Owned by the launchpad
Terminal belongs to the company behind the busiest Solana launchpad, which counts for something with traders who live on Pump.fun coins and want the venue's own tool.
Padre was an independent memecoin terminal until Pump.fun bought it in October 2025 and renamed it Terminal. The app is the same one, reachable at padre.gg or terminal.pump.fun, and people still call it Padre. Over the last 30 days it took about $3.6 million in fees, against $20.3 million for Axiom, by DefiLlama's count. Below is how the two compare on cost, chains, wallets and tools, and what switching involves. Sign up with TradeNow and every Axiom trade costs 0.8%.
The Axiom Trade invite code is TradeNow. Axiom calls it a referral code. Enter it when you sign up and your trading fee drops by 20% for the life of the account, from 1% to 0.8% a trade.
If you are looking for an Axiom Trade invite code, use TradeNow. Type it into the referral field on the sign-up screen, or open axiom.trade/@tradenow and it is filled in for you. It is one of the most used Axiom codes, and it still works.
For most traders, Axiom. It runs on more than twice as many chains, publishes its fees, gives a permanent discount through a referral code and keeps perps and prediction markets in the same account. Padre is a fair pick for someone who trades almost nothing but fresh Pump.fun launches from a desktop and wants a terminal owned by the launchpad itself.
Both charge 1% before discounts, so the gap comes from the extras and from what you trade outside Solana.
| Feature | Axiom | Padre |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Axiom, a Y Combinator W25 company | Pump.fun, since October 2025 |
| Address | axiom.trade | terminal.pump.fun, and still padre.gg |
| Chains | Nine, including HyperEVM and Elysium | Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base |
| Trading fee | 1%; 0.8% on accounts opened with TradeNow | 1% in the app; no published fee page |
| Money back | SOL cashback worth as much as a quarter of the fee | SOL cashback, up to 35% on referred accounts |
| Wallets | Turnkey, keys exportable, one recovery phrase | Turnkey, a private key per wallet, no seed phrase |
| Sign-in | Email, Google or Phantom | Telegram, Google or X |
| Fees, last 30 days | $20.3M | $3.6M |
Pump.fun announced the purchase on X in late October 2025, describing Padre as a terminal for professional traders on Solana, BNB Chain, Base and Ethereum. Within weeks the product was renamed Terminal. Nothing moved for existing users: the same logins, wallets and keys open at either address, because both domains serve the same app.
The PADRE token lost its role on the platform, and holders were offered PUMP through a snapshot claim that closed at the end of December 2025. In February 2026 Pump.fun bought a second terminal, Vyper, shut its own app and moved its team into Terminal. The direction is clear enough: Terminal is how Pump.fun keeps its most active traders inside its own product.
Axiom's fee is written down: 1% a trade, 0.8% for accounts opened with TradeNow, and cashback paid in SOL on top. Terminal has no official fee page. The 1% figure comes from the app's own code, as independent reviewers have read it, and its sign-in page advertises cashback of up to 35% for accounts created through a referral link, a rate that is fixed when the account is opened.
Take $1,000 of trading. On Axiom with TradeNow the fee is $8 before cashback. On Terminal it is $10, with between $1 and $3.50 coming back depending on how the account was opened. Neither number includes the launchpad's own cut: on a Pump.fun bonding curve the venue charges its fee whichever terminal sends the order, so the comparison between terminals stays the same.
Terminal belongs to the company behind the busiest Solana launchpad, which counts for something with traders who live on Pump.fun coins and want the venue's own tool.
A live feed of new tokens, a migration sniper and stacked exit orders, such as taking out your initial stake once a coin runs, are the parts its regular users mention most.
Wallets sit on Turnkey with a private key each and a password the platform does not store. Simple to start with, though losing that password may leave no way back in.
Solana, BNB, Base, Ethereum, Robinhood Chain, Arc, Ink, HyperEVM and Elysium share one login, against four on Terminal. New chains arrive with their own launchpads already in Pulse.
The rate, the referral discount and the cashback tiers are all in Axiom's docs, so the cost of a trade is known before you place it.
Hyperliquid perpetuals and Polymarket markets run from the same account as your spot trades, with one balance view across all three.
If your whole day is Pump.fun launches on Solana and you like trading inside the launchpad's own house, Terminal does that job. The moment you want a Base or BNB launch, a Robinhood Chain coin or a perp hedge, Axiom covers it from the same screen, and with TradeNow it costs less per trade before cashback. A fair test is to keep both logged in for a week and compare where your fills land.
Open axiom.trade/@tradenow; the code is filled in for you, which sets your rate at 0.8% from the start.
Withdraw a little SOL from your Terminal wallet to your Axiom Solana address before moving the rest.
Copy your Terminal slippage and tips into Axiom's three presets, then adjust after a few fills.
Switch Pulse to Pump.fun only, if that is all you traded on Terminal, and widen it later.
Yes. Pump.fun bought Padre in October 2025 and renamed it Terminal. padre.gg and terminal.pump.fun open the same app with the same accounts.
Pump.fun publishes no fee page for Terminal. Reviews that read the app's code put it at 1% a trade, with cashback of up to 35% for accounts opened through a referral link.
No. Pump.fun said it would have no utility on the platform, and holders could claim PUMP through a snapshot until the end of December 2025.
For most traders, yes: nine chains instead of four, a published fee with a 20% referral discount, and perps and prediction markets on the same account. Padre suits traders focused only on Pump.fun launches.
Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base, according to Terminal's own sign-in page. Axiom covers those four and five more, including Robinhood Chain and HyperEVM.
Step-by-step help for every part of the terminal, from opening an account to withdrawing, with screenshots from Axiom itself.
Fee figures are DefiLlama's, checked on 10 November 2026. Terminal's own fee is not published, so check the fee line on your first trade there. Memecoins can go to zero within minutes. Not financial advice. This site earns a referral fee from Axiom and has no link to Pump.fun.