Blockchain Fees by Chain: Daily Totals
What users pay in network fees on every major chain each day, in native tokens and USD, counted with one fee definition per chain.
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Cheapest Blockchain Fees: Median Cost per Transaction
Which blockchain is cheapest to transact on right now?
Major chains sorted by what a typical transaction, a native transfer and a stablecoin transfer actually cost on the latest day.
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Blueprint
What the table will hold.
The table as it will open in Strata. Each figure is named here and arrives with its receipt; until its data is published, its place stays empty.
One row One row per chain on the latest complete UTC daySorted by Median fee, lowest first
| Chain | Median feeUSD | High fee, 90th percentileUSD | Native transferUSD | Stablecoin transferUSD | Median fee, native unit | Fee token | Fee model | 7-day change | Price source | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- Chain chain Chain
- The chain the row describes.
- Median fee median_fee_usd Exact amount
- The median fee of all successful transactions on the day, in USD at the day's price.
- High fee, 90th percentile p90_fee_usd Exact amount
- The fee that nine in ten of the day's transactions paid at or below, in USD.
- Native transfer native_transfer_usd Exact amount
- The median fee of transactions that only move the chain's native token, in USD.
- Stablecoin transfer stablecoin_transfer_usd Exact amount
- The median fee of transactions that only transfer a stablecoin, in USD; on Tron, without staked energy.
- Median fee, native unit median_fee_native Exact amount
- The median transaction fee in the chain's own fee token, before any price conversion.
- Fee token fee_token Token
- The token fees are paid in: the native token, or a stablecoin on chains that charge fees in one.
- Fee model fee_model Text
- How the chain prices transactions: gas, compute units, resources or a flat cost.
- 7-day change change_7d Percent
- Change in the median fee in USD against the same chain's median 7 days earlier.
- Price source price_source Text
- The oracle feed used for USD, or the off-chain reference price where no feed exists.
- Receipt receipt Link
- The day's first and last block and the reads behind the medians.
Filter by Fee model, Fee token.
About
What it answers, and for whom.
The cheapest chain depends on what you send. A plain transfer of the native token, a stablecoin transfer and a contract call can cost very different amounts on the same chain, and an average fee is pulled up by a few expensive transactions. For each chain, this table shows the median and the high fee that transactions actually paid on the latest day, and what a native transfer and a stablecoin transfer cost.
Sort it by the action you care about, and read the fee model column before comparing: on Tron a USDT transfer burns TRX only when the sender has no staked energy, and some chains charge fees in a stablecoin. Every row is computed from the day's transactions and pinned to its blocks, with the price read used for USD.
Method
How it will be measured.
Every figure will be read at a block, kept with its source and its exact read, and open a receipt anyone can re-check.
How receipts work →- Median and 90th percentile fees are taken over every successful transaction on the chain in the UTC day, in the native unit, from each chain's own fee field.
- Native transfer and stablecoin transfer fees are medians over transactions that only move the native token, or only call a stablecoin's transfer, such as ERC-20, TRC-20, SPL and jetton transfers.
- On Tron, the stablecoin transfer fee is the TRX burned when no staked energy is used; transfers that use staked or rented energy are counted apart.
- USD values use an on-chain oracle price at the day's last block where one exists, and an off-chain reference price otherwise, named in the row.
- Each row links to the day's first and last block and to the reads behind its medians.
The data it needs
Chain data, with some off-chain sources
- chain_fees_dailyTo buildFees and gas by chainFees paid per chain per day in the native token: base fee and priority fee percentiles, total fees, and the share burned where the chain burns fees.
- token_transfers_dailyTo buildToken transfer volumeERC-20 and native transfer counts, volume and unique senders and receivers per token per chain per day.
- stablecoinsPublishedStablecoin registryEvery tracked stablecoin contract: issuer, peg, chain, decimals and whether it is native or bridged.
- native_prices_dailyTo buildOracle prices by dayReference prices of major assets read from on-chain oracle feeds (Chainlink latestRoundData) at each day's last block, with each round's update time.
- Each chain's fee field per successful transaction, for daily medians and 90th percentiles
- Transactions that only transfer the native token, per chain
- Stablecoin transfer calls (ERC-20, TRC-20, SPL and jetton transfers) to registry contracts
- Tron receipts: energy_usage and energy_fee of USDT transfers, to separate burned from staked energy
- Chainlink price feeds at day-end blocks; off-chain reference prices where no on-chain feed exists
Questions
Questions people ask.
Which blockchain has the lowest fees?
It changes with activity and token prices, and it depends on the action. Sort the table by the median fee for the action you need, and check the high fee too: a chain with a low median can still be expensive at busy moments.
What is the cheapest way to send USDT?
Sort by the stablecoin transfer column among the chains where USDT is issued and the receiver can accept it. The cheapest chain only helps if the exchange or wallet on the other side supports it, and on Tron the cost also depends on whether the sender holds staked energy.
Why use the median fee rather than the average?
A few large transactions, such as liquidations or priority bids during a token launch, can pull the average far above what a typical user pays. The median is what the middle transaction paid, which is closer to what you will pay.
Are layer 2 fees included?
Yes. Layer 2 networks are listed like other chains, with what users pay on the layer 2 itself. Part of that fee covers posting data to the chain it settles on, which the layer 2 pages show in detail.
- Median fee
- The fee paid by the middle transaction of the day when all are sorted by fee: half paid less and half paid more.
- Fee model
- How a chain prices transactions: gas on EVM chains, signatures and compute units on Solana, resources on Tron or a flat cost on others.
- Stablecoin transfer
- A transaction that only calls a stablecoin's transfer function, such as USDT or USDC moving between two addresses.
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