How to Reclaim Solana Rent with YourFreeSOL

If your Solana wallet contains supported empty token accounts that you no longer need, their remaining lamports may be reclaimable by closing those accounts.

YourFreeSOL simplifies this process: connect your wallet, scan for supported eligible accounts, review their actual on-chain balances, select the accounts you want to close, and approve the transaction in your wallet.

The amount available to reclaim is not a fixed amount per account. It depends on each account's actual lamport balance and eligibility. This is especially important now that Solana is reducing its rent parameters through a phased network upgrade.

How much SOL can you reclaim?#

There is no reliable fixed amount that should be multiplied by the number of unused token accounts.

The amount potentially reclaimable through account closure depends on each account's actual on-chain lamport balance.

Historically, a basic 165-byte token account under the classic SPL Token Program required:

2,039,280 lamports
= 0.00203928 SOL

under Solana's previous rent parameters.

This is why approximately 0.00204 SOL per token account is commonly mentioned in older guides and discussions about reclaiming Solana rent.

However, Solana began reducing its rent parameters in September 2026. Under SIMD-0437, the network's lamports_per_byte parameter is being reduced from 6,960 toward a target of 696 through five separate activation steps.

As these reductions become active, the rent-exempt minimum for an account of the same size decreases.

Existing accounts can also have different balances depending on when and how they were funded, their account size, and whether additional lamports are present.

A more reliable model is therefore:

Potentially reclaimable SOL
→ inspect each account's actual lamport balance

Not:
→ number of accounts × 0.00203928 SOL

Token-2022 accounts can also use extensions that increase their data size and affect their rent-exempt requirements.

YourFreeSOL therefore uses detected account data when presenting supported accounts rather than assuming that every account contains the same amount.

For more background, read What Is Solana Rent? and Solana Rent Reduction Explained.

Step 1: Open YourFreeSOL#

Open YourFreeSOL and go to the Reclaim SOL tool.

You do not need to manually inspect raw account data or calculate rent balances yourself. The tool scans supported token accounts and presents the accounts identified by its eligibility checks before you approve a transaction.

Make sure you are using the correct YourFreeSOL website before connecting your wallet.

Step 2: Connect your wallet#

Select Connect Wallet and choose your supported Solana wallet.

Connecting allows YourFreeSOL to identify your public wallet address and read relevant public on-chain account information.

It does not give YourFreeSOL permission to sign transactions on your behalf.

Step 3: Scan for reclaimable SOL#

After connecting, start the wallet scan.

YourFreeSOL checks supported token accounts associated with the connected wallet and identifies accounts that satisfy the tool's supported closure conditions.

For each relevant account, the tool can inspect information such as:

• token balance;
• account lamport balance;
• token program;
• account state;
• account owner or close authority; and
• other account information required by the supported workflow.

A zero token balance is important for ordinary non-native token accounts, but zero balance alone does not automatically mean an account is eligible or appropriate to close.

If no eligible accounts are found, your wallet may simply have no supported token accounts that currently satisfy the reclaim flow's conditions.

Step 4: Review the accounts and reclaimable SOL#

Before continuing, review the scan results carefully.

Check:

• the accounts selected for closure;
• the token or mint associated with each account;
• the detected SOL or lamport balance of each account;
• the total amount associated with the selected accounts;
• the destination that will receive the reclaimed lamports; and
• any applicable network or service fees.

The amount shown should be based on the accounts detected in your wallet rather than a fixed assumption such as 0.00203928 SOL per account.

Step 5: Choose the accounts you want to close#

Review the eligible accounts and select the ones you actually want to close.

An account does not have to be closed merely because it is empty or appears in the scan.

If you expect to use a token again, keeping its existing token account may be preferable to closing it and potentially creating another account later.

Closing an account is an on-chain state change, so the selection should reflect what you actually intend to remove.

Step 6: Start the reclaim#

Once you are satisfied with your selection, continue with the reclaim action.

YourFreeSOL prepares the transaction instructions needed to close the selected supported accounts and transfer their remaining lamports according to the transaction.

Depending on how many accounts you select and the applicable transaction constraints, the reclaim process may require more than one transaction.

Do not continue if the transaction does not match the accounts and operation you intended to authorize.

Step 7: Review and sign in your wallet#

Your wallet will display the transaction for approval.

Before signing, verify that:

• the accounts being closed match your selection;
• the destination for the reclaimed lamports is correct;
• the transaction instructions match the intended account-closure operation;
• there are no unexpected token transfers, approvals, or authority changes; and
• the displayed network and service fees are acceptable.

YourFreeSOL cannot approve the blockchain transaction for you.

If the transaction does not match what you intended to do, reject it instead of signing.

Step 8: Wait for confirmation#

After you approve the transaction, it is submitted to Solana.

When a CloseAccount transaction successfully executes, the selected eligible token accounts are closed and their remaining lamports are transferred to the destination specified by the transaction.

The lamport transfer is part of the account-close operation itself. There is no separate protocol-level rent-refund claim after a successful close.

YourFreeSOL can display the transaction status, and the transaction signature can also be verified through a Solana block explorer.

What happens after an account is closed?#

Closing a token account removes that particular account.

It does not:

• delete the token mint;
• remove the token itself from Solana;
• burn tokens from the mint supply; or
• prevent a compatible token account from being created again later.

If you later need a token account for the same mint, an appropriate account may need to be created and funded again.

For an Associated Token Account, the canonical ATA can be recreated at its deterministic address after the previous ATA has been closed.

The newly created account must satisfy the network's applicable rent-exempt minimum at that time.

Because Solana's rent parameters are changing, the amount required to create the account again may differ from the amount that was originally held by the account you closed.

How does Solana's rent reduction affect reclaiming SOL?#

Solana is reducing the parameter used to calculate rent-exempt minimum balances.

The reduction does not change the basic account-closure process. An eligible token account can still be closed, and its remaining lamports can still be transferred to the specified destination.

What changes is the amount of SOL required for account storage.

Before the reduction began, a basic 165-byte SPL Token Account required 2,039,280 lamports, or 0.00203928 SOL, under the previous parameters.

That historical amount should no longer be treated as the current fixed rent requirement or as a guaranteed refund for every token account.

Existing accounts are not automatically adjusted to the new minimum when rent decreases. An older account can therefore continue holding a balance that was funded under earlier rent parameters.

For the details of the phased rollout, see Solana Rent Reduction Explained.

What are excess lamports?#

Reduced rent introduces another concept that is different from closing an empty token account.

An existing account can hold more lamports than its current rent-exempt minimum requires.

Conceptually:

Current account lamports
        -
Current rent-exempt minimum
        =
Potential excess lamports

For supported Token Program and Token-2022 accounts, Solana provides a WithdrawExcessLamports instruction that can withdraw lamports above the current rent-exempt minimum without closing the account or changing its token balance.

That is a different operation from the YourFreeSOL account-closure workflow described in this guide.

This guide covers:

Eligible empty token account
        ↓
CloseAccount
        ↓
Remaining lamports reclaimed
        ↓
Account removed

Withdrawing excess lamports instead keeps the source account open.

For more information, see Solana Rent Reduction Explained.

Is reclaiming SOL the same as burning tokens?#

No.

Burning tokens and closing token accounts are separate operations.

Burn
→ reduces token balance
→ reduces mint total supply

CloseAccount
→ transfers remaining lamports
→ removes the token account

For an ordinary non-native token account, the token balance generally needs to be zero before the account can be closed.

If an account still contains tokens, transferring or intentionally burning those tokens is a separate decision.

Burning is irreversible. Do not burn tokens merely because you want to reclaim SOL from the account.

What if YourFreeSOL finds nothing?#

That does not necessarily mean something is wrong.

Your wallet may have:

• no unused supported token accounts;
• accounts that are not currently eligible for closure;
• token accounts that still contain token balances;
• account types or Token-2022 configurations outside the supported reclaim flow;
• accounts controlled by a different owner or close authority; or
• no accounts matching the tool's current eligibility checks.

The reclaim flow should only present accounts that satisfy its supported cleanup conditions.

It is also possible for an account to contain excess lamports without being an empty account eligible for the closure workflow. Excess-lamport withdrawal and empty-account closure are separate operations.

How much SOL will you actually receive?#

The account balances shown in the reclaim flow represent SOL held by the selected accounts.

The final wallet balance change can differ from the sum of those balances because the transaction may separately involve:

• Solana network transaction fees;
• an optional prioritization fee when used; and
• any applicable YourFreeSOL service fee.

The account's refundable balance and these transaction costs are separate concepts.

For current YourFreeSOL pricing, see Fees.

Reclaim SOL without managing accounts manually#

YourFreeSOL is designed to reduce the technical work involved in identifying and closing supported unused token accounts.

Connect wallet
     ↓
Scan supported accounts
     ↓
Review actual account balances
     ↓
Choose accounts to close
     ↓
Review transaction
     ↓
Approve in wallet
     ↓
Wait for confirmation
     ↓
Receive transferred lamports

The important point is that reclaimable SOL should be based on the actual accounts in your wallet, not on a historical fixed estimate per account.

YourFreeSOL remains non-custodial throughout the process: you review the selected accounts and authorize the transaction through your own wallet.

For more background, read What Is Free SOL on Solana? and What Is Solana Rent?.

For the underlying account structure, see What Is a Solana Token Account?.