{"slug":"network-fees","title":"Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains","subtitle":"Live USD cost of one native token transaction on 19 Layer 1 and Layer 2 chains, refreshed every 30 seconds.","category":"Blockchains","metric":"Native transfer fee USD","unit":"usd","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":0.00000166455,"leader":{"name":"Stellar","slug":"stellar","value":0.00000166455},"leaders":[{"name":"Stellar","slug":"stellar","value":0.00000166455}],"rankings":[{"name":"Stellar","slug":"stellar","value":0.00000166455,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.00000166455,"p90":0.0000016898,"p99":0.00000171876,"mean":0.00000166121},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Optimism","slug":"optimism","value":0.0000372321,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.0000372321,"p90":0.00034054,"p99":0.000948822,"mean":0.000097593},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Litecoin","slug":"litecoin","value":0.000124729,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000124729,"p90":0.000126422,"p99":0.000126896,"mean":0.000124801},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Base","slug":"base","value":0.000303307,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000303307,"p90":0.00170393,"p99":0.00491597,"mean":0.000365681},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Taiko","slug":"taiko","value":0.000411331,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000411331,"p90":0.000414173,"p99":0.000646103,"mean":0.000419829},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","value":0.000477447,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000477447,"p90":0.000485237,"p99":0.000503479,"mean":0.000478708},"successRate":99.7222,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Mantle","slug":"mantle","value":0.000507289,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000507289,"p90":0.000681942,"p99":0.006184,"mean":0.000598676},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","value":0.000642558,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000642558,"p90":0.00609694,"p99":0.0388143,"mean":0.00157971},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"BNB Chain","slug":"bnb","value":0.000789449,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000789449,"p90":0.00291109,"p99":0.0129592,"mean":0.000821177},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Arbitrum One","slug":"arbitrum","value":0.000942114,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000942114,"p90":0.000952134,"p99":0.000979824,"mean":0.000955963},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Robinhood Chain","slug":"robinhood","value":0.000946951,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.000946951,"p90":0.000974683,"p99":0.00101325,"mean":0.000955254},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"zkSync Era","slug":"zksync","value":0.0021246,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.0021246,"p90":0.00213759,"p99":0.00215931,"mean":0.00212383},"successRate":99.8264,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Scroll","slug":"scroll","value":0.00308072,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.00308072,"p90":0.0408275,"p99":0.105773,"mean":0.0119812},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Sui","slug":"sui","value":0.00673585,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.00673585,"p90":0.00681073,"p99":0.00685384,"mean":0.00671553},"successRate":99.9653,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Linea","slug":"linea","value":0.0110317,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.0110317,"p90":0.0291095,"p99":0.0627938,"mean":0.0134325},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","value":0.0183001,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.0183001,"p90":0.391096,"p99":1.99942,"mean":0.0718818},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Cardano","slug":"cardano","value":0.03204,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.03204,"p90":0.0323168,"p99":0.0324049,"mean":0.0319818},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"Monero","slug":"monero","value":0.0713046,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.0713046,"p90":0.294783,"p99":0.300735,"mean":0.0717249},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160},{"name":"TRON","slug":"tron","value":0.0891846,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":0.0891846,"p90":0.0975752,"p99":0.0982328,"mean":0.0911024},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":20160}],"sparkline":[0.00000164065,0.00000164065,0.00000162173,0.00000159585,0.00000159585,0.00000160844,0.00000161481,0.00000161947,0.00000161947,0.00000162524,0.00000162524,0.00000162276,0.00000163254,0.00000164296,0.00000164672,0.00000165056,0.00000165191,0.00000165191,0.00000166881,0.00000166881,0.00000167344,0.00000166793,0.00000167266,0.00000166989,0.00000167065,0.00000166861,0.00000165496,0.00000165371,0.00000165502,0.0000016548,0.00000165302,0.00000164993,0.00000164869,0.00000164869,0.00000164234,0.00000165585,0.00000165011,0.00000165011,0.00000165555,0.00000165555,0.00000166768,0.00000167855,0.00000166948,0.00000166948,0.00000166266,0.00000166266,0.00000166251,0.00000166342,0.00000166342,0.00000170764,0.00000171876,0.00000171288,0.00000171288,0.0000017014,0.0000017014,0.00000168375,0.00000167659,0.00000167659,0.00000167257,0.00000167257,0.00000167224,0.00000167282,0.00000167282,0.00000167475,0.00000167268,0.00000167268,0.00000167519,0.00000168521,0.00000168521,0.00000168756,0.0000016898,0.0000016898,0.00000169265],"sampleSize":383040,"asOf":"2026-10-30T23:29:20.686Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-30T23:29:20.686Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":19,"ranked":19,"headline":"Stellar posts the lowest native transfer fee USD at $0.0000017 (p50, 24h) across 19 ranked chains.","quote":"Stellar posts the lowest native transfer fee USD at $0.0000017 (p50, 24h) across 19 ranked chains. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains\". Retrieved 2026-10-30. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_network_fees,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-30}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains. Retrieved October 30, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees\r\nY2  - 2026-10-30\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/network-fees","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/transaction-fee","methodology":["Refresh cadence. 30 seconds. One process samples every chain in the table in parallel goroutines.","Ethereum, BNB Chain and Avalanche on the L1 tab. eth_feeHistory over the last 4 blocks at percentiles 25, 50 and 90. Cost = (base_fee + reward_percentile) * 21000 gas, mapped to slow, standard and fast.","Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Scroll, zkSync Era, Linea, Mantle, Taiko and Robinhood Chain on the L2 tab. Same eth_feeHistory flow against each rollup's sequencer RPC. ETH is the native gas asset on every tracked rollup except Mantle, which prices gas in MNT.","Layer 2 data fee. OP Stack rollups (Optimism, Base, Mantle): eth_call GasPriceOracle.getL1Fee(bytes) at 0x42..0F on a serialized 113 byte EIP 1559 transfer, added to every tier. Scroll: the same call on L1GasPriceOracle at 0x53..02. Arbitrum: eth_estimateGas on a native transfer returns 21000 plus the L1 calldata component; every tier is scaled by estimated / 21000. zkSync Era, Linea, Taiko and Robinhood Chain: none added, the sequencer gas price already includes data posting.","Stellar. horizon fee_stats.last_ledger_base_fee (100 stroops outside surge) times one operation. Single tier.","Gram. 0.005 GRAM, the conservative observed cost of a Wallet v4 transfer; the chain exposes no fee estimate RPC. Single tier.","Solana. getRecentPrioritizationFees percentiles 25, 50 and 90 of micro lamports per compute unit, times 200 compute units, plus 5000 lamports base. Empty fees response collapses to a single standard tier at the 5000 base.","TRON. getChainParameters.getTransactionFee (currently 1000 sun per byte) times 268 bytes for a typical native transfer. Single tier because TRON native transfers do not bid into a priority market.","Cardano. koios epoch_params.min_fee_a and min_fee_b, times 250 bytes for a typical native transfer. Deterministic by protocol, refreshes only when on chain parameters change.","Sui. GraphQL epoch.referenceGasPrice (the JSON RPC method was retired on public fullnodes in 2026) times 76000 gas (typical observed for a Coin::transfer call). Single standard tier.","Litecoin. litecoinspace.org /api/v1/fees/recommended (hour, half hour and fastest fees in litoshi per vByte) times 225 vBytes for a typical 1 input 1 output P2WPKH transfer.","Monero. monero rpc get_fee_estimate.fees[0..2] times 1500 bytes for a typical 1 input 2 output RingCT transaction.","USD prices. api.mobula.io/api/1/market/multi-data polled every 30 seconds for every native token in one call.","Failures. Any upstream error leaves the previous gauge in place, increments tx_fee_fetch_errors_total{chain, error_type}, and sets tx_fee_health{chain} to zero."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}