{"slug":"token-deployment-cost","title":"Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 21 L1 and L2 chains","subtitle":"Live USD cost to bring a fungible token into existence on each chain, using that chain's canonical method. 21 chains, 5 minute refresh, no transactions broadcast.","category":"Blockchains","metric":"Token deployment cost USD","unit":"usd","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"value":3.96891e-7,"leader":{"name":"Neutron","slug":"neutron","value":3.96891e-7},"rankings":[{"name":"Neutron","slug":"neutron","ms":{"p50":3.96891e-7,"p90":4.082e-7,"p99":4.15216e-7,"mean":4.00247e-7},"successRate":100},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","ms":{"p50":0.0000142931,"p90":0.000066711,"p99":0.000379701,"mean":0.000035594},"successRate":100},{"name":"Scroll","slug":"scroll","ms":{"p50":0.0000235375,"p90":0.0000238089,"p99":0.0000238825,"mean":0.0000235173},"successRate":100},{"name":"opBNB","slug":"opbnb","ms":{"p50":0.0000799399,"p90":0.000081081,"p99":0.0000826011,"mean":0.0000799252},"successRate":100},{"name":"Blast","slug":"blast","ms":{"p50":0.000198129,"p90":0.000206326,"p99":0.000226007,"mean":0.000199925},"successRate":100},{"name":"Optimism","slug":"optimism","ms":{"p50":0.000208053,"p90":0.000251185,"p99":0.000370475,"mean":0.000233232},"successRate":100},{"name":"Base","slug":"base","ms":{"p50":0.00119549,"p90":0.00130428,"p99":0.0105376,"mean":0.0015399},"successRate":100},{"name":"Osmosis","slug":"osmosis","ms":{"p50":0.00125639,"p90":0.0012708,"p99":0.00128207,"mean":0.0012564},"successRate":100},{"name":"Celo","slug":"celo","ms":{"p50":0.00152696,"p90":0.00155358,"p99":0.00156604,"mean":0.00152619},"successRate":100},{"name":"Polygon","slug":"polygon","ms":{"p50":0.00254683,"p90":0.0026114,"p99":0.00266518,"mean":0.00254724},"successRate":100},{"name":"Mantle","slug":"mantle","ms":{"p50":0.00271033,"p90":0.00281317,"p99":0.00284789,"mean":0.00273017},"successRate":100},{"name":"Arbitrum","slug":"arbitrum","ms":{"p50":0.0040253,"p90":0.00419992,"p99":0.00535403,"mean":0.00407077},"successRate":100},{"name":"BNB Chain","slug":"bnb","ms":{"p50":0.00710528,"p90":0.00718527,"p99":0.00720917,"mean":0.00710843},"successRate":100},{"name":"Linea","slug":"linea","ms":{"p50":0.0193185,"p90":0.0417182,"p99":0.174607,"mean":0.0254411},"successRate":100},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":0.0361703,"p90":0.155466,"p99":0.504788,"mean":0.0742512},"successRate":100},{"name":"Aptos","slug":"aptos","ms":{"p50":0.0889641,"p90":0.0905446,"p99":0.0914465,"mean":0.0889236},"successRate":100},{"name":"Cardano","slug":"cardano","ms":{"p50":0.168295,"p90":0.173064,"p99":0.174239,"mean":0.1686},"successRate":100},{"name":"Stellar","slug":"stellar","ms":{"p50":0.263719,"p90":0.268082,"p99":0.269124,"mean":0.263901},"successRate":100},{"name":"Sui","slug":"sui","ms":{"p50":0.339508,"p90":0.346916,"p99":0.348983,"mean":0.340476},"successRate":100},{"name":"Injective","slug":"injective","ms":{"p50":0.446707,"p90":0.472918,"p99":0.479335,"mean":0.444386},"successRate":100},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":0.625616,"p90":0.659984,"p99":0.663856,"mean":0.627849},"successRate":100}],"sparkline":[4.08701e-7,4.08674e-7,4.0861e-7,4.08596e-7,4.0802e-7,4.08026e-7,4.08025e-7,4.08026e-7,4.08044e-7,4.08036e-7,4.07473e-7,4.08208e-7,4.07022e-7,4.07015e-7,4.06373e-7,4.06354e-7,3.95168e-7,3.97024e-7,3.97839e-7,3.97817e-7,3.97968e-7,3.97968e-7,3.9799e-7,4.01261e-7,4.15216e-7,4.13037e-7,4.12984e-7,3.95142e-7,3.9624e-7,3.9636e-7,3.96355e-7,3.96361e-7,3.96358e-7,3.96334e-7,3.96477e-7,3.96202e-7,3.96215e-7,3.96062e-7,3.96147e-7,3.95437e-7,3.95426e-7,3.95274e-7,3.95436e-7,3.95287e-7,3.95284e-7,3.96283e-7,3.96314e-7,3.96132e-7,3.96111e-7,3.96111e-7,3.96773e-7,3.96773e-7,3.96634e-7,3.96891e-7,3.96891e-7,3.95649e-7,3.95679e-7,3.95679e-7,3.95864e-7,3.93583e-7,3.92842e-7,3.91382e-7,3.91887e-7,3.91845e-7,4.04025e-7,4.03912e-7,4.03253e-7,4.03285e-7,4.03284e-7,4.05363e-7,4.04521e-7,4.04544e-7,4.04531e-7],"sampleSize":0,"asOf":"2026-06-26T18:53:31.959Z","headline":"Neutron leads token deployment cost usd at $3.97e-7 (24h) on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 21 L1 and L2 chains.","quote":"Neutron leads token deployment cost usd at $3.97e-7 (24h) on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 21 L1 and L2 chains. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/token-deployment-cost).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 21 L1 and L2 chains\". Retrieved 2026-06-26. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/token-deployment-cost","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_token_deployment_cost,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 21 L1 and L2 chains},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/token-deployment-cost},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-06-26}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 21 L1 and L2 chains. Retrieved June 26, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/token-deployment-cost"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/token-deployment-cost","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/token-deployment-cost","source":"https://github.com/MobulaFi/mobula-monorepo/tree/main/miniapps/token-deployment-cost","methodology":["Refresh cadence. 5 minutes. One process samples all 21 chains in parallel goroutines and emits Prometheus gauges.","EVM L1 (Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Polygon). eth_estimateGas with from=0x...dEaD and data=canonical OZ v5 ERC20 init bytecode (3057 bytes, compiled with solc 0.8.24 optimizer runs 200). Multiply gas by eth_gasPrice and the native token USD price.","OP Stack L2 (Optimism, Base, Blast, Mantle, opBNB, Celo). Same eth_estimateGas plus a getL1Fee call to OVM_GasPriceOracle at 0x420000000000000000000000000000000000000F for the L1 data posting component.","Other EVM L2 (Arbitrum Nitro, Scroll, Linea). eth_estimateGas bakes the L1 component into the returned gas (Arbitrum via NodeInterface, Scroll and Linea via their gas accounting). Caveat: Arbitrum public RPC undercounts L1 under congestion; gasEstimateL1Component would tighten it.","Solana SPL. getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption(82) for the mint + (165) for the Associated Token Account + (679) for the Metaplex Token Metadata account + 5000 lamports per signature. Multiply by SOL USD price. Without the metadata account the headline would understate by ~2.5x.","Sui. suix_getReferenceGasPrice times 5 million MIST gas units for a canonical coin module publish (net of storage rebate). Converted to USD via SUI price.","Aptos. /v1/estimate_gas_price.gas_estimate octas per unit times 150000 gas units for a canonical FA standard publish. Converted to USD via APT price.","Cosmos TokenFactory (Osmosis, Injective, Neutron). LCD /<chain>/tokenfactory/v1beta1/params.denom_creation_fee. Empty array (Osmosis, Neutron) means gas only, rendered as less than 0.001 dollar. Injective charges a flat 0.1 INJ.","Cardano. Koios /epoch_params.coins_per_utxo_size. Apply Conway minUTxO formula = (160 byte overhead + 70 byte single asset bundle) × coins_per_utxo_size + 180000 lovelace mint tx fee. Converted to USD via ADA price.","Stellar. Horizon /ledgers.base_reserve_in_stroops and base_fee_in_stroops on the latest ledger. Total cost = 3 base reserves (issuer account + distribution account + trustline on distribution) + 2 base fees (create_account + change_trust). Converted to USD via XLM price.","USD prices. api.mobula.io/api/1/market/multi-data?symbols=ETH,SOL,BNB,POL,INJ,NTRN,SUI,APT,XLM,ADA,OSMO,MNT,CELO,AVAX polled every 5 minutes.","Failures. Any upstream error increments token_deployment_samples_total{chain,status=error} and leaves the previous gauge value in place."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}