A Solana staking rewards calculator takes the SOL you stake and multiplies it by the yearly rate, less your validator's fee. Stake 100 SOL at about five percent and you earn about five SOL in a year. It is paid out a little at a time. In the latest epoch Solana Compass measured, the average staker earned 4.9% a year. The calculator below does the sums. Further down, the formula and tables show where the numbers come from.
Solana staking rewards calculator
Enter your stake and today's rate. The calculator shows what you would hold after a month, a year and three years. It gives the result in SOL, plus a dollar value at the latest price.
How to use it:
- Enter the amount of SOL you want to stake. This can be all your SOL, or just part of it.
- Set the APY to today's rate. The calculator starts at an older default, so type in the latest average of 4.9%, or your own validator's rate.
- If you like, move the price slider. It changes only the dollar value. Your rewards in SOL stay the same whatever SOL's price does.
The calculator uses one rate for the whole time. Real rates move a little each epoch and fall slowly over the years. So treat the three-year figure as a rough guide.
How to calculate how much you'll earn staking SOL
To work out your Solana staking rewards, multiply the SOL you stake by the yearly reward rate. Then take off your validator's fee, called commission. That is the share of rewards a validator keeps. The basic formula is:
Yearly rewards = SOL staked × reward rate × (1 − commission)
That gives you a yearly figure. Rewards are paid every epoch, Solana's reward period of about a day, and each payment joins your stake. So your total grows slightly faster than the simple formula says.
The reward rate comes from new SOL the network makes, called inflation. It is shared among everyone who stakes. So the rate is roughly the inflation rate divided by the share of SOL that is staked. With inflation at 3.6% and 69% of SOL staked, that works out at about 5% before fees.
Two more things move your number. MEV tips are extra payments from traders, and many validators share them, mostly through Jito JTO$0.328-3.0%. They add a little on top. Your validator's voting record matters too. Anza's docs explain that rewards are shared out by votes that count. So a validator that misses votes earns you less.
Worked examples: staking rewards on 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 SOL
These tables show what you would earn at a 5% yearly rate before fees, paid each epoch and added to your stake. We picked 5% because it is close to the network's rate in late 2026. Swap in a different rate and the results scale in line.
| SOL staked | After 1 month | After 1 year | After 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 SOL | 0.004 SOL | 0.05 SOL | 0.16 SOL |
| 10 SOL | 0.04 SOL | 0.51 SOL | 1.6 SOL |
| 100 SOL | 0.41 SOL | 5.1 SOL | 16.2 SOL |
| 1,000 SOL | 4.1 SOL | 51.3 SOL | 161.8 SOL |
So a year at that rate earns slightly more than the flat percentage. The extra comes from rewards earning rewards. Over three years the effect is bigger, though the rate itself is likely to fall a little each year.
Commission changes the result more than anything else you control. Here is 100 SOL for one year at the same 5% rate:
| Validator commission | Effective yearly rate | Rewards on 100 SOL in a year |
|---|---|---|
| 0% | 5.13% | 5.13 SOL |
| 5% | 4.86% | 4.86 SOL |
| 10% | 4.60% | 4.60 SOL |
| 100% | 0% | 0 SOL |
A 10% fee costs you about half a SOL a year at this size. Full commission means you earn nothing. Validators with 100% commission are mostly private ones run by exchanges and custodians for their own stake, where the owner keeps all rewards by design.
Solana staking APY: today's rate and how it moves
Solana's staking APY sits around five percent a year, and it moves only a little from one epoch to the next. Solana Compass measures it from how real stake accounts grow. In the latest epoch, the average staker earned 4.89%, and the best-paying validators returned about 5.9%.
Latest (Epoch 1079): Average staker 4.89%, Best-paying validators 5.85%. Live data, updated daily.
View on Solana Compass →These are past results, not a promise. The average covers validators that paid stakers something, so a poor validator can fall well below it. Our staking statistics show the full history and how the rate splits between inflation and MEV tips.
Over the years, the rate drifts down. Solana's inflation falls by 15% a year until it reaches a floor of 1.5%, per the inflation settings in Solana's docs.
In August 2026, validators voted to make it fall faster through SIMD-0550. That change was not yet live at the end of October 2026. The staked share matters too: when more SOL is staked, the same new SOL is spread more thinly.
APY vs APR in Solana staking calculators
APR is the simple yearly rate. APY includes the effect of rewards being added to your stake and earning more. On Solana the gap is small but real, because rewards are added every epoch, more than 300 times a year.
A 5% APR becomes about 5.13% APY when rewards are added every epoch. Some calculators quote APR and others quote APY. Check which one you're looking at before you compare two rates.
There is one catch with MEV tips. They land in your stake account but are not added to the amount staked, so they don't earn more on their own. Solana Compass counts them as simple interest in its APY figures for that reason.
How liquid staking rewards are calculated
Liquid staking pays rewards through a token's price, not through new tokens. You swap SOL for a token such as JitoSOL or PSOL, and the token's value in SOL rises each epoch as the pool's stake earns rewards. To work out your earnings, compare what your tokens are worth in SOL now with what you paid.
For example, say you swap 100 SOL for 80 tokens worth 1.25 SOL each. A year later each token is worth 1.31 SOL. Your 80 tokens are now worth about 104.8 SOL, so you earned about 4.8 SOL. Pool fees come out before that rise, so the token's yearly gain already shows what you keep.
Our guide to how liquid staking works on Solana covers the trade-offs, including exit fees and how a token's market price can drift from its value.
compassSOL, our own liquid staking token, follows the same maths. Its yield has run above native staking because fees from Solana Compass tools are paid into the pool. That also makes it vary more from week to week. You can convert SOL to compassSOL in one step.
Is it worth staking 1 SOL?
Staking 1 SOL is worth it if you plan to hold it anyway, though the rewards are small. At about five percent a year, 1 SOL earns roughly a twentieth of a SOL. Network fees are tiny next to that, so you still come out ahead.
The bigger hurdle is the minimum. Since June 2026, Solana needs at least 1 SOL to open a native stake, and the stake account locks a small deposit on top. If you hold less than that, a liquid staking token is the easier route, since most have no minimum.
Very small stakes also take the same steps as large ones. You still wait for the epoch to begin, and you still unstake and withdraw later. Our step-by-step staking guide lists each wallet's minimum.
What staking rewards calculators leave out
Every Solana staking calculator, including ours, simplifies. Four things change what you actually receive.
Timing comes first. New stake starts earning at the next epoch, so a month of staking can mean slightly less than a month of rewards. Unstaking also waits for an epoch to end. Our guide to unstaking and withdrawing SOL covers the wait and the faster ways out.
Your validator comes next. Its commission can change, and time offline earns you nothing. Use our validator list to compare fees and track records, or read what to look for in a validator.
Then there is price. Rewards are paid in SOL. Their dollar value rises and falls with SOL's price, which no calculator can predict. That is why our calculator shows SOL first.
Finally, tax. In many countries staking rewards count as income when you receive them. Rules differ, so check your local tax guidance before you plan around the dollar figures.
For more on where rewards come from and when they're paid, see our explainer. When you're ready to start, the Solana Compass staking hub brings rates and options together.
