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Real-time pump.fun token data API on Solana

Pump Portal is a single-purpose WebSocket on Solana, scoped to pump.fun and the bonding-curve launchpad ecosystem around it (new token creations, migration to Raydium, per-mint trade events). The surface is intentionally narrow: no support for other chains, no general DEX coverage outside the pump.fun graduates and no historical query layer beyond the live stream. The free tier exists, but high-volume readers route through a paid trading endpoint that adds a per-trade priority fee on top. The provider sits close to the launchpad it tracks rather than near a canonical Solana archive, so the bottleneck is usually the upstream indexer rather than the WebSocket itself. Teams that outgrow the pump.fun-only scope (cross-DEX routing, non-Solana chains, OHLCV history) tend to drop it the moment a second venue or chain enters the product.

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PumpPortal is a Solana-only, Pump.fun-native WebSocket relay. The Data API exposes a single connection at wss://pumpportal.fun/api/data with four subscription methods: subscribeNewToken, subscribeMigration, subscribeTokenTrade and subscribeAccountTrade. There is no REST fallback and no polling surface; the entire product is push. The moat is protocol specialization rather than infrastructure: PumpPortal decodes the Pump.fun bonding curve and PumpSwap AMM directly, so a launch, a trade or a migration to Raydium appears as a typed event through subscribeMigration without any client-side program-log parsing. For head lag on Solana specifically, this matters because the alternative is running a Yellowstone gRPC subscription plus a bonding-curve decoder in-house. Coverage does not extend beyond Solana Pump.fun and PumpSwap, so this product does not compete on breadth, only on latency to a specific event surface. It also ships a Lightning Transaction API for signed swap execution, which is a separate REST product. Teams win with PumpPortal when the use case is a Solana memecoin sniper or a Pump.fun-specific dashboard; teams migrate away the moment coverage needs to include Raydium CLMM, Meteora, Orca or any non-Solana venue.

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Top 5 Pump Portal alternatives

Fastest crypto price API, live head lag across 6 data providers benchmark ledger. Head lag per provider, live measured data.
Product			Latency aggregates					p50	Reliability
Color	№									24h

	01	MobulaWebSocket feed#1 · Base#1 · BNB Chain#1 · Solana	0.3 s	0.5 s	1.0 s	0.3 s	−95%	99.90%	36
	02	SerializedWebSocket trades stream	0.3 s	0.5 s	0.9 s	0.3 s	−95%	99.83%	58
	03	CodexGraphQL feed#1 · Robinhood	0.7 s	1.0 s	1.2 s	0.7 s	−88%	99.88%	43
	04	OKXWebSocket trades stream	0.9 s	1.3 s	1.8 s	0.9 s	−84%	99.90%	27
	05	BirdeyeWebSocket trades stream	2.1 s	2.7 s	4.0 s	2.1 s	−63%	99.90%	27
	06	GeckoTerminalREST feed	30 s	1.3 min	1.9 min	37 s	+425%	99.90%	36

Best: 0.3 s
Median: 0.9 s
Worst: 30 s
Spread: 123.1×0.9 s → 1.9 min
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