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Monero transaction fee

As of July 31, 2026, Monero native transfer fee USD is $0.0428 at the median (p50, 24h window), with $0.1753 at p90 and $0.1764 at p99. Monero ranks #14 of 15 chains measured on this benchmark.

Monero native transfer fee is $0.0428 (p50, 24h). Monero uses RingCT transactions with a dynamic block-size penalty: a 1-input 2-output transfer is roughly 1500 bytes, and the per-byte rate from `get_fee_estimate` rises sharply when miners are filling blocks above the median size. The fee covers both anonymity-set inflation and ring-signature footprint, which is why XMR fees sit above most L1s. Computed via the daemon's three-tier `get_fee_estimate` times 1500 bytes times XMR price.

How Monero compares

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

  1. #1Litecoin$0.000102
  2. #2Base$0.000241
  3. #3Taiko$0.000351
  4. #4Solana$0.000371
  5. #5Mantle$0.000417
  6. #6BNB Chain$0.000766
  7. #7Arbitrum One$0.000805
  8. #8Robinhood Chain$0.000812
  9. #9zkSync Era$0.00181
  10. #10Sui$0.00526
  11. #11Ethereum$0.00891
  12. #12Linea$0.0129
  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.