Dex Paid, explained — what Enhanced Token Info is and what it tells you

What does "Dex Paid" mean?

"Dex Paid" means the team behind a token paid DexScreener for Enhanced Token Info, and DexScreener approved and published the profile. Before that, a token page shows only what the chain shows: the pair, the chart, liquidity, volume and a generic placeholder where the logo should be. After it, the page carries the team's branding and links, and the token gets the small check-mark next to its name.

Three things follow from that definition. First, Dex Paid is a payment event, not a rating: DexScreener reviews the submission for completeness and policy, not for whether the project is good. Second, it is one-time per token — there is no subscription to keep it. Third, it is visible to everyone, which is exactly why traders use it as a signal: it is the cheapest public proof that somebody is spending money on a token.

Because it is public, DexScreener also exposes the latest approved profiles through its free API (GET /token-profiles/latest/v1, rate-limited to 60 requests a minute, documented at docs.dexscreener.com/api/reference). That endpoint is how every dex paid tracker — including DXT Tools — learns about a new profile within seconds of approval. It lists what went live, not when the payment was made or what the token was worth.

What Enhanced Token Info includes

Enhanced Token Info is the profile layer of a DexScreener token page: the visual identity and the links a team wants traders to see. As described on the marketplace and in the docs, a paid profile adds the items below.

The profile does not change the token's position in Trending on its own, does not add a lightning badge, and does not place a banner ad anywhere else on the site — those are boosts and ads, sold separately. Image dimensions and file rules are in the banner size guide.

How much does Dex Paid cost?

Enhanced Token Info is a one-time fee of $299, shown as a discount from a $499 list price, as listed on the DexScreener marketplace on 23 August 2026. It can be paid with crypto or with a credit or debit card. DexScreener has changed its pricing and packaging before and can do so again, so treat the number above as a snapshot and check the order page before you pay — that is the only price that counts.

For context within the paid line-up: Enhanced Token Info is the cheapest of DexScreener's products. A boost pack starts in a similar range and scales into the thousands for the 500x tier; an ad campaign costs more again. That price ladder is the whole reason traders read the badges as a budget signal — the full comparison, with what our data says about outcomes, is in the paid services guide.

How a team gets it (the approval flow)

A team orders Enhanced Token Info on the marketplace, uploads the assets, pays, and waits for DexScreener to review and publish the profile. The steps, as the marketplace presents them:

1. Open marketplace.dexscreener.com, choose Enhanced Token Info and enter the token's contract address (pick the right chain — a profile is per token, not per pair).
2. Upload the logo and banner, write the description and add the social links. The order form does not ask for proof that you deployed the token, which matters for the legitimacy question below.
3. Pay the one-time fee (crypto or card). The order is queued for review.
4. DexScreener reviews the submission — checking that the images meet the format rules and that the content does not break its policies — and publishes it. The marketplace states that most orders are processed within a few minutes, with up to 12 hours allowed (as listed on 23 August 2026); the docs describe what gets rejected.
5. The profile goes live on the token page, the check-mark appears, and the token shows up in the public "latest token profiles" list. That is the moment trackers record as Dex Paid.

After approval, a team can come back and edit the profile (a new logo, a changed description, updated links). DexScreener publishes those edits through the same list, which is why a token can appear to "pay again" when it has only changed its banner. We separate those cases — see Dex Update below.

Why traders watch Dex Paid

Traders watch Dex Paid because it is usually the first visible sign that a token has a marketing budget. Thousands of pairs launch every day; almost none of them spend money on anything. The moment a team pays for a profile, it has separated itself from the pile — it has a wallet, a plan and at least one person doing marketing — and it has done so on the most viewed screen in on-chain trading.

The signal is also early and cheap to read. A boost or an ad campaign typically comes later and costs more; a profile is the entry ticket, often bought in the first hours or days of a token's life, sometimes minutes after launch. That is why "new dex paid tokens" feeds and alert bots exist: catching the profile is catching the team's first move. On DXT Tools, the Dex Paid feed shows every first-time profile across every chain with the market cap at that moment, and alerts push the same event to you.

What the data adds is the base rate: how often the market cap went +50% or doubled after a profile, and how often it flopped. We publish that per payment kind in Insights — read it before you read the badge as good news.

Why Dex Paid is not a legitimacy signal

Dex Paid proves that someone spent a few hundred dollars; it proves nothing about the team, the contract or the liquidity. DexScreener's review checks the submission, not the project: it does not audit the contract, verify that the submitter deployed the token, confirm the socials belong to who they claim, or look at whether liquidity is locked. A rug can have a perfect profile. Many do — a professional-looking page is part of the playbook, because a few hundred dollars is a rounding error against what a rug collects.

So "is dex paid a good sign?" has an honest answer: it is a budget sign, not a safety sign. Use it the way it deserves to be used:

• Treat the check-mark as "somebody is marketing this", nothing more.
• Check liquidity, lock or burn status, top holders and the contract before the profile, not after.
• Check whether the same socials, images or description have been used by earlier tokens — serial launchers reuse assets. DXT Tools flags this as Seen before in the feed and on the token check.
• Compare the market cap at payment with the market cap now: a profile bought at a tiny cap that has since run 20x is a different situation from one bought at the top.

How to combine the paid badges with the rest of the page is the subject of How to read paid activity on DexScreener.

"Dex Update": profile edits after paying

A Dex Update is a change to an existing paid profile — a new logo, banner, description or link set — published by a token that had already paid for Enhanced Token Info. DexScreener pushes these edits through the same public list as first-time profiles, so a naive tracker reports every edit as a fresh "dex paid", and a single token can generate a stream of false payment alerts just by rotating its banner.

DXT Tools records the two separately. The first profile we see for a token is a Dex Paid; any later profile event for the same token is a Dex Update, with a note of what changed (icon, header, description, links). Both matter, for different reasons: the first marks the arrival of a budget; an update often marks a pivot — new branding, a new Telegram after the old one was abandoned, or a community takeover rewriting the page. The Dex Paid feed shows both, and lists the latest edits on their own.

Dex Paid vs boost

Dex Paid buys a profile; a boost buys visibility. The two are different products, bought at different moments and telling you different things about a team's budget.

The combination — profile first, then a large boost within the same day — is the pattern that most often precedes a run in our data, and also the pattern serial launchers copy. Everything about packs, prices and what boosts do to Trending is in the Boosts guide.

DexScreener boosts explained →

How to check whether a token paid (dex paid checker)

The fastest way to check if a token is Dex Paid is to look for the check-mark and the filled-in profile on its DexScreener page: a logo instead of the placeholder, a banner, a description and social links mean Enhanced Token Info was approved. What the page will not tell you is when the profile went live, what the market cap was at that moment, whether the profile has been edited since, or whether the team has also bought boosts or ads.

For that, use a dex paid checker that keeps history. On DXT Tools, paste the contract address into the token check and you get the token's full paid timeline: every Dex Paid, Dex Update, boost, ad and CTO event with the market cap at payment ("Paid @"), the highest cap reached afterwards, whether it is still up, a flop verdict, and the Seen-before links to earlier tokens that shared its socials or images. If nothing comes back, the token has not paid DexScreener in the window we keep — which is itself useful to know before you trust a screenshot of a check-mark.

Developers: the public "latest token profiles" endpoint is a rolling list, not a per-token lookup, and carries no timestamps or market data — see the API guide.

Did this token pay DexScreener? →

Tokens that just paid (live)

The most recent first-time Enhanced Token Info profiles across every chain DexScreener lists, with the market cap at the moment the profile went live and where each token is now. New dex paid tokens appear here within seconds of approval; Dex Updates are kept out of this table so every row is a genuine first payment.

Open the full Dex Paid feed →