Pump.fun bots explained, one shelf at a time
A Pump.fun bot is any program that acts on a launchpad for you: grouping transactions at launch, buying the moment a token appears, running trades to put activity on a chart, posting into a feed, or driving a set of wallets that does one of those things. Five classes, one honest label each.
Tool Shelf is written for the person about to pay for one of these. Each page describes a class rather than a product, states what the class can and cannot do, and ends with the questions that separate a tool somebody actually runs from a screenshot somebody made.
- COVERSTooling a launch team meets on a Solana launchpad: bundlers, snipers, volume tools, comment and visibility bots, wallet set managers.
- WRITESWhat the class does, the shape of its cost, the claims worth verifying, and the questions to put to a seller in writing.
- REFUSESRanked vendor lists, star ratings, review counts, paid placement, and operating instructions for anything built to mislead a reader.
- LIMITSNo page here promises an outcome. Tooling changes what happens on a chart and in a feed; it does not create people who want the token.
Numbers on this site are protocol constants or arithmetic labelled as illustration. There are no measured results here, because the desk has not measured any.
What this shelf is for
Most first-time launch teams meet this market through a Telegram message from somebody who wants their money that afternoon. Three questions decide whether the purchase was sensible, and none of them are about features.
Which class is this, really?
Sellers mix the vocabulary on purpose. A product sold as a launch bot may be a bundler, a sniper, a volume tool or a wallet manager, and the four buy completely different things. Naming the class first turns a sales pitch into a comparison.
What does it cost when it runs?
The subscription is rarely the expensive part. Network fees, priority fees, launchpad or pool fees, spread, slippage and the rent locked into every wallet all come out of the same budget, and only one of those numbers appears in the advert.
What is left when it stops?
Every class leaves something behind: a supply position, a chart shape, a feed full of posts, or dozens of funded wallets with keys somebody holds. Ask what remains before you ask what it does, because the residue is what you live with.
The shelf
Six pages. One maps the whole shelf, four go deep on a single class from the buyer's side, and the last turns everything into a list of questions you can send to a seller and hold them to. Each card carries the same three spec rows so the classes stay comparable.
The classes, compared by property
No scores and no ranking, because a score would be an opinion dressed as a measurement. What follows is the property grid: what each class actually puts somewhere, what it takes out of a budget, and the single question that most reliably separates a working tool from a demo video.
| Class | What it produces | What it consumes | What it cannot do | The question that separates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bundler | Several transactions landing together, usually at the first opportunity after a token exists | Capital held in the bought supply, network and tip fees, one wallet set | Hide that it happened, or stop anyone reading the result later | What lands if the bundle is only partly included? |
| Sniper | A buy attempt in the earliest possible moment of a token you did not create | Fees on failed attempts as well as successful ones, plus infrastructure | Guarantee inclusion, or promise a price | What is the failure rate and who pays for the failures? |
| Volume tool | Real executed buys and sells that appear in the chart and the trade feed | Fees, spread and slippage on every leg, wallet rent, service fee | Create holders who want the token, or hold a price up | What share of the budget arrives as fees rather than volume? |
| Comment and visibility bot | Messages and reactions written to read as other people's opinions | Accounts, proxies, a subscription, and the credibility of the project | Be undetectable, or survive a reader who looks twice | Who exactly is this meant to fool? |
| Wallet set tooling | Many wallets created, funded, swept and recovered as one managed group | Rent per account, transfer fees, and whatever the custody model costs you | Make the wallets look unrelated to anyone reading the funding path | Can you export every private key right now? |
Read the last column before the first. A seller who cannot answer the question in their own class either has not run the tool at scale or would rather you did not know the answer, and both are the same result for a buyer.
Practical pages before you spend
Two pages sit outside the class notes. One is the method: how a class gets defined here and what this desk will not do. The other is the buying checklist, which is the page most people should read first if they already have a quote in front of them.
When the class you actually want is a volume tool
A large share of the people shopping for a bundler or a sniper are really asking a chart question: the token exists, the pair is live, and the trade feed is empty. That is the volume class, and it is the one class on this shelf where the output is ordinary executed trades rather than a claim about them. A console that publishes its venue coverage, its fee model and what a run leaves on chain is a far more useful reference point than a Telegram operator quoting a price, whether or not you end up buying anything.
How this desk works
Four rules that a reader can hold the site to. They exist because the obvious way to write about this market is to rank ten products, collect a fee from three of them, and call it a review.
Classes, never a ranked vendor list
Pages describe what a category of tool does. The desk does not publish a leaderboard, a star rating or a review count, and it will not tell you which seller to use, because that judgement depends on facts about your launch that no article can know.
Cost is described as a shape
Every class note explains where money goes rather than quoting a price. Prices move weekly and vary by seller; the shape of the cost, which fees are unavoidable and which are the seller's margin, stays stable long enough to be useful.
No numbers the desk did not observe
There are no success rates, conversion figures, hit rates or benchmark tables here. Arithmetic appears only as clearly labelled illustration built from protocol constants and figures you supply yourself from a real quote.
Deception gets named as deception
One class on this shelf exists to make readers believe a crowd is present when it is not. That page says so plainly, carries no operating guidance, and is the reason this site is not simply a directory of things you can buy.