Ah, rent. Everybody's favorite thing to deal with.
Luckily, rent is much less daunting on Solana than in the real world (sorry, best we could do).
Simply put, all storage on Solana costs rent. After all, this thing ain't free!
Rent is typically a small amount and if you load your account with enough rent for two years it's actually exempt! That's right: if your account holds more than the cost of rent for two years, that account is not charged any rent.
Rent itself is based off of the size of the data you're seeking to store in the account.
Let's take a look.