A Pump.fun Alternative That Keeps the "pump" Address

Pump.fun has dominated Solana memecoin launches since 2024. It's free to start, no capital required, and the bonding curve handles price discovery. For a lot of launches, that's the right choice. For a lot of others, it's not.

This page is for the launches that aren't a fit for Pump.fun: launches that want to set initial price, control fee tier, skip the 1% platform tax, list on DexScreener from minute zero, or build trust signals (revoked authorities + burned LP) that the bonding curve doesn't support.

And it's for the launches that were only ever there for the address. Every Pump.fun token gets a mint address ending in "pump" — a vanity suffix, not a protocol feature — and that four-character tail is what a trader reads first in a Solscan tab or a Telegram message. You can have it here, for a flat 0.1 SOL, without the curve attached to it.

Start with the reason most people never seriously price this comparison. A mint address ending in "pump" is the visual signature of a Pump.fun launch — traders parse it instantly on Solscan, on DexScreener pair pages, and in the Telegram messages where a contract address arrives with no other context. Wanting it is a completely rational thing to want, and the ways to get it have been launching on the curve or grinding candidate keypairs yourself on the Solana CLI.

Tick "Pumpfun Token" on Alchemii's create form and you get the address on its own, for a flat 0.1 SOL. A standard launch with the suffix runs around 0.32 SOL all-in; around 0.42 SOL if you also revoke mint authority, which most memecoins do. Nothing else about the launch changes: you set the initial price, you pick the fee tier, you hold the LP token and can burn it at minute zero, and the Raydium pool you open is indexable by DexScreener and routable by Jupiter as soon as it exists — you can open it immediately, rather than waiting on a graduation roughly 1% of curve launches ever reach.

The safeguard is worth knowing about because it is the part you cannot check after the fact: the address is verified to actually end in "pump" before the transaction is built. If the suffix can't be produced, the launch stops with an error and no transaction is assembled — so there is no path where you pay 0.1 SOL for a vanity tail that didn't materialise.

Now the arithmetic, because "cheaper" only means something with a number attached. Pump.fun costs ~0.02 SOL upfront and then takes 1% of every buy and 1% of every sell — 2% on a round trip — for as long as the token trades. Against a 0.32 SOL suffix launch that is a 0.30 SOL difference: 0.30 ÷ 0.02 = 15 SOL of buying and selling before the curve has cost more than the flat fee. With the revoke as well: (0.42 − 0.02) ÷ 0.02 = 20 SOL. Any launch with real attention passes both inside its first hour, and past them the percentage keeps running while the flat fee is already spent.

One boundary that isn't negotiable. The address is a style choice, not a credential. Nothing about a token minted here came off Pump.fun's curve, the mint's first transaction proves that to anyone who looks, and a launch that leans on the confusion has stopped doing marketing and started committing fraud. Use the address because it reads as a memecoin launch, not because it reads as somebody else's.

Near-zero launch capital. Pump.fun charges ~0.02 SOL upfront and fronts the rest via the bonding curve. You don't need meaningful SOL on hand to launch.

Fair-launch culture. Bonding curves prevent insider pre-mining (the curve buys are visible to everyone). For meme communities that value fairness, Pump.fun is built around that.

You're testing whether a meme catches. Failed Pump.fun launches cost ~0.02 SOL of fees. Failed direct launches cost 5-15 SOL of seed liquidity. If you're not sure the meme will work, Pump.fun is the cheaper bet.

Mobile-first audience. Pump.fun's UX is optimized for phone-only memecoin trading.

You have launch capital and want control. Pump.fun gives you no say in initial price (set by curve mechanics), fee tier (fixed at 1%), or graduation timing (~$69K market cap, fixed). Direct-to-Raydium gives you all three.

You want DexScreener / Jupiter visibility from minute one. Pre-graduation Pump.fun tokens are invisible to those aggregators. Direct Raydium launches are visible immediately.

You want to compete on trust signals. Pump.fun's automatic LP burn happens after graduation, leaving a window where the token looks less safe. Direct launches let you burn LP at minute one.

You're paying 1% on every trade forever. Pump.fun's platform fee continues post-graduation. For a successful token, that's tens of thousands in fees over the token's lifetime — money that goes to Pump.fun, not your community.

You want to use a custom fee tier. Pump.fun is locked at 1%. Raydium offers 0.25%, 1%, 4%.

Mint your SPL token via Alchemii. Freeze authority is never set in the first place, and the mint-authority revoke rides inside the same signed transaction as the mint. Cost: ~0.22 SOL all-in for a standard launch, ~0.32 SOL with the revoke, and a flat 0.1 SOL if you want the "pump" mint address — the form itemizes your total before you connect a wallet.

Create a Raydium AMM v4 pool. Pair with SOL, set initial price by your seed amounts, pick 1% fee tier. Cost: ~0.4 SOL + your seed liquidity (5-15 SOL typical).

Burn 100% of LP tokens via /burn-liquidity/solana. Cost: ~0.0001 SOL.

Optional, once the pool is live: Jupiter strict-list submission and DexScreener verification. Neither is what puts you on the charts — the pool already did that, the moment it existed. These add the logo, the socials, and the verified badge on top.

Total upfront cost: ~5-15 SOL, nearly all of it seed liquidity you still own. Total ongoing cost: zero — no platform fees on trades. Compare to Pump.fun: ~0.02 SOL upfront, then 1% of every buy and every sell forever. The crossover against a flat ~0.22 SOL launch fee is about 11 SOL of cumulative trading volume.

Bonk.fun: similar bonding-curve launchpad, BONK ecosystem. Free to launch, takes a fee tier.

Moonshot: mobile-first launchpad with bonding-curve mechanics, similar to Pump.fun.

Sunpump: another bonding-curve alternative, smaller user base.

LaunchLab (by Raydium): direct Raydium AMM with launchpad UX. Closer to direct-launch model.

Direct mint + Raydium (this page): full control, no platform on top. Alchemii is one tool for this; you can also use Raydium's own UI directly if you're comfortable with the lower-level flow.

The right pick depends on whether you want a launchpad's discovery features or full control. We recommend direct for serious launches with capital, bonding-curve for zero-capital experiments.