SOL rent reclaim: what to expect (fees, timing, and how much comes back)

Before connecting a wallet to any tool that touches your funds, it's reasonable to want the exact numbers up front. Here's what actually happens when you reclaim rent, without the marketing gloss.

How much comes back per account

A standard SPL token account locks roughly 0.00203928 SOL as its rent-exempt reserve. That's the amount returned when it closes — the exact figure can vary very slightly depending on the account's data size, but it's consistently in that range. Ten dormant accounts is roughly 0.02 SOL; fifty is roughly 0.1 SOL. Individually small, but it's a fixed, known amount per account, not a variable payout.

Where the service fee comes from

Running a scanner, an RPC connection reliable enough for real transactions, and the infrastructure behind it isn't free. GetBackSOL takes a 30% cut of the SOL reclaimed — calculated on the gross amount, shown before you sign, and transferred in the same atomic transaction as the closure itself. There's no separate charge, no subscription, and nothing deducted after the fact: what you see in the "you receive" line before confirming is exactly what lands in your wallet.

How long it takes

Solana transactions typically confirm in a few seconds. Closing accounts in batches (up to around ten per transaction, due to Solana's transaction size limit) means even a wallet with dozens of dormant accounts is usually done in well under a minute of actual wait time, across however many transactions it takes.

What it costs to try

Normally, sending any Solana transaction requires a small amount of SOL in your wallet to cover the network fee — a real problem if your wallet is down to nothing but dead token accounts. Gasless setups solve this by having the platform itself cover that tiny network fee, so a wallet with genuinely zero SOL can still use the tool and walk away with a positive balance.