Pump.fun Fees Explained: What You Really Pay per Trade in 2026

How much are Pump.fun fees?

Pump.fun fees come in layers. A single trade can pay a pool fee that is split between the coin’s creator and the protocol, a platform fee for using the Pump.fun apps, and a Solana network fee. Which layers apply depends on where the coin trades (bonding curve or PumpSwap), which interface you use, and whether your wallet has a referral code applied.

Everything below comes from the official Pump.fun fees page, which was last updated on 17 October 2026 and forms part of Pump.fun’s terms of use. We restate it in plain English and add worked examples. If you want the raw tables in one place, use our Pump.fun fee schedule guide.

The four layers of a Pump.fun trade

Layer	Who receives it	Typical rate
Creator fee	The coin’s creator, or its holders on a Holder Rewards coin	0.30% on the curve; tiered on PumpSwap
Protocol fee	Pump.fun	0.95% on the curve; 0.05% on most PumpSwap tiers
LP fee	The liquidity pool	0% on the curve; mostly 0.20% on PumpSwap
Platform Fee	Pump.fun (part goes to your referrer)	0.45%, or 0.40% with a referral code

On top of these, Solana charges a network fee for each transaction, and you may add a priority fee to get included faster. Those go to the network, not to Pump.fun.

Fees on the bonding curve

Every new coin starts on a bonding curve, the automated pricing formula described in our what is Pump.fun explainer. Bonding-curve trades pay a flat 1.25%: 0.30% to the creator and 0.95% to the protocol, with no LP fee. The rate is the same for SOL-paired and USDC-paired coins, and the fee is collected in the asset the coin is paired with, never in the coin itself.

This is the most expensive place to trade on Pump.fun, and it is also where most beginners start, because new coins live there.

Fees on PumpSwap after graduation

When a coin graduates, its liquidity moves to a canonical PumpSwap pool. The fee there depends on the coin’s market cap. For SOL-paired coins the schedule starts at 1.25% for a market cap up to 420 SOL, drops to 1.20% between 420 and 1,470 SOL, and keeps stepping down through more than twenty tiers until it reaches 0.30% at 98,240 SOL and above. USDC-paired coins follow a similar ladder measured in USDC, from 1.25% below 59,000 USDC to 0.30% at 20 million USDC and above.

Interestingly, once a coin graduates the creator’s share jumps. In the second SOL tier the creator fee is 0.95% while the protocol takes only 0.05%. As market cap grows, it is the creator’s share that falls. Pools that are not canonical charge a flat 0.30%, all to the protocol and LP.

Coins paired with something other than SOL or USDC, which Pump.fun calls Custom Pair coins, skip the tiers: 1.25% on the curve and 0.30% in the canonical pool.

Where your fees are actually collected

A detail that confuses many new traders is which asset the fee comes out of. Pump.fun’s fee page says every pool fee is collected in the quote asset of the pool, never in the coin being traded. For a normal SOL-paired coin, that means you pay in SOL whether you are buying or selling. The platform fee works the same way: it is taken in SOL or USDC, deducted from what you spend on a buy or from your proceeds on a sale.

This has a practical effect. When you sell a coin, the fees reduce the SOL you receive, not the number of tokens you sell. If you are trying to work out your real profit, compare the SOL you put in with the SOL you got back, after every fee line. That number, not the chart, tells you whether a trade worked.

The platform fee, and where a referral code fits

Since 17 October 2026, every trade you place through the Pump.fun web app or mobile app carries a Platform Fee on top of the pool fees. It is shown as a separate line before you confirm.

• 0.45% of the trade for wallets without a referral code
• 0.40% of the trade for wallets that have applied another user’s referral code

This is the line a referral code changes. With NEWUSER50 you get 10% off trading fees, and that shows up here as the lower platform fee. Part of the platform fee on your trades is routed to the person who referred you; the rest stays with Pump.fun. Your rate is the same whichever code you use. You can apply ours on the Pump.fun referral code page, and our deeper explainer on how the referral code works covers timing.

The platform fee does not apply to trades placed through Terminal or third-party interfaces. Those may charge their own fees instead, so “no platform fee” does not always mean cheaper.

Worked examples

All figures below use the official rates and ignore network fees and price impact.

A 1 SOL buy on the bonding curve

	No referral code	With NEWUSER50
Pool fee (1.25%)	0.0125 SOL	0.0125 SOL
Platform fee	0.0045 SOL (0.45%)	0.0040 SOL (0.40%)
Total fees	0.0170 SOL (1.70%)	0.0165 SOL (1.65%)

A round trip

Buy a coin for 1 SOL and sell it later for roughly the same value, and you pay the stack twice. On the curve that is about 3.4% of your money without a code, or 3.3% with one. In other words, the coin has to rise by more than three percent just for you to break even, before price impact and network costs. Traders who flip in and out many times a day can lose a large slice of their account to fees alone.

Monthly volume

Suppose you trade 100 SOL of total volume in a month through the app. The platform fee alone is 0.45 SOL without a code and 0.40 SOL with one, a saving of 0.05 SOL. The pool fees on that volume would be much larger: up to 1.25 SOL on bonding-curve trades. The referral discount helps, but trading less is the biggest saving of all.

Fees for creators

Creating a coin has no platform fee for any pairing. You pay the Solana transaction fee and the small SOL deposit the network needs to create the token’s on-chain accounts. If you make an initial buy when you launch, that buy is a trade and pays the normal fees, including the platform fee on app trades.

When a coin graduates to PumpSwap, Pump.fun charges 0.015 SOL. For SOL-paired coins this is deducted from the bonding curve. Creators earn the creator fee on every trade, unless they chose Holder Rewards at launch, in which case that fee goes to qualifying holders instead. Our guide to creating a coin on Pump.fun covers these options.

Other fees you may see

• Perps: trading perpetual futures through Pump.fun’s Perpetuals feature carries a builder fee of up to 0.05% of notional, plus up to 0.25% on bridge transfers, on top of Hyperliquid’s own fees. The platform fee does not apply to perps orders.
• EVM transactions: on supported EVM chains Pump.fun collects between 0.10% and 0.15% per transaction, plus the platform fee and any third-party bridge or swap fees.
• Routed trades: coins paired with another Pump.fun coin may route through two pools. In the official apps, the protocol fee and the creator and LP fees are each charged once. Interfaces that have not adopted the current program may charge them on every pool.
• Wallet fees: some wallets add their own swap fee if you trade inside the wallet. Check before you confirm.

How to keep fees under control

1. Apply a referral code first. Confirm NEWUSER50 in the app before your first purchase, so every later trade carries the lower platform fee.
2. Trade less often. Each buy and sell pays the full stack again. Fewer, more deliberate trades save more than any discount.
3. Mind price impact. On a bonding curve, large orders get progressively worse prices. That cost is not listed as a fee, but it is real.
4. Read the confirmation screen. Pump.fun shows the platform fee as its own line. Compare it with what you expect.
5. Keep a little SOL for network fees. Failed or retried transactions still cost something. Our troubleshooting guide explains common failures.

Fees can change

Pump.fun says it may change fees by updating the fees page and that the amounts shown in the app may not always exactly match what the smart contract charges. Treat the numbers here as a snapshot of the official page on the date above, not a promise. We review them on the schedule set out in our methodology.

If you are about to start trading, the single cheapest decision you can make today is to use the referral link before your first purchase: open pump.fun/join/NEWUSER50, confirm the code, and you get 10% off trading fees plus the chance of up to $50 on your first deposit.