How to get on DexScreener trending, and what it actually costs

Why DexScreener trending is not for sale

You cannot. There is no product on DexScreener's marketplace called trending, and the trending docs say the ranking comes from a Trending Score the company keeps close to its chest. What you can buy is proximity: a multiplier on the score you already have, a paid slot in the bar where the trending tokens sit, or a banner. Each is labelled as an ad or a multiplier by DexScreener itself, and each comes with a line saying it does not guarantee a trend.

That distinction matters because most of the money founders spend on "trending" never reaches DexScreener. It goes to Telegram sellers who promise a top ten slot and deliver a bot. The second half of this page is about them. The first half is about what DexScreener actually sells, priced from its own pages.

What DexScreener's paid products cost

Four products, one contact form, and one free thing people forget. Listing is free: DexScreener's docs say every token is listed automatically once it is in a liquidity pool and has one transaction. Everything below is optional.

Boost pack prices are shown inside the purchase window on the token page and are not published in DexScreener's docs, which only state the 12 to 24 hour duration and the 500 Boost golden ticker threshold. The $100 entry and $3,999 top pack figures come from third-party reporting linked at the bottom of this page, so check the window before you pay.

The honest summary: $299 for Enhanced Token Info is the one line item that touches the algorithm. Everything else buys eyeballs for a window and then expires. If you have the budget for exactly one thing, buy that, and supply it with a banner that fits the slot rather than a stretched logo.

What actually moves the DexScreener trending score

DexScreener publishes the categories and hides the weights. That is still more than most founders read. Here is the list from the trending docs, in the order the docs give it, with what each one means when you are the token.

1. Volume. USD traded through the pair. The first input listed, and the one every bot seller targets, because it is the easiest to fake.
2. Liquidity. What is in the pool. A token doing $500,000 of volume on $10,000 of liquidity reads as wash trading to anyone who looks, and to the audit partners DexScreener uses to flag tokens.
3. Transactions. The count, separate from the dollar amount. Many small real buys beat a few large fake ones.
4. Unique makers. Distinct wallets trading. This is the input that exposes bots: ten wallets trading in a loop is ten makers no matter how much volume they push.
5. Holders. Wallets that kept the token. Bots buy and sell; holders buy and stay.
6. Page visitors. People opening the token's DexScreener page on web and app. This is where a website, a Telegram and a Twitter that actually link to the pair page earn their keep.
7. Reactions. The rocket, fire, poop and flag counters on the pair page. Reactions are not Boosts and are free to click.
8. Verified info and security audit. Enhanced Token Info, plus open-source contracts that pass the third-party security checks.

Time windows: DexScreener does not publish how long any of these inputs count for or how recent activity is weighted. The docs describe the score as a snapshot of buzz and market activity, which is the closest thing to an official statement that bursts matter more than lifetime totals. Plan for a concentrated window, not a slow drip.

How to trend on DexScreener without paying a seller

Every input above is a real human doing a real thing. So the plan is to line up as many real humans as possible for the same short window, then make the pair page worth staying on when they arrive.

1. Buy Enhanced Token Info before launch. Verified info is a Trust input, and a bare pair page with no logo converts visitors into closed tabs. $299, once. Have the logo and banner ready; the banner sizes are here.
2. Put the DexScreener link everywhere. Site, Telegram pinned message, Twitter bio, every reply. Page visitors are an input and you control where your community clicks.
3. Pick a window and tell people. Coordinate the community's buying, reacting and sharing into one block of hours rather than spreading it over a week. A snapshot score rewards a spike.
4. Ask for reactions, not boosts. Reactions are free, count toward engagement, and cost the community nothing. Boosts cost you money and multiply whatever score you already have, so they belong at the end of a spike, not the start of one.
5. Keep the liquidity honest. Volume that dwarfs the pool is the number one tell of a bot, and it is the ratio traders check first.
6. Then, if there is budget left, Boost the spike. A multiplier on a real score is the only time a Boost does what people imagine it does.

If that reads like a marketing plan rather than a purchase, that is because it is one. The promotion guide covers the rest of the funnel, and the launch cost page puts DexScreener spend next to everything else you will pay for.

Are Telegram "trending guaranteed" services a scam?

Most of them sell wash trading with a guarantee that voids itself. Here is what the ones that publish terms actually say, and what the ones that do not are hiding.

A published example: a trending service that charges $1,200 for 12 hours or $1,600 for 24 hours on Solana, and $1,000 for 24 hours on EVM chains, targeting a top ten position. Read the conditions. The token needs $25,000 of liquidity and $300,000 of existing volume on Solana before the order starts. If market cap drops below $40,000 the order pauses. If price falls 80% the refund is void. And the seller's own page says DexScreener may remove the token from trending, with no refund. So you pay $1,600 for a service that only works on tokens already trending on their own, and lose the money if it does not.

What is under the hood is a volume bot. One publicly priced tool charges 0.1 SOL per 100 "market makers" generated and describes itself as executing buys and sells across multiple wallets to simulate organic activity. That is the product. It moves input number one, volume, and fakes input number four, unique makers, by spinning up wallets. It does nothing for holders, page visitors or reactions.

Why it gets tokens flagged: the pattern is easy to see. Buys and sells that mirror each other in size and timing. A cluster of wallets created the same week doing most of the volume. A volume to liquidity ratio that no real market produces. DexScreener's own Boost docs say tokens flagged with security risks by its audit partners lose Boost eligibility and can have active Boosts removed, so a token that buys both a bot and a Boost pack can end up with neither. And traders run the same checks. The one independent study of boosted tokens found an average return of minus 48%, with the worst results among tokens that bought over 3,000 Boosts. Buyers have learned that a golden ticker on a token with no makers means someone is selling into them.

The tell in the sales pitch: "guaranteed" plus "no refund if the token drops." A guarantee that voids when the thing it guarantees against happens is not a guarantee. It is a bet with your money on their side of the table.

What a trending push should cost in total

Priced from DexScreener's marketplace and this studio's own list, a first push that touches every real input looks like this. Enhanced Token Info, $299. A banner set that fits the slot, $97 here. A site people land on from the pair page, $347 in 24 hours. Optional Boost on the spike, from around $100 for an entry pack by third-party accounts, priced in the window when you click. Under $900 all in before Boosts, none of it wasted if the trend never comes, because the token info, banner and site keep working after the window closes.

Compare that with $1,600 for 24 hours of bot volume on a token that already had to be doing $300,000 a day to qualify, refundable only if nothing goes wrong. One of these budgets leaves you with a token page. The other leaves you with a screenshot.

Sources checked 16 September 2026: DexScreener's trending docs, boosting docs, Enhanced Token Info, token advertising and trending bar advertising pages, and the direct deal terms in its advertise docs. Boost entry pricing from OpenLiquid; the $3,999 top pack and the minus 48% boosted-token return from The Holy Coins' report on the Dethective study (December 2024); Telegram trending service terms from PandaBoost's published pricing (July 2026); volume bot pricing from Smithii's market maker page; wash trading patterns from OpenLiquid's wash trading explainer. Our own prices are on the pricing page and are fixed, not indicative.