Arc token tools pricing: one flat 50 USDC per service
Every Arctools service that submits a transaction costs the same 50 USDC, charged once, paid in the asset Arc already uses for gas. There is no cut of your token supply, no charge per wallet or per recipient, and no approval that outlives the transaction. Read-only tools are free.
Three numbers, and only one of them is ours
The service fee is what Arctools charges. Gas is what the Arc network charges. Capital is what you decide to put at risk. Keeping those separate is the point — a fee that cannot grow with your token's success is a fee you can plan around.
- Launches, bundle launches and airdrops
- Uniswap pool creation and liquidity
- Locks, tax changes, burns and renounces
- No percentage of supply, ever
- No per-wallet or per-recipient charge
- Token Checker — audit any Arc token
- Snapshots — holders at any block
- Runs against a public Arc RPC
- Nothing to sign, nothing to approve
- Paid to the network, not to us
- Denominated in USDC, like everything else
- 20 Gwei minimum base fee
- No gas markup or bundling surcharge
What the fee includes, and what it never covers
The left column is the service. The right column is everything else you pay for or decide — listed here so that no part of the cost of a launch arrives as a surprise after the fact.
Included in the 50 USDC
- The full service, executed in one transaction you sign
- Contract deployment and constructor configuration
- Uniswap pool creation, liquidity add and LP routing
- Bundled buys from up to 40 wallets in one atomic call
- Up to 200 airdrop recipients per transaction, repeated as needed
- Holder snapshots, concentration metrics and CSV export
- Tax, limit, recipient and exemption updates on tokens you own
- Supply burns, ownership renounce and LP locking
- Every tool's preview and pre-flight checks
Not included, and never charged by us
- Arc network gas — paid to the network, in USDC
- Capital you put into a pool or into bundled buys
- Uniswap's swap fee on trades, 0.30% on a V2 pair
- Security, legal, tax or investment advice
- Market making, holder acquisition or price support
- Insurance against a token you deployed behaving badly
- Any promise about what your token will be worth
Can I pay in ETH? Not on Arc — and here is why
The short answer is that Arc Mainnet has no ETH to pay with. USDC is the native asset, so it is simultaneously the fee currency and the gas currency. The longer answer explains what the fee would cost in ETH terms and what accepting ETH would actually require.
The fee destination is fixed
Verifiable onchain, not a claim in a policy document.
0x44a38bc02eD29e23C8A32Bc214902Da546AA9449Every collected fee is forwarded to the address above, which is stored as an immutable in ArctoolsBase, the base contract all six tool contracts inherit from. There is no setTreasury function, no owner override and no upgrade path, so the destination cannot be changed after deployment by anyone, including Arctools.
The practical consequence is that rotating the fee address would require deploying a new contract suite. That is the trade-off we chose deliberately: a fee contract whose payout address can be changed is a fee contract you have to trust.
View it on the Arc Explorer50 USDC ≈ 0.02 ETH
Two denominations, one payment rail.
The service fee is 50 USDC, which is roughly 0.02 ETH at the reference rate. That second figure exists so the price can be read in either unit. It is a denomination, not a second payment option: there is no ETH on Arc Mainnet to send.
Arc's native asset is USDC. The canonical WETH9 addresses used on other chains have no code on Arc, and a scan of all 319 Uniswap V2 pairs finds no ETH or wrapped-ETH pool — the only ETH-named token deployed is an unrelated memecoin. So a fee cannot be settled in ETH even if both sides wanted it.
Accepting ETH would mean charging on a different chain while the service still executes on Arc. That is a real product decision rather than a configuration change, and it needs an offchain layer to watch the ETH payment and authorise the Arc transaction. We have not built it, because it would mean asking you to trust a server that the onchain flow currently does not need.
How each fee is taken, and why two of them work differently
Every service costs 50 USDC. Seven of them charge it inside the transaction that does the work, so the price cannot be bypassed. Three of them record a receipt instead, because the functions they call already require your own wallet to be the caller.
Charged in the same transaction
Seven services. The contract does the work and takes the fee together.
- Arc Token Launch
- Arc Bundle Launch
- Arc Token Multisender
- Liquidity Pool Creator
- Add Liquidity
- Remove Liquidity
- Liquidity Locker
These are Arctools contracts. They will not perform the service unless the fee arrives with the call, so there is no separate payment step and nothing to bypass. You see one transaction and one confirmation.
Recorded as an onchain receipt
Three services, because the functions live on your own token.
- Token Manager — all management actions on one token
- Revoke Ownership
- Burn Tokens
These call setFees, renounceOwnership and burnFromSupply — all onlyOwner functions on the token you deployed. Two consequences follow, and they are the reason for the receipt model:
- 1An Arctools contract cannot make those calls for you. onlyOwner compares msg.sender to the token's owner, so a wrapper contract reverts with NotOwner.
- 2Because your wallet must be the caller, no contract can withhold the capability to enforce payment. The token's owner can call those functions from any wallet or interface.
We are telling you this rather than hiding it. The alternative would be a token with a permanent external dependency on a fee contract, which would make your token less trustworthy to buyers, not more.
Flat fee versus a cut of supply versus a charge per wallet
The two commercial models this category normally uses both grow with your success: one takes a slice of the token, the other bills you again for every address you touch. A flat fee does neither.
| Commercial model | Arctools | Percentage-of-supply launchpad | Per-wallet multisender |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price of a launch | 50 USDC flat | Typically 1–5% of total supply | A bundling fee plus a charge per wallet |
| Charged in | USDC on Arc — the same asset as gas | Your own token, or their platform token | Usually the chain's native gas token |
| Cost scales with supply | No — 100 million supply pays the same as 100 thousand | Yes — the cut grows with the supply you create | No |
| Cost scales with recipients | No — 40 bundle wallets, 200 airdrop rows per transaction | Often charged per bundled wallet | Yes — the per-wallet charge is the product |
| Read-only checks | Free, no transaction | Usually behind the same account or fee | Not offered by most |
| Liquidity | Uniswap V2 on Arc; LP tokens minted to your wallet | Often their own venue, with a migration path | Not part of the service |
| Custody | Non-custodial — you sign, contracts hold nothing between calls | Varies; some take custody of the raise | Varies |
| Verifiable before signing | Fee and treasury readable onchain, with a fixed fee ceiling | Frequently a proxy with an upgrade path | Varies |
What a bundle launch actually costs
One launch, in USDC, with every line accounted for. The assumptions are stated so you can check the arithmetic against your own numbers instead of taking a total on trust.
| Line item | How it is calculated | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Arctools service fee — Bundle Launch | Flat, charged once, forwarded to the treasury in the same transaction | 50.00 USDC |
| Arc network gas | ≈ 9,200,000 gas for deploy, pair creation, liquidity and 25 bundled buys, at the 20 Gwei floor | ≈ 0.18 USDC |
| Uniswap V2 swap fee on the bundled buys | 0.30% of 1,500 USDC of bundle capital, paid to the pool's liquidity providers | 4.50 USDC |
| Bundle capital | 1,500 USDC across 25 wallets — this buys your tokens, it is not a cost | 1,500.00 USDC |
| Initial pool capital | 5,000 USDC into the pair — you receive the LP tokens, so it stays yours | 5,000.00 USDC |
| Debited from your wallet in total | One signature, one transaction, one USDC balance | 6,554.68 USDC |
| Cost of running the launch | Service fee, gas and swap fee — everything above that is capital you still control | 54.68 USDC |
| Arctools' share of that total | 50.00 USDC, or 0.76% of what left your wallet | 0.76% |
| Arctools' share of your token supply | No tokens are minted to us, reserved for us or sold by us | 0% |
The same launch with a 3% supply cut
A percentage-of-supply launchpad takes its payment in tokens, so what it costs depends on the price. At this example's opening price of 0.0001 USDC, here is what each model takes out of the launch:
| Model | Taken at launch |
|---|---|
| Arctools — flat fee | 50.00 USDC, known up front and capped |
| 1% of supply | 1,000,000 tokens ≈ 100 USDC at the 0.0001 USDC opening price |
| 3% of supply | 3,000,000 tokens ≈ 300 USDC at the opening price |
| 5% of supply | 5,000,000 tokens ≈ 500 USDC at the opening price |
Those token figures only rise in value if the token does; the 50 USDC fee does not change either way. A cut of supply also shrinks the float your buyers are competing for, which is a further cost that no USDC figure captures.
How the fee is charged
- The fee is forwarded to the Arctools treasury at the start of the same transaction that does the work, so the two cannot come apart.
- Overpayment is refunded in the same call: the contracts expect the fee plus your capital and return the surplus.
- The fee cannot exceed a 10,000 USDC ceiling compiled into each service contract, whoever owns it later.
- Nothing recurs. No subscription renews, no balance is held and no tool keeps funds between calls.
Refunds follow the network's own rules: a reverted transaction never takes the fee, and a confirmed one cannot be reversed. Read the full fee terms.
Every tool, and what it costs
Twelve tools, two prices, no tiers and no volume threshold to qualify for. The read-only tools are free because they never ask you to sign anything.
| Tool | Fee | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
| Arc Token LaunchDeploy a fully configurable ERC-20 on Arc Mainnet in a single transaction. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Arc Bundle LaunchDeploy, seed liquidity and buy from many wallets in one atomic transaction. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Arc Token MultisenderAirdrop an ERC-20 or native USDC to thousands of Arc wallets in batched calls. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Arc Token SnapshotExport every holder of an Arc token or NFT collection at any block. | Free | Read-only — never submits a transaction |
| Arc Liquidity Pool CreatorCreate a Uniswap pool on Arc Mainnet and seed it in the same flow. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Add Liquidity on ArcDeepen an existing Arc Mainnet pool without disturbing the price. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Remove Liquidity on ArcWithdraw part or all of your Arc Mainnet position, including fees earned. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Arc Liquidity LockerLock LP tokens on Arc Mainnet until a date you choose and prove it onchain. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Arc Token ManagerRead and change taxes, limits and permissions on an Arc token you own. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Revoke Ownership on ArcPermanently renounce the owner role so nobody can ever change the contract. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Burn Tokens on ArcPermanently destroy tokens to cut supply and prove it on the Arc Explorer. | 50 USDC | One transaction, fee forwarded inside it |
| Arc Token CheckerAudit any Arc Mainnet token for the risks that make it unsafe to buy. | Free | Read-only — never submits a transaction |
The awkward questions about the fee
Per-wallet billing, refunds, whether the price can move, and what happens when a transaction fails.
Is the fee charged once, or per wallet and per recipient?
Once per service use. A bundle launch costs 50 USDC whether you bundle to five wallets or the maximum 40, and a single transaction airdropping 200 recipients costs the same 50 USDC as one paying a single address. There is no per-wallet line item anywhere in the product.
Why is the price flat instead of a percentage of supply?
Because a percentage scales with the value you are trying to create, and it takes that value in your own token — which someone then has to sell to turn into revenue. A flat fee in USDC means the cost of a launch is known before you start, does not change if your token does well, and never dilutes your holders.
Is Arc network gas included in the 50 USDC?
No, and it is deliberately not marked up. Gas is paid to the Arc network, it is denominated in USDC, and at the 20 Gwei minimum base fee 1,000,000 gas costs about 0.02 USDC. For most tools the gas is a rounding error next to the service fee, and it is shown in your wallet before you sign.
What happens to the fee if the transaction fails?
Nothing is charged. The fee is forwarded inside the same transaction as the work, so a revert unwinds the whole call, including the fee. You lose only the gas the network had already spent, which is why correcting a malformed airdrop row costs a few thousandths of a USDC rather than 50.
Do the free tools ever charge anything?
No. The Token Checker and holder Snapshots are read-only: they call the Arc RPC, compute from the response and never ask you to sign. There is no transaction, so there is no fee and nothing to refund.
Can I get a refund?
A transaction that reverted takes no service fee, so there is nothing to refund. A transaction that succeeded cannot be reversed by anyone — not Arctools, not Circle, not your wallet provider — so it is not refundable. That is exactly why every form shows the full parameters and the exact USDC amount before you sign.
Will the price stay at 50 USDC?
The fee lives onchain as a value on each service contract, with a hard ceiling of 10,000 USDC compiled into it, and it is readable with fee() before you sign anything. Today it is 50 USDC on every write tool. If that ever changes, the change is visible onchain and quoted in your wallet before you commit.
Can I pay for Arctools in ETH?
No, and not because we refuse it: Arc Mainnet has no ETH. USDC is the native asset of Arc, so it is both the fee currency and the gas currency, and there is no wrapped ETH or WETH9 deployment on the chain. The fee is 50 USDC, which is roughly 0.02 ETH in value, but that ETH figure is a denomination for comparison rather than a payment option. Accepting ETH would mean charging on a different chain while the service still runs on Arc, which needs an offchain listener and a signed voucher — a trusted component the current onchain flow does not have.
Where does the service fee actually go?
Every collected fee is forwarded to the treasury address 0x44a38bc02eD29e23C8A32Bc214902Da546AA9449, which is stored as an immutable value in ArctoolsBase, the base contract that all six tool contracts inherit from. There is no setTreasury function and no owner override, so the destination cannot be changed after deployment by anyone, including Arctools. Rotating it would require deploying a new contract suite, which is the deliberate trade-off for removing any privileged control over revenue.
More than 50 answers in the full FAQ, including what Arc gas costs in practice and how the USDC model works.
Start with something free
Run the Token Checker on any Arc token at no cost, read the guides, then pay the flat 50 USDC only when you are ready to put something onchain.