Gas tracker
What a transaction costs right now, on every chain.loading…Compare chains
What does it cost right now to send money on each chain?
How the cost of a transaction is set
The comparison at the top ranks the chains by what it costs right now to send a coin, send a token such as USDC or swap, at three speeds: Economy, Normal and Fast. The fee does not depend on the amount you send, so the cheapest chain for $1 is also the cheapest for $1,000.
Every transaction pays for the work it makes the network do. On Ethereum and the chains built like it, that work is counted in gas, and the fee is the gas a transaction uses times the gas price. The price has a base fee, which the protocol sets from how full the last blocks were and burns, and an optional priority tip for the validator. A plain transfer of ETH uses 21,000 gas; a token swap uses several times more.
Arbitrum, Base and Optimism are layer 2 networks: their own gas price is low, but each transaction also pays a data fee for the copy posted to Ethereum, so a quiet layer 2 can still cost more when Ethereum is busy. Polygon charges in POL with the same base fee idea. Solana charges a fixed fee per signature plus an optional priority fee per compute unit. Bitcoin charges by size in satoshis per virtual byte, and the fee you set decides how soon a miner includes the transaction.
The figures above are read live from public nodes and converted to dollars with the current coin price. Fees change from block to block, so treat them as an estimate for the next few minutes and not a quote. A fee that looks high is usually a busy moment, such as a popular token launch or a market swing, and it tends to fall again within minutes; waiting a little is often the cheapest way to save money on a transfer that is not urgent.