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- pump.fun
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Details
Scored 71 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
pump.fun
Bonding-curve token launches on Solana
Token Launch Platforms
#7 Overall
Ranked #7 of 9 token launch platforms in the published ranking
71
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is pump.fun right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure8/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Creator control surface and published ranges6/10 here; four.meme scores 8
- Graduation and LP disposition6/10 here; Boop scores 7
- Post-deploy rug surface and admin powers4/10 here; the category best is 9
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What will pump.fun cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is pump.fun?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to pump.fun
Compare all 4- 6four.meme2 points above · stronger on creator control surface (8 against 6)73
- 8Boop4 points below · stronger on graduation and LP disposition (7 against 6)67
- 9Flaunch4 points below · weaker on protocol fee floor and disclosure (7 against 8)67
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Find out if pump.fun fits you
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Why this rank
Why pump.fun ranks #7
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (20.2 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
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Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−2behind four.meme, #6
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 70–73 and stays #7
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of pump.fun’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure 8 → 10 on its ladder · passes four.meme+275#7 → #6
Creator control surface and published ranges 6 → 8 on its ladder · passes four.meme+275#7 → #6
Graduation and LP disposition 6 → 8 on its ladder · passes four.meme+275#7 → #6
Post-deploy rug surface and admin powers 4 → 7 on its ladder · passes four.meme+374#7 → #6
Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure 8 → 5 on its ladder · Boop passes it−366#7 → #9
Creator control surface and published ranges 6 → 3 on its ladder · Boop passes it−366#7 → #9
Graduation and LP disposition 6 → 3 on its ladder · Boop passes it−367#7 → #9
Smallest climb: unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure 8 → 10 passes four.meme, #6.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure — 8/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Creator control surface and published ranges — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Graduation and LP disposition — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Post-deploy rug surface and admin powers — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- The band you are shown is not the band you launch into. On the bonding curve the split is creator 0.300% / protocol 0.95%, and the post-graduation canonical pool keeps that inversion below a 420 SOL market cap (the fee page read on 2026-09-30 prices it in SOL bands: "0 – 420 SOL" = creator 0.300%, protocol 0.930%; the first USDC band is 0 – 59000 USDC). The 0.95% creator share only begins above that first band. A coin that never clears it pays pump.fun roughly 0.93-0.95% of every trade for its entire life while the issuer keeps 0.3% - and that is the modal outcome on this venue. Two further post-signing discoveries: T&C 4.6 lets pump.fun hand "control over Creator Fees and certain admin rights" from the original deployer to a community-chosen team through a CTO, "in the sole discretion of the Pump Entities" (Terms updated 25 September 2026); and the fee page reserves the right to change every rate above "at any time, without notice". Separately, both the launch program and the PumpSwap AMM holding your graduated liquidity remain upgradeable under one live authority (7gZufwwAo17y5kg8FMyJy2phgpvv9RSdzWtdXiWHjFr8) that the vendor's own documentation never mentions.
Competitive position
Where pump.fun leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 914.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#7 / 915.1 of 30 · best 18.8
Friction#1 / 92.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 93.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · constant here
Where pump.fun leads
- Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure#1 / 9
Where it trails
- Creator control surface and published ranges#7 / 9
- Graduation and LP disposition#7 / 9
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
four.meme#6 of 9 · score 73 · 2.0 points ahead
pump.fun leads on
- Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure8 vs 7
four.meme leads on
- Creator control surface and published ranges8 vs 6
Largest single reason four.meme is ahead: published criteria (+1.8 display points).Scenario cost: four.meme has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Boop#8 of 9 · score 67 · 4.0 points behind
pump.fun leads on
- Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure8 vs 6
- Creator control surface and published ranges6 vs 5
Boop leads on
- Graduation and LP disposition7 vs 6
Largest single reason pump.fun is ahead: published criteria (+3.9 display points).Scenario cost: Boop has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Flaunch#9 of 9 · score 67 · 4.0 points behind
pump.fun leads on
- Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure8 vs 7
- Creator control surface and published ranges6 vs 5
- Post-deploy rug surface and admin powers4 vs 3
Flaunch leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason pump.fun is ahead: published criteria (+4.7 display points).Scenario cost: Flaunch has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 71 · gap 10.0Why Raydium LaunchLab ranks above pump.fun
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 10.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisRaydium LaunchLabGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight15.118.8−9.6, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisRaydium LaunchLabPoints
Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure · w3087+0.96, better
Creator control surface and published ranges · w3069−2.88, worse
Graduation and LP disposition · w2568−1.60, worse
Post-deploy rug surface and admin powers · w1547−1.44, worse
Net7181−10.0
Your scenario
pump.fun is not priced for this scenario
Trading fee on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 30 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 9 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
9 of 9 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 30 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #7 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 30 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosurestrength 8 · weight 30Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Creator control surface and published rangesstrength 6 · weight 30Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Graduation and LP dispositionstrength 6 · weight 25Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Post-deploy rug surface and admin powersstrength 4 · weight 15Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure: a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by Creator control surface and published ranges · 30% (pump.fun 6/10)Scored by Post-deploy rug surface and admin powers · 15% (pump.fun 4/10)
- Custody failure (pump.fun 6/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Graduation and LP disposition · 25%
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Regulatory failure, Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Unavoidable protocol fee and fee disclosure (30%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- From https://
pump .fun /docs /fees (HTTP 200, fetched 30 September 2026; the page header reads "Last Updated: 20 May 2026"). Action/Fee table: "Create a coin" = "0 SOL / 0 USDC"; "When a coin graduates from the pump.fun platform to PumpSwap*" = "0.015 SOL". Bonding curve, "for both USDC and SOL tokens", columns Creator fee / Protocol fee / LP fee / Total fee: "0.300%", "0.95%", "0%", "1.25%". Post-graduation canonical PumpSwap pool, SOL-denominated schedule of 25 market-cap bands: "0 – 420 SOL" = creator "0.300%", protocol "0.930%", LP "0.020%", total "1.250%"; "420 – 1470 SOL" = "0.950%", "0.050%", "0.200%", "1.200%"; sliding to "98240 SOL and up" = "0.050%", "0.050%", "0.200%", "0.300%". USDC-denominated schedule of 31 bands: "0 – 59000 USDC" = "0.300%", "0.930%", "0.020%", "1.250%" through "20000000 USDC and up" = "0.050%", "0.050%", "0.200%", "0.300%". Market cap is "the current price of the token in SOL or USDC multiplied by 1 billion tokens". Non-canonical PumpSwap pools: "0%", "0.05%", "0.25%", "0.3%". Same page: "Some users may experience fee increases of up to .1% on certain transactions." and "The pump.fun platform may change these fees at any time, without notice." Changed since 2026-08-27: the page is now server-rendered and readable as a document (the August read had to decode the React flight payload), and the SOL schedule is shown in SOL market-cap bands rather than the approximate USD edges (0-85,000 and so on) the August note carried.pump.fun — official pricing page ↗ · 30 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDpump.fun — official pricing page ↗ · 30 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- United Kingdom
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- The pump.fun Terms of Use (https://
pump .fun /docs /terms-and-conditions, "Last Updated: 25 September 2026", read 30 September 2026) define "Prohibited Jurisdiction: (a) the United Kingdom, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine" and bar access or use from a Prohibited Jurisdiction. The United Kingdom entry is a market restriction; the rest mirror sanctions lists.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
10 methodology entries
- 30 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 71, #7 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt token_launch_platforms:pump_fun:2026.10.18:f28b4b445d40
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