How much SOL can you actually recover by closing token accounts?

Quick answer#

If you've been actively using Solana for more than a few months, you probably have between 0.05 and 1 SOL locked in empty token accounts, depending on activity level. Sample numbers:

Wallet type	Empty accounts	Locked rent	At $200/SOL
Casual user	10	0.020 SOL	~$4
Active trader	50	0.102 SOL	~$20
NFT collector	200	0.408 SOL	~$82
Heavy degen	500+	1.02+ SOL	~$205+

These are real ranges from wallets we've scanned. Your number depends almost entirely on how many distinct tokens you've ever held.

The math, in one line#

Every empty SPL token account holds exactly 2,039,280 lamports (0.00203928 SOL) of rent-exempt deposit. Close it, and that lands back in your wallet. So:

Recoverable SOL = empty accounts × 0.00204

That's it. There's no minimum, no time-lock, no condition.

Where the accounts come from#

Most wallets have no idea how many empty token accounts they're carrying. They accumulate from:

• Token swaps. Every time you bought or received a new token, your wallet opened a fresh Associated Token Account.
• NFT mints. Each NFT mint creates several accounts: the mint, the metadata, the master edition, and your own token account.
• Airdrop claims. Auto-claim flows often pre-create ATAs.
• Staking unstakes, perp closeouts, LP exits, app onboarding flows — anything that interacts with a new token.

Three sample wallets, anonymized#

We scanned three wallets from different user profiles. Numbers below are from the actual SOLTidy scan output.

Wallet A — casual user (~6 months on Solana)#

• 14 SPL token accounts total
• 9 empty (mostly old swap residues from Jupiter and Raydium)
• Recoverable: 0.0184 SOL (~$3.70)
• 3 transactions to clear

Wallet B — active trader (1.5 years, weekly swaps)#

• 78 SPL + 6 Token-2022 accounts total
• 51 empty
• Recoverable: 0.1041 SOL (~$20.80)
• 7 transactions to clear

Wallet C — NFT collector / degen (2+ years)#

• 412 token accounts total (NFT mints, memecoins, airdrops)
• 287 empty
• Recoverable: 0.5854 SOL (~$117)
• 36 transactions to clear

What you actually keep#

Two things come out of the recovered amount:

1. Solana network fee per signature — usually less than 0.000005 SOL per signed transaction. Even 36 transactions is under 0.0002 SOL total.
2. SOLTidy service fee — a small percentage of the recovered amount, deducted in the same transaction batch. The exact net amount you'll receive is shown in the hero before you sign.

For Wallet C above, the user received roughly 95% of the gross recovered SOL after both fees combined.

Estimate yours in 30 seconds#

Don't guess. Connect a wallet on the home page — SOLTidy reads every SPL and Token-2022 account in seconds and shows you the exact net amount you'd get back. No signature is required to see the number; you only sign to actually claim.

Worst case, your wallet is clean and you walk away knowing it. Best case, you find a few hundred dollars of stranded SOL.