Solana Transaction Fee Calculator

Work out what a Solana transaction costs: the base fee per signature, the priority fee on its compute units, and the deposit for a new token account, in SOL and rupees.

Your transaction

Optional: 1 for most transactions.

Optional: blank is 2,00,000.

Optional: blank or 0 for none.

Tokens and volume (optional)

When the receiver has never held the token.

Your Solana fee

Enter the SOL price, and the compute unit limit and priority price if you use one, then choose Calculate. Your figures appear here.

Base Fee

₹0.00

5,000 lamports a signature

Priority Fee

₹0.00

On the compute unit limit

Token Account Deposit

None

Returned if the account is closed

Where the Fee Goes

0 burned

The rest to the validator

Fees a Month

Not set

Enter transactions a month

Total Fee

₹0.00

For one transaction

The fee is fixed by the signatures, the compute unit limit and the priority price, and is charged even if the transaction fails. The token account deposit is returned when the account is closed, so it is shown apart from the fee. For Ethereum and Bitcoin, use the Crypto Gas Fee Calculator or the Crypto Transaction Fee Calculator.

How it is calculated

A Solana fee has two parts. The base fee is fixed per signature; the priority fee is a price you choose for each compute unit your transaction asks for, paid on the limit requested, not on what it uses. Both are charged even if the transaction fails.

  • Base fee = 5,000 lamports × signatures
  • Priority fee = compute unit price (micro-lamports) × compute unit limit ÷ 10,00,000, rounded up to a whole lamport
  • Total fee = base fee + priority fee; 1 SOL = 1,00,00,00,000 lamports
  • Burned = half of the base fee; the other half and all of the priority fee go to the validator
  • Token account deposit = 0.00203928 SOL when a new token account is opened for the receiver; returned if the account is closed

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on Solana fees, priority fees and token account deposits.

What a Solana transaction costs in SOL and rupees. With SOL at ₹15,000, a transaction with one signature costs a base fee of 5,000 lamports, 0.000005 SOL or ₹0.08. Add a priority fee of 10,000 micro-lamports per compute unit on a 2,00,000 compute unit limit and it pays 2,000 lamports more, so the total is 7,000 lamports, 0.000007 SOL, about ₹0.11. Sending a token to a wallet that has never held it also locks a deposit of 0.00203928 SOL, about ₹30.59.

A lamport is the smallest unit of SOL: one SOL is a billion lamports. A compute unit measures the work a transaction asks validators to do; each transaction sets a limit, by default 2,00,000 for each instruction, and a simple transfer needs far fewer. A micro-lamport is a millionth of a lamport, the unit for the priority price.

Not when the network is quiet: a transaction with no priority fee pays only the base fee and is usually included within seconds. When many transactions compete, for example during a popular token launch, validators take those paying more per compute unit first. Wallets usually suggest a priority fee from recent prices; setting a tighter compute unit limit lowers the same priority fee, because it is charged on the limit, not on what is used.

Because the receiver needed a new token account. Each Solana wallet holds every token in its own account, and opening one locks 0.00203928 SOL as a rent-exempt deposit, paid by the sender. It is not a fee: whoever owns the account gets it back by closing the account once it is empty. Sending to a wallet that already holds the token needs no deposit.

Solana’s base fee is a small fixed amount per signature, so ordinary transfers cost a fraction of a rupee. Ethereum charges gas for the work done at a price that rises with demand, and Bitcoin charges by the transaction’s size in bytes. The Crypto Gas Fee Calculator and the Crypto Transaction Fee Calculator work out those fees.

Generally not. Section 115BBH allows only the cost of acquiring the coin to be deducted from the gain on selling it, so network fees, including Solana’s, do not reduce the 30% tax. A fee paid in SOL is also, strictly, a transfer of SOL, though the amounts are usually tiny. The Bitcoin Tax Calculator works out the tax on selling any coin.

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