Solana account rent as raw storage

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Solana account rent as raw storage Storage

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solana.com/docs/core/accounts · blockchain · storage/solana-account-rent-as-raw-storage · JSON · compare

Free tier	No free tier — storage is a refundable rent-exempt deposit: 10 MiB account costs 53,268,311,040 lamports (~53.27 SOL) to create, reclaimed only on close. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free reads via RPC while the account exists; all RPC providers rate-limit or block bulk account-data reads.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Solana JSON-RPC (getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption, getAccountInfo), solana-sdk, Anchor. Wrapper examples exist but nothing production-grade for bulk file storage.
Composes with	Cost scales linearly with bytes at ~5 SOL/MiB; 1 TiB would need ~5.3 million SOL of locked capital. Sharding across wallets does not reduce the deposit.
Notes	No free tier — storage is a refundable rent-exempt deposit: 10 MiB account costs 53,268,311,040 lamports (~53.27 SOL) to create, reclaimed only on close.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: POST solana-rpc.publicnode.com getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption([10485760]) -> result 53268311040 lamports for a 10 MiB account
2026-10-21	solana.com/docs/core/accounts/account-structure	'Accounts must hold a minimum lamport balance proportional to their data size to stay onchain'
2026-10-21	solana.com/developers/cookbook/accounts/calculate-rent	rent is reclaimable in full when the account is closed

More fields (2)

{
 "unit_note": "free_tier.unit is 'mixed' because the headline is denominated in MiB or KiB, which the schema enum does not carry; the verbatim free_tier.stated keeps the true unit. See the storage-dossier handover.",
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "paid",
  "why": "No free tier — storage is a refundable rent-exempt deposit: 10 MiB account costs 53,268,311,040 lamports (~53.27 SOL) to create, reclaimed only on close.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.evidence[0].url private-url
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.reliability_note withheld
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted