How to get your Solana token on Jupiter, DexScreener and Birdeye

The short answer#

You do not apply to appear on DexScreener, Birdeye, GeckoTerminal or Jupiter. Each one indexes a Solana token automatically once it sits in a funded liquidity pool on a supported DEX and someone trades it. What you can apply or pay for is extra: Jupiter's verified check (free, or 1,000 JUP for an express review), DexScreener's Enhanced Token Info ($299 at the time of writing), Birdeye's token info update, and CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap listings, which are free but selective.

How do aggregators find a new Solana token?#

Aggregators find a token by watching DEX programs on-chain, not by reading applications. When a pool is created on Raydium, Meteora, Orca, PumpSwap or another DEX they support, the pool's two mints become known, and the first swap gives them a price. Everything else on the page is read from the chain:

• Name, symbol and logo come from the Metaplex metadata account and the JSON file its URI points to.
• Supply and decimals come from the mint account.
• Mint and freeze authority come from the mint account too, and most screeners show them as warnings.
• Liquidity, price and volume come from the pool's reserves and swaps.

That has a practical consequence. Creating a token does not list it anywhere. A mint with no pool has no price and nothing for these sites to show. If you have not got that far, how to launch a Solana token covers the steps up to the pool.

How do you get listed on DexScreener, and what is free?#

DexScreener lists a token automatically as soon as it has been added to a liquidity pool and that pool has at least one transaction. There is no form and no fee for the basic pair page, which shows the chart, trades, liquidity and the name and logo from your metadata.

The paid products are optional, and it helps to know what each one actually does:

DexScreener states that trending is organic and cannot be bought directly, and its boosting terms say boosts are one factor among many with no guaranteed rank. I would treat Enhanced Token Info as the one purchase with a clear deliverable: a filled-in profile instead of an empty one. Whether it is worth $299 depends on whether people are already looking at the page. DexScreener also reads token information from external lists such as CoinGecko's, so a CoinGecko listing later can fill some of the same fields.

How does Jupiter verification work in 2026?#

Jupiter indexes a token from its first pool creation, not from the mint, and will route swaps through any supported pool with enough liquidity whether the token is verified or not. Verification is a separate review that adds a green check meaning Jupiter considers this mint the canonical token for that ticker. Jupiter says plainly that it is not an endorsement of the project.

Unverified tokens are not shown in Jupiter's default search results; users can choose to include them. In practice early buyers paste your mint address from your own links, so verification matters most once the ticker is popular enough to attract copies.

You apply at Jupiter's verification site, VRFD, with the contract address and the project's X account. At the time of writing, in October 2026, there are two tracks:

1. Standard review. Free, no guaranteed timeline. Jupiter prioritises the queue by submission age, trading volume and likes from wallets it classes as "smart".
2. Express review. 1,000 JUP, burned through a Jupiter multisig. It guarantees a first review within 24 to 48 hours and up to two further reviews at the same interval. The fee is non-refundable whether the token is approved or not; Jupiter refunds only if it misses the first-review commitment.

Jupiter's published criteria are holistic: market cap (a warning appears below $100,000, but it is not an automatic rejection), its organic score for genuine trading activity, healthy holder distribution, a ticker that does not clash with an existing verified token, on-chain liquidity, and social support, which Jupiter calls the most important criterion. Exact thresholds are deliberately not published. A rejection means the metrics need to move before reapplying, so paying for repeated express reviews on an unchanged token wastes JUP.

Jupiter's token data also carries audit fields: whether mint authority and freeze authority are disabled, and the share held by the top holders. Those are read from the chain, so fixing them is something you do on-chain, not in the application.

How do you update your token on Birdeye and GeckoTerminal?#

Birdeye and GeckoTerminal both index Solana pools on their own, so the token appears once it trades. Changing what they display beyond your on-chain metadata is a separate request.

• Birdeye. Updates go through the token info update form on the token's own Birdeye page, with a Regular or Fast track. Birdeye requires payment evidence before a request enters the queue, and ownership is confirmed by a message from the project's official X, Telegram or Discord account. Birdeye ran a free period in April 2026; check the form for the current price. Birdeye warns that the form is the only way to update token info, so anyone offering to do it for you in a DM is not Birdeye.
• GeckoTerminal. Run by CoinGecko. Token info updates can be submitted through its own request form, and a paid GeckoTerminal Fast Pass (listed at $199 per request when I checked) prioritises a response within 24 hours and includes a CoinGecko listing evaluation.

What does CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap require?#

CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap charge no listing fee, but they only list a token that already trades on an exchange or DEX they track, with real activity. A launch-day memecoin with one thin pool usually does not qualify yet.

What both ask for, in some form:

1. The contract (mint) address and the chain.
2. A logo, website and official social accounts.
3. Circulating and total supply figures that can be checked against the chain, including which wallets are locked or held by the team.
4. A project description that matches what is publicly visible.

Both sell optional priority review: CoinGecko's Fast Pass and CoinMarketCap's CMC Priority. Both make the same point: paying gets a faster answer, not a lower bar. Agencies that "guarantee" a CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap listing for a fee are selling something neither site sells.

Why do metadata, immutability and revoked authorities matter for listings?#

Every aggregator above reads the same on-chain fields, and so does every buyer with a rug checker. Getting them right before the pool exists is cheaper than explaining them afterwards.

If the metadata is missing or wrong, the Update Metadata tool edits the name, symbol and URI, or creates missing metadata if you still hold the mint authority, for 0.02 SOL per update. Once the logo shows correctly in wallets and on DexScreener, lock the metadata as immutable for 0.02 SOL. The Revoke Mint Authority tool and its freeze counterpart each cost 0.02 SOL, and the free spl-token authorize command does the same thing if you use the CLI. For fungible Raydium LP, Burn LP Tokens costs 0.005 SOL per transaction. The order matters, because these steps are irreversible: create metadata before revoking the mint authority, and confirm the logo before locking the metadata. The background on what each authority allows is in mint authority vs freeze authority.

If the token page still shows no logo after all this, the cause is almost always the metadata URI or the image host. I go through that in why a token logo does not show in Phantom or Jupiter.

What should you spend money on, and what should you skip?#

Spend on liquidity and correct on-chain settings first; everything else is optional and depends on traction.

• Free and worth doing for every token: correct metadata on permanent storage, revoked mint and freeze authority, burned or locked LP, and Jupiter's free standard review.
• Worth paying for once there is real interest: DexScreener Enhanced Token Info, because it fills the page people already visit, and a Jupiter express review if a copycat ticker is confusing buyers.
• Skip: anyone in your DMs offering listings, "trending packages" or verification for a fee. Jupiter, DexScreener, Birdeye, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap all run their own forms and warn about impersonators.

None of this makes a token succeed. It makes a token look like what it is, which is the most an honest launch can ask for.

Bottom line#

Getting a Solana token onto Jupiter, DexScreener, Birdeye and GeckoTerminal costs nothing beyond creating a pool and making a trade; all four index it automatically. Paid products buy speed or presentation: 1,000 JUP for a faster Jupiter review, about $299 for a DexScreener profile, a fee for Birdeye updates, and optional priority queues at CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap. None of them can hide an active mint authority, a mutable name or unburned LP, because every site reads those straight from the chain. Fix the on-chain settings first, then decide what, if anything, is worth paying for.