Solana
Take Back the Rent Surplus After Solana’s Rent Cut
Every token you have ever held opened a token account, and each one locked a SOL deposit priced at the rent rate of the day. Solana is now lowering that rate in five planned steps — but the chain refunds nothing on its own: an account funded at the old rate simply keeps holding more than it needs. This page reads the live rate, shows the surplus each of your accounts carries — or what each step will free, if it has not activated yet, and says so plainly — and returns it to your wallet in one signing session. Every account stays open and no token moves.
The exact total — platform fee plus the real network cost — is quoted in the console before anything is signed.
Why your accounts hold more than they need
Rent on Solana is a deposit, not a bill: an account must hold enough SOL for its size, at the rate in force when it was funded. The rent cut lowers that rate five times, each step switched on by the network itself — and none of those switches moves a single lamport. An account funded before a step keeps its old, larger deposit until its owner withdraws the difference. The withdraw is a standard instruction on both token programs; it takes the balance down to exactly today’s minimum and sends the rest to your wallet, signed by you and nobody else.
Nothing is closed — that is the point
The rent cut splits your token accounts in two. The empty ones — tokens you sold or sent away — are worth closing: the whole deposit comes back, and that is the Reclaim SOL tool’s job. The ones still holding tokens are worth keeping — and this page touches only those, taking back the surplus while the account, its balance and its history stay exactly where they are. Nothing here ever closes an account, and the two tools link to each other so each account ends up in the right one.
Five steps, and nothing is lost by waiting
Each step frees another slice of the same deposits, so this is five small moments rather than one big one. Waiting costs you nothing: the surplus sits in your own accounts until you take it, and taking several steps’ worth in one run pays one set of network fees instead of five. The service fee is 5% of what actually comes back — the exact total, network cost included, is on screen in the console before anything is signed.
The honest limits
The amounts are small per account — roughly 0.0002 SOL after the first step, roughly 0.0018 once all five have landed — so this pays off in proportion to how many tokens you have held; the scan shows your exact total before you decide. A token mint’s surplus can only be taken by its live mint authority, and revoking that authority locks the surplus away forever — which is why the revoke tool here refuses until it is taken first. Accounts opened after a step carry no surplus from it. And the network keeps a reversal switch: if a step were ever rolled back, accounts that took their surplus would hold less than the restored minimum — they keep working and nothing is deleted, but topping one up again means restoring the full minimum in one move.
Questions
- Do I get a rent refund from Solana automatically?
- No. The rent cut changes what the network requires an account to hold — it moves no money. An account funded at the old rate keeps its old deposit until the owner signs a withdrawal for the difference, which is exactly what this page builds.
- Does this close my token accounts or move my tokens?
- No. Each account is taken down to exactly today’s rent minimum and stays open, with its tokens untouched. Closing empty accounts for their whole deposit is a different tool — Reclaim SOL — and this page points you there for those.
- How much SOL comes back?
- It depends on how many token accounts you opened before each step — each standard account frees roughly 0.0002 SOL at step 1 and roughly 0.0018 once all five steps have landed. The scan reads the live rate and shows your exact total, fees included, before you sign.
- What about tokens I created?
- A mint holds a deposit too, and its surplus can be taken back only by the wallet holding the mint authority. Revoking that authority locks the surplus away forever — nobody can withdraw it afterwards — so take it back first; the revoke tool here checks and refuses in that order.
- What happens if the network reverses a rent-cut step?
- A reversal switch exists. Accounts that took their surplus would then hold less than the restored minimum — they keep working and nothing is deleted, but adding SOL to one again means restoring the full minimum in a single move. The reversal has never been used; it is the network’s safety valve.
- Do you ever hold my funds or keys?
- Never. The scan needs only your public address, and the withdrawal is an unsigned transaction your own wallet signs — the surplus lands straight in it. Nothing routes through us.