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How to Move Your Crypto Out of MetaMask

Written by the Super AI team · 7 min read · Last updated: 22 September 2026

Key takeaways

· Two ways out: import your existing phrase into the new wallet, or send your assets to a fresh address.

· Importing keeps the same addresses and costs nothing. Sending costs a network fee per token.

· Whatever you do, your recovery phrase never goes into a chat, an email, a photo or a cloud note.

Before you start

Nobody legitimate will ever ask you for your twelve or twenty-four words. Not a support agent, not a wallet, not us. Anyone who does is trying to steal from you. The words are written on paper and stay on paper.

Take five minutes first to write down what you actually hold, and on which networks. A wallet shows you a single list, but the tokens live on different chains, and that changes what each move costs.

The two ways out

	Importing your phrase	Sending to a new address
What happens	The new wallet derives the same addresses from the same words	Each token is transferred on the chain, one transaction at a time
What it costs	Nothing	A network fee per token, per chain
How long	A few minutes	As long as the chains take
When to choose it	Your phrase has never been exposed	You have any doubt about your phrase, or you want a clean start

If your phrase has ever been typed into a website, photographed, stored in a password manager you no longer trust, or shown to anyone, treat it as compromised and choose the second way.

Way one: import the phrase you already have

Install Super AI, choose to import a wallet, and enter your twelve words. The wallet derives your addresses on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana and Tron from those words, then reads what is at each one.

Nothing is transferred, because nothing needs to be: the addresses are the same. MetaMask keeps working too, on the same addresses, for as long as you keep it installed.

Your recovery phrase is entered on your device and never reaches us. We do not see it, we do not store it, and we will never ask you for it.

Way two: move to a fresh address

Install Super AI, create a new wallet, and write down the new phrase on paper. Then, from MetaMask, send your assets to the new addresses.

Two things people get wrong here, and both cost money:

· Keep some of the native coin. Every transfer needs the chain’s own coin to pay for it: ETH on Ethereum, BNB on BNB Chain, SOL on Solana, TRX on Tron. Sending all of it away first leaves the rest stranded.

· Send a test first. A small amount, confirmed on the new address, before the rest. It costs one extra fee and it removes the only mistake that cannot be undone.

· One chain at a time. An address that starts with 0x is not a Solana or a Tron address. Super AI shows you the right address for the chain you are sending on, so there is no choice to get wrong.

What changes once you are in

Super AI reads every token at your addresses and produces a full analysis in seconds. It holds the four chains on one screen. And it takes 0% commission on swaps, which is the part you will notice: MetaMask publishes a service fee of 0.875% on each quote.

Super AI is not affiliated with MetaMask. We name it because you are comparing.

The full comparison, with what MetaMask still does better, is on the Super AI versus MetaMask page.

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Questions people ask

Will I lose my funds if I switch wallets?

No, if you keep your recovery phrase. Your assets live on the chain, not in the application. A wallet is a keyring, not a safe.

Do I have to close my MetaMask account?

There is no account to close. If you imported your phrase, both applications open the same addresses, and you can keep or remove either one.

How do I export my private key from MetaMask?

You do not need to. Importing the recovery phrase brings every address it generated. Exporting single private keys is only useful when you want one specific address and not the others.

Can I move NFTs the same way?

Importing the phrase brings everything at those addresses. Sending to a fresh address means one transfer per item, each with its own network fee.