Padre vs Photon

Split decision: Padre leads on Solana trading platform leaderboard ($20.13M vs $3.13M); Photon leads on Average swap size on Solana ($72.27 vs $57.41).

Read methodology Last measured Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:27:28 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Padre

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

Solana trading platform leaderboard: pump.fun vs GMGN vs Axiom vs Fomo, live 24h volume

Trading

Padre

Leads

$20.13M

p99: $20.13M
rank: #6
samples: 367,318

Photon

Trails

$3.13M

p99: $3.13M
rank: #7
samples: 47,808

Volume figures are sourced from Mobula's lighthouse aggregator, which indexes on-chain swap events attributed to each trading platform or Telegram bot. Data is refreshed every 15 minutes. Platforms with zero volume may indicate no attributable on-chain activity in the last 24 hours or a temporary attribution gap in Mobula's indexing.

Average swap size on Solana: pump.fun vs GMGN vs Fomo vs Axiom, live

Trading

Padre

Trails

$57.41

p99: $57.41
rank: #7
samples: 350,700

Photon

Leads

$72.27

p99: $72.27
rank: #5
samples: 43,356

Average swap size is computed as 24h attributed volume divided by 24h attributed trade count from Mobula lighthouse. Both numerator and denominator include bot and MEV activity; the metric reflects all on-chain swaps attributed to each platform, not human-only trades. pump.fun volume comes from the byLaunchpad bucket (bonding-curve swaps via pump.fun's own frontend); all other platforms come from byPlatform. Attribution is mutually exclusive per Mobula's referral-tag methodology.

Frequently asked questions

Padre vs Photon: which one is better?

Padre and Photon are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Padre leads on Solana trading platform leaderboard. Photon leads on Average swap size on Solana. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Padre or Photon?

On the Solana trading platform leaderboard benchmark, Padre leads at $20.13M versus Photon at $3.13M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is cheaper, Padre or Photon?

On the Average swap size on Solana benchmark, Photon leads at $72.27 versus Padre at $57.41. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Padre 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.