BANANA vs JUP
Banana Gun and Jupiter scored on the same 25 variables, ranked against the same 251 tokens, with every gap between them shown.
Scoring pass 18 Sept 2026. Market snapshot 7 Oct 2026.
What separates them
BANANA scores 135 of 250 and ranks 39th of 251. JUP scores 151 and ranks 19th. JUP leads by 16 points, which is a real gap, though small enough that one variable moving would close much of it. BANANA takes 8 of the 25 variables, JUP takes 16, and one is level.
The framework rates BANANA CAUTIOUS HOLD and JUP HOLD. Two tokens close enough to compare do not have to land in the same band, and where they do not, the divergence table below is where the split comes from.
5 variables separate them by 3 points or more. BANANA is clear on Circulating / FDV Ratio (9 against 3) and Buyback and Burn (8 against 3). JUP is clear on TVL Trend (7 against 2), Network Growth (9 against 5) and Competitive Moat (8 against 4).
JUP is valued at $1.04B against $15.5M for BANANA, a 67.3x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
All 25 variables, head to head
Both tokens were scored by the same framework in the same pass, so the numbers are directly comparable. What a comparison adds over two separate pages is the gap: a 6 against a 6 is a non-event, a 9 against a 3 is the reason to hold one and not the other.
Cash flow
| Protocol Revenue | 7 | 6 | BANANA +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 5 | 4 | BANANA +1 | |
| P/S Multiple | 5 | 6 | JUP +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 4 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 8 | 6 | BANANA +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 8 | 7 | BANANA +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 9 | 3 | BANANA +6 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 8 | 3 | BANANA +5 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 6 | JUP +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 7 | JUP +2 | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 3 | BANANA +2 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 2 | 7 | JUP +5 | |
| Active Users | 5 | 8 | JUP +3 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 7 | JUP +2 | |
| Network Growth | 5 | 9 | JUP +4 |
Position
| Market Share | 5 | 8 | JUP +3 | |
| Competitive Moat | 4 | 8 | JUP +4 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 3 | 5 | JUP +2 | |
| Exchange Depth | 6 | 5 | BANANA +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 6 | 7 | JUP +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 4 | 5 | JUP +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 5 | 7 | JUP +2 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 5 | 7 | JUP +2 | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 7 | JUP +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 6 | JUP +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: BANANA to the left, JUP to the right. The side that leads a variable is filled. Each score is 1 to 10 against the same definition applied to all 251 rated tokens.
Market and supply
| BANANA | JUP | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.86 | $0.3145 |
| Market cap | $15.5M | $1.04B |
| Circulating | 40.2% | 33.2% |
| Dilution to full supply | 2.49x | 3.01x |
| Off all-time high | -95.1% | -84.3% |
| To recover the high | 20.4x | 6.4x |
| Total value locked | not published | $2.94B |
| Network | Solana | Solana |
Price, market cap and all-time high from the CoinGecko snapshot fetched 7 Oct 2026. Supply shares are derived from circulating and eventual supply counts, which do not move with price. The 25 scores come from the research pass dated 18 Sept 2026.
Catalyst and risk on each side
BANANA · CAUTIOUS HOLD
Bull market retail FOMO driving Telegram bot volume spike; 1% fee on all trades with aggressive buyback
Revenue collapses in bear markets; Unibot/Maestro competition fierce; no durable moat beyond brand
JUP · HOLD
Net-zero emissions (Feb 2026), Securitize onchain equities live, Jupiter Lend $2B+ TVL, Jupnet omnichain (testnet)
Revenue -78% ($580M→$129M), buyback halted ($70M failed), LIBRA scandal, 72% whale concentration, Jupnet testnet only
Common questions
- Is BANANA or JUP the better investment?
- On this framework JUP scores higher: 151 against 135 of 250, and it is rated HOLD against CAUTIOUS HOLD. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and BANANA still wins 8 of the 25 individual variables against JUP.
- What is the biggest difference between BANANA and JUP?
- Circulating / FDV Ratio. BANANA scores 9 of 10 there and JUP scores 3, a gap of 6 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, BANANA or JUP?
- BANANA is valued at $15.5M and JUP at $1.04B on the latest market snapshot.
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Research and analysis, not investment advice. A higher score is one framework applied consistently to 251 tokens, not a prediction that one asset will outperform the other.