# Cost to Launch a Memecoin on Sui?

**URL:** <https://forums.sui.io/t/cost-to-launch-a-memecoin-on-sui/48358>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Tags:** sui, defi\
**Created:** [June 3, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/cost-to-launch-a-memecoin-on-sui/48358 "2025-06-03T12:22:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![jinali98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jinali98](https://forums.sui.io/u/jinali98)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/cost-to-launch-a-memecoin-on-sui/48358/1 "2025-06-03T12:22:47Z")

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Hello everyone,

I’m exploring how much it actually costs to deploy and mint a memecoin on Sui. I ran some experiments on Testnet with my own move smart contract, and here’s what I observed.

- Minting **100 coins** and **1,000,000,000 coins** both incurred roughly the **same gas fee**.(screen shot attached)
- I’m curious about the underlying mechanics that cause those minting costs to be identical.

Specifically:

1. **Why does minting different total supplies (e.g. 100 vs 1 billion tokens) result in the same gas usage?**
2. **What are the on-chain operations or storage models in Sui Move that explain this behavior?**
3. **Is the gas fee structure on Mainnet identical to Testnet for a standard token‐minting transaction?**
4. If there are meaningful differences on Mainnet (e.g., base gas price changes, storage-related fees, or other factors), what should I expect?

I would greatly appreciate any pointers to Official documentation (Sui token standard spec, or gas schedule docs) that detail how token-minting gas is calculated.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/sui/original/3X/7/b/7bfeae6776f0e807a0acd0667643e8786c2f87fb.png)

Thank you in advance for any insights or redirections!

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**Author:** ![orestturkalo551](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5a626/32.png) [@orestturkalo551](https://forums.sui.io/u/orestturkalo551)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/cost-to-launch-a-memecoin-on-sui/48358/2 "2025-06-07T13:52:16Z")

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very awesome project and good news