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

Base transaction fee

As of September 15, 2026, Base native transfer fee USD is $0.000317 at the median (p50, 24h window), with $0.00199 at p90 and $0.0347 at p99. Base ranks #2 of 14 chains measured on this benchmark.

Base native transfer fee is $0.000317 (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$0.000121
  2. #2Base$0.000317
  3. #3Taiko$0.000457
  4. #4Solana$0.000505
  5. #5Mantle$0.000601
  6. #6BNB Chain$0.000989
  7. #7Arbitrum One$0.00105
  8. #8zkSync Era$0.00236
  9. #9Robinhood Chain$0.00375
  10. #10Ethereum$0.00781
  11. #11Linea$0.0150
  12. #12Cardano$0.0341
  13. #13Monero$0.0617
  14. #14TRON$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.