Solana trading or alert bot: product recipe

What it costs

How it fits together

1. Read prices and pools from the market data and swap APIs; read balances from the RPC.
2. Decide with plain rules first; use the model only to summarize or flag, not to sign trades on its own.
3. Build and send swaps through the swap API with slippage limits; confirm on chain through the RPC.
4. Send alerts to Telegram or Discord.

Solana RPC (Solana)

Also fits: Chainstack, dRPC, Triton One, QuickNode · all blockchain rpc and node providers

Swaps and liquidity (Solana)

Also fits: Orca Whirlpools, 1inch API, 0x Swap API · all dex swap and liquidity apis

Market and on-chain data (Solana)

Also fits: Birdeye Data API, CoinMarketCap API, DexScreener API, Bitquery · all crypto market and on-chain data

Alerts (Telegram, Discord)

Model

The cheapest model of each price tier that can call tools, from model prices. Try the default first and move up only for the questions it gets wrong.

Libraries

Agent Skills

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Coding agent to build it

OpenAI Codex Claude Code OpenCode Pi Compare coding agents

Also on AgentGid

Telegram bot kit

Before you ship

• Keep the signing key out of the code and the model's context; start with a small wallet.
• This is a tool, not financial advice; test on small amounts first.
• Keep API keys on the server, never in the browser or app; set spending limits where the provider offers them.
• Read each service's terms for your use: data retention, commercial use, rate limits.
• Log model calls (traces) and test with your own real inputs before launch.

The brief

# Product recipe: Solana trading or alert bot (AgentGid)

For a bot that reads Solana chain data, prices and wallets, and sends swaps or alerts.

Parts were picked from AgentGid's catalog by rules: free tier, official MCP server, use in public projects built with AI agents, downloads, price. Prices are list prices from the official pages (see each card for the check date); confirm before you commit.

## What it costs
- Start: $0 a month on the free tiers of the first picks (their limits apply).
- If you outgrow the free tiers, the lowest paid plans of the first picks are Helius $49, CoinGecko API $35 (together about $84/month); usage beyond a plan's credits is billed on top.
- Billed by usage (grows with traffic): Telegram Bot API.
- Model, default: fast and cheap: about $0.45 per 1,000 decisions with Claude Haiku 5.5 (AgentGid estimate at ~3,000 input + 300 output tokens each).
- Model, harder questions: about $3.38 per 1,000 decisions with Gemini 3.8 Flash (AgentGid estimate at ~3,000 input + 300 output tokens each).
- Prices of the picks below were checked on the official pages between 2026-10-10 and 2026-10-20.

## How it fits together
1. Read prices and pools from the market data and swap APIs; read balances from the RPC.
2. Decide with plain rules first; use the model only to summarize or flag, not to sign trades on its own.
3. Build and send swaps through the swap API with slippage limits; confirm on chain through the RPC.
4. Send alerts to Telegram or Discord.

## Solana RPC (Solana)
- Helius: free: 1M credits/month, 10 RPS · paid from $49/mo · usage: $5 per 1M additional credits (paid plans) · official MCP helius-mcp · npm helius-sdk · card https://agentgid.com/apis/helius/agent.md
- Alchemy: free: 30M CU/month, 15 RPS · usage: $0.525 per 1M CUs (Pay as You Go) · official MCP https://mcp.alchemy.com/mcp · npm alchemy-sdk · card https://agentgid.com/apis/alchemy/agent.md
- Ankr: free: Freemium: 200M API credits/month · usage: $0.10 per 1M API credits; EVM request = 200 credits ($0.00002), Solana 500 ($0.00005), Beacon/Advanced API 700 ($0.00007) · official MCP https://mcp.ankr.com/rpc · npm @ankr.com/ankr.js · pip ankr-sdk · card https://agentgid.com/apis/ankr/agent.md
- Also fits: Chainstack, dRPC, Triton One, QuickNode (https://agentgid.com/apis/blockchain-rpc/)

## Swaps and liquidity (Solana)
- Raydium API: free: Public API, no auth; per-IP rate limiting via Cloudflare · official MCP https://docs.raydium.io/mcp · npm @raydium-io/raydium-sdk-v2 · card https://agentgid.com/apis/raydium/agent.md
- Jupiter Swap API: free: Free plan $0: 1 request/sec, unlimited credits (API key); keyless 0.5 req/sec · paid from $25/mo · usage: Developer $25/mo: 10 RPS, 25M credits; 1 credit per request, execute calls 0 credits · official MCP https://mcp.jup.ag · npm @jup-ag/api · card https://agentgid.com/apis/jupiter/agent.md
- Meteora (DLMM / DAMM): free: Free public data APIs; DLMM API 30 RPS · official MCP https://docs.meteora.ag/mcp · npm @meteora-ag/dlmm · card https://agentgid.com/apis/meteora/agent.md
- Also fits: Orca Whirlpools, 1inch API, 0x Swap API (https://agentgid.com/apis/dex-swap/)

## Market and on-chain data (Solana)
- CoinGecko API: free: Demo: 10k call credits/month, 100 calls/min · paid from $35/mo · usage: $0.0005 per call over plan credits (paid plans) · official MCP @coingecko/coingecko-mcp · npm @coingecko/coingecko-typescript · pip coingecko-sdk · card https://agentgid.com/apis/coingecko/agent.md
- Moralis: no free tier listed · paid from $149/mo · usage: $11.25 per 1M extra CUs (Starter) · official MCP @moralisweb3/api-mcp-server · npm moralis · card https://agentgid.com/apis/moralis/agent.md
- Dune API: no free tier listed · paid from $75/mo · usage: $1.875 per 100 extra credits (Analyst) · official MCP https://api.dune.com/mcp/v1 · npm @duneanalytics/client-sdk · pip dune-client · card https://agentgid.com/apis/dune/agent.md
- Also fits: Birdeye Data API, CoinMarketCap API, DexScreener API, Bitquery (https://agentgid.com/apis/crypto-data/)

## Alerts (Telegram, Discord)
- Telegram Bot API: free: Bots are able to message their users at no cost (about 30 messages per second broadcast limit) · usage: Paid broadcasts: 0.1 Stars per message over the free 30 per second (up to 1000 messages per second) · card https://agentgid.com/apis/telegram-bot-api/agent.md
- Discord API: no free tier listed · card https://agentgid.com/apis/discord-api/agent.md

## Model (all of these can call tools; prices per 1M tokens)
- Default: fast and cheap: Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.1 in / $0.5 out) · https://agentgid.com/models/claude-haiku-5-5/agent.md · or GPT-6 Luna, MiMo V2.6 Flash
- Harder questions: Gemini 3.8 Flash ($0.75 in / $3.75 out) · https://agentgid.com/models/gemini-3-8-flash/agent.md · or Kimi K2.7 Code, DeepSeek V4 Pro
- Hardest work: Kimi K3 ($3 in / $15 out) · https://agentgid.com/models/kimi-k3/agent.md · or Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1

## Libraries
- `npm install @solana/kit`: Solana Kit (MIT) · https://agentgid.com/tools/solana-kit/agent.md
- `npm install @solana/web3.js`: Solana Web3.js (MIT) · https://agentgid.com/tools/solana-web3-js/agent.md
- `npm install @solana/spl-token`: Solana SPL Token (Apache-2.0) · https://agentgid.com/tools/solana-spl-token/agent.md

## Agent Skills (read a skill before you install it: skills can run scripts)
- `npx skills add trailofbits/skills --skill solana-vulnerability-scanner`
- `npx skills add internet-court/internet-court-skill --skill integrating-jupiter`

## Coding agent to build it
- OpenAI Codex: free tier, from $8/mo · https://agentgid.com/agents/openai-codex/agent.md
- Claude Code: from $20/mo · https://agentgid.com/agents/claude-code/agent.md
- OpenCode: free tier, from $10/mo · https://agentgid.com/agents/opencode/agent.md

## Also on AgentGid
- Telegram bot kit: https://agentgid.com/build/kits/news-bot/

## Before you ship
- Keep the signing key out of the code and the model's context; start with a small wallet.
- This is a tool, not financial advice; test on small amounts first.
- Keep API keys on the server, never in the client; set spending limits where the provider offers them.
- Read each service's terms for your use (data retention, commercial use, rate limits).
- Log model calls (traces) and test with your own real inputs before launch.

Recipe page: https://agentgid.com/build/recipes/solana-bot/ · all product recipes: https://agentgid.com/build/recipes/agent.md

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