Recover SOL
Burn Solana NFTs and reclaim the SOL inside them
Scan your wallet for NFTs, pick the spam or unwanted ones, and burn them to get back the SOL rent held by their accounts. Non-custodial: you sign every burn in your own wallet.
Get started
Connect a wallet to see which NFTs you can burn for SOL.
How it works
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Connect and scan
Connect your wallet and the tool finds every token account holding a single indivisible token, then reads its Metaplex metadata and edition accounts straight from the chain.
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Select what to burn
Each row shows the on-chain name, the type (NFT, pNFT, edition or plain token) and the exact SOL that burning it returns. Search by name and tick only the items you want gone.
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Review the total and confirm
The summary shows the rent reclaimed, the 5% fee and the net SOL you receive. Tick the confirmation box; burning cannot be reversed.
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Sign the burn transactions
Burns are packed several per transaction. Approve each one in your wallet, the SOL arrives immediately, and the wallet is rescanned when it's done.
Why burning a Solana NFT returns SOL
Every account on Solana holds a rent-exempt deposit in SOL that is proportional to its size. A standard Metaplex NFT is not one account but several: the token account in your wallet (165 bytes, 0.00203928 SOL), a metadata account holding the name, symbol and URI, and a master edition account (about 0.0029 SOL) that proves the supply is fixed at one. Programmable NFTs add a token record account of roughly 0.0014 SOL. Whoever minted the NFT paid those deposits, but they travel with the asset.
When you burn the NFT through the Metaplex Token Metadata program, the program destroys the token and closes those accounts, and the deposits are paid out to the owner. The total is usually somewhere between 0.006 and 0.01 SOL per NFT, depending mostly on how large the metadata account is. This tool reads the real lamport balance of every account involved, so the number next to each NFT is what the burn actually pays, not an estimate.
NFTs, pNFTs, editions and plain tokens: what gets burned and how
Master-edition NFTs and programmable NFTs (pNFTs) are burned with the Token Metadata program's Burn instruction (BurnV1). It closes the token account, the metadata and the edition in one step, plus the token record for a pNFT, and it decrements the size of a verified collection when there is one. pNFT token accounts are permanently frozen by design, so BurnV1 is the only way to remove them; a normal token burn fails.
Print editions and tokens that have no Metaplex metadata or edition account are handled with a plain SPL burn followed by closing the token account. That returns only the token account's 0.00203928 SOL, and the list labels these rows "Token account rent only" so the smaller amount is no surprise. Token-2022 NFTs take the same route. Items that cannot be burned at all are shown greyed out with the reason: a regular NFT frozen by a staking or marketplace delegate, or a pNFT whose token record is locked or listed. Unstake or delist those first.
Burning spam NFTs safely
Spam NFTs are airdropped to thousands of wallets with a name like a voucher or a prize and a link in the description. The danger is the website, never the token: visiting the link and approving a transaction there is how wallets get drained. Burning the NFT from a tool you chose yourself is safe, because a burn only touches accounts that belong to that one NFT and you see the full transaction in your wallet before signing.
This burner never opens an NFT's off-chain links. Names and symbols come from the on-chain metadata account. Thumbnails are shown only when the RPC provider supplies an image through its own CDN proxy; if it doesn't, you get a type badge instead. One caveat: many spam drops today are compressed NFTs, which live in a Merkle tree rather than in accounts of your own. They hold no rent, burning them returns no SOL, and they are not listed here. Hide those in your wallet instead.
How the 5% fee works across several transactions
A Solana transaction is limited to 1,232 bytes, which fits roughly five Metaplex NFT burns. Larger selections are split into several transactions and your wallet asks for an approval for each. Every transaction includes its own small SOL transfer equal to 5% of the rent that specific transaction reclaims, so the fee is always proportional to what you have actually received. If you stop halfway, the burns already confirmed are final, the rest of your NFTs are untouched, and you have paid only for the completed part.
Questions & answers
How much SOL do you get for burning an NFT on Solana?
A standard Metaplex NFT usually returns between 0.006 and 0.01 SOL: about 0.002 SOL from the token account, about 0.0029 SOL from the master edition, and the rest from the metadata account, whose size varies. pNFTs return roughly 0.0014 SOL more from their token record. Print editions and tokens without metadata return 0.00203928 SOL. The tool shows the exact figure per item before you sign.
Can I undo burning an NFT?
No. A burn reduces the mint's supply to zero and closes the metadata and edition accounts. There is no restore function in the token program or in Metaplex, and neither SOLTidy nor the original creator can bring the NFT back. That is why the button stays disabled until you tick the confirmation box. Check the selection carefully, especially after using Select all.
Is it safe to burn spam NFTs?
Yes, burning is the safe way to get rid of them. The risk with spam NFTs comes from visiting the website they advertise and signing something there. A burn transaction only references the NFT's own token, metadata and edition accounts plus the fee transfer, and your wallet shows it for approval. This tool never loads the links embedded in a spam NFT's metadata.
What does the Solana NFT burner cost?
5% of the SOL you reclaim. Burn ten NFTs that return 0.08 SOL in total and the fee is 0.004 SOL, leaving 0.076 SOL. The fee is a plain SOL transfer inside each burn transaction, shown in the summary before you sign. There is no charge for scanning, and nothing is charged for items you don't burn.
Is the NFT burner non-custodial?
Yes. The tool runs in your browser, builds the burn instructions from public on-chain data and hands them to your wallet. Your keys never leave the wallet, no token approval or delegation is requested, and each transaction can be inspected and rejected. Nothing can be burned without your signature on that specific transaction.
Why is one of my NFTs greyed out and can't be selected?
Its token account is frozen or locked. Regular NFTs get frozen when they are staked or listed through a delegate, and pNFTs carry a token record that is marked locked or listed in the same situations. The Metaplex program refuses to burn an asset in that state. Unstake or delist it in the app where you locked it, rescan, and it becomes selectable.
Why don't my compressed NFTs show up?
Compressed NFTs (cNFTs) are entries in a shared Merkle tree, not token accounts owned by your wallet. They cost the creator a fraction of a cent to mint and hold no rent deposit, so burning one returns no SOL. This tool lists only assets that pay something back. To tidy compressed spam, use your wallet's hide or report-as-spam option.
Why does an edition return less SOL than a regular NFT?
For print editions this tool uses a plain token burn and closes only your token account, which returns 0.00203928 SOL. Closing a print's metadata and edition accounts through Metaplex also requires accounts belonging to the original master edition, which the burner does not look up. The row is labelled "Token account rent only" so you know before selecting it.
Is there a fee?
The NFT burner charges 5% of the SOL rent each transaction reclaims, paid inside that same transaction; if a burn returns nothing, nothing is charged.
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