> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tiers & Access

Dequan has three tiers. Here is the most important sentence on this page:

**Every feature in Dequan ships in Scout. Scout is free. Always.**

<Card title="Start on free Scout" icon="binoculars" href="https://snipe.dequan.xyz" horizontal>
  Launch Dequan Snipe and use the full Solana trading terminal without a paid tier.
</Card>

There is no "Premium" Pump Zone. There is no "Pro" honeypot guard. There is no Apex-only fast wallet, Sniper-only chart engine, or paid-tier exits. The platform is the platform; tiers govern usage limits and fee structure, not feature access.

## The three tiers

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Scout" icon="binoculars" href="/tiers/scout">
    **Free**

    Full feature access. Standard fees. Default limits suitable for retail-scale active trading.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sniper" icon="crosshairs" href="/tiers/sniper-and-apex">
    **Invite Only**

    Same features. Reduced fees. Higher daily/session limits. Larger Lightning Wallet cap.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Apex" icon="trophy" href="/tiers/sniper-and-apex">
    **Invite Only**

    Same features. Lowest fees. Highest limits. Largest Lightning cap. Priority support channel.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Why this design

A lot of crypto products are built on the unspoken assumption that the free tier should be deliberately crippled — slow, ad-supported, missing features — so users feel the pressure to upgrade.

We disagree. Crypto traders are sophisticated and a crippled free tier just sends them somewhere else. So we built Dequan the other way: **free tier is the full experience.** What you pay for is more *of* it.

The economics still work because:

* A serious trader hitting Scout's limits is a trader making real volume, and real volume on standard fees is enough to fund the platform.
* Sniper and Apex traders are typically high-volume users for whom **fee discounts and higher limits** matter much more than feature gates would.
* Invite-only access to upgraded tiers prevents tier-fatigue: traders aren't pestered to upgrade, they're invited when their usage warrants it.

## What "same features" actually means

To be totally explicit:

* The Pump Zone is identical across tiers. Same data, same axes, same formations, same TQS, same chart engines.
* Honeypot Guard, drain detection, holder/dev surveillance — identical.
* Pre-execution warmup — identical.
* Parallel landing — identical paths, same race logic.
* Adaptive fees & slippage — same algorithms.
* Lightning Wallet — available on every tier (with tier-based balance caps).
* Token Quality Score — identical computation.
* Charts (TradingView Advanced + Cinematic) — identical.
* Token Detail Tabs (Trades, Holders, Top Traders, Dev Tokens) — identical.
* Sniper List — identical.
* Burn Barrel — identical.

What changes across tiers:

* **Per-trade and per-session fee rate**
* **Daily trade volume limits**
* **Lightning Wallet balance cap**
* **Priority support channel** (Apex)

That's it. No hidden gates.

## What this means in practice

You can sign up to Scout right now, fund a wallet, and have access to **the entire surface area of the platform**. You can hold there forever and never feel forced to upgrade. If your trading volume eventually grows to the point where Scout's fee tier and limits are leaving meaningful money on the table, an invite to Sniper or Apex becomes the natural next step.

We measure success not by upgrade conversion but by **retention** — Scout users who stay because the tool is good. The fact that Scout is good enough to retain you on its own is the strongest possible evidence that the upgraded tiers are worth their cost when they fit.

<Card title="Continue → Scout in detail" icon="binoculars" href="/tiers/scout" horizontal>
  What you get on Scout, exactly.
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