Five hundred dollars is not a small exit on pump.fun. We priced it two ways this morning: against every coin on the live board, and against 64 launches that were under 15 minutes old. At the median fresh launch, a 500 dollar sell moves the price about 10 percent. On the board, which filters for depth before a coin gets a card, it still costs 2 to 5 percent.
First, what the number is. The exit cost is the gap between the price on your screen and what a 500 dollar sell actually lands at. Nobody sells at the screen price into a thin pool. The order eats what is in the pool, and the pool is a real pair of balances, dollars and coins, not a promise. The board prints this figure on every card as EXIT. That is the number we computed here.
Here is the board as it stood on Sunday morning, November 8. Six coins, each exit cost recomputed from its live pool at pull time.
| Coin | Pool | 500 dollar exit | 5,000 dollar exit | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MELT | $62,562 | 1.8% | 9.0% | B |
| JASON | $33,310 | 2.5% | 16.0% | A |
| CLAUDIO | $24,599 | 3.0% | 21.3% | D |
| KimMani | $15,783 | 4.2% | 32.7% | C |
| CHIMERA | $13,192 | 4.8% | 38.9% | C |
| VS | $12,203 | 5.1% | 42.0% | C |
Median exit across the six: 3.6 percent. Not free. These are the coins that cleared the board’s depth screens, and the deepest pool among them holds 62,562 dollars.
Read the right-hand column twice. A 5,000 dollar exit, an order a normal person might actually place, moves the deepest board coin 9 percent and the thinnest 42. The pool sets what getting out costs, not the market cap. We measured that gap before: million dollar caps standing on pools worth under 3 percent of them.
Now the launches. We pulled the newest coins off the feed and kept the 64 unique ones under 15 minutes old. Median pool: 5,663 dollars. Median 500 dollar exit across the 64: 9.9 percent.
Fourteen of the 64, 22 percent, offered an exit under 5 percent. Not one offered under 2. The three cheapest were all 2.2 percent, and all three had pools above 41,800 dollars within two minutes of launch. Depth that size does not exist at the starting line. It shows up after a crowd has already bought in. A cheap exit on a one minute old coin is evidence of a pile-on, nothing else.
At the other end, three launches had almost nothing left a minute in. Pools of 57 dollars, 74 dollars and 233 dollars. There is no 500 dollar exit at a 57 dollar pool. There is barely a 50 dollar one.
The launch record puts the scale on it. Of 4,659 launches observed, 2,471 have a full six hour trace. The median market cap one minute in was 2,936 dollars, so a 500 dollar exit is about 17 percent of the entire coin at that point. Three in four traced launches never reached a 5,000 dollar cap. Only 7 percent ever got to 50,000. That last figure is also, by the arithmetic of the exit rule, the pool size where a 500 dollar sell costs 2 percent. Cheap exits live at depths most launches never see as a printed cap, let alone as cash in the pool.
What this means for anyone reading a price. The number on your screen for a fresh coin is the price of the next tiny trade. Your exit is priced against the pool, and the typical pool here is about 5,700 dollars. A 500 dollar order does not slip out quietly. On a median launch, the order is the move. The sell pushes the price down as it fills, and the lower print is what the next holder reads too. That is what a 500 dollar exit actually does to a coin at this depth.
This is why the board prints the exit cost on every card instead of leaving it implied, and why thin exits are one of the things that keep a coin off the board at firememecoins.com. Pumpcheck grades exit depth inside every letter it hands out, alongside the pool’s share of the cap. We wrote earlier about why the market cap is not the market. This is that lesson with a price tag on it.
Method: board numbers come from one live pull on Sunday morning, November 8, 2026, six coins, each exit recomputed from its pool balance at pull time. The launch sample is 64 unique coins under 15 minutes old from a single pull of the newest launches feed, duplicates of the same mint removed. The exit figure is the board’s own rule: 500 dollars over the pool, in percent, plus one. It is a pricing model against a live balance, not a settled trade, and pools move minute to minute. The scaling figures come from the launch record, 2,471 launches with a full six hour trace out of 4,659 observed, with the one minute median drawn from 2,375 of them. Small samples, single moments in time, balances rather than outcomes. Nothing here says what any of these coins do next. It says what getting out of them costs at the depth we measured.
