GMGN leads on all 4 live benchmarks. GMGN wins on Trading platform leaderboard ($92.15M vs $1.60M), Solana DEX volume ($21.77M vs $1.60M), Trading app daily volume 2026 ($92.15M vs $1.60M), Trading terminal fill quality 2026 (348 bps vs 407 bps). Data as of 2026-09-29 UTC.
Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks
GMGN is a Solana and EVM memecoin trading terminal combining wallet tracking, smart money copy trading and a Telegram bot. It routes swaps through pump.fun and DEX pools with a configurable slippage and fee.
Photon is a Solana trading terminal targeting advanced traders with fast token sniping, smart-money wallet tracking, and direct DEX routing. It charges a per-trade platform fee on swap volume.
Volume is what each app's DeFiLlama dexs adapter attributes to it per UTC day, over every chain that adapter covers. Commission is the app's own cut from its fees adapter (dailyRevenue), not the total fees paid on the trade: the venue underneath takes its own share, and counting that would roughly double the figure. The take rate divides the two over the same days, so it is a floor where an adapter covers fewer chains for fees than for volume. Rows end on each app's own latest closed day.
Volume and revenue from DeFiLlama's DEX and fees APIs, 24h and 7d totals refreshed every 30 minutes. Terminal volume is a floor: a swap counts only when its transaction pays the terminal's fee wallet and Dune decodes the venue. Revenue (dailyRevenue, LP fees stripped) counts every fee reaching those wallets. Their ratio is a take rate this bench does not rank on: it moves threefold across a fortnight for one app. Bench 201 publishes it daily. Terminal and launchpad volume are not additive.
Volume is what each app's DeFiLlama adapter attributes to the app per UTC day, over every chain the adapter covers: FOMO is Solana only on DeFiLlama, GMGN spans ten chains. Each row ends on the app's latest closed day: most adapters are Dune queries that publish a day 10 to 20 hours after it closes, so before mid-day UTC some rows are dated one day behind, and GMGN's adapter skips some days. DeFiLlama can restate the last day for about a day; the series is re-read hourly.
Random sample (150 a day per row, Solana and EVM alike) of the swaps each terminal routed, every attempt counted for the fail rate. Reference = the pool's state before the swap (its reserves, or the previous trade within 60 s); swaps without one keep their split, no loss figure. Published from 50 priced swaps pooled over the product's chains at 25 or more (a single-chain product from 25), ranked from 100; the median's 95 % interval is in the JSON. Compare medians, not single swaps.
Frequently asked questions
GMGN vs Photon: which one is better?
GMGN and Photon are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. GMGN leads on Trading platform leaderboard. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which has the higher daily volume, GMGN or Photon?
On the Trading platform leaderboard benchmark, GMGN leads at $92.15M versus Photon at $1.60M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the GMGN vs Photon comparison measured?
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
How this pair was selected
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