What is Solana rent?
Rent is a deposit, not a fee
Solana charges for the space your accounts use on the chain. For token accounts, the network does not collect that rent a little at a time. Instead it requires a minimum balance sitting in the account, always enough to cover the storage. This is called rent-exempt. For a standard token account created before September 4, 2026, that minimum is 2,039,280 lamports, about 0.00204 SOL. The network lowered the rate that day, and has lowered it again since. An account created after September 4 but before the most recent cut holds 1,855,569 lamports, about 0.00186 SOL, and one created today holds 1,488,440 lamports, about 0.00149 SOL.
The important part: it is a deposit. It does not get spent while the account sits there. Close the account and the whole deposit comes back to the owner.
Closing, in one picture
holds about 0.00149 to 0.00208 SOL of rent
one instruction, you sign it
the rent returns to you, same transaction
How much is locked in yours?
Between about 0.0148844 and 0.0203928 SOL in rent deposits, depending on when the accounts were created
This is an estimate at the standard deposit. The scan shows your real number, because it reads your actual accounts.
Where the number comes from
The deposit comes from a network parameter, lamports per byte, and the network lowers it from time to time. Mainnet lowered it on September 4, 2026, and lowered it again since. If it changes again, this page changes with it.
Getting it back
Closing an empty token account is one instruction. The rent goes to a destination address, normally your own wallet, and it lands in the same transaction that closes the account. The exact steps are in how to close empty token accounts.