How Much Does It Cost to Make a Meme Coin? (2026)
Full wallet budget for a Solana meme coin: ~0.21 SOL to mint, ~0.4 SOL pool rent, seed liquidity on top. Three worked budgets — about 3, 11 and 31 SOL.
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A meme coin on Solana costs about 0.21 SOL to mint and roughly 0.4 SOL of non-refundable pool rent to make tradable — but the number you actually need is what sits in your wallet before you start, and that is seed liquidity plus about 0.75 SOL of fixed cost plus headroom. Three realistic totals: about 3 SOL for a minimum-viable test behind a 2 SOL pool, about 11 SOL for a standard launch behind a 10 SOL pool, and about 31 SOL for a well-funded launch with a 25 SOL pool and a marketing reserve. The mint is the cheap part. Liquidity is the bill.
This article is the wallet-budget answer. If you want the mint fee itself dissected account by account — mint rent, ATA rent, Metaplex metadata rent, the Metaplex protocol fee — that lives in the cost to create a Solana token, which is the canonical page for the token-noun version of this question. Here we assume you already know the mint is cheap and you want to know what number to type into a transfer before you open the create form.
Quick Facts
| Line item | SOL |
|---|---|
| Service fee minimum (0.1 base + 0.1 locked Revoke-Freeze) | 0.2 |
| Network + rent estimate on top of the service fee | ~0.01 |
| Standard mint, all-in | ~0.21-0.22 |
| Mint with mint authority also revoked (typical memecoin) | ~0.32 |
| Mint with every optional extra enabled | ~0.51 |
| Protocol floor any tool on any path must pay | ~0.0191 |
| Base network fee per signature | 0.000005 (5,000 lamports) |
| Raydium pool creation rent, non-refundable (Raydium's own CPMM guide quotes ~0.2) | budget ~0.4 |
| LP burn transaction, network fee (Alchemii adds a small service fee) | ~0.0001 |
| Spare SOL to leave unspent for balance checks | 0.05-0.2 |
| OpenBook Market ID required on the CPMM path | No |
| Minimum-viable wallet total | ~3 |
| Standard wallet total | ~11 |
| Well-funded wallet total | ~31 |
The four things your wallet actually pays for
Most cost guides answer a narrower question than the one people are asking. "How much does it cost to make a meme coin" is almost never a question about the mint fee. It is a question about whether the SOL currently sitting in Phantom is enough to get through the whole flow without stalling halfway.
Four buckets, in the order your wallet drains:
1. The mint. One signature, one deduction. On Alchemii that is a flat 0.1 SOL base plus 0.1 SOL for the Revoke-Freeze step, which is locked on and cannot be switched off — so 0.2 SOL is the floor, plus roughly 0.01 SOL of network fees and rent. All-in, about 0.21-0.22 SOL. Optional extras are 0.1 SOL each: revoke mint authority, revoke update authority, and a pump-suffix mint address. A typical memecoin config with mint authority revoked lands near 0.32 SOL. With every extra switched on it tops out around 0.51 SOL.
2. Pool rent. This is the line people miss. Opening a Raydium pool requires a one-time rent-exempt deposit for the pool's own program accounts, and it is gone whether the token trades or not. Budget 0.4 SOL. Raydium's own CPMM pool creation guide quotes "about 0.2 SOL for pool creation rent, token-account creation, and priority fees" and notes CPMM pools are cheaper to create than AMM v4 — so 0.4 is the conservative figure with headroom, not a ceiling. Budget the higher number and be pleasantly surprised.
3. Seed liquidity. The big one, and the only bucket that is not a fee. When you add liquidity on Raydium you deposit SOL alongside your token supply and receive an LP position representing your share. You still own that value. You stop owning it the moment you burn the LP tokens, which is the point of burning them — a burned LP is the strongest anti-rug signal available on Solana, and it is deliberately irreversible.
4. Headroom. Priority fees during congestion, a retry after a failed signature, and the plain fact that wallets sometimes refuse to sign a transaction that would leave the account below its rent-exempt threshold. The transaction-failed diagnostic puts the practical rule at funding to 0.25 SOL before a launch that costs 0.22, and nearer 0.4 SOL if you are revoking authorities in the same flow.
Add buckets one, two and four and you get roughly 0.75 SOL of fixed cost for a standard memecoin config. Everything else on your screen is liquidity.
How much SOL do I need to launch a meme coin?
The short version, in the unit the chain actually charges in:
- Absolute floor to have a token exist at all: ~0.0191 SOL. That is Solana's own rent and fee arithmetic — mint account rent, associated token account rent, Metaplex metadata rent, the Metaplex protocol fee, and 5,000 lamports per signature. No tool can waive it. We wrote the byte-level version of that math in the free-mint breakdown.
- Floor to have a token exist with a no-code tool: ~0.21 SOL through Alchemii. Cheaper flat fees exist in the category — budget tools start around 0.05 SOL — and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Against Smithii's 0.3 SOL and Orion Tools' 0.4 SOL effective floor we come in below market. The full ranked table is in the free Solana token creator comparison.
- Floor to have a token anyone can buy: ~0.62 SOL of hard fixed cost — the mint plus pool rent — before a single lamport of liquidity. Add a pool worth trading against and spare SOL and you are realistically at 2.5-3 SOL total.
- Floor to have a launch that does not look like a demo: 10-11 SOL.
The gap between bullet two and bullet three is the entire reason people underestimate this. A token with no pool is a database row with a logo. Nobody can buy it, DexScreener will not index it, and it will not appear anywhere a trader looks.
How much Solana do you need to make a meme coin?
Same question, different spelling, and worth answering separately because the framing changes what people expect. Denominated in SOL the numbers above are stable; denominated in dollars they move every day the SOL price moves, which is why every figure on this page is quoted in SOL and none of them are quoted in USD. A cost guide that quotes dollars is stale the week after it publishes.
What does change with the SOL price is the purchasing power of your pool. A 10 SOL pool at one SOL price and a 10 SOL pool at another are the same 10 SOL and very different starting market caps. If you are budgeting toward a target market cap rather than a target SOL amount, model it in the token cost calculator rather than doing it in your head — it runs on the same constants documented here and lets you vary the seed.
The underlying dataset is public too. Every configuration row behind these numbers is published in the Solana token cost dataset as downloadable CSV and JSON: a standard launch at 0.21424 SOL, a launch with mint revoked at 0.314255 SOL, everything enabled at 0.514255 SOL, and full launches with 5 and 10 SOL pools attached. If you want to check our arithmetic rather than trust it, that is the file to open.
How much SOL is needed to launch on Pump.fun?
Different mechanic, different budget shape. On a bonding curve you do not seed a pool — the curve fronts liquidity and the token trades from minute zero against it. Creation runs roughly 0.02 SOL, and that is close to the bare protocol floor plus a thin margin. Our Pump.fun platform guide covers the curve mechanics and the graduation threshold in full.
Two things to budget for that the 0.02 SOL headline does not include:
- A dev buy, if you make one. Buying your own token at launch is a choice and the SOL is entirely on top. There is no correct number here and anyone quoting one is guessing.
- The per-trade fee, forever. A percentage cut of every buy and every sell, for the life of the token. It is not a launch cost, it is a lifetime cost, and it is the actual price of the near-free entry. We ran the crossover math against a flat fee in Pump.fun vs Raydium.
The honest rule: if your total budget is under about 1 SOL, a bonding curve is the right tool, because it supplies the liquidity you cannot. If you have 5 SOL or more and you intend to operate the token past launch day, a flat launch with your own pool gives you authority control and stops the fee clock the moment you sign.
The OpenBook Market ID myth (and the dead 2.8 SOL line in stale quotes)
Search this question today and a good share of page one still walks you through creating an OpenBook Market ID as step one, and prices it in — vendors advertise the step at 0.4, 1.5 or 2.784 SOL depending on the order-book queue sizes they allocate. The step is dead in 2026, and the reason is one program change.
Raydium's original AMM v4 was a constant-product AMM integrated with the OpenBook central limit order book, and a pool needed a market ID before it could exist. Creating that market meant paying rent for a set of order-book accounts, and depending on the queue sizes chosen it ran into the multiple-SOL range. It was a genuine, expensive, unavoidable step — in 2023.
It is not a step now. Raydium's CPMM program removed the dependency entirely: the CPMM product documentation states plainly that CPMM has no OpenBook dependency, and Raydium describes the raydium-cp-swap repository as a "revamped constant product AMM - no Openbook ID requirement, Token22 support." Alchemii's pool flow builds CPMM pools. So does Raydium's own current create-pool interface for standard pools.
So when a guide bakes a market ID into the budget, that is up to 2.784 SOL of dead account rent — the exact amount depended on the order-book queue sizes chosen, which is why quoted figures never agreed. Against the ~11 SOL standard launch below, a stale market-ID line is roughly a quarter of the whole budget, spent on an order book nobody will ever query. Anything else inflating a quote is either liquidity you were going to supply anyway or vendor margin. The step-by-step version of this argument, including what to do if you genuinely still need a market ID for a legacy pool, is in do you need an OpenBook Market ID.
Three worked budgets
Every figure below assumes calm-network conditions. During a congestion spike, add 0.1-0.5 SOL of buffer across the whole flow for priority fees and retries.
Minimum viable — about 3 SOL
For validating that the mechanics work and that you can drive a chart at all. Not for a launch you expect strangers to buy into.
| Line | SOL |
|---|---|
| Token mint, standard config | 0.22 |
| Raydium pool rent (non-refundable) | 0.40 |
| Seed liquidity | 2.00 |
| LP burn + transaction buffer | 0.10 |
| Spare, left unspent | 0.20 |
| Fund the wallet with | ~2.92, call it 3 |
Reality check on the 2 SOL pool: slippage is brutal, a single 0.2 SOL sell moves the chart visibly, and any bot that touches it will make it look like a rug within minutes. That is not a defect in the tooling, it is what a thin pool does. Treat this tier as a rehearsal.
Standard memecoin — about 11 SOL
The tier most real launches sit in, and the one the launch checklist is written against.
| Line | SOL |
|---|---|
| Token mint with mint authority revoked | 0.32 |
| Raydium pool rent (non-refundable) | 0.40 |
| Seed liquidity | 10.00 |
| LP burn + transaction buffer | 0.10 |
| Spare, left unspent | 0.20 |
| Fund the wallet with | ~11.02, call it 11 |
Revoking mint authority is the extra 0.1 SOL between this tier and the one above, and it is the cheapest credibility you can buy. In our 50,000-launch dataset, tokens with revoked mint authority survived their first 24 hours at roughly 4.2 times the rate of tokens that kept it. That is a correlation across launches, not a promise about yours — but 0.1 SOL is a low price for removing the single most common reason a trader closes your chart.
Well-funded — about 31 SOL
For a launch with a bonded audience already attached, where thin liquidity would be the constraint rather than attention.
| Line | SOL |
|---|---|
| Token mint with mint authority revoked | 0.32 |
| Raydium pool rent (non-refundable) | 0.40 |
| Seed liquidity | 25.00 |
| LP burn + transaction buffer | 0.10 |
| Spare, left unspent | 0.20 |
| Marketing reserve | 5.00 |
| Fund the wallet with | ~31.02, call it 31 |
The 5 SOL marketing line is the one I would defend hardest if someone wanted to cut it. A deep pool with nobody looking at it is 25 SOL of parked capital. The no-budget marketing playbook exists precisely because that reserve is optional, but if you have it, spend it on distribution rather than on another 5 SOL of depth.
The spare-SOL rule nobody writes down
Here is the failure mode that costs people an evening. You calculate that the launch costs 0.22 SOL, you transfer exactly 0.22 SOL, and the transaction fails.
Three reasons, all mundane:
- Priority fees are not in the quote. During congestion your wallet adds a priority fee on top of the base 5,000-lamport signature fee, per Solana's fee documentation. That is a few thousandths of a SOL you did not budget.
- Rent-exemption on your own account. Solana charges rent for on-chain accounts, and wallets will sometimes refuse to sign a transaction that would drop a balance below the rent-exempt minimum.
- The flow is more than one transaction. Mint, then pool creation, then LP burn. Each one needs its own fee, and each one needs the next one to still be affordable.
The rule: leave 0.05-0.2 SOL unspent at every step. On a bare mint, fund to 0.25 SOL rather than 0.22. Before opening a pool, make sure the balance covers pool rent plus the seed plus the burn that follows. Failed transactions only cost the network fee, so this is recoverable — it just wastes the twenty minutes you spend working out why.
What the budget does not buy
Worth saying plainly, because the honest version of this page is more useful than the flattering one. Across roughly 50,000 Solana memecoin launches, about 87% are effectively dead inside 24 hours. Spending 31 SOL instead of 3 does not move you out of that distribution. It buys a pool that can absorb normal trading without collapsing, and it buys the on-chain trust signals — revoked authorities, burned LP, full supply seeded — that correlate with surviving day one. It does not buy demand.
If your motivation for reading a cost page is working out whether a launch pays for itself, the mechanics of that are covered separately and honestly in how meme coin creators make money. This page is a budget, not a business case.
Two things worth doing with the spend rather than in addition to it. First, decide your config before you open the form — supply, decimals, which authorities you are revoking — because indecision at the wallet-approval screen is how people end up paying for extras they did not want. The full field-by-field walkthrough is in how to create a meme coin on Solana. Second, after deploy, run the mint address through the token audit checker and confirm the trust state you paid for is actually on-chain. It takes about thirty seconds and it is the only way to know the 0.1 SOL revoke actually landed.
If you are starting from a format that is already working rather than a blank form, the trending board will prefill the creator with a live coin's name, symbol and image. That does not change any number on this page — a copied format is still your own mint, your own pool and your own liquidity, and the budget is identical.
Limitations
What this article does not cover, stated honestly:
- USD figures. Everything here is in SOL because that is the unit the chain charges in. Converting at today's price is how cost guides go stale.
- Competitor pricing beyond a passing mention. Service fees at Smithii, CoinFactory, Orion Tools and the budget tier move. The current ranked table lives in our no-code creator price comparison; re-check each vendor's own page before committing.
- Pump.fun's exact current creation fee. The roughly 0.02 SOL figure is consistent across our own coverage but launchpad pricing changes without notice. Check it on the platform before funding.
- The 0.4 SOL pool-rent figure itself. It is our house budget number, carried across the site and set deliberately high. Raydium's own CPMM guide quotes about 0.2 SOL for pool creation rent, token-account creation and priority fees. We have not re-derived the CPMM program accounts one by one, so treat 0.4 as a ceiling to fund toward, not a measured charge.
- Non-Raydium pools. Orca and Meteora have their own rent and fee profiles. The 0.4 SOL figure is a Raydium CPMM budget. See Raydium vs Orca for new tokens for the venue decision.
- Token-2022 mints. Different account sizes and extension rent. Covered in SPL Token vs Token-2022.
- Congestion pricing. All figures assume calm-network conditions. Priority fees during a hype cycle can add materially and unpredictably.
- Legal and tax treatment. Token creation can carry obligations that vary by jurisdiction. Nothing here is legal, tax or financial advice, and no figure on this page is a projection of any outcome.
FAQ
How much does it cost to make a meme coin?
The mint itself is about 0.21 SOL all-in through a no-code tool, or about 0.32 SOL if you also revoke mint authority. That is the small half. Making the coin tradable costs roughly 0.4 SOL of non-refundable Raydium pool rent plus whatever you seed as liquidity, and seed liquidity is where almost the entire budget goes. A realistic wallet total is about 3 SOL for a minimum-viable test, about 11 SOL for a standard launch, and about 31 SOL for a well-funded one.
How much SOL do I need in my wallet before I start?
Fixed costs come to roughly 0.75 SOL: the mint (about 0.21 SOL, or 0.32 with mint revoked), Raydium pool rent (budget 0.4 SOL, non-refundable), the LP burn transaction (about 0.0001 SOL of network fee plus a small service fee), and a transaction buffer. Add your seed liquidity on top, then leave 0.05 to 0.2 SOL spare so no transaction fails a balance check mid-flow. Below about 2.5 SOL total you can mint but you cannot open a pool anyone will trade against.
How much SOL is needed to launch on Pump.fun?
Pump.fun's creation step is roughly 0.02 SOL because the bonding curve fronts the liquidity — you never seed a pool. The trade-off is a per-trade fee that runs for the life of the token and authorities locked at deploy. If you plan a dev buy at launch, that SOL is on top and is entirely your choice. Verify the current creation cost on Pump.fun before you fund the wallet; launchpad pricing changes.
Do I need an OpenBook Market ID, and does it cost 2.8 SOL?
No, not on the current path. Raydium's CPMM program has no OpenBook dependency — the repository is described by Raydium as a constant product AMM with no OpenBook ID requirement. The OpenBook market creation step belongs to the legacy AMM v4 flow: 2.784 SOL of account rent at default queue sizes, or 0.4 to 1.5 SOL for the shrunken variants vendors advertise. It is the single largest removable line in a stale Solana launch quote. If a guide walks you through creating a market ID first, it is describing 2023 mechanics.
How much liquidity should I actually seed?
Under 2 SOL the pool is a demo — slippage is severe and a single exit moves the chart double digits. Between 5 and 10 SOL is the normal range for a memecoin that expects real trading. Above 15 SOL you are buying resilience against fast in-and-out flow rather than buying attention. Seeded liquidity is not a fee: you own it through your LP position until you burn the LP, at which point it is permanent.
How much money do I need to create a meme coin if I only have a little SOL?
You can mint a token for well under half a SOL, and the unavoidable protocol floor is about 0.0191 SOL regardless of which tool you use. What you cannot do cheaply is make it tradable — pool rent alone is around 0.4 SOL before any liquidity. If your total budget is under roughly 1 SOL, a bonding-curve launch is the honest recommendation, because it fronts the liquidity you do not have.
Is the Raydium pool rent refundable if the launch fails?
The roughly 0.4 SOL of pool rent is spent whether the token trades or not, and a botched pool configuration does not get it back. That makes pool creation the one irreversible line in the budget after the mint. Check the pair, the fee tier and the starting price twice before signing. The LP burn afterwards costs almost nothing but is equally permanent.
How much does a meme coin cost compared with an agency quote?
Launch-service quotes inflate in two ways. First, obsolete line items — an OpenBook market ID that CPMM pools no longer read, up to 2.784 SOL of rent, which on a standard ~11 SOL launch is about a quarter of the budget. Second, plain service margin. The on-chain reality is about 0.21 SOL to mint and roughly 0.4 SOL of pool rent. Everything above the on-chain lines in a quote is either liquidity you would have supplied anyway or the vendor's fee.
References
- Solana docs: transaction fees — base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature, plus prioritization fee mechanics
- Solana docs: accounts and rent — the rent-exempt minimum formula,
(account_size + 128) × 3,480 lamports/byte-year × 2 years, behind every account-creation line above - SPL Token Program — the program every Solana meme coin mint calls
- SPL Associated Token Account program — the ATA whose rent sits inside the ~0.0191 SOL floor
- Metaplex Token Metadata — the metadata account holding name, symbol and image URI
- Raydium: create a CPMM pool — "about 0.2 SOL for pool creation rent, token-account creation, and priority fees"
- Raydium: CPMM product docs — states CPMM has no OpenBook dependency
- raydium-cp-swap on GitHub — described by Raydium as "no Openbook ID requirement, Token22 support"
- Solana Program Library on GitHub — Token Program source
- Phantom: Solana tokens — wallet-side view of what a funded mint looks like
- DexScreener docs — how a new pool becomes visible to traders
- Orca documentation — the alternative Solana venue referenced in the Limitations section, with its own rent profile
- Alchemii cost dataset — the per-configuration CSV/JSON behind every SOL figure on this page
About the author. Gary Zhao is the founder of Alchemii, a Solana token creation and liquidity tooling platform. He has launched memecoins and utility tokens on Solana mainnet since 2022 and maintains the fee constants behind Alchemii's create flow and cost calculator — the same figures quoted above, which you can re-derive from the public cost dataset or check against your own wallet at signing time.
Know your number before you fund the wallet: open the meme coin flow and every line item plus the running SOL total appears before you connect anything, or start from the Solana token creator if you want the general-purpose form. Then plan the pool with the liquidity tool and work through the memecoin launch sequence so the budget you just set actually gets spent in the right order.
Your token can be live on Solana mainnet in about five minutes
One signed transaction creates the mint, writes the Metaplex metadata, sends you the full supply and — if you ask for it — revokes mint authority and gives you an address ending in pump. A flat fee charged once, never a percentage of your trading volume. Every extra is itemised with your exact SOL total before you connect a wallet.
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