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Launching a token on pump.fun costs money at three separate moments, and buying one costs money at two. As of 05 September 2026 we publish the fee terms of pump.fun alongside the other meme trading venues in one table, which is the only way the numbers mean anything — a percentage in isolation tells you nothing about whether it is high.
The Three Fee Events in a Launch
The first is creation. Deploying the token and seeding the bonding curve is a transaction like any other, so you pay network fees, plus whatever the launchpad charges to create.
The second is every trade on the curve, including your own. The launchpad takes a percentage of each buy and each sell while the token is still on the bonding curve. If you launch and then buy your own supply, you pay this on the way in.
The third is graduation — the migration of liquidity from the curve into a normal automated market maker pool. This is a one-off event with its own cost, and it is the step people forget when they estimate a launch budget from the creation fee alone.
The Two Fee Events in a Buy
Buying is simpler and still not one number. There is the network fee for the transaction, which on Solana is small but not zero and rises with congestion. And there is the launchpad's percentage, taken on the trade itself.
What is missing from both lists, and matters more than either, is slippage. On a thin curve or a shallow pool the price you get is not the price you saw, and the gap is frequently larger than every stated fee combined. A fee table cannot show you this; only the pool's depth can.
Where the Terminals Fit
Most people do not interact with pump.fun directly — they use a trading terminal built on top of it. Terminals charge their own percentage per swap, on top of the launchpad's. So the honest comparison is not "pump.fun versus a terminal" but "pump.fun alone versus pump.fun plus a terminal", and what you buy with the difference is execution speed and interface.
| Where Meme Trading Happens | Swap fee | Referral share |
|---|---|---|
| fomo.family | 0.50% | no public programme |
| GMGN | 1.00% | 10.00–30.00% |
| Axiom | 1.00% | 30.00% |
| Trojan | 1.00% | 27.50–47.50% |
| BullX | 1.00% | 35.00% |
| pump.fun | 1.25% | no public programme |
| Pons V2 | not published | no public programme |
| Robinhood Chain | not published | no public programme |
The per-venue detail, including referral terms and what is actually available from Russia, sits on the pump.fun venue page and its siblings.
A Worked Example, Without Made-Up Numbers
Take a launch where you create a token and immediately buy a share of its supply, then sell into a rally. You pay: creation, the launchpad percentage on your buy, the launchpad percentage on your sell, network fees on both transactions, and — if the token graduated in between — the migration cost. Five events, of which most launch guides mention one.
We deliberately do not put example figures here. The rates change, and a worked example with stale numbers is worse than no example: it looks authoritative and is wrong. The table above carries the swap terms each venue publishes; creation, migration and network fees we describe but do not price, because we do not collect them. Put your own trade size against the part we do publish.
What This Has to Do With Withdrawal Costs
Nothing, until the token reaches an exchange — and then everything. Launch and trading fees are the cost of getting in. The cost of getting out is a different set of numbers entirely, and it is the one nobody publishes: whether the exchange that listed the token has withdrawals open, over which network, at what fee. That is tracked on the listings page, and the general shape of it on the hub.
Methodology
Fee and referral terms are static values maintained by hand from each venue's public documentation — they are commercial terms, not market data, and they do not go stale the way a price does. Where a venue does not publish a rate, the table says so rather than guessing. Withdrawal figures elsewhere on this site come from our own polling. Sources and licence: our data page. Last reviewed 05 September 2026.