How much SOL can you recover by closing token accounts?

The short answer

You recover 0.00148844 or 0.00203928 SOL for every empty standard SPL token account you close, depending on whether it was opened after or before Solana lowered the rent rate. The total is the number of empty accounts multiplied by that deposit: fifty accounts is between about 0.074 and 0.102 SOL, and five hundred is between 0.74 and 1.02 SOL. Network fees take a fraction of a percent, and a bulk tool's fee, where you use one, comes out of the recovered amount.

How much SOL is locked in one token account?

A new standard SPL token account holds 1,488,440 lamports, which is 0.00148844 SOL. That is the rent-exempt minimum for 165 bytes of account data under Solana's current formula, (128 + bytes) x 5,080 lamports. Before Solana lowered the rent rate the multiplier was 6,960, and an account keeps the lamports it was created with, so a token account opened back then still holds 2,039,280 lamports, 0.00203928 SOL, and returns all of it when closed. Within each group the amount is identical for every SPL token, because every SPL token account has the same layout. The background is in what Solana rent is.

Other account types you may be able to close hold different amounts:

Account type	Size	Returned on close (opened recently)	Returned on close (opened before the change)
SPL token account	165 bytes	0.00148844 SOL	0.00203928 SOL
Token-2022 associated token account (typical)	170 bytes	0.00151384 SOL	0.00207408 SOL
Token-2022 account with more extensions	larger	more, scaling with size	more, scaling with size
Wrapped SOL account	165 bytes	0.00148844 SOL plus the wrapped balance	0.00203928 SOL plus the wrapped balance
pump.fun / PumpSwap volume accumulator	137 bytes	0.0013462 SOL	0.0018444 SOL
Metaplex NFT (burned, not just closed)	several accounts	usually 0.006 to 0.008 SOL	usually 0.008 to 0.01 SOL

For any other size, the free Solana rent calculator returns the deposit from a byte count using the live network rate.

How do you estimate your total?

Multiply your empty token accounts by 0.00148844 SOL for a low estimate and by 0.00203928 SOL for a high one. Most wallets that have been active for a while land in between, because they hold a mix of older and newer accounts. Token-2022 accounts add a little on top.

Empty token accounts	Rent locked if all new	Rent locked if all old	After a 5% tool fee	Value at $150/SOL, for illustration
10	0.0149 SOL	0.0204 SOL	0.0141 to 0.0194 SOL	about $2 to $3
20	0.0298 SOL	0.0408 SOL	0.0283 to 0.0387 SOL	about $4 to $6
50	0.0744 SOL	0.1020 SOL	0.0707 to 0.0969 SOL	about $11 to $15
100	0.1488 SOL	0.2039 SOL	0.1414 to 0.1937 SOL	about $22 to $31
250	0.3721 SOL	0.5098 SOL	0.3535 to 0.4843 SOL	about $56 to $76
500	0.7442 SOL	1.0196 SOL	0.7070 to 0.9687 SOL	about $112 to $153

These rows are arithmetic, not survey data. I do not know what is in your wallet, and an average says little about any single one: in SOLTidy's own data on how much SOL is stuck in Solana wallets, a small, early sample of 67 wallets, the median wallet got back 0.00277 SOL while the largest got 0.3494 SOL. The dollar column will be out of date by the time you read it; the SOL to USD converter gives the current value.

How do you find out how many empty accounts you have?

The quickest way is a scan that reads every account, because wallet apps hide most empty accounts. Phantom and Solflare are built to show what you hold, so a zero-balance token usually drops out of the list while its account stays on chain. Three ways to get the true count:

1. Use a block explorer. Open your address and look at the token accounts view, which lists every account, including zero-balance ones. Count the zeros.
2. Use the command line. spl-token accounts lists the token accounts owned by your keypair, empty ones included.
3. Use a scanning tool. Connect your wallet to the SOLTidy Token Account Closer. It queries both the SPL Token program and Token-2022, and shows the number of closable accounts and the SOL inside them. The scan only reads; nothing is signed until you choose to claim.

As a rough guide to what to expect, the count follows how many distinct tokens you have ever touched, not how long you have held a wallet or how much you have traded by value. A wallet that bought two hundred different memecoins once each has about two hundred accounts. A wallet that traded only SOL and USDC at large size has one or two. Where the accounts come from, swap by swap and mint by mint, is the subject of the hidden cost of everyday Solana activity.

What do network fees take out of the recovered SOL?

Network fees take very little. The Solana base fee is 5,000 lamports per signature, and one close transaction needs one signature. A transaction that closes 8 accounts returns between 11,907,520 and 16,314,240 lamports and pays 5,000, which is about 0.03% to 0.04% of the amount recovered. A small priority fee changes that only slightly, because closing accounts uses very few compute units.

The number of transactions follows from Solana's 1,232-byte transaction size limit. The SOLTidy closer packs up to 12 accounts per transaction, so the count of wallet prompts is the number of accounts divided by 12, rounded up:

• 20 accounts: 2 transactions
• 50 accounts: 5 transactions
• 200 accounts: 17 transactions

What does a closing tool cost, and when is it not worth using?

The SOLTidy Token Account Closer charges 5% of the rent recovered, paid inside the same transaction that returns the SOL. On 50 older accounts that is about 0.0051 SOL out of 0.102; on 50 newer ones, about 0.0037 SOL out of 0.074. If a transaction recovers nothing, no fee is charged.

Whether that is worth it depends on the alternatives, and they are real:

• Wallet menus. Some wallets can close or burn a single token from its menu for the network fee only. With fewer than about five accounts, do that.
• The SPL Token CLI. spl-token close and spl-token gc are free. If you keep a keypair file and are comfortable in a terminal, the CLI is the cheapest path; the commands are in closing Solana token accounts with the CLI.
• A bulk tool. Reasonable when you use a browser wallet or a hardware wallet, have dozens of accounts, and would rather sign five prompts than click through fifty menus.

I built SOLTidy because I was the third case many times over; the about page has the longer version. It is not the only way to get your rent back, and the protocol does the actual refunding either way.

Can you recover rent from accounts you are keeping?

Yes, the difference on older accounts. An account opened before Solana lowered rent holds more than the current minimum, and both token programs have a WithdrawExcessLamports instruction that sends the surplus to you while the account stays open. That is 0.00055084 SOL per SPL token account and about 0.00056 to 0.00059 SOL per Token-2022 account, so it works on tokens you still hold. The SOLTidy closer does this automatically for the accounts you keep, for the same 5% of the SOL withdrawn. It also closes pump.fun and PumpSwap volume accumulator accounts, which pump.fun opens for every trader. Each returns 0.0013462 SOL, though pump.fun opens a new one and charges the rent again the next time you trade there. An accumulator that still holds unclaimed cashback is skipped until the cashback is claimed, which the home Solana wallet cleanup does in the same scan.

What reduces the amount you can recover?

Anything that stops an account from being empty or closable reduces the total. The common cases:

• Dust balances. An account holding 0.0001 of some token is not empty, and CloseAccount fails on it. If the dust has a market, Sell Dust for SOL swaps it through Jupiter and closes the account in the same transaction, for 5% of the SOL received plus 5% of the rent. If it has no market, burning it is the only way to free the rent, and burning is permanent.
• Frozen accounts. A token whose freeze authority has frozen your account cannot be transferred or burned, so that deposit is stuck unless the account is thawed.
• Token-2022 withheld fees. Accounts for tokens with a transfer fee can hold withheld fees that must be harvested to the mint before the account can close.
• Accounts you still use. Closing the account for a token you buy every week gains nothing, because the next purchase pays the deposit again.

Whether any of this is risky is a separate question, answered in is it safe to close Solana token accounts. Briefly: closing empty accounts is reversible, and burning is not.

Is there more SOL locked elsewhere in the wallet?

Often, yes: empty token accounts are the most common place SOL gets stranded, but not the only one. Other places to look:

• NFTs you do not want. Burning a standard Metaplex NFT closes its token account, metadata account and master edition, and usually returns between 0.006 and 0.01 SOL, several times what a token account returns. The NFT Burner shows the exact amount per item and charges 5% of the reclaimed SOL. Compressed NFTs hold no rent and return nothing.
• Leftover wrapped SOL. A wSOL account returns its wrapped balance together with its rent when it is closed.
• Old stake accounts. A deactivated stake account holds its entire balance until you withdraw it; withdrawing old stake accounts shows how to find forgotten ones.
• Developer leftovers. Failed program deploys leave funded buffer accounts behind, and these can hold a lot of SOL because programs are large.

Bottom line

The amount of SOL you can recover from token accounts is the number of empty accounts multiplied by 0.00148844 or 0.00203928, depending on when each was opened, slightly more for Token-2022 accounts. Network fees remove a few hundredths of a percent, and a bulk tool's fee, 5% at SOLTidy, is the only other deduction. Count your accounts with a read-only wallet cleanup scan before deciding how to close them, and skip the accounts for tokens you still trade. For a handful of accounts use your wallet or the CLI; for dozens or hundreds, batching saves a lot of clicking.