Best Solana Sniper Bot

The short version

• Most of these are trading tools first. Trojan, BONKbot, Photon, BullX Neo and Axiom are built around you choosing a token and pressing buy. Some add a migration buy on top.
• Five of the eight describe automatic buys. GMGN, Axiom, Maestro, Banana Gun and Trojan describe launch or migration buys in their docs, mostly one kind each. BONKbot's docs say it has no launch sniper.
• The fee is charged on volume, not profit. At 1% a side, a trader who buys and sells 10 SOL a day pays 3 SOL a month whether the month was good or bad.
• Pick by how you trade. Hand trading from a phone suits a Telegram bot. Rules that run on many launches while you sleep suit a dedicated sniper with a flat price.

How we compared

Search for a best Solana sniper bot and you mostly find lists. Many of them link out with referral codes, and almost none say where their facts came from. We wanted a page where every claim about another product can be traced to that product's own words, so we set one rule: if the official docs or the official site do not say it, it is not on this page.

On November 7, 2026 we read the docs of ten Solana trading tools. Eight had public docs we could read in full: Trojan, BONKbot, Photon, BullX Neo, GMGN, Axiom, Maestro and Banana Gun. Padre's docs sit behind a sign-in, and Nova's docs point to a main site that was not loading when we checked, so both are left out of the tables. For each of the eight we wrote down the same things: where you use it, the fee, whether and how it snipes, how it handles the wallet key, how it sends transactions, which exits it offers and which chains it covers.

Three limits are worth stating up front. None of the fee pages we read carried a date, so treat every fee as what the page said on that day. Docs lag behind products, so a feature missing from the docs may still exist. And we did not test anyone's execution speed: landing a buy depends on your tip, your priority fee and how busy the launch is, and any number we produced on our own connection would tell you little about yours. When a doc did not describe something, the tables say so instead of guessing.

What makes a sniper, not a terminal

The word sniper gets used for almost every Solana trading bot now, which makes comparisons messy. It helps to split them into two kinds. A trading terminal is a fast way to buy and sell what you choose: a chart, a token list, a buy button that lands quickly. A sniper is a set of rules that buys on its own the moment something happens, like a new launch, a graduation or a first liquidity add, and then sells on its own too. Most products on this page are terminals that have added a few automatic actions. That is not a criticism; for many traders a terminal is the right tool.

When the job is sniping, these are the questions that matter, roughly in this order:

1. What starts a buy? A new mint on a launchpad, a migration to a pool, a new pool on an AMM, a wallet you follow, or a contract address you paste. The more of these a tool supports without you in the loop, the more of a sniper it is.
2. What does it check before buying? Mint and freeze authority, how much the creator holds, whether the launch was bundled, how concentrated the top holders are. A sniper buys before you can look, so the checks are your eyes.
3. How is the transaction sent? Priority fee, tip, and whether it goes through Jito or another private route.
4. How does it sell? Take-profit steps, a stop-loss, a trailing stop, a timer, an exit when the creator sells, and whether those run when your phone is off.
5. Where is the key? Any bot that trades without asking you to sign each time holds a key somewhere. How it stores it, and whether you can take it with you, matters more than any speed claim.
6. What does it cost per month at your volume? Not the headline percentage, but what that percentage comes to over a month of the trading you actually do.

All eight at a glance

Here is the whole comparison in one place, followed by the detail behind each column. Everything about the eight comes from their docs or sites as read on November 7, 2026. The last row is us, from our own product.

Two things stand out. The fee column is nearly uniform: 1% of every buy and every sell is the going rate, with Axiom a little lower on its higher tiers and Banana Gun lower for manual trades. And the sniping column is where the products really differ. Some describe no automatic buy at all, some describe one kind of migration buy, and a few describe launch sniping with a list of venues.

What 1% per trade costs a sniper

A per-trade fee feels small because you see it one trade at a time. A sniper does not trade one at a time. It fires on every launch that passes its filters, and every position it opens it also closes, so each round trip pays the fee twice. The useful number is what the fee adds up to over a month at the volume you actually trade.

Count volume as buys plus sells. If your sniper buys 0.2 SOL of a token 25 times a day and sells each one, that is 5 SOL of buys and roughly 5 SOL of sells, about 10 SOL a day. At 1% that is 0.1 SOL a day in fees, 3 SOL over 30 days. At the 0.75% on Axiom's best tier it is 2.25 SOL. A flat 30 day plan is 3 SOL whatever you trade.

The lines cross at 10 SOL a day for a 1% fee and at about 13.3 SOL a day for 0.75%. Below that, the per-trade fee costs less. Above it, the flat plan does, and the gap grows with every SOL you trade. A busy sniper running several rules across launchpads and migrations can pass 30 SOL a day without much effort, and at that point a 1% fee is 9 SOL a month.

None of this touches the other costs, which are the same with any bot. Every transaction pays the network fee, the priority fee you set and, if it goes through Jito, the tip you set. The venue charges its own trading fee on top: the bonding curve fee on a launchpad, the pool fee on an AMM. Those costs belong to the network and the venue, not the bot, so we leave them out of every comparison here.

Why small wins feel the fee most

The monthly total is one way to look at it. The other is what the fee does to a single trade. Sniping lives on small, quick wins far more than on the rare coin that goes up tenfold, and a fee charged on both sides of the trade takes a large bite out of a small gain.

Take a 1 SOL buy at 1%: you pay 0.01 SOL going in. Sell at +10% for 1.1 SOL and you pay another 0.011 SOL. The gross gain was 0.1 SOL and the fees were 0.021 SOL, so a fifth of the profit went to fees before the network took anything.

On a losing trade the fee simply adds to the loss. A 1 SOL position stopped out at -20% sells for 0.8 SOL, so the fees are 0.01 plus 0.008 SOL, and the loss becomes 21.8% instead of 20%. If your exits are set to take quick profits at +10% to +25%, which is how most launch snipers are run, the fee is not a rounding error. It decides whether a strategy that wins a little more than half the time makes money at all.

This is also why we suggest testing any sniper on small sizes first. The fee is a fixed percentage, so a smaller buy does not change the share it takes, but a smaller buy does mean that a bad set of filters costs you less while you find out.

When a flat plan is cheaper, and when it is not

Each of our plans has its own break-even point against a 1% fee. Divide the plan price by 1% and you get the volume at which the two cost the same; spread that over the plan's days and you get a daily number.

Read it honestly in both directions. If you trade 2 or 3 SOL a day, mostly by hand, a 1% bot will cost you less than any flat plan, ours included, and you should not switch for price alone. If you run snipers that fire all day across several launchpads, or you trade larger sizes, a flat plan pays for itself early in the month and everything after that is fee you did not pay.

There is a second, quieter effect. A per-trade fee makes the bot earn more when you trade more, whether or not your trades are good. A flat plan earns the same either way. Neither model makes a bot better at picking tokens.

Who actually snipes launches

This is where the eight differ most, and where the word sniper hides the most. Here is what each set of docs describes as an automatic buy, meaning a buy that happens without you choosing the token at that moment.

• Trojan groups tokens into New, About to Migrate and Migrated in its web terminal, and shows migration sell and snipe icons as a token migrates. Pump.fun is the only launchpad its FAQ names, with a note that the list is updated over time.
• BONKbot says plainly that it does not have a sniper that buys a pool at launch. Its Auto Buy buys a token as soon as you paste the address into the chat. Its Telemetry terminal shows new tokens from many launchpads, but as a discovery screen, not as a sniper.
• Photon has Memescope, a live list of new and migrating tokens from Pump.fun and Moonshot, and its homepage talks about sniping. The docs we read describe buying from that list by hand and do not describe a separate automatic sniper.
• BullX Neo has Neo Vision, a similar list of new and graduating tokens. The docs describe no automatic launch buy.
• GMGN has Migrated Snipe, which buys automatically when a token migrates to a DEX, and SnipeX, which buys contract addresses posted on X. It also offers Dev Sell and Migrated Sell exits.
• Axiom has Buy on Migration, which its docs call an in-house sniper, and Sell on Migration.
• Maestro has Auto Snipe, which on Solana covers all tokens launched on Raydium V4 pools.
• Banana Gun has a sniper that buys the moment liquidity is added, with a setting for which DEXs are allowed, and Banana Pro adds a snipe for tokens migrating from Pump.fun and other launchpads.

So the honest summary is that migration buys are common, launch buys on a bonding curve are not described in any of the docs we read, and rules that cover several kinds of event at once, with filters checked before each buy, are rarer still. That last group is what a sniper is for. DexSnipe has six triggers, each a separate rule you can run side by side: Fresh launch, Migration, New pool, Creator watch, Exact mint and Copy trade.

Which venues they cover

Solana launches no longer happen in one place. Pump.fun is the best known, but LetsBonk, Raydium LaunchLab, Bags, Believe, Boop, Jupiter Studio and Heaven each run their own launchpad, and graduations land on PumpSwap, Raydium and Meteora pools. A sniper that only watches one of them sees only that slice.

Venue lists in the docs we read were short. Trojan's FAQ names Pump.fun. Photon and BullX name Pump.fun and Moonshot. Axiom describes migration from Pump.fun. Maestro lists Raydium, Orca, Meteora, FluxBeam, Pump.fun and Moonshot as its Solana venues. BONKbot's Telemetry lists the widest set of launchpads, including LetsBonk and Boop, but as a discovery screen. Docs often trail the product, so a venue missing from a page may still be supported; ask the team or test with a tiny buy before relying on it.

Each venue also behaves differently enough that settings tuned for one go wrong on another. We wrote a guide for each of the twelve venues DexSnipe covers, built on our own reads of the chain:

• Pump.fun: how fast creators sell their launch buy.
• PumpSwap: what happens in the first block after graduation.
• LetsBonk: following creators with a record.
• Raydium LaunchLab: the transfer tax on one launch in ten.
• Raydium: how often new pools get pulled.
• Meteora: anti-sniper fees and when they drop.
• Bags: who really earns the fees on a coin.
• Believe: the launch fee that taxed speed.
• Jupiter Studio: the 99% fee that steps down.
• Boop: staker rewards nobody claimed.
• Heaven: why slot 0 belongs to the creator.
• Orca: adaptive fees that climb after you buy.

Keys and custody

Every bot that buys for you without a wallet pop-up holds a key that can sign for that wallet. There is no way around it: the transaction has to be signed by something, and if it is not you, it is the bot. So the useful questions are narrower than custodial or non-custodial. Who made the key? Can you take it out and use it in another wallet app? What happens if you lose it?

Several docs call their setup non-custodial: Trojan, BONKbot and Axiom among them, with Trojan naming Privy and Axiom naming Turnkey as the infrastructure. Others are quieter and describe only what you see, such as a key shown once at creation. GMGN's docs disagree with themselves: one page says keys can be exported, another says export is not allowed, so check in the app before you fund the wallet.

Whatever the model, the habit that protects you is the same. Make a separate wallet for the bot, keep only what you are ready to trade in it, and never give any bot the key to a wallet that holds your savings. That is how DexSnipe is built: you sign in with your main wallet in read-only mode, then create a fresh wallet in Phantom or Solflare and paste its key. We encrypt it when it arrives and never show it again, and because you made it, you can open the same wallet in your own app and move the funds out any time.

How trades reach the block

On Solana, getting in early is mostly about how your transaction travels. Validators order transactions partly by the priority fee, and Jito block builders accept bundles with a tip that land whole or not at all and never sit in the public queue. Almost every product we read offers some form of protected sending.

The names differ, MEV protection, anti-MEV, secure mode, turbo mode, but most of them come down to the same two dials: send privately through Jito or a similar route, and pay a priority fee and tip that you choose. Be wary of any claim that one bot is simply faster. On a hot launch the buy that lands first is usually the one with the higher tip and the earlier signal, and both of those are in your settings, not in the brand.

What a sniper can add is the earlier signal. A tool that watches the chain and buys from a rule does not wait for you to see a new token in a list, read it and tap. That is a real difference, and it comes from the trigger, not from the transport.

Exits: the half of sniping people skip

Buying early is half of sniping. The other half is selling before the chart turns, and on new tokens that can be minutes. Take-profit and stop-loss are nearly universal in the docs we read; trailing stops, timers and exits tied to the creator are less common.

• Take-profit and stop-loss: described by Trojan, BONKbot's Telemetry, Photon, BullX Neo, GMGN, Maestro and Banana Gun. BullX Neo describes several levels on one position. Axiom's docs describe limit orders.
• Trailing stop: described by BONKbot, GMGN (for both take-profit and stop-loss), Maestro and Banana Gun.
• Exits tied to events: GMGN has Dev Sell and Migrated Sell, Axiom has Sell on Migration, and Trojan shows a migration sell.
• Copy trading and DCA: Trojan, GMGN, Maestro and Banana Gun describe copy trading; Trojan, Photon, BullX Neo, BONKbot and Banana Gun describe DCA. DexSnipe has copy trading as a trigger, with an option to copy sells, and buying in parts as an entry rule.

For launch sniping we would put three exits above the rest. A timer, because a large share of new tokens never get a second buyer and you want the SOL back. An exit when the creator wallet sells, because that sell often starts the slide. And take-profit in steps, because a single target either sells too early or never fills. DexSnipe gives each sniper up to four take-profit steps, a stop-loss, a trailing stop that can wait for a gain before it starts, a timer and a dev-sell exit, plus copy sells on copy trade snipers, all running on our side after you close the tab.

The eight, one by one

Trojan

Trojan runs a Telegram bot and a web terminal that also works in a mobile browser. Its docs describe a full trading kit: take-profit and stop-loss, limit buys, DCA, copy trading, and perpetuals through Hyperliquid. The trenches view sorts tokens into New, About to Migrate and Migrated, with icons for a migration snipe and a migration sell. The fee is 1% per successful trade, with cashback in SOL. Wallets can be created, imported and exported, up to ten at a time, and the FAQ describes the setup as non-custodial.

Best for: traders who want one tool for hand trading, copy trading and the occasional migration buy, in Telegram or a browser.

BONKbot

BONKbot is a Telegram bot with a separate terminal, Telemetry, for desktop and mobile. Its docs are refreshingly direct about scope: it does not have a sniper for pools at launch, and Auto Buy buys whatever address you paste. Around that it has a good set of orders, limit buys and sells, buy-the-dip, breakout, trailing stop-loss and DCA, and Telemetry adds take-profit and stop-loss strategies. Sending is built with Jito Labs, with Turbo and Secure modes on by default. Keys are handled by a remote signer, and the docs say the team cannot access them. The fee is 1% on each successful swap.

Best for: fast manual trading from Telegram when you already know the address.

Photon

Photon is a web app you sign in to with Phantom. Memescope gives a live view of new tokens and tokens about to migrate from Pump.fun and Moonshot. Orders cover take-profit, stop-loss, buy-the-dip and DCA, and sending uses Fast and Secure modes that route through Jito or bloXroute depending on the bribe you set. You can run up to five trading wallets, each with a key shown once at creation. The fee is 1% of the amount on every buy and sell. Photon also has an Ethereum version.

Best for: chart-first traders on desktop who pick tokens by hand.

BullX Neo

BullX Neo is a web terminal you sign in to through its Telegram bot. Neo Vision lists new and graduating tokens, and auto-sell supports several take-profit and stop-loss levels on one position, plus limit and DCA orders. Sending has priority presets and an MEV Only Mode that goes to Jito alone. Keys can be downloaded once, and the docs say BullX cannot recover them. The fee is 1% of the amount on every buy and sell.

Best for: hand traders who want layered exits on a position.

GMGN

GMGN has the widest automatic toolkit of the eight. Migrated Snipe buys when a token moves to a DEX, SnipeX buys addresses posted on X, and exits include trailing take-profit, trailing stop-loss, Dev Sell and Migrated Sell. It also runs copy trading and covers Ethereum, Base, BSC and Tron alongside Solana. Anti-MEV comes in Off, Reduced and Secure modes. The fee is a 1% handling fee per transaction. One thing to check yourself: its docs disagree on whether you can export your private key.

Best for: multi-chain traders who want migration snipes, X-based buys and copy trading in one place.

Axiom

Axiom is a web terminal with the only tiered fee on this list: a rate from 0.95% down to 0.75% as your volume grows, and referred users get a further 10% off. Pulse shows new tokens, and Buy on Migration, which its docs call an in-house sniper, buys a token as it graduates, with Sell on Migration as the matching exit. Wallets are built with Turnkey, you see your seed phrase at sign-up and can open the wallet in Phantom. MEV protection sends only to Jito. Axiom also runs perpetuals on Hyperliquid.

Best for: active hand traders on desktop who trade enough to reach the lower tiers.

Maestro

Maestro is a Telegram bot that covers the most chains on this list, Solana plus eleven others. On Solana, Auto Snipe buys all tokens launched on Raydium V4 pools, and its venue list includes Raydium, Orca, Meteora, FluxBeam, Pump.fun and Moonshot. Exits include take-profit, stop-loss and trailing stop-loss, and copytrade works on Solana. Keys are AES encrypted and shown once at creation, up to eight wallets per chain, or ten with the paid Premium tier. The fee is 1% on every buy and sell, taken in the same transaction.

Best for: traders who work across many chains from one Telegram bot.

Banana Gun

Banana Gun runs Telegram bots and a web app, Banana Pro. Its sniper buys the moment liquidity is added, with a setting for which DEXs it may use, and Banana Pro adds a snipe for tokens migrating from Pump.fun and other launchpads. Exits include take-profit, stop-loss, trailing stop-loss, limit orders and DCA, and it supports copy trading. The homepage gives the fee as 0.5% for manual trades and 1% for snipes; the docs we read did not state a rate. It covers Ethereum, BSC, Base and several other chains as well.

Best for: traders who snipe on several chains and want one tool for all of them.

Where DexSnipe fits, and where it does not

DexSnipe is narrower than most of the tools above, on purpose. It is a sniper and nothing else: rules that watch Solana for new launches, migrations, new pools, a creator you follow, a known mint or the buys of wallets you copy, check the token before buying, buy through a Jito bundle with your tip and priority fee, and sell on take-profit steps, a stop-loss, a trailing stop, a timer, a creator sell or the sells of the wallet you copy. It watches twelve venues: Pump.fun, LetsBonk, Raydium LaunchLab, Bags, Believe, Boop, Jupiter Studio, Heaven, PumpSwap, Raydium, Meteora and Orca.

Each sniper also has entry rules. Buy the dip waits for the price to fall by a percentage you set from the first price it sees, a limit buy in practice, and skips the token if the dip does not come in time. Buy in parts splits a buy into up to ten equal buys a set number of seconds apart, with the filters checked again before each one, which is DCA for a fresh token. Copy trade follows up to ten wallets, buys what they buy at your size or a share of theirs, and can sell when they sell.

What it does not do is just as important if you are deciding:

• No Telegram trading. You set snipers up in a web panel. Our Telegram bot is for support, not for buying.
• No charts or manual swap screen. If you pick tokens by eye, a terminal suits you better.
• Solana only. If you snipe on Ethereum or Base too, a multi-chain bot covers more.

The price is a flat plan: 1 SOL for 7 days, 3 SOL for 30 days or 5 SOL for 90 days, with every feature in every plan and no cut of your trades. You can build snipers in the panel before paying, so you can see whether the rules fit how you trade before any SOL moves. See the plans.

Which one for which trader

There is no single best bot, but there is usually a best fit. Start from how you actually trade:

• You trade by hand, mostly from your phone, a few SOL a day. A Telegram bot fits. Trojan, BONKbot, Maestro and Banana Gun all work from a chat, and at your volume a 1% fee costs less than a flat plan.
• You trade by hand on a desktop and live in the charts. A web terminal fits: Axiom, GMGN, Photon or BullX Neo. If you trade a lot, Axiom's tiers bring the fee down.
• You want to copy wallets. GMGN, Maestro, Banana Gun and Trojan describe copy trading, and so does DexSnipe, with the same filters and exits as its other snipers. If you also trade other chains, GMGN, Maestro and Banana Gun cover them.
• You want migration buys as an add-on to hand trading. GMGN, Axiom, Trojan and Banana Pro describe them.
• You want rules that run on many launches across many launchpads while you are away, and you trade more than about 10 SOL a day. That is the job a dedicated sniper with a flat price is built for, and it is the job DexSnipe does.

Plenty of traders end up with two tools: a terminal for the coins they want to look at, and a sniper for the ones they never would have seen in time. If you do that, give each tool its own wallet, so one never spends SOL the other was counting on.

Test any sniper before you fund it

Whichever tool you pick, a short test with small amounts tells you more than any comparison page, this one included:

1. Make a fresh wallet just for the test. Fund it with an amount you would not miss.
2. Read the fee line on a real trade. Open one buy and one sell in a block explorer such as Solscan and see what left your wallet besides the swap itself.
3. Check the key. Export it, or confirm you already hold it, and open the wallet in Phantom or Solflare. If you cannot, know that before you fund more.
4. Set the smallest buy size the tool allows and let one automatic rule run for a day. Count how many times it bought and what each buy was.
5. Close the app and wait. Exits that only run while the app is open are not exits for sniping.
6. Add up the month. Multiply your test day's volume by 30 and by the fee rate. Compare that with a flat plan before you scale up.

Solana sniper bot questions

Sources and method

We read the official docs and sites of each product on November 7, 2026. Fees, features, venue lists and key handling are taken from those pages and paraphrased. We list the pages below by name rather than linking out; where a page did not cover a point, the tables say it is not stated or not described rather than filling the gap. Docs can lag behind products, so a missing feature may exist in the app. Padre was left out because its docs require a sign-in, and Nova because the site its docs point to was not loading on the day we checked.

The fee figures are arithmetic, not measurements: daily volume in SOL, counting buys and sells, times the number of days, times the fee rate, compared with each plan's price. They leave out network fees, priority fees, tips and venue trading fees, which apply equally to every tool. DexSnipe features are taken from the product itself.

• Trojan FAQs1% per successful trade, non-custodial wallets, MEV protection and supported launchpads.
• Trojan meme coin trenchesNew, About to Migrate and Migrated columns, with migration sell and snipe icons.
• Trojan wallet managementCreate, import and export wallets, up to 10 active.
• Trojan auto-sellTake-profit and stop-loss rules.
• Trojan copy tradingThe copy trading tool in the web terminal.
• BONKbot fee structure1% on each successful swap.
• BONKbot Auto BuyStates that BONKbot has no sniper for a pool at launch; Auto Buy fires on a pasted address.
• BONKbot securityRemote signer, keys in confidential computing, 2FA.
• BONKbot MEV protectionTurbo and Secure modes built with Jito Labs.
• BONKbot Telemetry Auto StratTake-profit, stop-loss and trailing stop in the Telemetry terminal.
• Photon fees on Solana1% on every buy and sell.
• Photon MemescopeNew and migrating tokens from Pump.fun and Moonshot.
• Photon smart MEV protectionFast and Secure modes routed through Jito or bloXroute.
• Photon limit ordersBuy dip, take-profit, stop-loss and DCA orders.
• BullX Neo fees and gas1% on every buy and sell, priority presets and MEV Only Mode.
• BullX Neo private keysKeys can be downloaded once and cannot be recovered by BullX.
• BullX Neo auto-sellMultiple take-profit and stop-loss levels.
• GMGN fees and settings1% handling fee and the Anti-MEV modes.
• GMGN Migrated SnipeAutomatic buy when a token migrates to a DEX.
• GMGN SnipeXBuys contract addresses posted on X.
• GMGN wallet import and exportWallet import, the export policy and withdrawals with 2FA.
• GMGN Telegram bot listOfficial bots for Solana, Ethereum, Base, BSC and Tron.
• Axiom feesTiered fee from 0.95% down to 0.75%.
• Axiom migration actionsBuy on Migration and Sell on Migration.
• Axiom FAQsNon-custodial setup with Turnkey and Solana as the supported chain.
• Maestro fees1% on every buy and sell, taken in the same transaction on Solana.
• Maestro Auto SnipeAuto Snipe for new Raydium V4 pools on Solana.
• Maestro supported chains and DEXsSolana venues and the other chains Maestro supports.
• Maestro securityAES encrypted keys, shown at creation.
• Banana Gun0.5% for manual trades and 1% for snipes, and the supported chains.
• Banana Gun sniperBuys the moment liquidity is added, with an Allowed Dexes setting.
• Banana Pro snipeSnipes tokens migrating from Pump.fun and other launchpads.
• Banana Pro FAQKey retrieval and how MEV protected trades are sent.