Litecoin transaction fee now
Litecoin uses Bitcoin's transaction format and fee model: size in virtual bytes × fee rate in litoshi per vB, paid in LTC. Native SegWit addresses (ltc1…) make transactions smaller.
- Price per unit
- 1 lit/vB
- LTC price
- $48.34
- Block time
- 2.5 min target (Litecoin Core chainparams, nPowTargetSpacing = 2.5 × 60)
- Read from
- ltc-chain · litecoinspace.org recommended fee rates
A Litecoin fee depends on the transaction's size, not the amount: one SegWit input and two outputs (payment and change).
Read through the ltc-chain feed · 1 min ago
Every transfer type on Litecoin
| Transfer | Slow | Standard | Fast | In LTC | Calculation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LTC transfer | $0.00007 | $0.00007 | $0.00007 | 0.000001405 | 140.5 vB × 1 lit/vB |
Fee history on Litecoin
Cost of a LTC transfer at standard speed, in USD at the time of each reading. Our own readings, every 5 minutes; nothing earlier exists.
Fee history for Litecoin: no data yet. We show nothing rather than a guess.
Units on Litecoin
1 LTC = 100,000,000 litoshi
The smallest unit of litecoin; fee rates are lit/vB.
Source: Litecoin Core, COIN = 100,000,000
Questions and answers
How is a Litecoin fee calculated?
Virtual size × fee rate in lit/vB (1 litoshi = 0.00000001 LTC). A payment from one SegWit input to two outputs is 140.5 vB.
Why is Litecoin cheap to send?
Its blocks are rarely full, so the fee rate needed to be included is usually at or near the minimum. The figure above is the rate the network's mempool API recommends right now.
What does a Litecoin transfer cost right now?
At the last reading a LTC transfer cost 0.000001405 LTC, about $0.00007 at $48.34 per LTC. The figure on this page is re-read every few minutes; this answer is as of the moment the page was built.