Pump.fun charges nothing to create a coin, takes 1.25 percent on every trade while the coin is on its bonding curve, and charges a flat 0.015 SOL when a coin graduates to PumpSwap. After graduation, trading moves to a tiered schedule that falls as the coin grows. Those are the 2026 numbers, and several widely repeated ones are wrong.
The fees changed and most guides lag behind. You will still see "1 percent" quoted as the trading fee and "1.5 SOL" quoted as the graduation cost, both of which are out of date. The live numbers come straight from Pump.fun's own fee schedule, last updated on May 20, 2026, the primary source to trust over the copies of copies floating around search results.
Fees are also the smaller cost of trading here. The near-certainty that a coin goes to zero costs far more than any fee ever will.
What creating a coin costs
Launching a coin costs zero SOL and zero USDC. Creation carries no listing fee, deposit, or minimum (source: Pump.fun create-coin docs). The only thing you pay is the tiny Solana network fee every transaction carries, a fraction of a cent paid to validators.
Free creation is the design choice that defines the whole platform. Because it costs nothing to launch, millions of coins get made, which is exactly why so few of them matter and why the burden of judgment falls entirely on the buyer.
A creator stakes nothing to launch, so a coin's mere existence tells you little about whether its creator is serious. On Solana, the low network fee that makes free creation practical is the same feature that lets a single person spin up dozens of coins in an afternoon.
Every trade on the curve costs 1.25 percent
While a coin trades on its bonding curve, every buy and sell carries a total fee of 1.25 percent, split 0.300 percent to the creator and 0.95 percent to the Pump.fun protocol, with a zero liquidity-pool share on the curve (source: Pump.fun transaction-fee page). The fee is identical for buys and sells and comes out automatically.
The creator share is the part worth understanding, because it shapes behavior. Since May 2025, the coin's creator earns 0.300 percent of every trade in their own coin, which means a founder makes money whenever the coin changes hands, win or lose for you. That is a modest slice on a single trade, but on a coin with heavy volume it adds up, and it is the reason creators push their coins so hard: they are paid on turnover regardless of whether the coin succeeds.
The protocol share, 0.95 percent, is how Pump.fun itself earns. Multiplied across the platform's enormous trade volume, that fraction is what made Pump.fun one of the highest-revenue applications in crypto. Either way, you always pay the 1.25 percent total; the split only tells you where your fee goes. This fee structure is specific to the Solana memecoin launch model rather than to trading fees on an ordinary exchange.
Graduation costs a flat 0.015 SOL
When a coin graduates from the bonding curve to PumpSwap, there is a one-time fee of 0.015 SOL (source: Pump.fun fee schedule). It is charged once, at migration, and it is the fee older guides still quote as "1.5 SOL," roughly a hundred times too high. The real number is small enough to stay immaterial to whether a coin graduates.
Graduation itself is rare, so few buyers ever encounter this fee. Fewer than 1 in 100 coins reach the threshold that triggers migration, and when the fee does apply, it is a single charge at migration.
What matters is the fee's signal more than its size. A coin on PumpSwap rather than the launch curve has paid this fee and cleared the migration threshold at least once, which reflects liquidity depth more than quality. The fee is too small to treat as a filter either way.
After graduation, PumpSwap fees fall as the coin grows
Once a coin trades on PumpSwap, the fee schedule falls as the coin's market cap rises. A newly graduated coin still pays about 1.25 percent, but larger coins step down through tiers toward roughly 0.30 percent at the top (source: CryptoSlate 2026 review). The full tier table, and how each step is defined, gets its own breakdown of the PumpSwap fee tiers; the shape to remember is that bigger coins are cheaper to trade.
Market cap here is measured the Pump.fun way, as the coin's current price multiplied by its one billion token supply, and the tier your trade falls into depends on that figure at the time. This is why the same coin can cost slightly different amounts to trade at different points in its life.
For most buyers this is a detail more than a decision factor, since the fee difference between tiers is small next to the price moves on a memecoin; it matters most to high-volume traders, for whom a fraction of a percent across many trades adds up. Either way, the launch curve and the graduated pool are two different fee environments, and a coin's cost to trade shifts across its life.
On a centralized venue the cost is easier to see before you trade: PUMP lists as a PUMP/USDT Spot pair on BloFin, and what a position there costs is set out in advance on BloFin's fee page.
USDC-paired coins pay a little differently
Since May 21, 2026, a creator can launch a coin paired against USDC instead of SOL, and those coins carry a slightly different fee table. The structure is the same, a percentage on the curve and a tiered schedule after graduation, but the exact figures for USDC coins differ from the SOL ones, and Pump.fun's fee page lays both out.
The reason this exists is that pairing against a stablecoin changes what the price is quoted in. A SOL-paired coin's price moves with SOL as well as with its own demand, while a USDC-paired coin is priced directly in dollars. For a buyer, the fee difference is minor next to that quoting difference.
When you compare a USDC-paired coin with a SOL one, expect the fee to be close but slightly different, since most coins still run on the SOL path.
The stale fee numbers you should ignore
A surprising amount of what you read about Pump.fun fees is out of date, and knowing the wrong numbers is almost as useful as knowing the right ones. The three most common errors are a 1 percent trading fee, a 1.5 SOL graduation fee, and a $69,000 graduation onto Raydium. All three describe the 2024 platform.
The current figures replace them cleanly: the trading fee is 1.25 percent, up from the old 1 percent; graduation costs 0.015 SOL, down from the quoted 1.5 SOL; and a coin now migrates to PumpSwap, Pump.fun's own exchange, replacing Raydium (source: Pump.fun bonding-curve docs). That documentation is the one to trust over any third-party explainer.
A guide that still quotes 1.5 SOL for graduation is off by a factor of a hundred, which tells you it has gone unchecked against the live platform for over a year, so the rest of its numbers deserve the same suspicion.
The real cost: slippage and the creator's cut
The fees above are the visible cost, but the larger one is often invisible on the schedule. Because the curve quotes a lower price with every token you sell, a sizable position moves the price against you as you exit. That gap between the quote and what you receive is slippage, a cost that sits off the fee schedule yet leaves your pocket the same way.
Slippage is worst exactly when you most want out, on a thin coin where liquidity is shallow, which is most coins. A curve with little real SOL behind it reprices hard against a large sell, so the 1.25 percent fee can be the smallest part of what a full exit costs you. This is why the fee schedule, while worth knowing, sits far from where the real money goes.
The creator's 0.300 percent cut ties the two together. A creator earns on your trading, so a coin promoted into heavy churn generates fees for its creator regardless of whether holders come out ahead. The fee structure is really a map of incentives: the platform earns on volume, the creator earns on volume, and the one paying for all that volume is the person clicking buy.
Looking to trade PUMP? To get started, you'll need to first create a BloFin account, fund your account with cryptocurrency, and navigate to the PUMP/USDT Spot trading page or PUMPUSDT Perpetual page.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to create a coin on Pump.fun?
Nothing beyond the network fee. Creating a coin costs zero SOL and zero USDC on Pump.fun itself; the only charge is the tiny Solana network fee, a fraction of a cent, that every on-chain transaction pays to validators. Pump.fun makes its money on trading, not on launches, which is the whole reason millions of coins get created. So the barrier to launching is effectively zero, and the existence of a coin tells you nothing about whether its creator has any money or intent behind it.
What is the trading fee on Pump.fun?
On the bonding curve it is 1.25 percent of every trade, split as 0.300 percent to the coin's creator and 0.95 percent to the Pump.fun protocol, with no liquidity-pool share on the curve. The same 1.25 percent applies to buys and sells. After a coin graduates to PumpSwap, the fee moves to a tiered schedule that generally falls as the coin's market cap grows. If you see 1 percent quoted as the fee, that is the old 2024 figure and it is out of date.
How much is the Pump.fun graduation fee?
A flat 0.015 SOL, charged once when a coin migrates from the bonding curve to PumpSwap. Older guides quote 1.5 SOL, which is roughly a hundred times too high and describes the earlier version of the platform. Because fewer than 1 in 100 coins ever graduate, most buyers never pay this fee, and when it does apply it is small enough that it is not a factor in whether a coin makes the jump.
Did the Pump.fun fees change?
Yes, and that is the source of most of the confusion online. The current numbers are a 1.25 percent curve fee, a 0.015 SOL graduation fee, and graduation to PumpSwap rather than Raydium; the widely repeated 1 percent fee, 1.5 SOL graduation, and $69,000 Raydium listing all describe the 2024 platform. The reliable check is Pump.fun's own fee schedule, which carries a "last updated" date, currently May 20, 2026. When a guide disagrees with the dated primary source, the primary source is right.
Is the fee different for USDC coins?
Slightly. Since May 21, 2026, creators can pair a coin against USDC instead of SOL, and USDC-paired coins use a fee table that is close to but not identical to the SOL one. The structure is the same, a percentage on the curve and a tiered schedule after graduation, but the exact figures differ, and Pump.fun's fee page lays both out. For most buyers the difference is minor next to the fact that a USDC coin is priced in dollars while a SOL coin's price also moves with SOL.
What actually costs the most when trading on Pump.fun?
Not the fee. The two larger costs are slippage, the gap between the quoted price and what you receive when you sell a position into a thin curve, and the near-certainty that the coin loses value. The 1.25 percent fee is small next to a coin that falls 90 percent, which most do. Treat the fee schedule as useful background, but size your risk around the coin going to zero, because that is where the real money is lost, not on the percentage skimmed per trade.
Researched and written by the BloFin Academy editorial team with AI-assisted drafting. Primary sources include the Pump.fun fee schedule (last updated May 20, 2026), the Pump.fun bonding-curve and create-coin documentation, and the Solana network. All facts independently verified against cited documentation current as of September 2026.
This article is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not financial, investment, trading, or legal advice. Memecoins are extremely high-risk and most lose all their value. Platform fees and mechanics change frequently; verify current figures against Pump.fun's own dated fee schedule before acting. Do your own research and never risk funds you cannot afford to lose.