Maestro vs Photon

Maestro leads on 2 of 6 shared benchmarks, Photon on 4. Maestro wins on Memecoin trading fees (0.92% vs 1.03%), Average swap size per trading terminal ($174.5 vs $72.38). Photon wins on Daily swap transactions per trading terminal (18.2K vs 15.3K), Daily active wallets per trading terminal (1,025 vs 925), Trading terminal fill quality 2026 (423 bps vs 470 bps), Trading terminal execution quality 2026 (324 bps vs 372 bps). Data as of 2026-10-07 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h6 shared benchmarks
Maestro logo
Maestro

Maestro is a suite of Telegram trading bots for DeFi — Sniper, Wallet, Whale and Buy — trusted by traders on Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base. It charges a 1% fee on each sniped buy.

Photon logo
Photon

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.

Side by side measurements

Memecoin terminal take rates: what Terminal, Trojan, GMGN and pump.fun keep

Trading

Maestro

Leads

0.92 %

p99
0.92%
rank
#4
samples
24,649

Photon

Trails

1.03 %

p99
1.03%
rank
#6
samples
13,504

Per chain

ChainMaestroPhoton
Solana0.99%1.03%
Observed take rate
Maestron/aPhotonn/a

One complete UTC day's fee revenue divided by that day's routed volume, from the public tehcscreener API, which is Allium-backed. What the terminal kept, a lower bound on what it charges: waivers and rebates pull it down. A cell reading zero is withheld rather than ranked whenever that platform charges on another chain, because this page cannot tell a waived fee from an unmeasured one. Not the all-in cost of a swap, which also includes slippage; benches 268 and 279 measure that.

Rolling 24h · Observed take rateRaw JSON

Average swap size per trading terminal: who carries the biggest tickets

Trading

Maestro

Leads

$174.5

p99
$174.5
rank
#1
samples
15,323

Photon

Trails

$72.38

p99
$72.38
rank
#5
samples
18,177

Per chain

ChainMaestroPhoton
Solana$80.2$72.38
Avg swap size
Maestron/aPhotonn/a

Average swap size is one complete UTC day's routed volume divided by that day's swap count, on the chain the tab names or across all of them. From the public tehcscreener API, which is Allium-backed. Both figures include bot and MEV activity. A mean, not a median, so a handful of large tickets moves it and this is not the typical trade. Larger is not better in any product sense; it describes who the terminal serves.

Daily swap transactions per trading terminal: Axiom vs Fomo vs pump.fun vs GMGN

Trading

Maestro

Trails

15.3K

p99
15.3K
rank
#8
samples
2,673,820

Photon

Leads

18.2K

p99
18.2K
rank
#7
samples
1,315,670

Per chain

ChainMaestroPhoton
Solana8,30818.2K
Swap transactions 24h
Maestron/aPhotonn/a

Transaction counts for one complete UTC day, on the chain the tab names or summed across all of them, from the public tehcscreener API, which is Allium-backed. Counts transactions, not wallets: bench 232 counts the distinct wallets behind them, and the ratio between the two pages is a measure of automation. Bots, MEV searchers and multi-wallet traders are all included.

Rolling 24h · Swap transactions 24hRaw JSON

Daily active wallets per trading terminal: Fomo vs Axiom vs pump.fun vs GMGN

Trading
ProviderActive wallets 24hSwaps per walletVolume per wallet
Maestro9259$720.31
Photon1,02518$1,283.58
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Maestron/aPhotonn/a

Distinct wallets per chain for one complete UTC day, from the public tehcscreener API, which is Allium-backed. A wallet that used two terminals is counted in each, so the columns are not mutually exclusive, and bots, MEV searchers and multi-wallet traders are all included. A wallet is not a person. Counts are per chain and never summed across chains: the source's own cross-chain deduplication runs about 0.6 of the per-chain sum, so adding the tabs would overstate every terminal.

Rolling 24h · Active wallets 24hRaw JSON

Trading terminal fill quality 2026: what a swap costs on Axiom, GMGN, FOMO, Photon, Trojan, measured on-chain

Trading
ProviderCost per swapTerminal feeNetworkPoolFailed swaps
Maestro470 bps97.2 bps60.7 bps113 bps0.59%
Photon423 bps98.6 bps41.4 bps43.7 bps7.10%
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Maestron/aPhotonn/a

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.

Trading terminal execution quality 2026: what a swap costs once the app's own fee is removed

Trading
ProviderExecution lossCost per swap, all inApp feeNetworkPool
Maestro372 bps470 bps97.2 bps60.7 bps113 bps
Photon324 bps412 bps98.6 bps41.4 bps43.7 bps
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Maestron/aPhotonn/a

Same sample, window and reference as bench 268; read that page for how a swap is priced. Here each swap's loss has the terminal's fee subtracted before the median is taken. Subtracting the two published medians gives a different number wherever an app's fee varies across its own swaps, which is why this is measured, not derived. A swap reads negative when a fee was rebated or the reference drifted the user's way; those stay in. Compare medians with their intervals, never single swaps.

Frequently asked questions

Maestro vs Photon: which one is better?

Maestro and Photon are compared on 6 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Maestro leads on Memecoin trading fees. Photon leads on Daily swap transactions per trading terminal. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Maestro or Photon?

On the Memecoin terminal take rates benchmark, Maestro leads at 0.92% versus Photon at 1.03%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which has the higher swap transactions 24h, Maestro or Photon?

On the Daily swap transactions per trading terminal benchmark, Photon leads at 18.2K versus Maestro at 15.3K. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Maestro 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

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.