RiskMemecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value. Nothing here is financial advice.
What creator fees are
A creator fee is the share of every trade's fee that pump.fun pays to the wallet that created the coin. On the bonding curve it's 0.30% of each trade's value.
- It's part of the 1.25% traders already pay, not an extra charge.
- It's paid in what the coin trades against: SOL for most coins, USDC for USDC-paired ones.
- It applies to buys and sells alike, whoever makes them.
All of these numbers come from pump.fun's fee page, last updated on 17 October 2026 and checked on 11 November 2026.
How much, at each stage
The creator's share is 0.30% on the bonding curve, jumps to 0.95% once a graduated coin passes a 420 SOL market cap, and then falls step by step as the coin grows.
| Stage (market cap) | Creator fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|
| Bonding curve | 0.300% | 1.250% |
| PumpSwap, 0 – 420 SOL | 0.300% | 1.250% |
| 420 – 1,470 SOL | 0.950% | 1.200% |
| 1,470 – 2,460 SOL | 0.900% | 1.150% |
| 2,460 – 3,440 SOL | 0.850% | 1.100% |
| 3,440 – 4,420 SOL | 0.800% | 1.050% |
| 4,420 – 9,820 SOL | 0.750% | 1.000% |
| 9,820 – 14,740 SOL | 0.700% | 0.950% |
| 49,120 – 54,030 SOL | 0.300% | 0.550% |
| 98,240 SOL and up | 0.050% | 0.300% |
Market cap is the coin's price in SOL times its 1 billion supply. Tiers between the rows shown step down a little at a time.
Working out earnings
Multiply the trading volume by the creator fee for the coin's stage. Volume counts buys and sells together.
The creator fee calculator does it for a coin on the bonding curve.
These are sums, not forecasts. Most coins trade very little, and most never graduate.
Who gets them, and how
Creator fees collect for the wallet that created the coin, and that wallet claims them on pump.fun.
- The creator is whichever wallet sent the launch, so pick the launch wallet with that in mind.
- A tool you launch with doesn't change who the creator is. memetools takes no share of creator fees.
- If you launched from a memetools wallet, you can show its private key in Wallets and import it into a wallet app that pump.fun supports, to claim there.
- A creator can choose to have the fee paid to a charity instead.
Holder rewards
At launch, a creator can send the creator fee to the coin's holders instead of keeping it. That's a Holder Rewards coin: the rate is the same, only who receives it changes.
- Rewards build up in a vault for the coin and are paid out from time to time, in SOL or whatever the coin is paired with.
- They're shared among wallets holding at least 20 US dollars' worth of the coin, in proportion to what each holds.
- The cost of each payout is taken from the vault first, so holders receive a little less than what was collected, and nothing is guaranteed.
- The choice is made at launch. It can't be changed afterwards except through a community takeover.
Cashback mode, which returned the creator fee to buyers, is no longer available for new launches. Existing Cashback coins keep working, and can be converted to Holder Rewards through a community takeover.
Creator fees or holder rewards?
Keeping creator fees pays the launcher. Holder rewards give that income to the people holding the coin. It's a one-time choice.
- Creator fees suit a launcher who will keep working on the coin and wants to be paid for it.
- Holder rewards give holders a reason to stay that doesn't depend on the launcher, and the launcher earns nothing from trading fees.
- Either way, say plainly which one the coin uses. It shows on the coin's page.
Both are options in memetools's Launch panel. The steps are in Launch a memecoin on pump.fun.