Ethereum gas fee now
Ethereum prices computation in gas. Fee = gas used × gas price, paid in ETH. A plain ETH transfer uses 21,000 gas — the fixed cost of a transaction in the Ethereum Yellow Paper (G_transaction). A token transfer such as USDT runs the token contract's code and uses roughly three times as much; the exact figure is measured per token by simulating a transfer.
- Price per unit
- 0.1149 gwei
- ETH price
- $1,912
- Block time
- 12 s per slot (Ethereum consensus specs, SECONDS_PER_SLOT = 12)
- Read from
- chain-fees · public RPC nodes (eth_feeHistory, eth_estimateGas)
Read through the chain-fees feed · 4 min ago
Every transfer type on Ethereum
| Transfer | Slow | Standard | Fast | In ETH | Calculation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETH transfer | – | $0.0046 | – | 0.000002412 | 21,000 gas × 0.1149 gwei |
Swap, approval, NFT and bridge rows: gas used by real transactions, each with its hash on gas used per transaction type. Slow and fast tiers re-price the gas with the 10th / 90th percentile tip.
Fee history on Ethereum
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 Ethereum: no data yet. We show nothing rather than a guess.
Good to know
Since EIP-1559 the gas price has two parts: a base fee set by the protocol (it rises by up to 12.5 % after a full block and falls after an empty one) and a priority fee (tip) to the block proposer. The base fee is burned.
Units on Ethereum
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
How is the Ethereum gas fee calculated?
Gas used × gas price. A plain ETH transfer uses 21,000 gas; a token transfer uses what the token contract needs. The gas price is read from the network every few minutes and shown above in gwei (1 gwei = 0.000000001 ETH).
Why does sending a token on Ethereum cost more than sending ETH?
A token transfer calls the token's smart contract, which reads and writes its balance table. That code costs gas on top of the 21,000 every transaction pays, so the same gas price gives a higher fee.
Does the amount I send change the Ethereum fee?
No. Gas measures computation, not value. Sending 10 or 10,000 of a token costs the same gas.
What does a Ethereum transfer cost right now?
At the last reading a ETH transfer cost 0.000002412 ETH, about $0.0046 at $1,912 per ETH. The figure on this page is re-read every few minutes; this answer is as of the moment the page was built.