Creator fees
The part of a token trade’s charge set aside for its creator or other named recipients.
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GlossaryThe plain-English definition
When someone trades a token, they may pay a charge. A creator fee is the part of that charge set aside for the token’s creator or other named recipients. It does not automatically go to everyone who owns the token.
A concrete example
Imagine buying $100 worth of a token and paying a $1 charge. If 20 cents of that charge goes to the creator, the creator fee is 20 cents, not the whole dollar. These are made-up numbers to explain the idea, not pump.fun’s actual rates.
The technical part
Pump.fun separates creator fees from protocol fees, which go to the platform, and liquidity-provider fees, which go to people supplying assets for trades. Rates depend on the type of market and other conditions. Its fee-sharing instructions explain how creator fees can be split among configured recipients, meaning the accounts selected to receive them. Checked September 21, 2026. Fee schedule · Fee-sharing instructions.
What people often confuse
A creator fee is not the token’s market value or its trading volume, the total value traded. It is not guaranteed profit: a service receiving fees can still have bills to pay. Other platforms may use the same phrase differently. Check who receives the fee and how it is calculated.
For the underlying record-keeping idea, see onchain.