OpenChainBench
Full benchmark: Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsBase

Base transaction fee

As of August 1, 2026, Base native transfer fee USD is $0.000236 at the median (p50, 24h window), with $0.000900 at p90 and $0.00229 at p99. Base ranks #2 of 15 chains measured on this benchmark.

Base native transfer fee is $0.000236 (p50, 24h). Base is Coinbase's OP Stack rollup with a priority-fee-near-zero pattern; native ETH transfers settle at fractions of a cent on L2 execution alone. Base posts batches to Ethereum via EIP-4844 blobs, and the L1 data fee (not in this figure) tracks the blob fee market. Computed via `eth_feeHistory` on the Base sequencer RPC times live ETH price.

How Base compares

Live p50 over the last 24 hours across every chain on this benchmark, ranked lowest first.

  1. #1Litecoin$0.000101
  2. #2Base$0.000236
  3. #3Taiko$0.000343
  4. #4Solana$0.000365
  5. #5Mantle$0.000415
  6. #6BNB Chain$0.000763
  7. #7Arbitrum One$0.000787
  8. #8Robinhood Chain$0.000794
  9. #9zkSync Era$0.00177
  10. #10Sui$0.00526
  11. #11Ethereum$0.00563
  12. #12Linea$0.0131
  13. #13Cardano$0.0283
  14. #14Monero$0.0428
  15. #15TRON$0.0937

Methodology, charts and the full ledger live on the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 15 L1 and L2 chains page. Raw data: JSON endpoint.