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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.
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▸
Leader slots
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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 / year
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 Tower BFT, Solana's protocol before Alpenglow, that cost is voting: a transaction every slot, 2.16 SOL per epoch, roughly 724 SOL yearly, identical whether ten thousand SOL sit behind a node or a million.
Alpenglow, starting with epoch 1064, drops this charge. Instead it burns a validator admission ticket (VAT) of 0.8 SOL per epoch from each vote account, near 268 SOL annually, paid in advance. Leaders also forfeit vote fees which used to arrive inside every block, trimming what blocks pay by roughly 12%.
| Commission (inflation / MEV) | Tower BFT | Alpenglow |
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| 0% / 0% | ~176,000 SOL | ~91,000 SOL |
| 5% / 0% | ~117,000 SOL | ~58,000 SOL |
| 5% / 5% | ~116,000 SOL | ~58,000 SOL |
| 10% / 10% | ~87,000 SOL | ~42,000 SOL |
Figures assume a $1,000 monthly server, the panel's default. At $300 the right-hand column shrinks by about 21%.
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.