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How-to · Solana · rent

Close empty token accounts.
Get the rent back.

Every SPL token account is a rent-exempt account (~0.002 SOL). If the balance is zero, you can close it and the rent returns to the owner. Do this in a wallet you control. Never paste a seed into a website.

The recipe

Find empties. Then close.

  1. 01

    List token accounts

    getTokenAccountsByOwner on the Token program and Token-2022. Empty means tokenAmount.amount is 0. Those rows still have lamports.

  2. 02

    Close in a wallet

    Phantom: Settings → Manage accounts / Close token accounts (wording moves). Solflare has a similar unused-account closer. You sign. The site should never see your key.

  3. 03

    Or the CLI

    spl-token accounts then spl-token close <token-account> for each empty ATA. Destination for rent is the owner wallet.

curl https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
  "jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"getTokenAccountsByOwner",
  "params":["ADDRESS",{"programId":"TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA"},{"encoding":"jsonParsed"}]
}'

Do not close accounts you still need. Some apps recreate ATAs and you pay rent again. Frozen or delegated accounts may refuse close.

Without a script

Preview in the browser.

Reclaim runs the scan in your tab and shows empty count plus reclaimable SOL. The CSV of every empty ATA is 8 USDC on Solana, matched on-chain. No email, no seed.

Open the scan

Also on Hashnode: Close empty Solana token accounts and reclaim rent.