Pump.fun Fees Explained — Complete Cost Breakdown 2025

Before launching on Pump.fun, you need to understand exactly what you're paying. Hidden fees and unexpected costs have killed many launches. Here's the complete, transparent fee breakdown.

Token Creation Fee

Creating a token on Pump.fun costs approximately 0.02 SOL (~$2). This covers the on-chain account creation for your token mint, metadata account, and bonding curve initialization. This is a fixed cost regardless of token size.

Trading Fee (1%)

Every buy and sell on Pump.fun's bonding curve incurs a 1% fee. This is split between Pump.fun treasury and creator incentives. On a 1 SOL buy, you pay 0.01 SOL in fees. This applies to all pre-graduation trades.

Transaction/Priority Fees

Solana base transaction fees are ~0.000005 SOL. But you need to add priority fees to ensure your transactions land quickly. For bundle launches, budget 0.003-0.01 SOL per transaction in priority fees. With 5 bundle transactions, that's 0.015-0.05 SOL.

Graduation Fee

When your token graduates to Raydium, Pump.fun takes approximately 6 SOL from the bonding curve to cover Raydium LP creation. This is automatic and non-negotiable. The remaining ~79 SOL goes to the Raydium liquidity pool.

Total Launch Budget

Realistic launch budget: token creation (0.02 SOL) + dev buy (0.1-0.5 SOL) + bundle wallets (0.3-1 SOL each × 3-5 wallets) + priority fees (0.05 SOL) = 1.5-6 SOL total for a proper launch.