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Delegator APY (simple)
Solana Validator Profit Calculator
Profit, costs and break-even stake for any Solana validator, from live on-chain data. From epoch 1064 Alpenglow makes votes free, and the fixed cost becomes a 0.8 SOL admission ticket (VAT) per epoch.
Delegating SOL rather than running a node? The staking calculator shows what your stake earns.
Validator & commission
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Stake iWhere the validator's stake comes from — tile size is proportional to the amount. Built from our own scan of every stake account on chain, not from a third-party label. Click a tile to exclude that source from the total; add extra stake below.
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Advanced parameters · reward & cost assumptions▸
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Leader slots
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Past & upcoming leader slots · next 25▸
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This validator has no leader slots in the current epoch, so it earns no block rewards until the next one.
Validator economics
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Net profit vs delegated stake / year
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Delegator APY (compound)
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Validator APY (gross)
Per-epoch history · last 10, realized▸
| Epoch | SOL price | Reward | Vote/VAT | Server | P/L | $ P/L |
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How much stake a validator needs to break even
Revenue scales with delegated stake; the fixed cost of staying in consensus does not. Under Alpenglow votes are free, and that cost is the validator admission ticket (VAT) of 0.8 SOL per epoch, burned from each vote account and paid in advance: near 273 SOL annually, identical whether ten thousand SOL sit behind a node or a million.
| Commission (inflation / MEV) | Break-even stake | Net a year at the median stake, 181,000 SOL |
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| 0% / 0% | ~104,000 SOL | ~300 SOL |
| 5% / 0% | ~64,000 SOL | ~740 SOL |
| 5% / 5% | ~63,000 SOL | ~750 SOL |
| 10% / 10% | ~45,000 SOL | ~1,200 SOL |
Figures assume a $1,000 monthly server, the panel's default. At $300 every threshold drops by about 22%.
Zero commission on both streams leaves a validator only priority and base fees from its own blocks, so this row sets the highest bar. Whether a 0% fee is sustainable or hollow comes down to which side of it an operator sits.
All of this rests on network averages. Skip rate, leader-slot share and price shift the line, and the panel above accepts your own numbers; what typical operators actually keep is on the validator revenue page.