pump.fun fees, and what a trade really costs
People compare fee percentages. On memecoins the percentage is rarely what decides the cost of a trade. Here is every layer, in the order you will notice them, and the one you will not.
A trade on pump.fun has four layers of cost. Three of them show up as fees somewhere. The fourth, slippage, never shows up as a line item, and on small memecoins it is often the biggest of all.
The four layers
| Layer | Who takes it | What drives it |
|---|---|---|
| Network fees | Solana validators | A small base fee plus a priority fee to get in fast |
| Venue fees | pump.fun (and coin creators) | A percentage of the trade, on the curve or on the pool |
| Tool fee | Your bot or app | Its own pricing |
| Slippage | Nobody, it is just a worse price | Speed, liquidity, your size, others trading ahead of you |
Network fees
Every Solana transaction pays a small base fee. When the network is busy, transactions can add a priority fee to be processed sooner, and on hot pump.fun coins most do. Opening a new token account in your wallet also takes a small refundable deposit, called rent, of roughly 0.002 SOL. You get it back if the account is closed.
pump.fun's fees
pump.fun takes a percentage on trades, both on the bonding curve and on its own exchange after a coin migrates. It has changed its fee schedule over time, including adding fees that go to coin creators. We do not quote a number here because it moves. Check pump.fun's own documentation for today's rate.
The tool fee
Bots and apps add their own fee. copypump charges a fee on each copied trade, on the buy and on the sell. It is shown on the confirm screen before you start copying a wallet. There is no subscription, and no copypump fee on withdrawals. copypump also pays the network fees for your trades and passes the cost through, so you do not need to keep SOL aside for gas.
Why this matters more when you copy
When you trade by hand, you choose how often you trade. When you copy, the wallet you follow chooses. An active pump.fun wallet can trade many times a day, and every copied trade is two legs, a buy and a sell, each paying its share of fees.
That makes two things important:
- Size per trade. Fees that include any fixed part hurt small trades most. Very small copies can end up mostly fees. copypump skips a copy outright when its size would be too small to be worth the fee.
- Trade frequency. A wallet making forty trades a week costs you forty times the per-trade costs. Check how active a wallet is before you copy it.
The cost that is not a fee
Slippage is the difference between the price you expected and the price you got. On pump.fun it comes from three places:
- Delay. The wallet you copy bought first. Its buy moved the price, and any buyers between you moved it further. On a bonding curve the price rises with the square of the SOL in the curve, so this adds up fast on young coins. See what a big first buy does to the price.
- Your own size. Your buy moves the price too. The bigger your trade relative to the curve or pool, the more it moves.
- Thin liquidity. After migration, a shallow pool means every trade moves the price a lot, in both directions.
Slippage settings do not remove this cost. They set how much of it you are willing to accept before a trade is refused. copypump uses automatic slippage by default, or you can set a fixed tolerance in settings. A tight tolerance means more failed or skipped trades. A loose one means worse fills on fast candles.
How to actually pay less
- Copy fewer, better wallets. Trade count multiplies every cost on this page.
- Avoid tiny copies. Pick a per-trade size where fees are a small share of the trade.
- Consider "first buys only". Copying every top-up multiplies trades that often add little.
- Use a max price impact or market cap floor. Filters that keep you out of the thinnest coins cut slippage more than any fee discount could.
- Look at fills, not fee tables. Compare what you paid per trade with what the wallet paid. That gap is your real cost.
For how the numbers translate into a starting balance, see how much you need to start copytrading.
Frequently asked
How much does pump.fun charge per trade?
pump.fun takes a fee on trades on the bonding curve and on its own exchange after migration, and it has changed its fee schedule more than once, including adding fees for coin creators. Check pump.fun's current documentation for the exact rate rather than trusting an old guide.
What does copypump charge?
A fee on each copied trade, on the buy and on the sell. It is shown on the confirm screen before you start copying a wallet. There is no subscription and no fee on withdrawals. Network costs are passed through at cost.
Do I need SOL for gas with copypump?
No. copypump pays the Solana network fees for your trades and passes the cost through, so your balance does not need a separate SOL reserve for gas.
Why did my trade cost more than the fees add up to?
Slippage and price impact. Your trade landed at a worse price than the one you saw, because the price moved or because your own buy moved it. On thin memecoins that gap is often larger than every fee combined.
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