Base gas fee now
Base is a layer 2 on Ethereum. A transfer pays two parts, both in ETH: the L2 execution fee (gas used × the L2 gas price, usually tiny) and an L1 data fee for publishing the transaction's data on Ethereum. Since EIP-4844 that data goes into blobs, so the L1 part follows Ethereum's blob fee rather than its gas price.
The Base fee: no data yet. We show nothing rather than a guess.
Every transfer type on Base
| Transfer | Slow | Standard | Fast | In ETH | Calculation |
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Transfer figures: no data yet. We show nothing rather than a guess.
Fee history on Base
Cost of a ETH transfer at standard speed, in USD at the time of each reading. Our own readings, every 5 minutes; nothing earlier exists.
Fee history for Base: no data yet. We show nothing rather than a guess.
Units on Base
1 ETH = 1,000,000,000 gwei
The unit gas prices are quoted in. 1 gwei = 1,000,000,000 wei.
Source: ethereum.org, Ether denominations
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Questions and answers
Why is Base cheaper than Ethereum?
Thousands of Base transactions share one batch posted to Ethereum, so each pays only a small slice of the data cost, and execution happens on Base itself where gas is cheap.
What is the L1 data fee on Base?
The part of the fee that pays Ethereum for storing the transaction's data. It is read from Base's own fee oracle and included in the figure above; when the data fee is shown separately it is labelled.
Do I pay Base fees in ETH?
Yes. The fee on Base is paid in ETH bridged to Base, also for token transfers.