Banana Gun Bot Review (2026): The Solana Fee Is 1%, Not 0.5%

Almost every review of the Banana Gun bot opens with the same number: 0.5% per trade. That number is real, and it does not apply to you if you trade Solana. Banana Gun's own documentation prices Solana at 1% on every trade type — double the headline rate, and twice what most reviews tell you to expect.

We read Banana Gun's complete public manual (164 KB, 64 pages, pulled 24 October 2026), its terms of service, its tokenomics, its post-exploit reporting, and its own October 2026 Solana walkthrough. Then we counted things. The results are specific: Banana Gun publishes 27 documentation pages for Ethereum and 14 for Solana, its snipe engine reaches two Solana venues out of the ten it trades on, and the newest screenshot anywhere in its Solana manual is dated January 2024. This review is about what a Solana trader actually gets, measured rather than paraphrased.

Banana Gun is a Telegram trading bot that generates a wallet inside the chat, holds the key on its servers, and executes buys, sells, snipes and copy trades on your behalf. It launched on Ethereum in 2023, added Solana support, and now spans a set of EVM chains plus a browser terminal called Banana Gun Pro.

The model is the same one used by Trojan, BonkBot, Maestro and Bloom: no chart UI, no wallet connection, no signing prompts — you paste a contract address into a chat and tap a button. Our wider Telegram trading bot ranking covers how the category compares, and the Solana trading bot pillar sets Telegram bots against browser terminals and copy trading.

The facts a Solana trader needs up front, all sourced from Banana Gun's own documentation:

• Fee on Solana. 1% on every trade — manual buys, sells, limit orders and snipes alike. No subscription.
• Custody. The bot generates the wallet and shows the private key exactly once. There is no export function afterwards.
• Minimum to start. 0.1 SOL in the wallet, with 0.05 SOL or more kept as a buffer.
• MEV protection. Anti-MEV is on by default on Solana and routes through Jito.
• Copy trading. Yes, on Solana, by pasting a wallet address. There is no leaderboard and no performance data.
• Sniping venues on Solana. Raydium AMM and Raydium CP only — not pump.fun, not PumpSwap, not Meteora, not Orca.

That last line is the one that reframes the whole product for a Solana memecoin trader, and we will come back to it with the vendor's own table.

Banana Gun's fee schedule has three lines, and only the first one is 0.5%. From the Banana Bonus page of the official manual, verbatim:

• Manual buys and limit orders on Ethereum = 0.5%
• Autosniper on Ethereum = 1%
• Trades on other chains = 1%

Solana is an "other chain". So is BNB Chain, so is Base. The 0.5% that gets quoted as "the Banana Gun fee" is the Ethereum manual-trade rate, and it is the only rate in the schedule below 1%. Banana Gun's own Solana walkthrough, published 11 October 2026, states it without ambiguity: a 0.5 SOL buy costs 0.005 SOL in fees "before the tip and slippage".

There is no subscription tier, which is a genuine advantage over bots that stack a monthly charge on top of a per-trade cut. But "no subscription" is not "cheap", and it is certainly not free. At 1% per side, a round trip costs 2% of your position before anything else touches it.

Banana Gun's documentation tells you to raise buy gas "from 0.001 to 0.005 or higher" and the MEV tip "also from 0.001 to 0.005 or higher" when a buy fails, which puts the defaults at roughly 0.001 SOL each. Those are flat amounts, so their weight depends entirely on trade size. Using Banana Gun's own 1% rate and its own 0.001 + 0.001 SOL defaults:

Buy size	1% bot fee	Gas + tip	Cost per side	Round trip
0.1 SOL	0.001 SOL	0.002 SOL	0.003 SOL (3.0%)	6.0%
0.5 SOL	0.005 SOL	0.002 SOL	0.007 SOL (1.4%)	2.8%
1 SOL	0.010 SOL	0.002 SOL	0.012 SOL (1.2%)	2.4%
5 SOL	0.050 SOL	0.002 SOL	0.052 SOL (1.04%)	2.08%
20 SOL	0.200 SOL	0.002 SOL	0.202 SOL (1.01%)	2.02%

Read the top row again. Banana Gun's documented minimum funding is 0.1 SOL, and a trader who actually trades at that size pays 6% round trip before DEX fees and before slippage. The bot's own onboarding number is its worst-value trade size. The curve flattens fast — by 5 SOL you are paying effectively 1.04% per side — so Banana Gun's cost structure quietly favours larger positions, which is the opposite of how most people arrive at a Telegram bot.

None of the figures above include the DEX fee on the venue you land on, the slippage you authorise (Banana Gun's docs suggest 5% and up to 30% on volatile tokens), or Solana transaction fees themselves. Add those and the realistic round trip on a memecoin sits well above 4%, which matches what we found across the category in our Telegram bot cost breakdown.

Banana Gun rebates part of your fees in $BANANA through "Banana Bonus", using the formula cashback = fees paid ($) × multiplier X, where the multiplier is documented as "adjustable between 0.05 and 1". At the documented floor of 0.05 you recover 5% of fees paid, which turns a 1% Solana fee into roughly 0.95%. Worth having; not a different product.

One oddity worth flagging because it tells you how closely the page is maintained: the worked example on that same page uses a multiplier of 0.02, below the 0.05 floor the paragraph above it states. Banana Gun's own illustration contradicts its own stated range. The minimum claim is 5 $BANANA.

Banana Gun publishes 27 documentation pages for EVM chains and 14 for Solana, and the Solana set is visibly a copy of the Ethereum set. We counted from Banana Gun's own published sitemap on 24 October 2026. This is not a stylistic complaint — the gaps and the leftovers both mislead Solana traders in specific ways.

What exists on the Ethereum side and has no Solana page at all:

• Auto sniping — five pages. Overview, setting up a snipe, snipe settings, best setup. Zero Solana equivalents, despite Solana sniping being a listed product feature.
• Limit orders — four pages. Buy limit orders, sell limit orders, unlaunched token orders. Zero Solana equivalents, despite Solana take-profit and stop-loss orders existing in the product.
• Safety settings — one page. Buy and sell tax limits, minimum and maximum liquidity limits. No Solana equivalent, even though the live bot shows a Safety Settings menu on Solana.

The features are not missing from the product. Banana Gun's own October 2026 walkthrough shows a Solana trader setting a sell limit order with Take Profit, Stop Loss and Trailing Stop Loss, triggered on market cap or price change. They are missing from the manual. A Solana trader who does the responsible thing and reads the documentation before funding a wallet is reading a 2024 snapshot of an Ethereum bot.

Which is close to literally true. Every screenshot in the Solana section of the manual is dated between 6 October 2023 and 15 January 2024, and 15 January 2024 is the newest image asset anywhere in the manual. That is before pump.fun became the centre of Solana memecoin launches, before PumpSwap existed, and before Meteora's DLMM pools took the share they hold now.

The Solana FAQ is the Ethereum FAQ, copied without edits. Inside the Solana documentation, Banana Gun tells Solana traders to:

• Check Etherscan. Twice — once to see "if the block was a non-mev block", once to find the tip on a snipe transaction. Solana transactions do not appear on Etherscan.
• Use First Bundle or Fail. FoF is an Ethereum block-zero bundling mechanic. The Solana FAQ advises turning it on "if there are at least 10 wallets sniping the token".
• Claim referral rewards above 0.05 ETH, from a referral dashboard, using an integration example built around the Ethereum $BANANA contract address.

Two entries in that copied FAQ are the ones that actually matter, because they advertise protection that the Solana manual never documents: "Top tier anti-rug protection saves you from bad actors" and "Default honeypot detection saves you from buying a malicious contract". The EVM side backs those claims with an Anti-Rug toggle, a Transfer on Blacklist setting, tax limits and liquidity limits. The Solana settings pages document exactly one toggle: Anti-MEV.

Banana Gun's own blog is more honest than its FAQ here. On the pre-trade check it says plainly: it "blocks tokens you cannot sell; it is not a rug check", and "it does not re-run when a limit order fires". If you are relying on a bot to screen launches for you, read our Solana rug check guide and the token sniffer walkthrough rather than a marketing bullet.

The Solana gas page describes Buy GAS as sitting "above the base gas of the block — if base gas is 0.0001 SOL, and you set 0.001 SOL, it will use 0.0011 SOL for gas", and names the priority payment "Miner TIP". Solana has no per-block base gas price and no miners. It has a flat base fee per signature, a per-compute-unit priority fee, and validator tips paid through Jito — which is what Banana Gun's Anti-MEV toggle actually uses, as its own blog confirms.

For scale on what that machinery is doing underneath: we sampled mainnet during epoch 1066 on 24 October 2026 and measured 283 slots in 60 seconds, or 212 ms per slot, carrying 123,458 non-vote transactions — about 2,058 per second. The settings page a Solana trader is given to reason about that was written for 12-second Ethereum blocks. Our Solana MEV explainer covers what Jito tips do and do not buy you.

Banana Gun trades ten Solana venues and snipes two of them. This comes from the maintained part of the documentation — the Supported DEXes table, which has been updated for chains that did not exist in 2024:

Capability	Solana venues
Trading	Raydium AMM, Raydium CP, Raydium CLMM, Pump.fun, Orca, Meteora Dynamic, Meteora DLMM, Fluxbeam, Moonshot, Pump AMM
Sniping	Raydium AMM, Raydium CP

The footnote is the vendor's: "Solana sniping is only available on the DEX' mentioned, for EVM there is no difference with the DEX' listed." Read that carefully. On Ethereum, Banana Gun snipes everywhere it trades. On Solana, the snipe engine covers two Raydium pool types and nothing else.

That excludes pump.fun and PumpSwap, which is where Solana launches actually happen, plus Meteora and Orca. You can buy a pump.fun token through Banana Gun the moment you have its contract address — you just cannot have the auto-sniper waiting for the launch. For a bot whose Ethereum identity is built on block-zero sniping, that is a significant asymmetry, and it is the single best reason to check our pump.fun sniper bot comparison before choosing Banana Gun for launch hunting.

Also absent from the Solana venue list: Jupiter. Banana Gun routes to specific pools rather than through Solana's dominant aggregator, so route quality on thin pairs is on the bot, not on a best-execution router. And the manual's own chain lists disagree with each other — the Supported DEXes table names Sonic and Unichain, while the wallet setup page names MegaETH, Arc, Stable and Robinhood. Neither page lists what the other does.

Copy trading is Banana Gun's only Solana-exclusive documented feature — there is no EVM copy-trade page at all — and it is a well-built mechanism attached to no discovery layer.

The settings are genuinely thorough. From the Copy trade page, you get Max Buy (cap per trade), Spending Limit (cap per target wallet), Buy Exact, Buy Percent and Buy Fixed sizing modes, Copy Sells with Sell Exact or Sell Percent, an Anti-MEV toggle, a Tax Limit filter, and Buy Only Once, which parks a token in a blocked list for seven days after a single entry. Copy trades also carry a duration in hours and stop when it expires.

Here is the problem, stated by Banana Gun itself on that page:

Some target wallets that are being copy traded will turn malicious after a while, trying to drain the capital from their copy traders by aping pump and dumps or honeypots.

The documented mitigation is Spending Limit — cap your exposure to each wallet. That caps the damage. It does nothing about the selection problem, because Banana Gun gives you no way to evaluate a wallet before you copy it. You paste an address and assign a nickname. There is no leaderboard, no win rate, no realised PnL, no trade count, no filter for wallets that are up over any period. The bot asks you to solve the hardest part of copy trading — finding a trader worth copying — with a text box.

That is why most Banana Gun copy traders source addresses from Telegram alpha channels and KOL callouts, which is exactly the population the warning above describes. If you want to understand what the selection step should look like, our guides on how to copy trade on Solana and finding the best Solana traders cover the metrics that matter, and Kolscan and wallet trackers cover the research tools.

One more detail: the Tax Limit filter — "prevents you from buying tokens with tax above threshold", illustrated with a 10% token tax — is an EVM fee-on-transfer concept. Standard SPL tokens have no transfer tax. It is another Ethereum control wearing a Solana label, and a Solana copy trader should not count it as a safety net.

On 19 September 2024, Banana Gun users had funds taken out of their bot wallets, and the reported scale still varies by source. We are going to give you all three numbers rather than pick the convenient one:

• Banana Gun's own statement, reported by The Block that day: "a very small number of users (fewer than 10)" affected, transfers "appear to have been executed manually", back-end systems not compromised, cause suspected to be a front-end vulnerability.
• A community estimate quoted in that same article, on the day: 36 victims and roughly 563 ETH, about $1.4 million.
• QuillAudits' later analysis: about $3 million from 11 users, traced to a vulnerability in the Telegram message oracle that let an attacker initiate transfers while victims were mid-session.

What is consistent across all three: the EVM and Solana bots were taken offline, the hole was in the messaging layer rather than the token contract, and Banana Gun committed to refunding affected users from its treasury without selling tokens. Reported remediation includes a two-hour transfer delay, two-factor authentication on transfers, and a review with external security help.

The honest reading is that the response was better than the category average — the team paid, published, and shipped controls. The honest caveat is that we found no independent confirmation that every refund was completed, and that the structural lesson is unchanged: a bot that can move your funds from a chat message can be made to move your funds from a chat message.

There are two things we could not verify at all, and both are absences rather than findings:

• No Solana program is published anywhere. The manual names the Ethereum $BANANA contract explicitly and warns you to buy only from it. Across all 164 KB, it publishes zero Solana addresses or program IDs. A Solana trader cannot look up what program is signing their swaps.
• No public audit. DefiLlama lists Banana Gun under "Telegram Bot" with audits recorded as "0" and no audit links, and we found none published by the team. That means nothing has been published — not that something was found and hidden.

Finally, a hygiene note that is easy to miss: Banana Gun distributes a Telegram Scraper as a Windows archive hosted on MediaFire, and its setup instructions ask you to enter your Telegram API ID, API hash, phone number and account password into that downloaded executable. Whatever you think of the tool, that is a serious trust ask, and the instructions describe it scanning only for Ethereum contract addresses.

Banana Gun generates your wallet, shows the private key once, and never shows it again. Its FAQ answers the question directly: "There's no option to retrieve your private key from Banana Gun. When you generate a wallet, make sure to save your private key in a secure location."

We want to be precise here, because this is a point our own earlier coverage got wrong, and because the distinction changes what the risk actually is.

Banana Gun is not an exchange holding an omnibus balance. Its terms of service define a Wallet as "a Virtual Asset wallet controlled by the User" and require that "you own and have full control of the Wallet you use in connection with the Services". The company disclaims any ability to restore lost keys or refund losses from them. Legally, the key is yours and the risk is yours.

Operationally, the key was created on their infrastructure and lives there — the deleting-wallets page says that on deletion the wallet "will be permanently deleted from the server", which tells you what the server was holding. The September 2024 incident is the empirical proof of what that means: funds left user wallets without those users authorising the transfers.

So the accurate framing is neither "custodial exchange" nor "non-custodial". It is a server-held key with a one-time export window and full user-side liability — you bear all of the responsibility of self-custody and you hold none of the control. Compare that with a browser terminal like Photon, Axiom or BullX, where you connect Phantom and approve each transaction, and the difference is not philosophical. It is whether a compromised message queue can spend your balance.

If you use Banana Gun anyway, treat its wallet the way you would treat cash in a jacket pocket: write the key down offline the moment it appears, fund it per session, and sweep profits out to a wallet the bot has never seen. Our Solana wallet comparison and cold wallet guide cover where the rest of your stack should live.

Banana Gun returns 40% of bot revenue, after referrals, to holders of at least 50 $BANANA. That is one of the more concrete revenue-share arrangements in the Telegram bot category, and it is worth understanding before you read it as yield.

We verified the supply directly on Ethereum. The contract at 0x38E68A37E401F7271568CecaAc63c6B1e19130B4 reports a total supply of exactly 10,000,000 tokens, which reconciles with the published tokenomics:

Allocation	Tokens	Share
Circulating	3,220,000	32.2%
Treasury (locked, vesting)	4,500,000	45.0%
Burned	1,100,000	11.0%
Team (locked, cliffs)	1,000,000	10.0%
Market makers and liquidity	180,000	1.8%

Three practical points. First, the treasury holds 45% against a 32.2% float, vesting at 250,000 tokens a month — the circulating supply is a policy decision, not a fixed number. Second, $BANANA is deployed only on Ethereum, by the team's own statement, so a Solana-only trader earning Solana revenue share holds an Ethereum asset. Third, Solana rewards can only be claimed in SOL, not in $BANANA, with a 0.1 SOL accrual threshold before gasless claiming.

The referral programme pays 10% of referred users' transaction fees, written into swap transactions on-chain, with rewards data refreshed every two hours and a 0.05 ETH minimum claim. That on-chain referral accounting is a real transparency point in a category where most referral maths is invisible.

What revenue share does not do is change the arithmetic of the trade. You need 50 $BANANA to qualify, your share scales with the whole user base rather than your own volume, and it arrives after you have already paid 1% per side. It is a loyalty mechanism, not a discount.

Stacked against the bots it actually competes with for Solana memecoin flow, Banana Gun's profile is distinctive in a narrow way — strong EVM heritage, thin Solana depth:

Bot	Solana fee	Solana snipe coverage	Copy trading	Key handling
Banana Gun	1%	Raydium AMM and CP only	Address-based, no discovery	Server-generated, one-time export
BonkBot	1%	Solana-native focus	Limited	Bot-held
Trojan	1%	Solana-native focus	Yes, address-based	Bot-held
Maestro	1% plus optional subscription	Multichain, Solana included	Yes, address-based	Bot-held
uwuu	Performance-based — charged only on profit	Not a sniper	Verified on-chain leaderboard	Non-custodial

Fee-wise the Telegram bots have converged on 1% and Banana Gun is not an outlier — it only looks like one when a review quotes its Ethereum rate. Where it genuinely differs is the combination of real revenue share, on-chain referral accounting and no subscription, set against the narrowest Solana snipe coverage of the group. Our pump.fun bot ranking and Solana trading platform comparison go deeper on the alternatives.

Several of our own articles describe Banana Gun as a bot that "requires importing your private key into the bot's server", grouped with Trojan, BonkBot and Maestro as straightforwardly custodial. That is not accurate and we are correcting it here.

Importing an existing key is one of two options, and it is the one Banana Gun does not lead with. The default path generates a fresh wallet inside the bot. The sharper criticism — the one that survives checking — is that the generated key is shown exactly once, can never be exported afterwards, lives on Banana Gun's servers, and comes with terms of service that place every consequence of its loss on you. In the one incident on record, funds moved out of those wallets without user authorisation. That is a more specific problem than "custodial", and a worse one than "import your key", because an imported key at least exists somewhere you already control.

We also described Banana Gun's Solana support as "shallow compared to its EVM stack" without evidence. The evidence now exists and it is narrower than the claim: Solana trading, selling, limit orders and copy trading are all live, and copy trading is Solana-only. What is genuinely narrow is snipe coverage — two Raydium pool types against full coverage on Ethereum — and documentation, at 14 Solana pages against 27 for EVM with no Solana auto-sniping or safety-settings page at all.

These tools are not substitutes, and pretending otherwise would be the same mistake this review is correcting.

Banana Gun is a manual execution tool. It is good at taking a decision you have already made — this contract, this size, now — and turning it into a filled trade quickly, with the bot bearing none of the judgement. The copy trade module even shows how seriously the team takes execution: the sizing and limit controls are better thought through than most. What Banana Gun has never built is the part that decides what to copy.

uwuu starts from the opposite end. You connect your wallet and it stays non-custodial — there is no key generated on our servers and no key to lose once. You pick a trader from a verified on-chain leaderboard where every figure is auditable on Solana rather than claimed in a Telegram channel, which is the exact gap Banana Gun's own copy-trade warning describes. Execution runs sub-400ms, smart trade filtering screens what gets mirrored, and setup is one click. The fee is performance-based: you pay when you profit, and not otherwise. No subscription, no per-trade cut on losing trades.

The practical split: if you are hunting launches on Raydium and want a keyboard in a chat window, Banana Gun does that job. If you want exposure to traders who are measurably winning without being at the keyboard, that is a different product, and our copy trading explainer, automation guide and bot versus manual trading breakdown cover the trade-offs honestly, including where copy trading does not help.

Banana Gun is a competent Ethereum bot with a real Solana product and an abandoned Solana manual. For an EVM-first trader it is one of the better options in the category: 0.5% on manual Ethereum trades genuinely undercuts the field, the snipe stack is deep and documented, and the revenue share is concrete.

For a Solana-first trader the picture inverts:

• You pay 1%, not 0.5% — the headline rate is not yours, and at the documented 0.1 SOL minimum your round trip is 6% before slippage.
• The auto-sniper reaches two Raydium pool types, not pump.fun or PumpSwap where launches happen.
• The safety features advertised in the Solana FAQ are Ethereum features; the only documented Solana toggle is Anti-MEV.
• Copy trading gives you excellent controls and no way to choose a trader, against a vendor warning that target wallets turn malicious.
• The key is generated on their servers, shown once, and never exportable, with one incident on record of wallets being drained.

Use it if your flow is majority Ethereum, you size trades above 1 SOL, you accept the key model explicitly, and you keep only session money in the bot wallet. Look elsewhere if you are sniping Solana launches, trading sub-0.5 SOL positions, or expecting the documentation to tell you how the Solana product works. Start with the Solana trading bot comparison and the Solana sniper bot roundup.

How much does Banana Gun bot charge on Solana?

1% per trade, on every trade type. Banana Gun's fee schedule lists 0.5% only for manual buys and limit orders on Ethereum; Ethereum autosniping and all trades on other chains, Solana included, are 1%. There is no subscription, but gas, the Jito tip and slippage are charged on top.

Is Banana Gun bot safe?

It has one exploit on record. On 19 September 2024, funds were taken from user bot wallets through a flaw in its Telegram messaging layer; reported losses range from "fewer than 10 users" in the team's own statement to about $3 million from 11 users in QuillAudits' analysis. The team refunded affected users from its treasury and added a two-hour transfer delay and two-factor authentication. No public audit has been published, and no Solana program ID appears anywhere in its documentation.

Can you export your private key from Banana Gun?

No. Banana Gun shows a newly generated wallet's private key once, at creation, and its FAQ states there is no option to retrieve it afterwards. Write it down offline before leaving that screen, because deleting the wallet is irreversible and nobody can recover it for you.

Does Banana Gun have copy trading on Solana?

Yes, and Solana is the only chain where Banana Gun documents it. You paste a target wallet address and configure Max Buy, Spending Limit, sizing mode, sell copying and a duration in hours. What it does not provide is any way to evaluate a wallet first — there is no leaderboard, win rate or PnL data, so the selection step is entirely on you.

Can Banana Gun snipe pump.fun launches?

No. Banana Gun's Supported DEXes table limits Solana sniping to Raydium AMM and Raydium CP. Pump.fun and Pump AMM appear in the trading list but not the sniping list, so you can buy those tokens once a contract address exists, not auto-snipe the launch itself.

Is Banana Gun bot free to use?

There is no subscription fee, which is not the same as free. Every executed trade costs 1% on Solana, plus network fees and the MEV tip. The Banana Bonus programme rebates a fraction of fees in $BANANA using a multiplier documented as 0.05 to 1, so at the documented floor you recover about 5% of what you paid.