Ethereum · Fees

Gas tracker

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Slow

0.171 gwei

priority 0.01 gwei · base 0.173 gwei

Standard

0.173 gwei

priority 0.05 gwei · base 0.173 gwei

Fast

0.28 gwei

priority 0.09 gwei · base 0.173 gwei

Fee levels

Max fee per gas · base fee 0.173 gwei

21,000 gas × (base fee + priority) · 1 ETH = $2,388.20

Every transaction pays gas: a fixed 21,000 gas for a plain ETH transfer, more for contract calls (a token transfer is ~65,000).
Since EIP-1559 the price per gas has two parts: a base fee set by the protocol from how full recent blocks were (it is burned), and a priority fee (tip) that goes to the validator.
Your wallet sets a max fee; you only pay base fee + priority fee, and the difference is refunded. A higher tip gets you into the next block sooner.
The base fee rises up to 12.5% per block while blocks are more than half full and falls when they are emptier, so fees track demand block by block.
Fee = gas used × (base fee + priority fee). The tiers above differ only in the tip they add on top of the current base fee.