Guides / Token creation cost 2026
How much does it cost to create a Solana token in 2026?
Exactly what you pay to create a Solana token in 2026: network rent, the Metaplex metadata fee, transaction fees and tool fees — with live numbers measured on October 29, 2026.
Updated October 29, 2026
Network costs (paid by anyone, with any tool)
These are the same whether you use the CLI or any website. Rent values come from mainnet's getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption on October 29, 2026, after the second SIMD-0437 rent reduction (5,080 lamports per byte).
| Item | SOL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mint account rent (82 bytes) | 0.00107 | Deposit held by the mint account. |
| Your token account rent (165 bytes) | 0.00149 | Recoverable if you later empty and close the account. |
| Metaplex metadata account rent (679 bytes) | 0.00410 | Holds name, symbol and URI. |
| Metaplex Token Metadata protocol fee | 0.01 | Charged by the Metaplex program on metadata creation. |
| Transaction fee | ≈0.0000124 | 5,000 lamports per signature (wallet + new mint) plus a small priority fee. |
| Total network cost | ≈0.0167 |
Further rent reductions are scheduled to activate in steps, so these numbers will fall. SolKit reads the live rent from the network when it shows your total.
Tool fees
No-code tools add a service fee on top. Published fees for a token with mint and freeze authority revoked, as listed on each tool's own website in October 2026:
| Tool | Base fee | Revoke mint + freeze |
|---|---|---|
| SolKit | 0.1 SOL | Included |
| Jumpbit | 0.05 SOL | Included |
| DexLab | 0.15 SOL | Included |
| CoinFactory | 0.2 SOL | +0.1 SOL each |
| Orion Tools | 0.40 SOL (freeze revoke required) | +0.1 SOL to revoke mint |
| Smithii | 0.5 SOL | +0.1 SOL each |
Prices change; check the tool's own page before paying. A token with mint and freeze revoked on SolKit costs about 0.117 SOL in total today.
What creation does not include
- Liquidity: making the token tradable needs a pool plus the SOL and tokens you deposit, and the DEX's own pool-creation costs.
- Distribution: airdropping to new wallets costs about 0.00149 SOL of rent per new recipient — see the airdrop guide.