TRON energy rental FAQ
How energy works, what rental costs, what the service needs from you and what to do if a transfer already failed. Prices in the answers are the current ones.
How it works
A resource for executing smart contracts. A USDT TRC-20 transfer is a contract call, so it needs Energy. There is no free daily allowance. If you lack energy, the network burns your TRX.
About 65,000 Energy if the recipient already holds USDT, and about 131,000 if they don’t or if it is an exchange address. The amount you send does not affect it.
Usually within 3–10 seconds after the payment is confirmed.
15 minutes or 1 hour. For regular transfers there is Smart Mode.
Smart Mode delivers energy before each transfer and you pay per transfer; it suits regular but not parallel transfers. Auto top-up keeps energy above a threshold; it suits hot wallets and high frequency.
Prices, payment and savings
Without energy a transfer costs ~6.85 TRX (or ~13.35 TRX to a new address). Renting 65k costs from 2.21 TRX — up to 68% cheaper. Use the calculator to see your monthly numbers.
Almost never if you need 65k energy or more and have 10 seconds to buy it. Burning makes sense only for an urgent single transfer when you cannot pay for rental.
With TRX or USDT TRC-20 (converted to TRX at the current rate), or USDT/USDC BEP-20. Crediting takes about 1 minute.
Yes — see the For business page.
This is outside the focus of this service.
Safety and guarantees
No. We only need your public address. Energy is delegated with a standard protocol function. You can verify it on TronScan in the Resources tab and by the DelegateResource transaction.
No, the network does not return burned TRX. Buy energy before the transfer.
When the term ends it returns to the service; the remainder is not refunded. Choose the term for your scenario: 15 minutes or 1 hour is enough for a single transfer.
Wallets and errors
Any non-custodial wallet: Trust Wallet, TronLink, Tangem, Ledger, Exodus, MetaMask (TRON) and others. Energy cannot be used on exchange addresses.
The wallet checks a minimum TRX balance (~28 TRX) even when you have energy. Keep a reserve or use a wallet without this restriction.
Yes, if you rent Energy (and Bandwidth if needed) in advance. But some wallets require a minimum TRX balance.
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