{"slug":"network-fees","title":"Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains","subtitle":"Live USD cost of one native token transaction on 15 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":0.000100049,"leader":{"name":"Litecoin","slug":"litecoin","value":0.000100049},"rankings":[{"name":"Litecoin","slug":"litecoin","ms":{"p50":0.000100049,"p90":0.00010097,"p99":0.000101144,"mean":0.000100176},"successRate":99.9653,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Base","slug":"base","ms":{"p50":0.000235411,"p90":0.000666235,"p99":0.001774,"mean":0.000236191},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Taiko","slug":"taiko","ms":{"p50":0.000343251,"p90":0.000344648,"p99":0.00132236,"mean":0.000345583},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":0.000364645,"p90":0.000381594,"p99":0.000381594,"mean":0.000364765},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Mantle","slug":"mantle","ms":{"p50":0.000411894,"p90":0.00045234,"p99":0.000620261,"mean":0.000427768},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"BNB Chain","slug":"bnb","ms":{"p50":0.000765588,"p90":0.0077159,"p99":0.0347019,"mean":0.000801363},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Arbitrum One","slug":"arbitrum","ms":{"p50":0.000786516,"p90":0.000790641,"p99":0.000798981,"mean":0.00078708},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Robinhood Chain","slug":"robinhood","ms":{"p50":0.000790332,"p90":0.000813598,"p99":0.000840356,"mean":0.000799391},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"zkSync Era","slug":"zksync","ms":{"p50":0.00177367,"p90":0.0017765,"p99":0.0017805,"mean":0.00177317},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":0.00336317,"p90":0.0973792,"p99":0.179507,"mean":0.0107392},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Linea","slug":"linea","ms":{"p50":0.0135013,"p90":0.0353608,"p99":0.0519555,"mean":0.0167649},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Cardano","slug":"cardano","ms":{"p50":0.0283764,"p90":0.0287962,"p99":0.029237,"mean":0.0284263},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"Monero","slug":"monero","ms":{"p50":0.0433847,"p90":0.175393,"p99":0.175957,"mean":0.0432391},"successRate":99.9826,"sampleSize":40319},{"name":"TRON","slug":"tron","ms":{"p50":0.0937461,"p90":0.0937461,"p99":0.0937461,"mean":0.0936181},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":40319}],"sparkline":[0.000100706,0.000100922,0.000101033,0.000101041,0.000100741,0.000100687,0.000100838,0.000101023,0.000101054,0.000101023,0.000100933,0.000100943,0.000100954,0.000100978,0.000101,0.000100911,0.000100824,0.000100461,0.000100674,0.000100626,0.000100479,0.000100475,0.000100321,0.0000998824,0.0000997059,0.0000996989,0.0000999007,0.0000997956,0.0000999212,0.0000998679,0.0000997705,0.0000997891,0.0000998475,0.000100065,0.000100053,0.000100077,0.000100028,0.000100075,0.000100211,0.000100313,0.000100595,0.000100592,0.000100442,0.000100037,0.000100009,0.000100138,0.000100023,0.000100087,0.00010015,0.00010008,0.000100051,0.0000999127,0.000099893,0.0000998869,0.0000999798,0.0000998805,0.0000995662,0.0000997706,0.0000996518,0.0000995206,0.000099483,0.0000995994,0.0000998094,0.0000996615,0.0000996503,0.0000996452,0.0000997183,0.0000995689,0.0000998776,0.0000996856,0.0000995006,0.0000994725,0.0000994515],"sampleSize":604785,"asOf":"2026-08-01T15:25:02.055Z","headline":"Litecoin leads native transfer fee usd at $0.000100 (24h) on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains.","quote":"Litecoin leads native transfer fee usd at $0.000100 (24h) on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains\". Retrieved 2026-08-01. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_network_fees,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-01}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains. Retrieved August 1, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/network-fees\r\nY2  - 2026-08-01\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 all 15 chains in parallel goroutines.","Ethereum and BNB Chain 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, Base, zkSync Era, Linea, Mantle and Taiko 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 caveat. The published figure is L2 execution cost only. The L1 data posting fee (blob market for EIP 4844 rollups, calldata for the rest) is excluded from this page and will be added as a separate blended figure in a later phase. On OP Stack rollups the L1 data fee can dominate the wallet visible total during expensive blob periods.","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. suix_getReferenceGasPrice 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 all 15 native tokens 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"}