ranked by live fees · 2026-08-23

Banana Gun alternatives, ranked by what they actually earn

Most "best alternative" lists do not tell you how they ranked anything. This one ranks by trailing 30-day protocol fees pulled from DefiLlama on August 23, 2026, because that is the number in this category that is hardest to spin: it is a payment that left a user's wallet and landed on-chain.

First: is Banana Gun the problem?

Dead or abandoned

Banana Gun took $8.9K in fees over the last 30 days, against a peak 30-day window of $9.76M. That is 99.9% off peak. On the numbers, it is finished.

Fees, last 30d
$8.9K
-22.3% vs prior 30d
Fees, last 24h
$223
$2.0K over 7 days
Peak 30d window
$9.76M
ended 2024-04-04
Off peak
99.9%
$87.1M all time

Figures as of August 23, 2026 (UTC). Source: DefiLlama › Banana Gun. Series starts 2023-06-02.

The alternatives

Every tool below is in the same category and is currently growing or holding, by fee take. Ranked largest first. Sparklines cover the last 14 months.

ToolFees, 30d30d changeStatus14-month shape
Axiom
Web terminal · Solana, BSC · status · source
$32.6M +60.1% Growing
GMGN
Web + Telegram · Solana, Ethereum, Base, BSC and more · status · source
$26.6M +43.5% Growing
fomo
Mobile wallet · Solana · source
$11.5M +112% Growing
pump.fun Terminal
Web terminal · Solana, Ethereum, BSC, Base · source
$4.30M +47.2% Growing
Maestro
Telegram bot · BSC, Ethereum, Solana, Base and more · status · source
$1.13M -16.6% Diminished

All figures as of August 23, 2026 (UTC). Sources: Axiom, GMGN, fomo, pump.fun Terminal, Maestro.

Axiom

Browser trading terminal with a bundled wallet, launched January 2025. Runs on Solana, BSC. Collected $32.6M in fees over the last 30 days, up +60.1% on the prior 30. Its best 30-day window was $93.7M, ending 2025-05-23, so it is currently at 35% of its own high-water mark.

Source: DefiLlama › Axiom, as of 2026-08-23.

GMGN

Multi-chain scanner and trading front end with a Telegram bot attached. Runs on Solana, Ethereum, Base, BSC and more. Collected $26.6M in fees over the last 30 days, up +43.5% on the prior 30. Its best 30-day window was $44.4M, ending 2025-10-31, so it is currently at 60% of its own high-water mark.

Source: DefiLlama › GMGN, as of 2026-08-23.

fomo

Mobile-first Solana trading wallet. Runs on Solana. Collected $11.5M in fees over the last 30 days, up +112% on the prior 30. Its best 30-day window was $11.5M, ending 2026-08-21, so it is currently at 100% of its own high-water mark.

Source: DefiLlama › fomo, as of 2026-08-23.

What switching does not fix

Every tool on this page charges you a fee on each trade, and every one of them is downstream of the same liquidity. Moving between them changes your interface, your fee rate, and your routing. It does not change whether the token you are buying goes up. Fee take measures the tool's business, not your outcome.

Questions

What is the best Banana Gun alternative in 2026?

Measured by live 30-day fee take, the largest alternatives are Axiom ($32.6M), GMGN ($26.6M), fomo ($11.5M). Size is a proxy for where traders are, not proof that any of them suits you. Figures as of August 23, 2026 from DefiLlama.

Do I actually need to leave Banana Gun?

Banana Gun collected $8.9K over the last 30 days, 99.9% below its peak of $9.76M, and is down -22.3% against the prior 30 days. Falling fee take usually means falling users, which over time means thinner support and slower fixes. That is a reason to look around, not an emergency.

How were these alternatives picked?

They are the tools in the same category with the highest trailing 30-day fee take on DefiLlama that are not themselves shrinking. The ranking is generated by a script from public data. It is not a paid placement and it is not adjusted for whether we earn a referral fee from any of them.

Is any of these profitable to use?

We have no idea and neither does anyone quoting fee charts at you. Fee take measures what a protocol collected from its users. It says nothing about whether those users made or lost money. Most of them lose money.

Disclosure. No outbound link on this page is a referral link. If that changes, links that pay us will be marked ref and this line will say so. Fee figures come from DefiLlama, are stated as of August 23, 2026 (UTC), and every one of them links to the source page it came from. Nothing here is financial advice, and nothing here claims any of these tools is profitable to use.