Key takeaways
- Pump.fun pays a coin's creator 0.30% of every buy and sell on the bonding curve, out of a 1.25% total trading fee, according to pump.fun's published fee table.
- After graduation, the pump.fun creator fee on a canonical PumpSwap pool is tiered by market cap, from 0.30% below 420 SOL to a peak of 0.95% at 420–1,470 SOL, falling to 0.05% above 98,240 SOL.
- A pump.fun creator's earnings equal trading volume in SOL multiplied by the creator rate, so 1,000 SOL of PumpSwap volume at a 420–1,470 SOL market cap earns 9.5 SOL.
- A pump.fun coin that graduates with no selling generates only about 86 SOL of curve volume, which pays its creator about 0.26 SOL before migration.
- Pump.fun creator fees wait in vaults tied to the creator wallet until claimed, and SOLTidy's fee claimers collect them for 5% of the SOL claimed as of November 2026.
The short answer
Pump.fun pays a coin's creator a share of every buy and sell: a flat 0.30% of the SOL traded on the bonding curve, then 0.05% to 0.95% on PumpSwap after graduation, depending on the coin's market cap. To calculate earnings, multiply the coin's trading volume in SOL by the rate for where it traded. A coin that does 100 SOL of curve volume earns 0.3 SOL; 1,000 SOL of PumpSwap volume at a 420–1,470 SOL market cap earns 9.5 SOL.
How do pump.fun creator fees work?
Pump.fun creator fees are a slice of the trading fee on every trade of a coin, routed to the wallet recorded as its creator. They went live on May 12, 2025, per pump.fun's creator fee announcement in its developer docs, and pump.fun now brands them creator rewards.
Three rules decide what a creator earns:
- Every trade counts. Buys and sells both pay the fee, as a percentage of the SOL value of the trade.
- The rate depends on where the coin trades. On the bonding curve it is fixed. On PumpSwap it is tiered by market cap, measured in SOL in the pool.
- Only canonical pools pay. The PumpSwap pool pump.fun creates at graduation pays a creator fee; other PumpSwap pools for the same coin pay 0% to the creator.
Fees are not sent to you on each trade. They accumulate in a creator vault tied to your wallet, and with pump.fun's newer trade instructions they can first wait on the curve or pool until anyone calls a permissionless sweep, according to pump.fun's sweep documentation, which also says "fee amounts are the same." Either way, nothing reaches your wallet until you claim.
What are the pump.fun creator fee rates?
The rates below come from the fee table in pump.fun's fee program documentation, in force since September 1, 2025, when pump.fun moved PumpSwap to fees that depend on market cap. Market cap is measured in SOL; the dollar ranges are pump.fun's own approximations from that time.
| Where the coin trades | Market cap (SOL) | Creator fee | Protocol fee | LP fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonding curve | any | 0.30% | 0.95% | 0% | 1.25% |
| PumpSwap | 0–420 | 0.30% | 0.93% | 0.02% | 1.25% |
| PumpSwap | 420–1,470 | 0.95% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.20% |
| PumpSwap | 1,470–2,460 | 0.90% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.15% |
| PumpSwap | 2,460–3,440 | 0.85% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.10% |
| PumpSwap | 3,440–4,420 | 0.80% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.05% |
| PumpSwap | 4,420–9,820 | 0.75% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 1.00% |
| PumpSwap | 9,820–14,740 | 0.70% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.95% |
| PumpSwap | 24,560–29,470 | 0.55% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.80% |
| PumpSwap | 49,120–54,030 | 0.30% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.55% |
| PumpSwap | 73,681–78,590 | 0.175% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.43% |
| PumpSwap | 98,240 and up | 0.05% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.30% |
The full table has 25 PumpSwap tiers; from 9,820 SOL upward the creator fee drops by 0.05 points per step of roughly 4,900 SOL (0.025 points per step above 54,030 SOL). The shape is deliberate: creators earn the most while a coin is small but established, and the fee shrinks as it grows so large coins stay cheap to trade. pump.fun has changed these numbers before, so treat the table as a dated snapshot and check pump.fun's fee page before relying on it.
Pump.fun creator fee calculator: worked examples
Creator earnings are volume times rate: creator fee = SOL volume × creator rate. Volume is the SOL value of all buys plus all sells in that phase. The table below works through typical cases.
| Scenario | Phase and market cap | Volume | Creator rate | Creator earns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coin graduates with only buys | Bonding curve | ≈ 86 SOL | 0.30% | ≈ 0.26 SOL |
| Active curve, traders in and out | Bonding curve | 500 SOL | 0.30% | 1.5 SOL |
| Busy curve | Bonding curve | 2,000 SOL | 0.30% | 6 SOL |
| First day after graduation | PumpSwap, 420–1,470 SOL | 1,000 SOL | 0.95% | 9.5 SOL |
| Coin holding a 3,000 SOL market cap | PumpSwap, 2,460–3,440 SOL | 5,000 SOL | 0.85% | 42.5 SOL |
| Coin around 6,000 SOL market cap | PumpSwap, 4,420–9,820 SOL | 10,000 SOL | 0.75% | 75 SOL |
| Large coin, 100,000 SOL market cap | PumpSwap, 98,240+ SOL | 10,000 SOL | 0.05% | 5 SOL |
At the SOL price of $96.67 reported by Jupiter on November 5, 2026, the 9.5 SOL in the post-graduation example is about $918, and the 0.26 SOL a curve-only graduation pays is about $25.
Three things the table shows:
- The curve alone pays little. Graduation needs only about 85 SOL of net buying (see pump.fun graduation explained), so a creator's curve earnings depend on how much churn there is, not on graduating.
- The best rate is just after graduation. A coin trading between 420 and 1,470 SOL of market cap pays 0.95%, more than three times the curve rate.
- Big coins earn on volume, not rate. At 0.05%, a coin above 98,240 SOL of market cap needs 19 times the volume to pay what a small graduated coin pays.
For a coin that spans tiers, calculate each phase separately and add them up. Your actual vault balance is the real answer; the formula is for planning.
Which coins don't pay creator fees?
Some coins never pay into the creator's vault, whatever the volume:
- Holder rewards coins. The creator fee is set aside for holders, and pump.fun's holder rewards docs say pump.fun distributes it and "there is no claim instruction for holders". The choice is made at creation and can't be reversed.
- Cashback coins. The creator fee went to traders. pump.fun has deprecated cashback:
create_v2now rejects new cashback coins, though existing ones keep paying and accrued cashback stays claimable. Pump.fun cashback explained covers the details. - Fee-sharing coins. The fees go to a sharing config that splits them among up to 10 wallets whose shares total 10,000 basis points. pump.fun's fee sharing docs say the final list can be set only once.
- Raydium-migrated coins and non-canonical pools. Coins that graduated to Raydium before PumpSwap existed earn nothing on Raydium, and only the canonical PumpSwap pool pays creators.
- Coins launched through a third-party creator wallet. The creator is whoever the create instruction names. If a bot or service created the coin with its own wallet, that wallet earns the fees.
How do you claim pump.fun creator fees?
You claim by calling pump.fun's collect instructions, which move your vault balances into your wallet. pump.fun's profile has a free claim button that costs only network fees. SOLTidy offers two tools for 5% of the SOL claimed, as of November 2026:
- Pump.fun Fee Claimer reads your bonding curve vault, your PumpSwap vault and any cashback, and claims them all in one transaction, for one wallet or many.
- Claim Creator Fees scans pump.fun, PumpSwap, Raydium LaunchLab, Raydium CPMM, Meteora's bonding curve and DAMM v2, and Bags in one go, for creators who launch on several launchpads.
Example: a wallet with 1.2 SOL of creator fees receives 1.14 SOL and pays 0.06 SOL. If you only launch on pump.fun and don't mind claiming there, pump.fun's own button is cheaper. Step-by-step instructions, vault addresses and edge cases are in how to claim pump.fun creator fees.
Bottom line
Pump.fun creator fees are volume times rate: 0.30% on the bonding curve, 0.95% in PumpSwap's 420–1,470 SOL tier, falling to 0.05% above 98,240 SOL. A coin that only just graduates pays its creator about 0.26 SOL; real earnings come from sustained trading after graduation. Holder rewards, cashback, fee-sharing and Raydium-migrated coins pay elsewhere or not at all, so check how a coin was launched before expecting fees. To launch a coin that earns them, the pump.fun launcher costs 0.1 SOL with a dev buy.
Questions & answers
What percentage do pump.fun creators get?
On the bonding curve, 0.30% of each trade's SOL value, out of a 1.25% total fee. On the coin's canonical PumpSwap pool after graduation, the creator rate depends on market cap: 0.30% below 420 SOL, 0.95% from 420 to 1,470 SOL, then stepping down by about 0.05 points per tier to 0.05% above 98,240 SOL. These are the rates in pump.fun's fee table since September 2025; check pump.fun's fee page for changes.
How much does a pump.fun creator earn from 100 SOL of volume?
0.3 SOL if the 100 SOL traded on the bonding curve. On PumpSwap the same 100 SOL earns 0.95 SOL at a 420–1,470 SOL market cap, 0.75 SOL at 4,420–9,820 SOL, and 0.05 SOL above 98,240 SOL. Volume counts buys and sells alike.
Do pump.fun creator fees count sells too?
Yes. The fee is charged on every trade on the curve or the canonical PumpSwap pool, buys and sells alike, as a percentage of the SOL value of the trade. A trader who buys 1 SOL and sells it back generates 2 SOL of volume and 0.006 SOL of creator fees on the curve.
Why are my pump.fun creator fees zero?
Common reasons: the coin is a holder rewards coin, where the creator fee goes to holders; it is a cashback coin from before cashback was deprecated; it uses fee sharing, so fees go to a sharing config; a different wallet was recorded as creator; or the coin graduated to Raydium before May 12, 2025, when creator fees did not exist there. Non-canonical PumpSwap pools also pay 0% to creators.
What is pump.fun fee sharing?
Fee sharing lets a creator move a coin's creator fees to a sharing config that splits them among up to 10 wallets by basis points, totaling 10,000. pump.fun's developer docs say the final shareholder list can be set only once, after which admin updates are revoked. Fees then go to the shareholders through pump.fun's fee program, not the creator vault.
How do I claim pump.fun creator fees?
From your pump.fun profile, which costs only network fees, or with a tool that calls pump.fun's collect instructions. SOLTidy's Pump.fun Fee Claimer claims the bonding curve vault, the PumpSwap vault and any cashback in one transaction for 5% of the SOL claimed, and its Claim Creator Fees tool scans other launchpads too.
