pump.fun creator fees · counted from a census
Who actually
gets 0.950%?
of live coins that have graduated off the bonding curve are standing in the 420–1,470 SOL band that pays pump.fun's advertised top creator rate — — of —. — sit below it, earning —: the identical rate they were already paying on the bonding curve.
The schedule is a spike, not a slope
pump.fun announced the tiering as help for small coins — the higher the market cap, the lower the creator's cut. That is true above 1,470 SOL. Below it the schedule does the opposite: a coin pays — on the bonding curve, still — after it graduates, and only reaches — if it clears 420 SOL — a — step. Then it decays for twenty-three more tiers.
Where the coins actually are
Three shares per band: how many coins, how much of the trading, and how much of the creator money. They are not the same shape — which is the schedule doing its job, just not for the group it was announced for.
| Market cap (SOL) | Creator fee | Coins | Share of coins | Share of volume | Share of creator $ | Median $/day |
|---|
Frame: —. Live means the canonical pool traded in the last 24 hours. Creator dollars are the published fee rate applied to that pool's own volume — never to the coin's total volume across venues, because the creator earns nothing outside the canonical pool.
For most coins, graduating changes the rate by nothing
Graduation is the milestone the whole launchpad is built around: the bonding curve completes, liquidity moves to PumpSwap, the coin is "live". The creator's cut of each trade before and after, for the — of live graduates that sit below 420 SOL:
Identical. The 0–420 SOL PumpSwap tier pays exactly the bonding-curve rate.
Reached by — of live graduates (— coins). The band is 1,050 SOL wide on a schedule that runs to 98,240.
The band is priced in SOL, so it moves
pump.fun's schedule defines market cap as the price in SOL times one billion tokens. It is not a dollar band. Every press citation of this schedule as "$88,000 to $300,000" is a dollar translation frozen at whatever SOL was worth that week, and it drifts every day.
At SOL = —, this scan (—). Quote the SOL figures; the dollar ones are only true at that price.
And most of them are not trading at all
Every pool counted here graduated — a canonical PumpSwap pool only exists after the bonding curve completes. Of the ones scanned:
What this site got wrong first
PeakBand was built to show a revenue ceiling — that because the fee rate falls as a coin grows, a creator could earn less by having a bigger coin. The scan killed it. Creator income scales as roughly mcap0.85: positive, so a bigger coin always pays its creator more. The apparent peak in the first pass rested on three coins.
The rate falls 19× across the schedule, but market cap ranges 234×, so rate × market cap still rises 12.3× — turnover would have to collapse by more than 12.3× to make a ceiling, and it does not. The dead thesis has its own page →
Where the numbers come from. The fee schedule is pump.fun's own, published at pump.fun/docs/fees. The population is every canonical PumpSwap pool, read straight off Solana with getProgramAccounts — deliberately not from pump.fun's API, which returns at most about 850 rows sorted by market cap and therefore cannot see the bottom 90% this site is about. Full method, and what would falsify this →