StonkFun vs Pump.fun: fees, quote assets and graduation

Launch cost

Pump.fun's fees page lists coin creation at 0 SOL and a 0.015 SOL charge when a coin graduates.

StonkFun has no separate listing fee. Third-party walkthroughs report an onchain deployment cost near 0.012 SOL, and the API shows a migration fee of 0.

Fixed costs are small on both. What matters is the size of your own first buy and the fee on every trade afterwards.

Curve trading fees and creator share

This is the biggest difference, and it decides what a creator earns per trade.

• Pump.fun: 1.25% per trade on the curve — 0.30% to the creator and 0.95% to the protocol.
• StonkFun default tier: 1% per trade, roughly 0.5% each to creator and platform.
• StonkFun 2% tier: the creator keeps about three quarters, roughly 1.5% — and traders pay twice as much.
• On the same volume, a StonkFun default-tier creator earns more than Pump.fun's 0.30% on the curve, while traders pay a slightly lower total rate.

Quote assets

Pump.fun markets are mostly priced in SOL, with USDC-quoted coins also supported.

StonkFun listed 517 quote assets on 2026-09-19, including tokenized equities, private-company exposures, stablecoins and a long tail of custom tokens.

A non-SOL quote means the token's price also moves with the quote asset, and buyers go through one more conversion. For the simplest, most direct market, SOL is still the default.

Transfer fees

Coins launched on Pump.fun carry no transfer fee.

StonkFun's reward mode adds a 1% or 3% transfer fee; withheld tokens are collected by a platform address and distributed to holders. Standard mode carries no transfer fee.

A transfer fee applies to every transfer, not only trades: batch transfers, airdrops and consolidation all deliver less. For an existing StonkFun token, confirm the rate first with MintPier's token check.

Graduation and fees afterwards

Both curves graduate at roughly an 85 SOL-equivalent raise.

• Pump.fun: migrates to PumpSwap. Total fees then step down by market cap from 1.25% to 0.30%, and the creator part falls from 0.30% to 0.05%.
• StonkFun: migrates to a Raydium CPMM pool with liquidity locked permanently. The 1% or 2% tier chosen at launch carries over and the creator keeps earning through the locked position.
• In short, a Pump.fun creator's share thins out as market cap grows, while a StonkFun creator's share stays the same after graduation.

How to choose

For the largest ready audience and the simplest SOL market, Pump.fun remains the default — it has held most of the Solana launchpad share for a long time.

For a stock or other asset as the quote, a higher creator share, or holder rewards through a transfer fee, StonkFun offers options Pump.fun does not — on a newer platform with more moving parts.

Either way, verify the onchain facts after launch before you publish the contract address.