# Solana multisender: what a push airdrop costs > A multisender pushes a token out to a list of addresses. What that costs the sender on Solana, what it wastes, and how a claim campaign compares. A multisender is a tool that sends one token out to a long list of wallet addresses in batches, so a team can pay hundreds of recipients without signing each transfer by hand. It is the push half of token distribution: the multisender Solana teams reach for at airdrop time is usually a web app you paste a holder list into. Cherry (cherry.fun) is a wallet-to-wallet messenger and community app for crypto, and it runs the other half: claim campaigns, where a wallet turns up in the room and signs for its own payout. ## How a multisender works You give it three things: the token, a list of addresses, and an amount per address. It splits the list into batches small enough to fit inside a Solana transaction and asks you to approve them one after another. The sender pays for all of it. Every batch carries a network fee of roughly 0.000005 SOL per signature. The bigger line is the token account: a Solana wallet receives an SPL token into an account opened for that one token, so a recipient who has never held yours needs that account created and funded to the rent-exempt minimum, about 0.00203928 SOL per wallet as of May 2026. ## What a push distribution wastes The list is a snapshot, and it stops being true the moment it is taken. - Wallets that sold between the snapshot and the send still get paid. Wallets that bought after it get nothing. - Dead wallets take their share. Nobody has signed into them in a year, and the deposit you funded sits in an account nobody will close. - Wrong addresses take theirs too: exchange deposit addresses pasted in by holders, addresses copied from the wrong chain, plain typos. Tokens sent to an exchange address for an unlisted token are usually gone for good. None of that spending brings a member back. ## The claim model beside it A claim campaign reverses the direction of the payment. The team funds a treasury and writes the rules. The wallet opens the room, taps Check Eligibility to see which rules it passes, then taps Claim. The checks run at that moment, the slot is reserved, and the wallet signs the payout transaction. The claimant pays the network fee and the token account, so the team's budget goes to rewards. Eligibility is read off the claiming wallet: a minimum balance of a token, an NFT from a collection, a whitelist the team uploads, a domain ending such as .sol or .skr, or a check the team's own server answers for anything the chain cannot. A campaign can require every check to pass, or any one of them. One claim per wallet, capped by a number of claimants or by a time window. The wallets that show up are the ones that get paid, inside the room where they already talk. [Cherry's airdrop campaigns](https://cherry.fun/learn/features/airdrops-and-quests/) work this way, and the [setup guide](https://cherry.fun/learn/guides/run-an-airdrop-for-your-community/) walks through the rules. ## When a multisender is still the right tool Push wins whenever the recipient list is fixed by something other than a live balance. - A small fixed list: twenty contributors, a bug bounty, contest winners. - A contractual payout to investors or contractors, where an agreement names the addresses and the tokens are owed whether or not anyone opens an app. - A vesting tranche released to the same addresses every period. - Recipients who are not in your community at all. For a drop aimed at holders you want to keep, the claim shape costs less and tells you who turned up. ## Related terms - [Airdrops and quest-style eligibility](https://cherry.fun/learn/features/airdrops-and-quests/): how a Cherry campaign is funded and claimed. - [Run an airdrop for your community](https://cherry.fun/learn/guides/run-an-airdrop-for-your-community/): the setup, step by step. - [Holder chat](https://cherry.fun/learn/glossary/holder-chat/): the room a claim campaign runs inside. - [Token-gated chat](https://cherry.fun/learn/features/token-gated-chat/): the check that decides who is in that room. - [Reach token holders](https://cherry.fun/learn/guides/reach-token-holders/): getting an announcement to your holders. ## FAQ ### Is a multisender the same as an airdrop tool? A multisender is the pushing kind of airdrop tool. It moves a token from your wallet to a list of addresses you supply, and every address gets paid whether or not anyone there wanted the token. A claim campaign is the other kind, where the recipient passes a check and signs for the payout. ### What does a Solana multisender cost per wallet? Every batch pays a network fee of about 0.000005 SOL per signature, and every recipient who has never held your token needs a token account opened and funded to the rent-exempt minimum, about 0.00203928 SOL as of May 2026. Most multisender services add a per-wallet fee on top of both. ## Sources - [Solana token multisender guide, DEXArea](https://dexarea.com/blog/solana/solana-token-multisender) - [Accounts and rent-exempt balances, Solana docs](https://solana.com/docs/core/accounts)