If you have searched for a way to get your locked SOL back, you have almost certainly seen Sol Incinerator. It is the oldest and best-known tool in this category. We built Wick Sweep, so we are biased, but the two tools are different enough that the right choice depends on what you are trying to do, not on which one is "better."
This comparison sticks to what each tool does, what it costs, and where each one is the safer pick. No scorecards.
The one-sentence difference
Sol Incinerator is a destruction tool with a cleanup mode. It can burn tokens, NFTs, liquidity positions, and domains you no longer want, and it can also close empty accounts.
Wick Sweep is a cleanup tool only. It finds token accounts with a zero balance, closes them, and returns the rent deposit to you. It cannot burn anything, by design.
That single difference drives everything else below.
What each tool does
| Wick Sweep | Sol Incinerator | |
|---|---|---|
| Close empty token accounts | Yes | Yes (Fun Mode) |
| Burn unwanted tokens | No | Yes (Pro Mode) |
| Burn NFTs | No | Yes (Pro Mode) |
| Close LP positions / domains | No | Yes (Pro Mode) |
| Token-2022 accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Can it move a token with a balance? | No, never | Only if you choose to burn it |
| Non-custodial | Yes | Yes |
If your wallet is full of empty accounts left over from tokens you already sold, both tools solve the same problem. If your wallet is full of spam tokens that still show a balance, only Sol Incinerator can get rid of them, because an account with tokens in it cannot be closed until the tokens are gone.
Fees
The two tools price differently, which makes a direct comparison fiddly.
Sol Incinerator charges a flat amount per account closed. At the time of writing their site lists about 0.00004 SOL per standard token account and about 0.00007 SOL per Token-2022 account, deducted from what you recover. On an older account holding 0.00204 SOL that works out to roughly 2%. On an account opened after Solana's September 2026 rent reduction, which holds about 0.00149 SOL, it is closer to 3%.
Wick Sweep charges a percentage of what you recover: 4% on the free tier, 2% on Plus ($0.99/month), and 0% on Pro ($2.99/month). The percentage is calculated on each account's real deposit, so you are never charged as if an account held more than it does.
| Accounts closed | Sol Incinerator (approx.) | Wick Sweep Free (4%) | Wick Sweep Pro (0%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 legacy accounts (0.0204 SOL) | ~0.0004 SOL fee | 0.0008 SOL fee | 0 fee + $2.99/mo |
| 50 legacy accounts (0.102 SOL) | ~0.002 SOL fee | 0.0041 SOL fee | 0 fee + $2.99/mo |
| 200 legacy accounts (0.408 SOL) | ~0.008 SOL fee | 0.0163 SOL fee | 0 fee + $2.99/mo |
Read that table honestly: on a one-off clean, Sol Incinerator is cheaper. Wick Sweep's free tier costs about twice as much in fees, and in absolute terms both are tiny. Where Wick Sweep wins on price is volume. If you clean several wallets, or clean every month, Pro removes the fee entirely for less than the price of a coffee.
Safety
Both tools are non-custodial. Neither one ever sees your seed phrase or private key, and every transaction has to be approved in your wallet.
The practical safety difference is about what can go wrong when you click the wrong thing.
With Wick Sweep, the worst case is that nothing happens. The only instruction we build is "close this empty account and send the rent to its owner." There is no instruction in the product that can move a token or send SOL anywhere except back to you and the small fee transfer you see in the wallet preview.
With Sol Incinerator, Pro Mode is powerful enough to burn something you meant to keep. The team has added confirmations and value warnings to prevent this, and Fun Mode is as safe as Wick Sweep. But the capability exists, so you have to pay attention.
Neither of these is a criticism. A tool that can burn things has to be able to burn things. It just means a first-time user with a valuable NFT in the same wallet should think about which tool they open.
Wallet support
Sol Incinerator supports Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, Ledger, and WalletConnect-compatible wallets. Wick Sweep supports those plus Coinbase Wallet, Trust Wallet, and anything that speaks the Solana wallet standard, which is 21 wallets at the time of writing. If you use one of the big three, both work. If you use something less common, check Wick Sweep first.
Which one should you use?
- You only have empty accounts and want the lowest fee on a single clean: Sol Incinerator in Fun Mode.
- You have spam tokens or dead NFTs that still show a balance: Sol Incinerator in Pro Mode, carefully. Wick Sweep cannot help until those are burned.
- You want a tool that physically cannot burn anything: Wick Sweep.
- You clean multiple wallets or clean regularly: Wick Sweep Pro, since 0% beats any per-account fee once you pass a handful of cleans a month.
- You use a wallet outside the big three: Wick Sweep.
A lot of people use both. Burn the junk in Sol Incinerator, then run Wick Sweep to close everything that is now empty. The two tools do not conflict, and neither one charges you to scan.
For a wider look at the whole category, including SolWipe, SolChekers, and StakePoint, see our comparison of Solana wallet cleaners.
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