ETH Gas Tracker: Live Ethereum Gas Price
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Short answer
Ethereum gas is 0.066 gwei right now (standard speed), so a plain ETH transfer costs about $0.003 — below the 56-day median (0.098 gwei).
Over the last 56 days the median base fee was 0.098 gwei and 90% of blocks were under 0.600 gwei. Gas was cheapest from 7 PM to 4 AM ET and on weekends, and most expensive on weekday mornings, 9 AM–1 PM ET. See the heatmap or calculate a fee.
Live Gas Prices
Slow
Cost: $0.003
Standard
Cost: $0.003
Fast
Cost: $0.005
Rapid
Cost: $0.04
When should I transact?
Gas is low right now — a good time to transact.
Network demand is below its recent norm, so transfers, swaps and approvals cost less than usual. Standard speed is usually enough.
Base fee 0.064 gwei is below the 56-day median (0.098 gwei). Cheapest hours lately: 7 PM–4 AM ET and weekends; priciest: weekdays 9 AM–1 PM ET (see the heatmap below).
Ethereum transaction fee calculator
Fee = gas units used × gas price (gwei) × 0.000000001 × ETH price. Pick an action to load a typical gas amount measured from real mainnet transactions, or type your own. The gas price and ETH price fill in from the live feeds above; you can overwrite either.
Estimated fee
$0.0034
0.00000139 ETH
Fixed at 21,000 gas for a plain ETH send to a wallet. This never varies.
Your wallet simulates the exact transaction and is the final word on gas used. You only pay for gas actually used, not the gas limit.
Best time to transact on Ethereum: 56-day base-fee heatmap
Across 403,456 Ethereum mainnet blocks from Aug 20 to Oct 15, 2026, the base fee was lowest from about 7 PM to 4 AM US Eastern (23:00–08:00 UTC) and on weekends, and highest on weekday mornings from 9 AM to 1 PM ET (13:00–17:00 UTC). The most expensive hour (11 AM ET) had a median about 6× the cheapest hour. Weekend blocks had a median base fee about 47% lower than weekday blocks.
Swipe the chart sideways to see all 24 hours.
| ET | 12a | 1a | 2a | 3a | 4a | 5a | 6a | 7a | 8a | 9a | 10a | 11a | 12p | 1p | 2p | 3p | 4p | 5p | 6p | 7p | 8p | 9p | 10p | 11p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | .08 | .08 | .07 | .07 | .08 | .14 | .13 | .13 | .16 | .35 | .52 | .97 | .50 | .37 | .23 | .21 | .27 | .20 | .13 | .09 | .08 | .09 | .08 | .08 |
| Tue | .07 | .07 | .07 | .07 | .11 | .10 | .11 | .11 | .14 | .29 | .35 | .48 | .28 | .20 | .17 | .13 | .12 | .10 | .06 | .06 | .07 | .06 | .06 | .06 |
| Wed | .07 | .07 | .06 | .08 | .10 | .12 | .13 | .11 | .19 | .35 | .37 | .48 | .32 | .27 | .22 | .16 | .16 | .12 | .08 | .06 | .07 | .06 | .07 | .09 |
| Thu | .06 | .06 | .06 | .08 | .11 | .10 | .12 | .11 | .18 | .33 | .64 | .63 | .52 | .35 | .23 | .15 | .16 | .10 | .07 | .06 | .08 | .10 | .11 | .08 |
| Fri | .07 | .06 | .08 | .10 | .12 | .12 | .12 | .11 | .19 | .49 | .67 | .56 | .57 | .30 | .25 | .22 | .12 | .10 | .09 | .07 | .07 | .07 | .07 | .06 |
| Sat | .06 | .06 | .07 | .06 | .07 | .07 | .06 | .06 | .07 | .07 | .08 | .09 | .08 | .09 | .08 | .07 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 |
| Sun | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .06 | .07 | .07 | .07 | .10 | .16 | .12 | .10 | .09 | .07 | .06 | .06 | .05 | .07 | .06 | .06 | .07 |
Cheapest window
Evenings and overnight ET: 7 PM–4 AM ET (23:00–08:00 UTC) hourly medians (all days combined) sat between 0.061 and 0.070 gwei, near the 25th percentile of all blocks (0.061 gwei).
Most expensive window
Weekday late morning: 9 AM–1 PM ET (13:00–17:00 UTC) peaked at a 0.387 gwei median at 11 AM ET, with Monday 11 AM the single priciest cell.
Weekends
Saturday and Sunday medians were 0.065 gwei versus 0.123 gwei on weekdays. Saturday never had a cell above 0.09 gwei.
Hour-by-hour medians (ET) as a table
| Hour (ET) | Median base fee | vs. overall median |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.0661 gwei | -32% |
| 01:00 | 0.0641 gwei | -34% |
| 02:00 | 0.0666 gwei | -32% |
| 03:00 | 0.0696 gwei | -29% |
| 04:00 | 0.0854 gwei | -13% |
| 05:00 | 0.0979 gwei | +0% |
| 06:00 | 0.0984 gwei | +1% |
| 07:00 | 0.0950 gwei | -3% |
| 08:00 | 0.126 gwei | +29% |
| 09:00 | 0.238 gwei | +143% |
| 10:00 | 0.345 gwei | +253% |
| 11:00 | 0.387 gwei | +296% |
| 12:00 | 0.318 gwei | +225% |
| 13:00 | 0.211 gwei | +116% |
| 14:00 | 0.153 gwei | +56% |
| 15:00 | 0.128 gwei | +31% |
| 16:00 | 0.113 gwei | +16% |
| 17:00 | 0.0896 gwei | -8% |
| 18:00 | 0.0679 gwei | -31% |
| 19:00 | 0.0608 gwei | -38% |
| 20:00 | 0.0672 gwei | -31% |
| 21:00 | 0.0654 gwei | -33% |
| 22:00 | 0.0660 gwei | -33% |
| 23:00 | 0.0688 gwei | -30% |
Method: Base fee for every block from eth_feeHistory on public Ethereum RPC nodes, timestamped from block headers, grouped by day of week and hour, median per cell (US Eastern was UTC−4 for the whole window). Medians ignore short spikes: the single highest block reached 24.9 gwei on Sep 24, 2026, and 99% of blocks were under 3.3 gwei. Patterns can change when demand changes; always check the live number before you send.
What is a good gas price right now? Gwei explained
Gwei is a unit of ETH: 1 gwei = 0.000000001 ETH (10⁻⁹). Gas prices are quoted in gwei per unit of gas. Since EIP-1559, the price per gas has two parts: a base fee, set by the protocol from how full recent blocks were and burned, and a priority fee (tip) that goes to the validator. The base fee can move by at most 12.5% per block, so it changes gradually rather than jumping unpredictably.
A “good” gas price is relative, not a fixed number. The fair test is how today’s base fee compares with recent history. Here are the bands from 403,456 mainnet blocks over the last 56 days (Aug 20 – Oct 15, 2026). The cost columns use the live ETH price ($2,439) and add no tip, so the wallet’s final figure will be a little higher.
| Band (56 days) | Base fee | ETH transfer (21,000 gas) | Token transfer (~46,100 gas) | Uniswap swap (~133,900 gas) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very cheap (cheapest 10% of blocks) | 0.0489 gwei | $0.003 | $0.005 | $0.02 |
| Cheap (cheapest 25%) | 0.0614 gwei | $0.003 | $0.007 | $0.02 |
| Typical (median block) | 0.0978 gwei | $0.005 | $0.01 | $0.03 |
| Busier (75th percentile) | 0.212 gwei | $0.01 | $0.02 | $0.07 |
| Busy (90th percentile) | 0.600 gwei | $0.03 | $0.07 | $0.20 |
Rule of thumb: if the live base fee is at or below the “cheap” band, send now. If it is above the 90th percentile and nothing is urgent, waiting an hour or two usually brings it back down, because the base fee falls automatically whenever blocks are less than half full.
How to estimate an Ethereum transaction fee by hand
Fee in ETH = gas used × (base fee + tip) ÷ 1,000,000,000. Multiply by the ETH price for dollars. ethereum.org’s own example: 21,000 gas × (10 + 2) gwei = 252,000 gwei = 0.000252 ETH. At 0.5 gwei the same transfer is 10,500 gwei, or 0.0000105 ETH.
Typical gas used, measured from successful mainnet transactions we sampled (10,454 transactions across 60 recent blocks, Oct 15, 2026):
| Action | Median gas used | Typical range (10th–90th pct.) | Transactions sampled |
|---|---|---|---|
| ETH transfer | 21,000 | fixed | 4,958 |
| USDT transfer | 46,100 | 41,300–63,200 | 2,632 |
| USDC transfer | 45,200 | 40,300–62,300 | 1,356 |
| Other ERC-20 transfer | 43,800 | 30,300–79,200 | 842 |
| Token approval | 47,200 | 31,600–55,600 | 444 |
| Uniswap swap | 133,900 | 117,800–173,400 | 222 |
Token transfers to a wallet that has never held that token cost more, because the contract writes a new storage slot; that is why the upper end of the range is higher. Need more action types (bridging, NFT mints, staking)? Use the gas fee estimator by action.
How layer 2 networks change what you pay
Rollups such as Arbitrum, Optimism and Base execute transactions off mainnet and post compressed data back to Ethereum. Your L2 fee is the rollup’s own execution fee plus your share of that data-posting cost. Since the Dencun upgrade (13 March 2024) rollups can post data in cheaper temporary “blobs” (EIP-4844), which have their own fee market separate from mainnet gas. That cut L2 fees sharply; ethereum.org notes it was not designed to lower mainnet (L1) gas much.
- Frequent small actions (swaps, mints, small payments) are usually cheaper on an L2 — compare live fees at l2fees.info before you choose a network.
- Moving to and from an L2 still touches mainnet. A deposit through the official bridge is a mainnet transaction, so time it with the heatmap above. Withdrawals from optimistic rollups through their native bridges have a challenge period of about 7 days.
- Low L1 gas narrows the gap. When mainnet base fees are a fraction of a gwei, a simple ETH transfer on mainnet can cost only cents, so moving funds to an L2 just to save gas may not be worth the bridge step.
- Same address, different network. Your 0x address works on every EVM network, but the funds are separate. Double-check the network in your wallet before sending; our ETH address checker catches typos and address-poisoning lookalikes.
More background: Ethereum layer 2 explained and gas fees explained.
Cheap gas is not the only thing to check before you sign
- Low fees bring out approval and drainer scams. Read what you are signing and review old allowances with our token approvals guide.
- Nobody legitimate needs you to “pay gas” to receive funds or unlock a withdrawal — that is a classic scam script. See Scam Watch and fake exchange support scams.
- Buying on a schedule? Gas is a fixed cost per purchase, so very small DCA buys made on mainnet lose more to fees. Model it with the ETH DCA simulator.
- New to self-custody? Start with the Ethereum wallet guide.
Sources and data
- ethereum.org — Gas and fees (base fee, priority fee, 21,000-gas transfer)
- EIP-1559 — fee market change (base fee adjusts up to 12.5% per block and is burned)
- ethereum.org — Dencun / Proto-Danksharding FAQ (activated 13 Mar 2024)
- EIP-4844 — shard blob transactions
- l2fees.info — live layer 2 fee comparison
- Etherscan Gas Tracker — independent second opinion
- Heatmap and gas-unit tables: GrowYourEthereum analysis of public Ethereum mainnet data (eth_feeHistory and block receipts via public RPC), Aug 20 – Oct 15, 2026. Download the heatmap as CSV (168 rows: day, hour ET, hour UTC, median base fee, block count). Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with credit: “GrowYourEthereum, Ethereum gas heatmap” and a link to this page.
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