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Cardano transaction fee

As of October 30, 2026, Cardano native transfer fee USD is $0.0320 at the median (p50, 24h window), with $0.0323 at p90 and $0.0324 at p99. Cardano ranks #17 of 19 chains measured on this benchmark.

Cardano native transfer fee is $0.0320 (p50, 24h). Cardano fees are protocol-deterministic: min_fee_a per byte plus a flat min_fee_b base, both set by governance and updated rarely; a typical ADA transfer is ~250 bytes, so the lovelace cost is essentially fixed until the next parameter vote. The USD figure only moves because ADA price moves. Computed from live koios epoch_params times 250 bytes times ADA price.

How Cardano compares

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

  1. #1Stellar$0.0000017
  2. #2Optimism$0.0000605
  3. #3Litecoin$0.000125
  4. #4Base$0.000306
  5. #5Taiko$0.000411
  6. #6Solana$0.000477
  7. #7Mantle$0.000508
  8. #8Avalanche$0.000647
  9. #9BNB Chain$0.000790
  10. #10Arbitrum One$0.000942
  11. #11Robinhood Chain$0.000947
  12. #12zkSync Era$0.00213
  13. #13Scroll$0.00332
  14. #14Sui$0.00673
  15. #15Linea$0.0115
  16. #16Ethereum$0.0199
  17. #17Cardano$0.0320
  18. #18Monero$0.0714
  19. #19TRON$0.0892

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