What RugCheck is known for
RugCheck is a free Solana token risk scanner: paste a contract address and get a risk score with checks on mint and freeze authority, liquidity locks, top holders and insider networks.
Where Trenchie is different
- Plain English. Every flag is a claim and a reason, written for traders: "Insiders can pull $40K of the liquidity", not a score code.
- Weighted by our own outcomes. Each warning counts by how often it actually came before a rug in Trenchie's record of thousands of coins, and the verdicts' real rug rates are published on the track record.
- Beyond the contract. Real vs claimed liquidity and who provides it, the launch bundle and what it still holds, the dev's past launches, holder shape and fresh wallets, volume from in-and-out bots, paid promotion on a falling chart.
- Live. An open report streams the coin's trades and raises a red the moment the dev or insiders sell. Watchlisted coins are re-checked every five minutes with push alerts.
- Trade on the same page, if the coin passes.
Which should you use?
Both are free, so check a coin on both. If you want the reasons in plain English, the rug rate for coins like it, and live alerts after you buy, Trenchie is built for that.
What you get with Trenchie
Risk reports, boards, charts and paper trading are free. Swaps cost 1% (PRO 0.5%). Trenchie has no token.
Questions people ask
Is Trenchie a RugCheck alternative?
Yes. Trenchie is a free Solana rug checker that reads the contract, liquidity, launch, dev wallet, holders and promotion, writes it in plain English and scores it on real outcomes.
Which is the best Solana rug checker?
Use more than one. Trenchie's difference is that its verdicts are re-checked against what happened and the results are public.