gas

A reference for current Ethereum transaction fees and costs. Gas is the fee paid to have an Ethereum transaction processed; the guide also compares Ethereum’s main network with lower-cost L2 networks, which process transactions separately and connect back to Ethereum.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when estimating the cost of transfers, token actions, swaps, NFT mints, contract deployments, or choosing between Ethereum and L2 networks.
Why use it?
It helps replace outdated fee assumptions with the costs and conditions described in the guide. This supports decisions about whether to use Ethereum’s main network or an L2.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/obolnetwork/obol-stack/gas
Any agent
npx skills add ObolNetwork/obol-stack --skill gas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ObolNetwork/obol-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,795 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00047 $0.01795
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00898
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00179

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4a32380d0ef9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gas scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

internal/embed/skills/gas/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gas & Costs on Ethereum

What You Probably Got Wrong

Your gas estimate is 100-600x too high. Most LLMs confidently state gas is 10-30 gwei. The reality in February 2026 is 0.05-0.1 gwei.

  • Base fee: ~0.05 gwei (not 30-100 gwei)
  • Priority fee (tip): ~0.01-0.05 gwei
  • ETH price: ~$1,960 (not $2,500-3,000)

What Things Actually Cost (Feb 2026)

Action Gas Used Cost at 0.05 gwei Cost at 1 gwei (spike) Cost at 10 gwei (event)
ETH transfer 21,000 $0.002 $0.04 $0.41
ERC-20 transfer ~65,000 $0.006 $0.13 $1.27
ERC-20 approve ~46,000 $0.005 $0.09 $0.90
Uniswap V3 swap ~180,000 $0.018 $0.35 $3.53
NFT mint (ERC-721) ~150,000 $0.015 $0.29 $2.94
Simple contract deploy ~500,000 $0.049 $0.98 $9.80
ERC-20 deploy ~1,200,000 $0.118 $2.35 $23.52
Complex DeFi contract ~3,000,000 $0.294 $5.88 $58.80

Mainnet vs L2 Costs (Feb 2026)

Action Mainnet (0.05 gwei) Arbitrum Base zkSync Scroll
ETH transfer $0.002 $0.0003 $0.0003 $0.0005 $0.0004
ERC-20 transfer $0.006 $0.001 $0.001 $0.002 $0.001
Swap $0.015 $0.003 $0.003 $0.005 $0.004
NFT mint $0.015 $0.002 $0.002 $0.004 $0.003
ERC-20 deploy $0.118 $0.020 $0.020 $0.040 $0.030

Key insight: Mainnet is now cheap enough for most use cases. L2s are 5-10x cheaper still.

Why Gas Dropped 95%+

  1. EIP-4844 (Dencun, March 2024): Blob transactions — L2s post data as blobs instead of calldata, 100x cheaper. L2 batch cost went from $50-500 to $0.01-0.50.
  2. Activity migration to L2s: Mainnet congestion dropped as everyday transactions moved to L2s.
  3. Pectra (May 2025): Doubled blob capacity (3→6 target blobs).
  4. Fusaka (Dec 2025): PeerDAS + 8-second slots.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 149 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4a32380d0ef9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gas is a skill published in the GitHub repository ObolNetwork/obol-stack (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,795 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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