DexScreener boosts: what they cost, how long they last, and whether they work

What is a DexScreener boost?

A boost is a purchased multiplier on a token's Trending score. DexScreener ranks tokens on each chain by a blend of volume, buys, unique traders and social activity; a boost multiplies that score for the life of the pack, so a token with modest real activity can sit above tokens with far more trading. The multiplier is what the number in the badge refers to: a token showing ⚡100 has 100 active boosts stacked on it.

Boosts are additive. A 30x pack on a token already carrying 50 active boosts shows ⚡80, and the badge counts down as older boosts expire. That is why the number changes through the day even when nobody bought anything new — and why a token holding a high number for days is being topped up.

Boosts change nothing about the token itself — not liquidity, not the contract, not the holders. They change where the token appears. Everything a boost buys is attention.

The boost packs: 10x, 30x, 50x, 100x, 500x

DexScreener sells boosts in five pack sizes. The number is how many boosts the pack adds — the multiplier applied to the token's Trending score. Larger packs cost less per boost, which is why serious campaigns go straight to the 100x boost or the 500x boost rather than stacking small ones.

On Solana, where competition for Trending is fiercest, a 10x or 30x pack rarely reaches the visible top rows on its own; on quieter chains such as Base or BNB Chain the same pack can be enough. (The "typical buyer" and "budget signal" columns are our reading of the tracking data, not DexScreener's wording.) See the Solana page for how crowded the boosted rows are right now.

What does a boost do?

A boost does three things: it raises the token in Trending, adds the lightning badge everywhere the token appears, and lists it in DexScreener's "boosted" views and API feeds. The first is what people pay for; the other two are what let outsiders — including us — see that a boost was bought.

• Trending position. The token's score is multiplied by its active boost count, so it climbs the chain's Trending list and, with a large enough pack, the cross-chain list on the home page. How far it climbs depends on what it is competing against — see the Trending guide.
• The badge. A yellow lightning bolt with the active count appears next to the token name in lists, search results and on the pair page. Many traders read the number as a rough proxy for budget.
• Boosted feeds. DexScreener exposes the latest and top boosted tokens in its public API and in a boosted filter on the site. Those feeds show current boosts only; they do not keep history.

There is one extra perk at the top end: the Golden Ticker. When a token has 500 or more active boosts, DexScreener shows its symbol in gold across the site, and it stays gold only while the count stays above 500 (per the official docs, checked 23 Aug 2026). That is what a 500x boost buys beyond the multiplier — and why some teams keep re-buying to hold the line.

What a boost does not do is verify anything. DexScreener's own docs say boosts do not guarantee a trending position: the multiplier is applied on top of the token's real volume and trader metrics, not instead of them. A boost is not a review, not an audit and not a sign of endorsement — it is a purchase that anyone with a wallet can make.

How DexScreener Trending is calculated →

How long does a boost last?

A boost lasts 12 to 24 hours, depending on the pack, as stated in the official boosting docs when we checked them on 23 Aug 2026. After that the boosts expire and the badge count drops. The docs also note that boosts are non-refundable and can be removed if moderators flag the token, and that tokens inactive for more than 24 hours cannot be boosted at all.

Two consequences follow. First, a token that shows a high badge for several days is being re-boosted, not riding one purchase — a spending pattern, and the most useful thing the badge can tell you. Second, timing matters: a boost bought in the busiest trading hours competes with far more boosted tokens than one bought at night, so the same pack buys different visibility depending on when it lands. Insights shows paid activity by hour. In our feed every boost carries the minute we first saw it, so the age of any active boost is visible at a glance.

DexScreener boost price and cost

The boost price depends on the pack: the 10x pack is the cheapest and the 500x boost is the most expensive, with the cost per boost falling as the pack grows. Pack prices are shown only inside the Boost dialog on the token page, and on 23 Aug 2026 we could not re-verify them from DexScreener's public pages, so we give magnitudes rather than figures: the smallest pack costs on the order of a hundred dollars, the 30x and 50x packs a few hundred, the 100x pack several hundred, and the 500x pack runs into the thousands. Third-party guides circulate exact numbers; treat any of them as a scale, not a quote, and read the live price in the Boost dialog on dexscreener.com before you budget.

Boost cost is separate from the other paid products: Enhanced Token Info (the "Dex Paid" profile) is a one-time payment of a few hundred dollars, and ads are priced per campaign. A team that bought a profile, a 100x boost and an ad has typically spent well into four figures before the token is a day old. The full comparison is in the paid services guide.

All DexScreener paid services and prices →

Who buys boosts

Boosts are bought by token teams, their communities, KOLs and large holders — and because DexScreener lets anyone boost any token, the badge alone does not tell you which. The buyers fall into four groups:

• Teams at launch. The most common pattern: a Dex Paid profile in the first minutes, then a 50x or 100x boost to catch Trending while the chart is fresh.
• Communities and CTOs. After the original team leaves, a community that took over the profile may pool funds for a boost to signal the token is alive. See the CTO guide.
• KOLs and callers. Influencers positioned in a token sometimes buy a boost before posting, so followers who check DexScreener see a badge.
• Whales. "Whale boosts" — a single large pack, often a 500x boost, landing on a token with no prior paid activity — usually mean one big holder is engineering an exit or a run. They are the purchases our alerts are built for.

The badge does not say which of these bought it. Context does: what the token paid for before, at what market cap the boost landed, and whether its links (X handle, Telegram, website) appear on earlier paid tokens. That context is what we record.

How to read repeated boost purchases

A single boost is a marketing decision; repeated boosts are a budget. When the same token buys pack after pack, three readings are possible, and the market cap at each purchase usually tells you which.

1. Topping up a run. Boosts bought at rising market caps, spaced roughly a pack-duration apart, mean the team is keeping a working token in Trending. This is the healthiest pattern and the one most likely to continue.
2. Defending a dump. Boosts bought at falling market caps, often in larger packs each time, mean someone is paying to keep attention on a token that is losing it. The gap between "paid @" and the current cap widens with each purchase.
3. Serial launching. The same wallet, links or description boosting a new token every few days, each abandoned once the boost expires. Our "seen before" check flags tokens that share links with earlier paid tokens; it is the fastest way to catch this.

Before reacting to a big badge, look the token up on the token check: every boost, profile, ad and CTO it bought, with the market cap at each moment and the high reached afterwards. Two boosts at $80K and $40K read very differently from two boosts at $80K and $400K.

Do boosts make a token pump? (data)

Sometimes — less often than the badge suggests, and pack size matters less than people assume. The table below is live from our tracker: every boost purchase recorded in the last 7 days across all chains, grouped by pack size, with what the market cap did next. "Hit +50%" and "Did 2×" are the share of boosts after which the cap rose 50% or doubled from the cap at purchase; "Flops" traded at 30% or less of the paid cap 30+ minutes later; "Best 25% peaked ≥" is the peak gain of the top quarter.

Read it as a base rate, not a prediction. A 500x boost is bought by people with more money, not necessarily a better token, and the flop column for the largest packs is usually what surprises first-time readers. The comparison with Dex Paid profiles, ads and CTOs, filterable by chain and window, is on the Insights page.

Full Insights: every payment kind, every chain →

How to see boosted tokens

On DexScreener, boosted tokens are visible three ways: the lightning badge on any list or pair page, the boosted filter in the chain tabs, and the public API endpoints token-boosts/latest/v1 and token-boosts/top/v1 in the API reference. All three show the present state only — once a boost expires it is gone from the badge, the filter and the API. There is no history.

DXT Tools reads those public feeds continuously and keeps what they drop: the time of each purchase, the pack size, the chain, the market cap at that moment and what the token did next. The boosts feed is the live list; alerts notify you by pack size and chain, so a 500x boost on Solana reaches you the minute it lands.

Open the live boosts feed →