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Pump Fun Sniper Bot
Pump.fun does not make a sniper bot. Most bots sold as one lose money for the people running them, and some steal the wallet you plug in. Pump.fun's own Terminal gets you close to bot speed without handing anyone your keys. Join with code BonusReward and each trade in the Pumpfun app costs 0.40% instead of 0.45%.
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Is there an official Pump Fun sniper bot?
No. Pump.fun makes the Pumpfun app and Terminal, not a sniper bot.
| Official sniper bot | None as of November 2026. Telegram bots and code repos that use the Pump.fun name are made by other people. |
|---|---|
| What sniping means | Buying a new coin in its first seconds or blocks on the bonding curve |
| Closest official tool | Terminal: the New column in Trenches, quick buy on every coin, saved buy presets |
| Skipping bad launches | Terminal's new pairs filters cap what snipers, bundles and the developer hold |
| Cost of a bonding-curve trade | 1.25% pool fee each way, plus the fee of the app or bot you trade through |
| Pumpfun app platform fee | 0.45% per trade, or 0.40% with code BonusReward |
| Referral code | BonusReward |
What does sniping a Pump Fun launch mean?
It means buying a coin in the first seconds after it is created.
Every new Pump.fun coin starts on a bonding curve. Each buy pushes the price up, so the first buyers pay the least. A Solana block takes about 0.4 seconds, and the cheapest prices are usually gone within a block or two.
A sniper bot tries to be one of those first buyers. It watches for new coins, sends a ready-made buy with a high priority fee and a tip so validators pick it up first, then sells on rules you set. Some bots aim at a different moment: the second a coin fills its curve and moves to PumpSwap, Pump.fun's exchange.
Everyone else in that block is trying to do the same thing, and most of them are faster than you.
Why do most Pump Fun snipes lose money?
The creator, bundles and faster bots buy first, and costs eat the rest.
- The creator buys first. Pump.fun lets a creator buy in the same transaction that creates the coin. No bot can get in ahead of that.
- Bundles fill the first block. A bundled launch buys from a dozen or more wallets in the same block as the coin. It looks like early demand. Often it is one person waiting to sell to the snipers.
- Other bots are faster. Serious snipers rent servers close to validators and pay bigger tips. A home setup tends to land a block or more later, at a worse price.
- Slippage works against you. Fast presets often allow 20% slippage or more. On a busy curve you tend to get close to the worst price you allowed, and sandwich bots help push you there.
- Most coins die. In most months, only 1 or 2 in every 100 new coins fill their bonding curve.
What one snipe costs before the price moves
Every buy and every sell on the curve pays a 1.25% pool fee. The app or bot adds its own fee, and many Telegram bots take 0.5% to 1% a trade. Each transaction also pays the priority fee and tip you set, and a buy that fails can still cost its priority fee.
Here is a round trip with a 1% bot fee and the settings in the buy panel further down: 0.001 SOL priority fee and 0.01 SOL tip per transaction.
| Snipe size | Fees and tips, in and out | Share of the snipe |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1 SOL | 0.0265 SOL | 26.5% |
| 0.5 SOL | 0.0445 SOL | 8.9% |
| 2 SOL | 0.112 SOL | 5.6% |
The coin has to rise by at least that share before you break even, and slippage comes on top. Small snipes are hit hardest, because tips are a fixed amount. In the Pumpfun app with code BonusReward, the listed fees on a bonding-curve buy and sell come to 3.30%, with network costs extra.
Fills are the cost people forget. Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen said it when Pump Bridge launched, about cross-chain trades, and it holds just as well for a crowded launch:
"Everyone knows the platform fees that they pay. FEW people know how much they're paying in bad fills."
Which Pump Fun tools come closest to a sniper bot?
Terminal's Trenches feed, its quick buy buttons and saved buy presets.
Terminal is Pump.fun's desktop trading platform, formerly Padre. It is not a bot, and you still click every buy. But it puts what a sniper needs on one screen:
- The New column in Trenches lists coins within seconds of launch. In the picture at the top of this page, the newest coins are 5 to 31 seconds old.
- Every coin in the feed has its own quick buy button. The buy amount and the active preset sit in the column header.
- An early 2026 update lets quick buy fire when you press the mouse button instead of when you let go. It saves a fraction of a second.
Buy presets
The buy panel has three presets, P1 to P3. Each one stores a priority fee, a tip, a slippage limit and an MEV protection switch. The panel above holds 0.001 SOL priority, a 0.01 SOL tip, 20% slippage and protection on. Keep one careful preset and one fast one, so you never type fees in a hurry.
Fortify, added on November 3, 2026, is for buying from several wallets at once. It makes those buys land together, so bots cannot slip in between. The Pumpfun app is different. It is a phone app for buying from coin pages and alerts, and it has no sniping mode.
How do you filter out bundled and sniped launches?
Cap snipers, bundles and dev holdings in Terminal's new pairs filters.
Terminal reworked its new pairs filters in June 2026. The Audit tab sets a minimum and a maximum for the top 10 holders, insiders, snipers, bundles and the developer's own share. It can also hide coins made by a known bot, and coins whose developer no longer holds any.
A starting point to adjust as you learn:
- Snipers holding: under 10%
- Bundles holding: under 10%
- Dev holding: under 5%
- Top 10 holders: under 30%
- Token age: a few minutes at most, if you want to stay early
Save the set and it runs every time. You can export it and import it on another machine. Keyword and exclude lists narrow the feed further.
Two settings deal with repeat offenders. A deployer blacklist hides coins from up to 1,000 creators you have blocked. Tracked dev highlights do the opposite and color coins from developers you follow.
New pairs filters and bundle detection
Terminal's June 2026 update in under a minute: a bundle map for new coins, then the reworked filters for the New, Soon and Migrated columns.
- The bundle map groups wallets that bought together
- Filters cap snipers, bundles, insiders and dev holdings
- Filter sets can be saved, exported and imported
How do you plan the exit on a snipe?
Before you buy: a profit target, a stop and a time limit.
A snipe is decided in its first few minutes. If you plan the sale after the buy, you plan it while the price moves against you.
- Take your cost out at the first target, often 2x. What is left can run.
- Set a stop. One sale by the creator can halve the price in seconds.
- Add a time limit. If the coin has not moved within a few minutes, the snipe did not work. Sell and move on.
- Never add to a losing snipe.
Terminal's buy panel has an Exit Strategy box, used to set sell targets together with the buy. On October 1, 2026, Terminal added breakout limit orders. A breakout order normally fires when the price moves up through a level you choose, so you buy strength instead of racing for the first block. In the Pumpfun app, limit orders work on Solana, and since October 22, 2026 on several EVM chains too, with take profit and stop loss.
How do you check a free sniper bot before you give it a key?
Assume it can drain the wallet, then test it with money you can lose.
Free sniper bots get paid somehow. Usually it is a fee on every trade. Sometimes it is your wallet.
In July 2025, a popular-looking Pump.fun bot repo turned out to steal keys. Its stars and forks came from fake accounts. A hidden dependency, pulled from outside the normal package registry, searched the computer for wallet files and sent them to a server.
Red flags in a Python repo
- It wants your private key in a web form, a chat or a file you send to someone
- The code sends data to an address that is not your RPC or a known API
- You find base64 blobs, exec or eval calls, or code that downloads more code
- The requirements list odd package names or a link instead of the normal registry
- Thousands of stars, but very few real commits or issues
- A "pro" version comes as a zip or an app file
Tests for a Telegram bot
- Get the bot's name from its own site, never from a DM or a group link
- Remember that a bot which made your wallet also holds its key
- Never import the key or seed phrase of your main wallet
- Deposit a little, buy, sell, then withdraw everything to your own wallet
- Find the fee per trade before the first buy
- Block anyone who messages first with help or a "verify" link
Run any repo on a fresh machine or virtual machine, with a fresh wallet that holds only the sniping budget. A bad bot can then take only what you gave it.
What does a sensible Pump Fun sniping plan look like?
Small fixed sizes, strict filters, exits set first, and a daily stop.
Set a budget
Keep the sniping money in its own wallet. Risk the same small amount on every snipe, for example 1% of that budget.
Check the math
If tips and fees come to more than about 5% of the snipe, the size is too small or the tip too high. Fix that before the first buy.
Filter hard
Skip anything your filters flag. Missing a winner costs nothing. Buying into a bundle can cost the whole position.
Stop for the day
Pick a loss limit, or a number of losing snipes in a row. When you reach it, stop.
When not to snipe
- The coin copies a name that is trending right now. Dozens of copies launch within seconds.
- Snipers or bundles already hold a big share.
- The developer's past coins all died.
- Tips are spiking because everyone is racing for the same launch.
- You will not be at the screen for the exit.
- You want to win back an earlier loss.
What are the risks of using a Pump Fun sniper bot?
A snipe can go to zero in seconds. A fake bot can take the wallet.
- Most new coins go to zero. A fast entry does not change that.
- Creators and bundlers often sell into the first buyers.
- A bot with your key can move everything in that wallet.
- Fees and tips are charged on losing trades too.
- Bots break when Pump.fun changes its programs, which happens often.
- Fake volume and coordinated pump schemes can break market abuse laws.
- Pump.fun says it does not serve residents of the UK.
Pump Fun sniper bot FAQ
Are free Pump Fun sniper bots safe?
No, not by default. Free bots are paid for by a fee on each trade, by servers you rent, or by your wallet. Give one only a fresh wallet with money you can lose, and test a withdrawal first.
Does Pump Fun have an official Telegram sniper bot?
No. Pump.fun makes the Pumpfun app and Terminal. Any Telegram bot that uses the Pump.fun name is run by someone else.
Can I build a Pump Fun sniper bot in Python?
Yes. A basic one listens for new coins, signs a buy with your key and sends it with a priority fee. It will still lose most races to bots on paid servers, so treat it as a learning project and run it with a fresh wallet.
Is sniping Pump Fun coins legal?
Yes, in most places. Buying early is ordinary trading. Fake volume, wash trading and coordinated pump schemes are different and can break market abuse laws. Check the rules where you live.
Can I trust Pump Fun sniper bot reviews?
No, not without checking. Many reviews earn a fee for each signup they send. A useful review shows fees, losses and failed trades, not only wins. This page earns from a referral code too, as the disclosure below explains.
What is migration sniping?
It is buying the moment a coin fills its bonding curve and moves to PumpSwap. Same speed race, different moment.
Does the referral code lower fees for sniper bots?
No. BonusReward lowers the platform fee in the Pumpfun app from 0.45% to 0.40%. Third-party bots and Terminal charge their own fees. Add the code before your first purchase in the app.
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