Pricing and timeline
How much does a Solana arbitrage bot cost?
A custom Solana arbitrage bot built by our team costs between $25,000 and $500,000, delivered over a minimum of six months, paid in crypto by milestone. This page explains what moves the price inside that range, what is included at every level, and why a cheap bot usually costs more.
- Range
- $25,000 to $500,000 per project
- Timeline
- Minimum six months
- Payment
- SOL, USDC or USDT by milestone
What drives the price
Every quotation is built from the same components, and the price follows the scope of each one.
- Strategies: a single DEX-to-DEX arbitrage module sits at the low end; adding back-running, liquidations, launch sniping or CEX/DEX spread capture increases scope.
- Venues: each DEX or centralized exchange needs its own adapter, decoding and tests.
- Latency target: a bot expected to win contested routes needs more engineering on the hot path than one trading quieter pairs.
- Infrastructure: bare-metal deployment next to your validator, multi-region submission and failover add setup and testing time.
- Operations: dashboards, alerting and reporting are included; custom integrations with your treasury or reporting stack are scoped separately.
Typical scope at each level
At the lower end of the range, a client receives a focused DEX-to-DEX arbitrage bot: Geyser feed, in-memory pool graph for the main Solana venues, route solver, pre-flight simulation, Jito bundle submission, risk guards, dashboards and deployment templates. That is a complete, production bot, not a prototype.
Mid-range projects add strategies and venues on the same engine, for example a sniper module with launch filters or a second family of pools, plus deeper latency work. The upper end covers multi-strategy engines with CEX/DEX arbitrage, hedging, custom infrastructure such as private Geyser plugins, and extended operating support for a fund's team.
Timeline and milestones
Six months is the minimum because a bot that trades real capital has to be tested against real markets. A typical plan runs: architecture and venue decoding in the first weeks; the engine, solver and simulator next; dry-run operation on live data; mainnet testing at small size with strict caps; then handover, documentation and tuning. Each phase ends with a milestone review and a payment.
Payment is in SOL, USDC or USDT. Escrow through a mutually agreed third party is welcome. There is no revenue share and no licence fee: when the final milestone is paid, the repository is yours.
Why cheap bots cost more
Bots sold for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars are the same code distributed to many buyers, usually in TypeScript or Python, without simulation or real risk guards. They compete against each other for the same routes and lose to production engines on latency. The money is not lost on the purchase; it is lost on failed transactions, bad fills and positions the bot should never have opened.
A custom build is an investment in an engine that only you run, that your team can audit, and that is designed around your capital and your risk limits. Whether it pays off still depends on markets, competition and how it is operated, and we never guarantee profit, but it is the only approach that gives you a real edge to work with.
FAQ
Cost and timeline: questions we are asked
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