees for Creators
DOLAN Duck ($DOLAN) is a Solana memecoin with a supply of 98.3 million tokens and about 10,700 holders, launched as a fair launch. That makes it a useful contrast to the Pump.fun model: there, the creator earns a share of every trade by design, while a fair launch is about how the supply was first distributed, not about a fee stream to the team. You can read how the meme behind the token started in the story of Dolan Duck, and check its holder distribution yourself on Solscan.
1.25% on every buy and sell while the token is on the bonding curve. After graduation to PumpSwap, the fee ranges from 1.25% down to 0.30% depending on the token's market cap in SOL.
Pump.fun's published fee schedule lists no platform fee for creating a coin. You pay the Solana network fee for the creation transaction.
0.30% of trading volume on the bonding curve. On PumpSwap the creator share starts at 0.95% in the 420-1,470 SOL market cap tier and falls to 0.05% above 98,240 SOL.
Pump.fun uses a tiered schedule: as market cap grows, the creator share shrinks while the LP fee stays at 0.20%, so large tokens become cheaper to trade.
Usually yes. Most bots and terminals add their own per-trade fee on top of the Pump.fun fee and the Solana network fee, so check the bot's fee page first.
On the bonding curve, about 2.6% between your buy and your sell, because you pay 1.25% twice. On a token above 98,240 SOL market cap, about 0.6%.