Published 14 October 2026

Pump Fun Fees Explained: What You Actually Pay

Fees are the least exciting part of any trading platform and the most predictable cost you will face. You cannot control price, but you can understand what each click costs. This article walks through pump.fun's published fee schedule, explains who gets each slice, adds Solana network costs, and shows the arithmetic with simple examples. Everything here comes from the official fee page at pump.fun/docs/fees, which was marked "Last Updated: 20 May 2026" when I read it, and from Solana's documentation. Fees can change, so check the current page before relying on mine.

The fees in one table

Pump.fun lists these platform fees:

Action	Fee
Create a coin	0 SOL / 0 USDC
Coin graduates to PumpSwap	0.015 SOL
Trade on the bonding curve	1.25% total

The 1.25% bonding curve fee is made up of a 0.30% creator fee, a 0.95% protocol fee and a 0% liquidity provider fee. The page says this applies to both SOL- and USDC-paired tokens. As of May 21, 2026, creators can choose USDC as the paired token instead of SOL, according to the same page.

Who gets what

The page defines three fee types:

Creator fee: a portion of the total fee that goes to the coin's creator on every trade. The page says it applies to coins on the bonding curve or PumpSwap from May 13, 2025.
Protocol fee: the portion that goes to the pump.fun platform.
LP fee: a portion that goes back into the pool as liquidity.

That creator fee has consequences. A creator earns money whenever people trade, whether the price goes up or down. That can encourage genuine community-building, but also creates incentives to generate trading volume. When you see a creator promoting heavily, remember they are paid on activity. Pump.fun's public documentation describes fee sharing for creators as well, and a creator can split rewards with others through the SDK, according to its npm documentation.

What 1.25% looks like in practice

Here are illustrative calculations, not predictions:

Buy $100 of a coin on the bonding curve: about $1.25 goes to fees.
Sell $100 of that coin: another $1.25.
A round trip of buying and selling the same value therefore costs roughly 2.5% of the traded amount in platform fees, before price movement or network fees.

The docs also say fees are deducted from the buy input or sell output. Technical references describe the curve as a constant-product design with fees taken from the input amount on a buy and the output on a sell. For you, the effect is simple: you receive slightly less than the headline price implies.

The price effect of your own trade, the gap between expected and executed price, is separate and often larger for small, illiquid coins. See the slippage discussion in how to buy memecoins on pump.fun safely.

PumpSwap fees after graduation

When a coin graduates, the curve closes and liquidity moves to PumpSwap, which the platform's bonding curve page calls automatic and irreversible. Fees on the resulting "canonical pool" vary by market cap. For SOL-denominated tokens, the schedule starts at a total of 1.25% for market caps between 0 and 420 SOL (0.30% creator, 0.93% protocol, 0.02% LP), then steps to 1.20% between 420 and 1,470 SOL (0.95% creator, 0.05% protocol, 0.20% LP). The total keeps stepping down as market cap grows, reaching 0.30% for market caps of 98,240 SOL and above.

For USDC-denominated tokens a similar ladder applies, starting at 1.25% below a 59,000 USDC market cap and reaching 0.30% at 20 million USDC and above. Market cap is calculated as the current price multiplied by 1 billion tokens.

For non-canonical PumpSwap pools, meaning pools not created by the pump.fun migration, the flat total is 0.3%, split into 0.05% protocol and 0.25% LP, with no creator fee.

The point for a normal trader is that the fee tends to fall as a coin grows, but very few coins ever reach those levels.

Interface fees: none added, per the docs

The fee page says that none of the pump.fun frontend services, namely the web app, pump.fun/advanced and the mobile app, charge extra fees beyond those listed. It also warns that if you access the platform through another interface, you may incur additional fees charged by those interfaces. Trading terminals and bots often add their own. A third-party comparison table by Yieldo lists terminals charging around 0.5% to 1% on swaps. Check the fee of whatever tool you use.

Solana network fees

On top of platform fees, each Solana transaction has a network fee. Solana's documentation says the total is the base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature (with 50% burned) plus any priority fee, and that it is "charged whether the transaction succeeds or fails." The priority fee equals the compute unit price times the compute unit limit, divided by one million, and defaults to zero. A lamport is one billionth of a SOL, so the base fee is small, but priority fees in busy markets can be larger. Ledger's guide puts typical network fees at around a cent when written, but check the current cost in your wallet.

Practical implication: failed or repeated trades still cost money.

Does a referral code change fees?

Yes. Using referral code NEWUSER50 gives 10% off trading fees, plus a bonus of up to $50. The published fee page itself lists trading, creation and graduation fees, so the referral terms are the part to confirm in the app: pump.fun sets them and can change them. See pump fun referral program explained for how referrals work.

Fees versus the real cost of trading

Fees are certain. Price moves are not. For most small traders on obscure coins, the largest costs are:

Price impact and slippage on thin liquidity.
Entry timing, buying after a spike.
Failed exits, when nobody is buying.
Scams, which the independent research suggests are widespread. See is pump fun legit.

Lowering your fee by a fraction does little if the coin goes to zero. Use fees as a reason to avoid overtrading, not as a reason to feel safe.

A fee checklist before every trade

Confirm the fee percentages on the current official page.
Make sure you are using the official interface or know your tool's extra fee.
Keep enough SOL for network fees.
Avoid repeated retries of failed trades.
Remember a round trip costs about double the headline fee.

If you want a launcher's view of these costs, read how to launch a coin on pump.fun. The homepage has the referral link.

Try it yourself

Read the fee page, then decide. If you join, the NEWUSER50 link is below.

Referral code: NEWUSER50 — https://pump.fun/join/NEWUSER50

Frequently asked questions

Is it free to join pump.fun?

I found no account fee. Creating a coin is listed at 0 SOL / 0 USDC; trading and graduation fees apply.

Why is the fee different on PumpSwap?

After graduation, fees follow a market-cap ladder for canonical pools and a flat 0.3% for non-canonical pools.

Who receives the creator fee?

The coin's creator, or whoever they have configured to share fees with.

Do referral codes lower fees?

Not according to anything I could verify. No discount is listed on the fee page.

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