Pump.fun Creator Fees Explained: How Much You Earn and How to Claim Them

What are pump.fun creator fees?

Pump.fun creator fees, rebranded creator rewards, are a slice of every buy and every sell on a token that the protocol automatically routes to the wallet that created it. Rewards accrue on their own rather than needing to be claimed trade by trade - a creator decides when to withdraw what has built up.

The exact percentage a creator earns is not fixed - it depends on which phase the token is in and, once it has graduated, on the pool it is trading in.

How the fee splits today: bonding curve vs PumpSwap

Pump.fun charges a total trading fee that is split between the protocol and the token's creator. The split differs depending on where the token is trading.

• On the bonding curve, before graduation, the total fee is charged and the creator's cut is a flat rate on every trade for that phase.
• After graduation into a canonical PumpSwap pool, the creator's cut starts at the same flat rate and then increases meaningfully once the token crosses an early market-cap tier, before gradually declining again as the token's market cap grows further.
• In a non-canonical PumpSwap pool - one not created through the standard graduation flow - creators do not earn a cut of the trading fee at all.

Why the fee split has changed more than once

Pump.fun's creator fee structure is not a fixed, permanent parameter - it has been revised more than once as the platform has tuned incentives between rewarding creators and keeping trading activity healthy. A tiered, market-cap-based model introduced in 2025 under the platform's Project Ascend initiative was later followed by further adjustments to fee-sharing mechanics in early 2026.

Because of this history, a creator relying on a specific percentage figure for financial planning should verify the current live structure directly through pump.fun's own interface or documentation rather than treating any single article's numbers, including this one, as permanently fixed.

Splitting fees across a team

Since a January 2026 update, project teams can split creator fees across as many as 10 wallets rather than routing everything to a single address. Both the original creator and a Community Takeover administrator - a team that has taken over an abandoned project - can assign specific fee percentages to different wallets after a token has already launched.

This is useful for tokens run by more than one person, where a single-wallet payout would otherwise require manual redistribution after every claim.

How to claim creator fees

Creators can claim accumulated fees at any time from their coins page on pump.fun's own interface - there is no forfeiture for leaving rewards unclaimed for a while. Fees can also be claimed programmatically, for example through the PumpPortal Lightning or Local Transaction API's collectCreatorFee action, which supports both standard bonding-curve tokens and tokens using Meteora's dynamic bonding curve.

FAQ

• Do I automatically earn creator fees on any token I launch? Generally yes for tokens that are newly minted, actively trading on the bonding curve, or have previously graduated - but the exact eligibility and current rates should be confirmed on pump.fun directly, since the structure has changed before.
• Is there a deadline to claim creator fees? No - unclaimed fees accumulate and can be claimed at any time without being forfeited.
• Can I split my creator fees with a team? Yes - since a January 2026 update, fees can be split across up to 10 wallets with individually assigned percentages.
• Do creator fees work the same before and after a token graduates? No - the creator's cut of the total trading fee differs between the bonding curve phase and the various tiers of a graduated PumpSwap pool.