Every launch guide tells you what to do. None of them tell you what it costs — or what your chart looks like the second your buys land.
So we built a game about it. Pick your chain and launchpad, build Sumo's loadout with your dev buy and bundle, and send him up the curve. The Sumo mascot sprints through the launch arena, clears the market-cap checkpoints, powers up with every slice of supply, and stops exactly where your capital puts him — because under the game, the simulator runs the actual launch math from Sumo's own launch wizard: the same constant-product curves, virtual reserves, and pool seeding formulas our execution engine uses when it launches tokens for real.
Every chain Sumo launches on is in here: Pump.fun (SOL and USDC), BONK.fun, America.Fun, and Meteora DAMM v2 on Solana; Four.meme, Flap, and PancakeSwap on BNB Chain; Uniswap on Ethereum, Base, Robinhood, and Stable; Aerodrome on Base; and the SushiSwap Launchpad and Pons V2 on Robinhood. No email gate, no signup. Play:
The math is real
This isn't a marketing widget with made-up multipliers. Every launchpad in the simulator runs its venue's actual pricing model — the same formulas Sumo's launch wizard uses before a real launch. The bonding-curve pads (Pump.fun, BONK.fun, Four.meme, Flap, Pons V2) are constant-product markets with virtual reserves; America.Fun runs a linear raise toward its Meteora pool; direct pool launches (Uniswap, PancakeSwap, Aerodrome, Meteora DAMM v2) price against whatever liquidity you seed. The SushiSwap Launchpad on Robinhood is its own animal: it seeds a one-sided Sushi V3 position with 95% of supply at a price set by the live ETH/USD feed, so you commit ETH and the starting market cap is whatever the feed says it is.
Here's what that math says each venue actually costs — including what it takes to own a serious slice of your own supply:
| Launchpad | Starting MC | Own 10% | Own 50% | Own 70% | Graduates at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pump.funSolana · SOL | $2.1k | $2313.12 SOL | $2.0k26.5 SOL | $4.2k57.0 SOL | 85.0 SOL→ PumpSwap · max 79.3% supply |
 BONK.funSolana · SOL | $2.1k | $2323.13 SOL | $2.0k26.6 SOL | $4.2k57.1 SOL | 85.0 SOL→ Raydium · max 79.3% supply |
| Pump.fun USDCSolana · USDC | $4.0k | $447446.6 USDC | $3.8k3,792 USDC | $8.2k8,155 USDC | 12,161 USDC→ PumpSwap · max 79.3% supply |
 America.FunSolana · USD1 | $16k | $1.6k1,594 USD1 | $8.0k7,969 USD1 | $11k11,156 USD1 | 12,500 USD1→ Meteora DAMM v2 · max 80.0% supply |
 Four.memeBNB Chain · BNB | $3.3k | $3650.64 BNB | $3.1k5.42 BNB | $6.7k11.7 BNB | 18.0 BNB→ PancakeSwap · max 80.0% supply |
 FlapBNB Chain · BNB | $3.2k | $3520.62 BNB | $2.9k5.11 BNB | $6.1k10.7 BNB | 16.0 BNB→ a PancakeSwap pool · max 80.0% supply |
 Pons V2Robinhood · ETH | $3.2k | $3610.19 ETH | $3.2k1.70 ETH | $7.6k3.96 ETH | 4.20 ETH→ a Pons V4 pool · max 71.4% supply |
 SushiSwap LaunchpadRobinhood · ETH | $5.2k | $5900.31 ETH | $5.6k2.91 ETH | $14k7.33 ETH | —already a pool · Launchpad prices it |
 Uniswap V2/V30.50 ETH liquidity seed | $958 | $1070.06 ETH | $9600.50 ETH | $2.2k1.17 ETH | —already a pool · no supply cap |
| Uniswap V2/V31.00 ETH liquidity seed | $1.9k | $2130.11 ETH | $1.9k1.00 ETH | $4.5k2.34 ETH | —already a pool · no supply cap |
Direct pool launches set their own economics — your liquidity seed is the starting market cap. The Uniswap rows assume the stated liquidity seed, and everything in them scales linearly with the seed you actually choose (owning 10% of supply always costs about 11% of it). A full-range V3 position prices identically to V2 — which is why they share a row; V3's edge is concentrating liquidity in a range, and that's a market-making decision, not a launch one. USD figures use a live price feed in the simulator (editable); stablecoin-quoted launches (USDC, USD1, USDT0) are pinned to $1.
Reading your results
Starting MC vs. launch MC. Starting market cap is where the venue prices a token before anyone buys — a few thousand dollars on the bonding curves (see the table above), whatever you seed on a direct pool. Launch MC is where you put the price by buying. The gap between them is entirely your own capital pushing the curve; the market decides everything after that.
Your power-up level. The ladder under the game — ROOKIE, CHARGED, BLAZE, HERO, TITAN — is your share of total supply after the first block. Buy under 5% and snipers may own your open; over 60% and every future seller is you. The genuinely hard decision in a launch lives on that ladder, and we wrote about it in depth in our bundling comparison.
Inventory vs. cost. The total is what leaves your wallet, but most of it isn't spent — it's converted. The last line of the breakdown values your tokens at launch MC, and on direct pool launches your liquidity seed stays yours as the LP position. Whether that inventory is worth more a week later is the whole game, and it's why the follow-through — market making, counter trading, exits — matters more than launch day.
FAQ
How much does it cost to launch a memecoin? The deploy itself is free or near-free on bonding-curve launchpads. The real cost is your dev buy and bundle — typically anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $15k+ depending on how much early supply you want to control — plus liquidity if you're launching straight into a pool. Use the simulator above for your exact numbers, and see How to Launch a Memecoin in 2026 for the full playbook.
What market cap does a memecoin start at? On Pump.fun, about 28 SOL of market cap before any buys (a bit over $2k at ~$74 SOL); BONK.fun derives to nearly the same; Four.meme starts around 5.7 BNB and Flap around 5.5 BNB (~$3.2k at $571 BNB); Pons V2 starts at 1.68 ETH (~$3.2k at $1,915 ETH) and the SushiSwap Launchpad around $5.2k, priced off its ETH/USD feed. On a direct pool launch, exactly what you seed it with.
How much does it take to graduate a bonding curve? Roughly 85 SOL of net buys on Pump.fun and BONK.fun, 12,161 USDC on Pump.fun USDC, 18 BNB on Four.meme, 16 BNB on Flap, 4.2 ETH on Pons V2, and 12,500 USD1 on America.Fun. Direct pool launches don't graduate — you're on a DEX from block one.
Are these numbers exact? The venue math is exact — it's ported from the launch wizard Sumo uses for real launches. The USD figures depend on the native token price (editable in the tool), and the estimate deliberately ignores small network fees. It is a simulator, not a quote.
Ready to run it for real — with your keys, your wallets, and no launch dev in the loop? That's what Sumo does.
