Base vs Ethereum gas fees

As of Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:35:20 UTC, a swap costs $0.0017 on Base vs $0.6337 on Ethereum — Base is 368× cheaper.

Metric
StatusNormalCongested
Gas price0.0060 gwei2.21 gwei
Transfer$0.0₃24$0.0887
Swap$0.0017$0.6337
NFT mint$0.0011$0.4224
NFT sale$0.0021$0.7604
Bridge$0.0014$0.5069
Borrow$0.0034$1.27
Gas tokenETHETH
TVL$4.5B$41.0B

Costs = gas units × live gas price × native token price. Lower value highlighted. Updated every minute.

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