OpenChainBench
Full benchmark: Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 20 L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsBase

Base transaction fee

As of June 17, 2026, Base native transfer fee USD is $0.000231 at the median (p50, 24h window), with $0.00103 at p90 and $0.00221 at p99. Base ranks #7 of 20 chains measured on this benchmark.

Base native transfer fee is $0.000231 (p50, 24h). Base is Coinbase's OP Stack rollup with the same priority-fee-near-zero pattern as Optimism; 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. #1Blast$1.36e-8
  2. #2Optimism$3.91e-7
  3. #3Avalanche$0.0000019
  4. #4Stellar$0.0000022
  5. #5Scroll$0.0000045
  6. #6Litecoin$0.000102
  7. #7Base$0.000231
  8. #8Taiko$0.000330
  9. #9Solana$0.000368
  10. #10Mantle$0.000623
  11. #11BNB Chain$0.000649
  12. #12Arbitrum One$0.000753
  13. #13zkSync Era$0.00170
  14. #14Linea$0.00266
  15. #15Sui$0.00605
  16. #16Ethereum$0.00630
  17. #17TON$0.00820
  18. #18Cardano$0.0288
  19. #19Monero$0.0415
  20. #20TRON$0.0937

Methodology, charts and the full ledger live on the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 20 L1 and L2 chains page. Raw data: JSON endpoint.