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Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent: A Practical Guide

A clear, data-driven guide to solana local fee markets, compute units and rent.

Base fee

Every Solana transaction pays 5,000 lamports per signature. Half of base fees are burned and half go to the leader, a split that SIMD-0096 changed so priority fees go entirely to validators from 2025.

Compute units

Transactions request up to 1.4 million compute units; the default is 200,000 per instruction. Priority fee = compute unit limit × price in micro-lamports. At 200,000 CU and 10,000 micro-lamports, the priority fee is 2,000 lamports.

Local fee markets

Because the scheduler knows which accounts each transaction writes, contention on one hot account, such as a popular token mint, raises fees for that account without making unrelated transfers expensive.

Rent

Accounts must hold a rent-exempt minimum of roughly 6,960 lamports per byte-year times two years of storage. A 165-byte token account needs about 0.00204 SOL, refundable when the account is closed.

Jito tips

Many searchers also send tips to Jito's block engine for bundle ordering, which is separate from protocol priority fees and is shared with stakers via JitoSOL.

By the numbers

For Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent, the reference figures are topic of Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent, level of Intermediate, updated of 2026. The comparison table below lines up item, value — Base fee: 5,000 lamports/sig; Max CU per tx: 1.4M; Token account rent: ~0.00204 SOL; 1 SOL: 10^9 lamports.

Modeling Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent with the Solana Compute Unit Priority Fee Calculator

The Solana Compute Unit Priority Fee Calculator takes three inputs — Compute units, Micro-lamports/CU, SOL price ($). Fee = 5,000 lamports + CU × µLamports ÷ 1e6. With its default inputs (Compute units = 200000; Micro-lamports/CU = 10000; SOL price ($) = 150) it returns 0 $; swap in the figures from Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent above to reproduce the scenario yourself.

Modeling Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent with the Lamports To SOL Rent Exemption Calculator

The Lamports To SOL Rent Exemption Calculator takes three inputs — Account bytes, SOL price ($), Accounts. Rent-exempt ≈ (bytes + 128) × 6,960 lamports. With its default inputs (Account bytes = 165; SOL price ($) = 150; Accounts = 1) it returns 0.31 $; swap in the figures from Solana Local Fee Markets, Compute Units and Rent above to reproduce the scenario yourself.

Data Table

For educational and informational purposes only. Not financial, investment, tax or legal advice. Figures are approximate and historical; crypto assets are volatile and you may lose capital. Do your own research.