● Start · Who pays for what
Third-party services and costs
what the price does not include.
OUTRIDER runs on your own machine and talks to outside services. Some are free, some are billed to you by the provider, and live trading has its own fees and risk. This page lists every one, and who pays.
01In one minute
- The item price covers the source code, these docs, and six months of item support (extendable on the item page). It does not include any service below.
- The cheapest working setup is paper mode on your own computer with the public Solana endpoint and no keys: no provider bill at all. The public endpoint is fine for testing; for a stable pump.fun stream you will want a private RPC (most providers have a free tier).
- Every key is optional. Each one switches on one more feature (Requirements). Nothing is charged by OUTRIDER itself.
- Live trading is off by default. When you turn it on, you pay network fees and trading fees, and your capital is at risk. Nothing in OUTRIDER is a promise of profit.
02Every service, and who pays
| Service | Needed for | Cost | Who pays |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting: a VPS or an always-on computer | Running the desk around the clock (Deployment) | Your hosting plan. A laptop works for trying it out. | You |
| Domain name and TLS certificate | Only if you reach the dashboard through your own domain over HTTPS | Your registrar; free certificates exist (for example from Let's Encrypt via certbot or Caddy) | You |
| Solana RPC (HTTP and WebSocket) | The pump.fun stream, wallet reads, the RPC health check, and every live pump.fun order | The public endpoint (api.mainnet-beta.solana.com) is free and works for testing, but drops heavy streams. A private RPC from Helius, QuickNode or Chainstack has free tiers and paid plans for heavy use. Live pump.fun trading refuses to start on the public endpoint. | You, on the provider's terms |
| DexScreener, GeckoTerminal, RugCheck, GoPlus, honeypot.is | DEX candidates, pool sweeps, rug and security checks | Public APIs, no key. They are rate-limited; the desk paces its calls (rate limits). | Free, on each provider's terms |
| Hyperliquid info API, leaderboard and trades WebSocket | Prices, candles, the liquidation map; with the perps module also funding, HL copy and trend | Public, no key, rate-limited | Free, on Hyperliquid's terms |
| Polymarket Gamma, CLOB and data APIs | The Polymarket books (polymarket module, off by default) | Public, no key. Not available from every country or host. | Free, on Polymarket's terms |
| RSS feeds, Binance announcements, public Telegram channel web previews | News, and channel reading if you switch it on (telegram.readChannels, off by default) | Public pages | Free, on each site's terms (read this first for Telegram) |
| Anthropic API (Claude) | The AI analyst briefings and Claude news scoring. Off without a key: news then uses keyword scoring and there is no briefing. | Billed per request by Anthropic to the key you enter. The analyst runs every analyst.everyHours (default 6); news scoring sends at most news.llm.maxPerCycle (default 8) new events per request. Set analyst.enabled to false to stop the briefings. | You, on Anthropic's pricing |
| TypeSafe API (Jev) | The Jev forecaster of the jev module (off by default), measured against control arms | On TypeSafe's terms; access is by request (how). The desk caps its own estimated Jev spend per day with jev.maxUsdDay (default 2, an estimate from jev.usdPerMTok, not a bill). | You, on TypeSafe's terms |
| Telegram Bot API | Alerts and commands | Free | Free |
03Live trading costs (off by default)
Only if you switch mode to live, turn a venue on and switch Dry run off (Live trading). The dry run signs and simulates orders without sending them and costs nothing but RPC calls.
| Cost | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Solana network fees and priority fees | Every pump.fun buy and sell. The priority fee per order is live.pump.priorityFeeSol (default 0.0005 SOL). live.pump.reserveSol (default 0.05) is kept in the wallet for fees. |
| PumpPortal and pump.fun fees | The transaction is built by PumpPortal's local-trade API, which charges its own fee per trade; pump.fun charges its trading fee. Both are set by those services, not by OUTRIDER. Check their current terms. |
| Hyperliquid trading fees | Every live order of the trend and HL copy books (perps module), on Hyperliquid's fee schedule. |
| Slippage | Fills can be worse than the quoted price, up to live.pump.slippagePct (default 15 %) on pump.fun and live.hyperliquid.slippagePct (default 0.5 %) on Hyperliquid. |
| Capital at risk | Your own funds in the trading wallet and the Hyperliquid account. Memecoins can go to zero in minutes; leverage magnifies losses. Caps limit the size of each order, not the outcome. |
No promise of results
Paper results are simulations. Live results can be worse than paper because of fees, slippage, failed transactions and timing. Read What it is not before you fund anything.
04Also not included
- Installation on your server, custom strategies and new features (see Support).
- Legal or tax advice. Some services and markets (for example Polymarket) are restricted in some countries; check before you switch those books on.