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Photon vs Banana Gun
Photon and Banana Gun side by side — fees, cashback, chains and who holds your keys, plus what a trade actually costs on each.
The two, side by side
| Photon | Banana Gun | |
|---|---|---|
| Each buy/sell | 1 % | 1 % |
| Sign-up | none | none |
| Cashback | none | 30 % |
| Keys | You | Bot |
| Chains | Solana | Ethereum, Solana, Base |
What one trade costs (buy + sell)
| Your trade | Photon | Banana Gun |
|---|---|---|
| $100.00 trade | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| $500.00 trade | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| $2,000.00 trade | $40.00 | $40.00 |
Platform fee only, entry cashback tier. Run your own numbers on the cost board.
Which one should you pick?
On a $5,000 trade, Photon is the cheaper of the two. Beyond cost it comes down to which fits how you trade — here's each in short.
Photon — The simple one
Photon has been around since 2023 and keeps things simple. It is stable, well documented and easy to learn, but it offers neither a referral discount nor cashback, so you pay the full 1 % on every trade, and it has fallen behind the others on features in 2026.
Banana Gun — The Ethereum favourite
Banana Gun started as the go-to sniper bot on Ethereum and now trades Solana and Base from the same Telegram bot, with a web terminal (Banana Pro) on top. On Solana it charges 1 % per side, like most bots; its famous 0.5 % rate applies only to manual trades on Ethereum. Every user gets 15 to 30 % of fees back, paid in the $BANANA token, so the value of that cashback moves with the token.