Standard vs concentrated liquidity pools on Solana

What is the difference between standard and concentrated pools?

A standard pool spreads your liquidity across every price, so there's nothing to manage. A concentrated pool puts it in a price range you choose. The same amount earns more fees while the price stays inside that range, and nothing while it's outside. Solz.app creates both from one form.

	Standard	Concentrated
Liquidity	Covers every price	Sits in a range you choose
Fees	Earned at every price	More per SOL in range, none outside
If the price moves	Nothing to do	Out of range, it earns nothing and can end up all in one token
Burn or lock LP	Yes, except Meteora DAMM v2	Lock only, on full-range Raydium CLMM
Suits	New tokens, and leaving it alone	Earning more around a price you expect to hold

Prerequisites

A Solana wallet that holds your token and some SOL.
The amounts you plan to deposit.
For a concentrated pool: a price range you're willing to watch.

Steps to create a standard or concentrated pool

Open the tool and connect your wallet. Go to Create Liquidity Pool.
Choose the kind of pool. Click Standard pools or Concentrated pools, then pick a DEX.
Choose the pair. Select your token, and the token it's priced in, such as SOL.
Choose the fee. On a concentrated pool, Stable, Major, Most tokens and Volatile or new each pick a fee for you. See all fee tiers lists the rest.
Set the price. Enter a price, or click Use market price if your token already trades.
Choose a range, for a concentrated pool. Click a preset such as ±5%, or enter Min price and Max price.
Enter your deposit. Enter one amount and the other follows the price.
Check Review, and approve. Click Create pool and add liquidity, or Create Liquidity Pool on a standard pool. Your wallet asks once on mainnet, because the pool and first position go out together in a Jito bundle, so either both land or neither does. On Devnet, it asks twice.

Here's USELESS COIN paired with SOL on Raydium CLMM, on the 0.1% tier at the market price on November 3, 2026. With a ±5% range and 5,000 USELESS, the form asks for about 7.12 SOL:

Create Liquidity Pool on Concentrated pools with Raydium CLMM, USELESS COIN and SOL, the 0.1% fee tier, the market price as the starting price, a ±5% range from 0.00131126 to 0.00144916 SOL, a deposit of 5,000 USELESS and 7.11594 SOL, a 0.06 SOL service fee and network rent of up to about 0.16 SOL

What should I see when a pool succeeds or fails?

When a concentrated pool works, Solz.app says Pool created and first position opened, and the position appears in My Liquidity Pools. If your deposit is too large or the range isn't valid, the form tells you before anything is sent. A standard pool says its pool has been successfully created.

What you see	What it means	What to do
Pool created and first position opened	Your pool and position are live	Check them in My Liquidity Pools
Position opened	A new position is live in an existing pool	Check it in My Liquidity Pools
A pool already exists at this fee. Add to it instead.	This pair already has a pool with these settings	Follow the link to add to it, or choose another fee
You don't have enough SOL.	Your balance can't cover the deposit	Lower the amount, or add SOL
Enter an amount and a valid price range	An amount or the range is missing or wrong	Fix the range and the amount
Meteora DLMM doesn't accept, followed by the token, because of its transfer fee. Choose Raydium CLMM or PancakeSwap instead.	Meteora DLMM doesn't take this tax token, so Create is off	Choose Raydium CLMM or PancakeSwap
This range is all on one side of the price, so it only takes, followed by a token	The price is outside your range	Deposit that token, or move the range
Your pool is created, but the first position wasn't opened. Try again here, or use Add Liquidity.	On Devnet, the first approval landed and the second didn't	Try again, or open it with Add Liquidity
Transaction timeout ! This might be due to you sending invalid transactions / congested network	It didn't confirm in time	Check your wallet history before trying again, because it may have gone through. If not, raise your priority fee

Which pools can I create on Solz.app?

Solz.app creates four standard pools and three concentrated pools. Raydium CPMM is the default standard pool. Raydium CLMM and PancakeSwap work alike, with a fixed fee tier and a range made of ticks. Meteora DLMM uses bins, a base fee that rises with volatility and a choice of liquidity shapes.

Standard pool	Fee	What you hold	Tax tokens
Raydium CPMM	One of 8 tiers on Solz.app	Liquidity pool (LP) tokens	Yes
Raydium AMM	0.25%	LP tokens	No
Pump.fun PumpSwap	Set by Pump	LP tokens	No
Meteora DAMM v2	A base fee you choose	A position NFT	Yes

Concentrated pool	Swap fee	Price steps	Liquidity shape	Widest range	Position	Liquidity providers keep	Tax tokens	Lock for good
Raydium CLMM	Fixed tier, with an optional dynamic fee	Ticks	Even	Any	An NFT in your wallet	84%	Yes	Full range only
PancakeSwap CLMM	Fixed tier	Ticks	Even	Any	An NFT in your wallet	84%	Yes	Not on Solz.app
Meteora DLMM	Base fee, plus more when volatile	Bins	Spot, Curve or Bid-Ask	69 bins per position	An account, no NFT	90%	No	Not on Solz.app

We read the shares from Solana on November 3, 2026.

How does a price range work?

You choose the lowest and highest price your liquidity works at. All your deposit then sits inside that range, so it's deeper there than the same amount spread over every price. A narrower range earns more per SOL, but the price leaves it sooner, and then it earns nothing until the price returns.

This is how much deeper the same deposit is than a full range, at the middle of the range, before counting other liquidity providers:

Range	Deeper than full range by about
±1%	200 times
±5%	40 times
±20%	11 times
±50%	5 times

Ticks and bins

Ticks, on Raydium CLMM and PancakeSwap. Think of ticks as the marks on a price ruler. Your range starts and ends on a mark, and your liquidity spreads evenly between them. Tick spacing is the gap between marks.
Bins, on Meteora DLMM. Think of bins as a row of buckets, each holding tokens at one set price. Swaps use up one bucket, then move to the next. Bin step is the gap between them, so 50 means 0.5%.

Solz.app moves your prices to the nearest ones the pool allows, and shows them under Min price and Max price.

On DLMM, one position holds up to 69 bins, so the bin step sets how wide it can go. A bin step of 25 reaches about ±8.22%, and 50 reaches about ±16.31%. Here's the same pair on Meteora DLMM, with a bin step of 50 and a 0.25% base fee:

Create Liquidity Pool on Concentrated pools with Meteora DLMM, USELESS COIN and SOL, a bin step of 50, a 0.25% base fee, a range from 0.00130908 to 0.00145363 SOL, Spot selected as the liquidity shape, a deposit of 5,000 USELESS and 7.36039 SOL, and network rent of up to about 0.18 SOL

Liquidity shapes on DLMM

Shape	How your deposit is spread
Spot	Evenly across the range
Curve	More around the current price
Bid-Ask	More at the edges of the range

What happens when the price leaves my range?

Your position stops earning fees, and you hold only one token. Below your range, buyers have left you with your token and no SOL. Above it, sellers have left you with SOL and none of your token. It starts earning again if the price comes back, or you can remove it and open a new range.

Take the Raydium CLMM position above, with 5,000 USELESS and about 7.12 SOL between 0.00131126 and 0.00144916 SOL:

Price	What the position holds	Earning fees?
Inside the range	Some of both	Yes
Below 0.00131126 SOL	Only USELESS	No
Above 0.00144916 SOL	Only SOL	No

Traders can still swap while you're out of range only if other liquidity covers that price. If yours is the only position in the pool, the pool has nothing to trade at that price, which is why a new token usually suits a standard pool or a Full range position.

Which pool should I choose?

Choose a standard pool for a new token, or if you won't watch the price. Raydium CPMM is the usual choice. Choose a concentrated pool if your token already trades, you expect the price to hold around a level, and you'll move the range when it doesn't. Stable pairs suit narrow ranges best.

A new token: Raydium CPMM, because the price can move a long way and the liquidity keeps working.
Buyers who want proof the liquidity stays: a standard pool, so you can burn or lock the LP tokens, or DAMM v2 with Permanently lock liquidity. On a concentrated pool, you can lock a full-range Raydium CLMM position.
A tax token: Raydium CPMM or Meteora DAMM v2, or Raydium CLMM or PancakeSwap for a concentrated pool. Meteora DLMM doesn't take them. See tax token pools.
A stablecoin or pegged pair: a concentrated pool with the Stable choice, because the price barely moves.
An established token you actively manage: Raydium CLMM or PancakeSwap for a fixed fee, or Meteora DLMM for a fee that rises with volatility.

Raydium CLMM's Full range option covers every price, like a standard pool, so it earns the least per SOL.

Meteora DAMM v2 options

DAMM v2 is a standard pool with extra settings:

Collect fees in: which token swap fees are collected in.
Dynamic fees: adds a fee on top when the price is volatile.
Permanently lock liquidity: your deposit stays in the pool forever. You keep the position and can still claim its swap fees. This can't be undone.
Fee schedule, under Advanced: Fixed keeps your fee from the start. Linear and Exponential start at 50% and fall to your fee over 120 minutes, so early snipers pay more. Buy Bundle turns this off, because your own launch buys would pay the highest fee.

How do I manage a concentrated position?

Click the pools tile under Your wallet in the sidebar to open My Liquidity Pools, or open the pool's page, to see each position's range, liquidity and unclaimed fees. Use Add, Remove or Claim on the position. Removing all of it also collects your fees and closes the position, which returns its own rent.

Each position has its own range, so you can hold several in one pool. To move a range, remove the old position and open a new one. That means paying the service fee on both, so a very narrow range can cost more to keep up than it earns.

If a token has a transfer fee, you'll receive a little less of it than the position shows, and the form says so.

You can't burn a concentrated position on Solz.app, and only a full-range Raydium CLMM position can be locked. Check that you're happy with this before you promise buyers anything about your liquidity.

How do I lock a Raydium CLMM position for good?

Open the position. In Remove Liquidity, find the pool and click Lock on your position. My Liquidity Pools links there for positions that can be locked.
Read the panel, and tick the box. Your liquidity stays in the pool for good. Nobody can ever withdraw it, including you.
Click Lock forever and approve. Solz.app says Position locked. Your Fee Key NFT is in your wallet.

A full-range position in a real WSOL and TBALL pool, marked In range, with Remove, Lock and Claim buttons, and the Lock this position forever panel below it, with a box to confirm you can never withdraw the liquidity, a Lock forever button and a total of 0.0433 SOL

Whoever holds the Fee Key can claim the position's fees, so keep it safe and don't burn it. Solz.app marks the position Locked, shows only Claim on it, and keeps the Fee Key out of the SOL Incinerator.

The lock uses Raydium's Burn & Earn. If a position isn't full range, Solz.app says Only full-range positions can be locked, because a narrower one stops earning once the price leaves its range, and a locked one can never be moved. PancakeSwap and Meteora DLMM positions have no lock on Solz.app.

How do I add liquidity to an existing pool?

Open Add Liquidity, find the pool by its token or paste its pool ID, and enter either amount. The other follows the pool's price. Raydium AMM, CPMM and CLMM, PumpSwap, Meteora DAMM v2 and DLMM, and PancakeSwap all work. Each deposit costs a 0.06 SOL service fee, plus network costs.

Find the pool. In Add Liquidity, search by token or paste the pool ID. Or click Add on the pool in My Liquidity Pools.
Enter an amount. The form fills in the other side, and shows the most each side can take if the price moves 5%.
Check the summary, and approve. Click Add Liquidity and approve in your wallet.

Example: 1,000 MET into a Meteora DAMM v2 pool

On November 4, 2026, entering 1,000 MET in the MET and SOL pool filled in about 2.48 SOL. The deposit could take up to 1,050 MET and 2.60 SOL if the price moved 5%, and it came to 2.7% of the pool.

Add Liquidity with the MET and SOL DAMM v2 pool loaded, 1,000 MET and 2.480545983 SOL entered, a summary of 1,000 MET plus about 2.48054 SOL, up to 1,050 MET and 2.60457 SOL with 5% slippage, a 2.709% share of the pool, and an Add Liquidity button with a 0.06 SOL fee

When it works, Solz.app says Successfully added liquidity into LP, and the deposit shows in My Liquidity Pools. If you're short, the form tells you before anything is sent.

What you see	What it means	What to do
Successfully added liquidity into LP	Your deposit is in the pool	Check it in My Liquidity Pools
Not enough MET: up to 1,050 may be needed if the price moves 5%, you have 900.	You could be short of that token if the price moves	Lower the amount, or add more of the token
You need about 2.68 SOL (deposit, 5% slippage allowance, fees), you have 2.	You're short of SOL	Lower the amount, or add SOL

Three things depend on the pool:

Meteora DAMM v2: a wallet with no position in the pool opens one with its first deposit. That costs rent, about 0.0073 SOL on November 4, 2026, which comes back when you close the position. The form holds back an extra 0.01 SOL for it.
PumpSwap: if you only earn a pool's creator fees and hold none of its liquidity pool tokens, My Liquidity Pools doesn't show Add for it. PumpSwap pools don't take tax tokens.
Locked positions: they can't take more liquidity, so they don't show Add.

How much does each pool cost on Solz.app?

The Solz.app service fee is 0.06 SOL on every pool, and the total under the button includes estimated network rent. Raydium CPMM and AMM come to about 0.25 SOL, including Raydium's 0.15 SOL fee, DAMM v2 about 0.08 SOL and PumpSwap about 0.07 SOL. A new concentrated pool can need up to about 0.18 SOL in rent.

Item	Cost
Raydium CPMM or AMM pool, total under the button	About 0.25 SOL, plus an OpenBook market for AMM
Meteora DAMM v2 pool, total under the button	About 0.08 SOL
PumpSwap pool, total under the button	About 0.07 SOL
Add to an existing pool	0.06 SOL service fee
First deposit to a Meteora DAMM v2 pool, position rent	About 0.0073 SOL, returned when you close the position
Open or remove a concentrated position	0.06 SOL service fee
Lock a full-range Raydium CLMM position	0.025 SOL service fee, plus rent that doesn't come back. The total was 0.0433 SOL on the form
Create a concentrated pool	No extra Solz.app fee
Concentrated pool and first position, rent	Up to about 0.16 to 0.18 SOL
Jito tip for a concentrated pool and first position	0.0001 SOL
Your deposit	The amounts you enter

These are the form's estimates on November 3, 2026, and the DAMM v2 position rent is from November 4, 2026. Solana is lowering rent in steps, so check Review for your pool. A position's rent comes back when you close it, but a pool's doesn't.

Raydium: choosing a pool type