How the calculator works
Solana pays staking rewards once per epoch, a period of ~26 hours, and adds them to the stake, so each reward starts earning from the next epoch on. The calculator follows the same schedule. It converts the APY into a rate per epoch, takes the commission off, and compounds over the period you pick.
- Amount to stake: the SOL you plan to delegate. A native stake needs at least 1 SOL.
- Staking APY: starts at the network average over recent epochs. Change it to test a higher or lower rate.
- Validator commission: the share of rewards your validator keeps. The validator ranking lists every validator's rate.
- SOL price: only converts the result to dollars and does not change the SOL figures.
Solana staking rewards by amount
One year at the network's 5.0% APY with a validator charging 0%.
| Amount staked | Rewards / year | Rewards / month |
|---|---|---|
| 10 SOL | ~0.50 SOL | ~0.04 SOL |
| 100 SOL | ~4.98 SOL | ~0.41 SOL |
| 500 SOL | ~25 SOL | ~2.03 SOL |
| 1,000 SOL | ~50 SOL | ~4.06 SOL |
| 10,000 SOL | ~498 SOL | ~41 SOL |
What the calculator cannot know
- Your validator. Commission is the field above, but validators also differ in how many votes they land and how much of the MEV tips they keep. The gap between them is lopsided: a validator in the bottom tenth pays about 23 SOL a year less on 1,000 staked than an average one, almost always because it keeps the whole reward. How to choose a validator covers what to check.
- How much SOL is staked. New issuance is shared across all staked SOL, about 68% of the supply today, so the APY falls when more is staked and rises when stake leaves.
- Liquid staking and exchanges. The calculator models native staking. For a liquid staking token, enter the token's own APY with 0% commission, since the pool's fees are already out of it. Exchanges pay after their own cut, and the APY guide compares the three.
Projections beyond a year run high. The calculator compounds one rate, while Solana's issuance shrinks by 15% a year toward a floor of 1.5%. On 1,000 SOL over five years that comes to about 199 SOL against the 275 SOL a flat rate gives, so the flat figure is about 38% too high. In the first year the two agree. SIMD-0550, approved by validators, doubles the yearly decline once it is switched on.
Running a validator yourself? The Validator Profit Calculator works out the operator's side: commission income, MEV, block fees and server costs.
Turn the estimate into rewards
Stake your SOL with a 0% inflation-fee validator and keep the full reward compounding.