How Much SOL Is Locked in Your Wallet? Rent Calculator & Examples

If you're asking "how much SOL is locked in my wallet?", the answer is simple multiplication. Count your empty token accounts and multiply by the deposit each one holds: 0.00203928 SOL for accounts opened before September 2026, or 0.00148844 SOL for accounts opened since September 11, 2026. A wallet with 100 old empty accounts has about 0.204 SOL sitting in deposits you can get back.

Key takeaways

• Every Solana token account holds a refundable rent deposit. For most accounts opened before September 2026, it's exactly 0.00203928 SOL.
• Accounts opened since September 11, 2026 hold 0.00148844 SOL, after the first two steps of Solana's rent reduction.
• 100 old empty accounts add up to 0.2039 SOL, or about 0.2029 SOL after SOLclaimer's 0.5% fee.
• You can scan any address on the claim tool without connecting a wallet. The scan reads actual on-chain balances, so it's the only exact answer.

Where the locked SOL comes from

Each token you hold lives in its own token account, usually an Associated Token Account (ATA). Buying or receiving a new token usually creates one. Solana requires every account to hold a rent-exempt deposit, so each new ATA locks a little SOL inside.

When you sell 100% of a token, the account doesn't disappear. It stays open with a zero balance, and the deposit stays put. Memecoin traders using pump.fun, trading bots or DEX aggregators can pile up hundreds of these without noticing.

That SOL is yours. You paid it when the account was opened, most people never knew it was there, and getting it back feels a lot like free SOL. Our post on the SOL you didn't know you had explains the background.

How much SOL is locked in your wallet: the formula

The deposit depends on the account's size and the network's rent rate. Solana's account documentation covers rent-exempt deposits in more detail. The math looks like this:

• Deposit = (128 + 165) × lamports per byte
• A standard SPL token account is 165 bytes, so it's charged for 293 bytes.
• 1 SOL = 1,000,000,000 lamports.

The rate changed in 2026, so the deposit in each account depends on when it was created:

Further cuts are expected with Agave 4.4 around November 2026, which would lower the deposit for new accounts again. They won't change what your existing accounts hold. Our explainer on the Solana rent reduction (SIMD-0437) covers every step.

So the full formula for your wallet is:

Locked SOL = (old accounts × 0.00203928) + (newer accounts × 0.00148844)

Then multiply by 0.995 to see what you keep after SOLclaimer's 0.5% fee. If you have accounts from the eight days between the two September steps, use 0.001855569 SOL for those.

Solana rent calculator: SOL by number of accounts

Here's the math worked out for common account counts. "Legacy" means accounts opened before September 2026. "Current" means accounts opened since September 11, 2026. Totals for 10 or more accounts are rounded to four decimal places.

The difference between columns matters. Old accounts return about 37% more SOL each than accounts opened today, so a wallet full of pre-September accounts is worth more to clean up.

Solana's network fee is tiny next to these numbers. Each transaction costs 5,000 lamports (0.000005 SOL) plus a small priority fee, and many closes fit into each transaction.

Example wallets: what different traders might have locked

These profiles are illustrative math, not real wallets. They assume one empty account per token fully sold and the deposits from the table above. Your own wallet will differ.

The casual holder

Say you've tried 15 different tokens over the past couple of years and sold out of all of them before September 2026. That's 15 × 0.00203928 = 0.0305892 SOL, or about 0.0304 SOL after the fee. Not life-changing, but it's SOL doing nothing.

The weekend memecoin trader

If you've traded 300 different memecoins and sold out of each one before September 2026, you likely have around 300 empty ATAs. That's 300 × 0.00203928 = 0.611784 SOL, or about 0.6087 SOL after the fee.

What counts is the number of different tokens, not the number of trades. Buying the same coin ten times usually reuses one account, as long as you never closed it. Our guide for memecoin and pump.fun traders goes deeper on this.

The mixed wallet

Suppose you had 200 empty accounts from before September and opened 80 more since September 11 that you've already sold out of. That's (200 × 0.00203928) + (80 × 0.00148844) = 0.407856 + 0.1190752 = 0.5269312 SOL. After the fee, you'd keep about 0.5243 SOL.

The bot trader

Trading bots can touch a lot of tokens quickly. A wallet with 2,000 empty accounts from before September 2026 would hold 2,000 × 0.00203928 = 4.07856 SOL, or about 4.0582 SOL after the fee.

How to count your token accounts

You have three ways to get the number, from rough to exact.

1. Guess from memory. Count roughly how many different tokens you've bought or received and fully sold. This gets you a ballpark at best.
2. Check a block explorer. Explorers like Solscan list the token accounts for an address, but you'd have to check each balance and deposit by hand.
3. Scan the address. Open the free wallet scan, choose the option to scan any address without connecting, and paste your wallet address. No wallet connection or signature is needed.

The scan checks both the SPL Token program and Token-2022. It shows how many empty accounts it found, the total reclaimable SOL, the 0.5% fee and what you'd receive. Accounts that can't be closed are listed separately.

Why the scan is the only exact answer

The calculator is a good estimate, but real wallets are messier. A few things can push your actual number up or down:

• Mixed creation dates. Your accounts may hold three different deposit sizes depending on when they were opened.
• Extra lamports. Closing returns an account's full lamport balance, so an account that holds more than the minimum returns more.
• Dust balances. An account holding a tiny leftover amount of a token isn't empty. SOLclaimer only closes zero-balance accounts and doesn't burn tokens, so those aren't counted.
• Accounts that can't be closed. Frozen accounts and Token-2022 accounts whose close authority isn't you are skipped. See why some token accounts can't be closed for the full list.

The scan reads each account's actual lamport balance from the chain and leaves out anything that can't be closed. The number it shows is the number you can claim.

How to claim your SOL once you know the number

Once you have the total, claiming usually takes a single approval in your wallet:

• Connect the same wallet you scanned, using Phantom, Solflare, Backpack or another Wallet Standard wallet.
• Untick any account you want to keep open.
• Approve the transaction. You'll see compute budget settings, a CloseAccount for each empty account with your wallet as the destination, and one transfer for the 0.5% fee.

SOLclaimer never asks for token approvals, delegations or authority changes. Every signature links to Solscan so you can check what happened. For the full walkthrough, read how to claim your SOL from empty token accounts.

Frequently asked questions

How much SOL is in one empty token account?

Almost every token account opened before September 2026 holds 0.00203928 SOL. Accounts opened since September 11, 2026 hold 0.00148844 SOL after Solana's rent reduction.

How much SOL can I reclaim from 100 token accounts?

If all 100 were opened before September 2026, they hold 0.203928 SOL in total. After SOLclaimer's 0.5% fee, you keep about 0.2029 SOL.

Do I need to connect my wallet to see how much SOL is locked?

No. You can paste any Solana address into the claim tool and scan it read-only. You only need to connect the same wallet when you want to claim.

Why is my scan result lower than the calculator?

Some of your accounts may be newer and hold a smaller deposit, may still hold dust tokens, or may be frozen or restricted by a Token-2022 close authority. The scan only counts accounts that can actually be closed.

Will the rent reduction lower what my old accounts return?

No. Existing accounts keep the deposit they were created with, and closing an account returns its full lamport balance. Old accounts still return 0.00203928 SOL each.

Claim your SOL now

The calculator gives you a ballpark, but your wallet has one exact number. Run the free scan, see what's locked in your empty token accounts, and claim your SOL back while keeping 99.5% of it.