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Total launch cost via Alchemii
5.469 SOL
≈ $1,094 USD
Launching via Alchemii costs 5.469 SOL (~$1094) all-in, including 5 SOL of seed liquidity you retain in the Raydium pool. Compare against the spl-token CLI path for the lower bound and the Pump.fun bonding-curve path for the zero-upfront alternative.
Cost breakdown — every line item
| Line item | SOL | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Mint account rent Unavoidable — Solana protocol | 0.00146 | $0.29 |
| Mint signature fee | 0.00001 | $<0.01 |
| Metaplex metadata PDA rent Token name/symbol/image on-chain | 0.01070 | $2.14 |
| Associated Token Account rent Deployer's first token account | 0.00204 | $0.41 |
| Authority revocation (mint + freeze + update) 3 signature fees | 0.00002 | $<0.01 |
| Alchemii service fee | 0.05500 | $11.00 |
| Raydium LP seed liquidity You retain this — it's the SOL side of your pool | 5.00000 | $1000.00 |
| Raydium pool creation rent Pool state account + vault accounts + LP mint | 0.40000 | $80.00 |
| LP burn transaction Sends LP tokens to incinerator | 0.00001 | $<0.01 |
| Total | 5.469 | $1,094 |
Same config, all 4 generators compared
| Generator | Total SOL | Total USD |
|---|---|---|
| Alchemiiselected | 5.469 | $1,094 |
| Smithii.io | 5.664 | $1,133 |
| CoinFactory.app | 5.514 | $1,103 |
| spl-token CLI | 5.414 | $1,083 |
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Alchemii bundles the SPL token, Metaplex metadata, and authority revocation into one signed transaction — no separate calls, no forgotten checkboxes.
Launch your Solana token →All on-chain costs sourced from Solana docs. Service fees verified against each platform's live pricing page in May 2026 — verify current rates before committing. SOL price defaults to $200; adjust above for accurate USD figures. Not financial advice.
Where the numbers come from
Every protocol-floor cost above is sourced from Solana's official fee documentation and rent docs. Mint account rent is ~0.00146 SOL, the Associated Token Account rent is ~0.00204 SOL, and each signature costs 5,000 lamports (0.000005 SOL). The Metaplex metadata PDA rent (~0.0107 SOL) is the single largest line item in the on-chain floor and comes from the Metaplex Token Metadata spec.
Service fees for each generator were verified against live pricing pages in May 2026. The Alchemii flat fee is taken from our own deployment; Smithii's range is from smithii.io/en/pricing; CoinFactory and Pump.fun figures from their own marketing pages. Pricing can change — re-verify on each platform before committing.
What the calculator doesn't model
- Pump.fun trading fees. The 1% buy + 1% sell on every pre-graduation trade can dwarf any upfront cost. A token doing $500K cumulative volume pays $10,000 in platform fees. The upfront figure above is genuine; the long-tail isn't shown.
- RPC reliability premium. Free public RPC endpoints sometimes fail at launch time. A paid endpoint (Helius, QuickNode) costs $0–$50/month depending on tier. Not in the calculator because most first launches don't need it.
- Aggregator listing fees. CoinGecko + CoinMarketCap listings are free in theory but require sustained volume + a manual application. DexScreener Enhanced Token Info is currently ~$300 in SOL — covered in our DexScreener Enhanced Info guide.
- Audit costs. Memecoins typically don't audit; utility tokens often pay $5K–$50K for a security audit. Not included.
- Marketing. A working launch usually needs $500+ of Twitter ad spend, Discord/Telegram seeding, or paid influencer placement. None of that is on-chain so none of it is here.
Frequently asked
- Why is there a protocol floor I can't avoid?
- Solana charges rent for every account you create on-chain (mint account, Metaplex metadata PDA, Associated Token Account). It also charges a per-signature transaction fee. These come from the Solana protocol itself, not any tool — no generator can undercut them. The total floor is approximately 0.02 SOL across mint rent (~0.00146), Metaplex PDA (~0.0107), ATA (~0.00204), and a few signature fees. Source: solana.com/docs/core/fees + solana.com/docs/core/rent.
- Why does the calculator default to $200 SOL?
- It's a rounded reference price for quick math, not a live feed. Override it in the SOL price input above for accurate USD figures at the current market rate. We default to $200 because it makes the SOL ↔ USD mental math clean (1 SOL = $200, 0.1 SOL = $20, etc.) — handy when reading the breakdown table.
- Is the LP seed liquidity really part of the cost?
- It's capital you commit but you don't 'spend' it — the SOL sits in the Raydium pool as one side of the trading pair. You technically still own it via the LP token. If you burn the LP token (recommended for memecoins), the SOL becomes permanently inaccessible. If you don't burn, you retain the option to withdraw. The calculator includes it in the total because it's cash you have to have on hand to launch with liquidity.
- Why does Pump.fun show as cheapest?
- Pump.fun's upfront cost is ~0.02 SOL because the platform takes all post-launch trading fees instead. The bonding curve charges 1% on every buy and 1% on every sell until your token graduates at ~$69K market cap. A token that does $500K of cumulative pre-graduation volume pays $10,000 in platform fees — far more than any flat-fee generator. The calculator's upfront figure for Pump.fun is genuinely low; the long-run cost is paid in trading fees the calculator doesn't model.
- Why does the comparison table not include Pump.fun?
- Pump.fun isn't a configurable choice in the same sense — you can't decide whether to revoke authorities or burn LP because the bonding curve handles both automatically at graduation. Including it in a config-by-config comparison would mislead. The single-tool result above does model Pump.fun if you select it; the comparison table shows the 4 generators that share a config space.