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Cardano transaction fee

As of June 17, 2026, Cardano native transfer fee USD is $0.0288 at the median (p50, 24h window), with $0.0291 at p90 and $0.0299 at p99. Cardano ranks #18 of 20 chains measured on this benchmark.

Cardano native transfer fee is $0.0288 (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. #1Blast$1.36e-8
  2. #2Optimism$3.90e-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.