What a Solana volume bot should cost

What actually costs money

Before comparing prices it helps to know what is being paid for. A volume campaign carries four real costs, none of which are optional:

• Network fees. Every swap is a Solana transaction with a base fee and, on a busy network, a priority fee. Thousands of swaps means thousands of these.
• Jito tips. Bundling through a private relay to avoid being sandwiched is not free; the tip is what buys inclusion.
• Wallet funding. Every wallet in the fleet needs SOL before it can trade, plus rent for the accounts it touches. Larger fleets cost more before a single swap happens.
• Failed and re-routed legs. Contended slots produce failures. A leg that fails still consumed a fee, and re-routing it consumes another.

Any quote you receive either covers these or it does not. That is the entire basis for comparing prices in this category, and it is the thing pricing pages are least likely to spell out.

The four pricing models

Percentage-of-volume is the only one of the four whose price moves with the thing that actually drives cost. That is why it has become the benchmark, and why a quote that undercuts it dramatically is usually excluding something.

The "free" option, priced honestly

Open-source volume scripts exist and they genuinely charge nothing. What they do not do is make the underlying costs disappear. Running one yourself means paying for:

• Every network fee and tip, directly, with no batching or optimisation unless you build it.
• An RPC endpoint capable of the request volume, which at any serious scale is not the free tier.
• Your own time building the funding graph, the failure handling, the wallet rotation and the venue integrations.
• Maintenance, because launchpad and AMM programs change and abandoned repositories do not follow them.

For a developer running volume continuously across many tokens, that maths can work. For someone running one campaign around a launch, the build cost exceeds the fee on any realistic campaign size, and the failure modes land on you at the exact moment you have least attention to spare.

Comparing quotes properly

Four questions turn a headline number into a comparable one:

1. Are network fees and tips included, or extra? This single question can double a quote.
2. Is wallet funding included? Funding a large fleet is a real SOL cost that has to be paid by somebody.
3. Is the fee shown before you commit? If you cannot see the exact SOL amount until after payment, you are not comparing, you are hoping.
4. What happens to unused funds? A refund policy on stopped campaigns is the difference between a deposit and a payment.

Ask all four of any vendor, including this one. The comparison page answers them for each option it lists, including where our own product is the wrong choice.

How this site prices it

A flat 2% of the target volume you configure. Network fees, Jito tips, wallet funding and routing across every supported venue your token trades on are inside that number. There is no subscription, no per-wallet charge, no tier and no volume band where the rate changes.

The arithmetic is visible in the console: target volume is wallet count multiplied by the midpoint of your swap band, the fee is 2% of that, and both update as you move a slider. Campaigns start at 50 SOL of target volume. Nothing appears at the payment step that was not visible before it.

We publish it this way for a self-interested reason as much as a principled one: a price you can verify before paying generates far fewer support conversations than one you cannot.

When it is not worth paying at all

There are situations where the honest advice is to keep the money:

• The token has no liquidity yet. Volume into a pool with nothing in it distorts price and produces a chart that hurts you.
• There is nothing for arrivals to find. No profile, no community, no reason to stay. The attention converts to nothing and the spend is pure loss.
• The budget only covers a token spend. An amount too small to register is worse than not running at all, because you have paid to learn nothing.
• You are expecting price appreciation. That is not what this buys, and any vendor implying otherwise is describing a different product than the one they are selling.

If none of those apply, size the campaign against the board rather than against a vendor's suggestion - the sizing method takes about two minutes and produces a number you can defend.