Fees, all of them

Every fee on the platform, on one page. If a cost isn't listed here, we don't charge it.

The details

Generation is priced in dollars and charged in SOL. You are quoted the SOL amount at the moment you ask, converted from $1.40 at the exchange rate right then, and that quote is held for 10 minutes — so a moving SOL price cannot change what you owe after you have approved it. It is charged once per track, before anything is made. If the vendor fails to produce audio, you get a free retry rather than a refund — see Payments & retries.

The curve trade fee is 1% of the SOL value of the trade, taken on both sides. Buy 1 SOL of a track and 1% of that goes to the treasury; sell back out and the same applies. It is charged by the program, so it is visible on-chain for every trade.

Launch rent is the one cost on this page that surprises people, so it is worth being exact about. Solana charges a deposit to keep an account alive, and launching a track creates six of them: the mint, the curve, the token vault, the SOL vault, the oracle, and the Metaplex metadata account that makes your token show a name and cover art in wallets instead of rendering as unknown.

The deposit is held by those accounts, on the network. None of it reaches our treasury, and create_track_token contains no transfer to us — it is not a fee, and we do not earn from launching. A measured mainnet launch cost ~0.02 SOL, of which the accounts hold about 0.0134 SOL; the rest is transaction and priority fees. Your wallet shows the exact figure before you approve it.

Two things follow from it being denominated in SOL rather than dollars. Unlike generation, it cannot be pegged — it is Solana's price, not ours — so the dollar cost of launching rises and falls with SOL. And the largest single item is the metadata account, at roughly a third of the total, which is what buys your token an identity everywhere outside this site.

Pool creation is not billed to anyone. At bonding, the cost of creating the DEX pool comes out of the SOL the track itself raised, before the rest is deposited as liquidity. It reduces the liquidity the pool opens with; it does not come out of anyone's wallet.

Network fees are Solana's, not ours. They are typically a small fraction of a cent.

What creators earn

Nothing, today. Be clear about this before you launch:

• The 1% trade fee goes entirely to the platform treasury. Creators receive no share of it.
• At bonding the LP is burned, so the pool's trading fees are not collectable by anyone — including us.
• The only way a creator makes anything from a track is by buying it and later selling it, at whatever price the market gives them, exactly like any other holder.