Ethereum L2 Transaction Cost API
What it actually costs a user to transact on each Ethereum layer-2 rollup, live and keyless, powered by the public growthepie dataset. Ethereum's base layer is expensive, so most activity has moved to rollups — Arbitrum, Base, OP Mainnet, zkSync Era, Linea, Scroll, Starknet, Mantle, Mode, Metis, Celo, Taiko, Unichain — but the cost of a transaction varies a lot between them, and that is the number a user choosing a chain, or a developer deciding where to deploy, actually wants. This answers "which L2 is cheapest to use right now", in plain dollars. The chains endpoint is the league table: every tracked rollup ranked from cheapest, each with its median transaction cost (USD and ETH), native-transfer cost, token-swap cost, average cost and throughput (transactions per second and Mgas/s); Ethereum L1 is included as the baseline so you can see the L2 saving. The chain endpoint returns one rollup's full current cost-and-performance detail plus a short recent history of its median cost. The cheapest endpoint cuts to the chase — the single cheapest rollup right now for a simple transfer and for a token swap, and how much cheaper that is than Ethereum L1. Because the upstream rounds USD to four decimals (so ultra-cheap rollups would read $0.00), the dollar figures are recovered precisely from each chain's exact ETH cost and the ETH price implied by the same payload — no second data source. This is the L2 user-transaction-cost cut — distinct from the L2 economic-activity feed (active addresses, transaction count, rollup revenue and profit: what the chains earn, not what they cost you), from the multi-chain gas-oracle (gas tiers in gwei) and from the blob data-availability fee market (the L1 cost rollups pay to post data). Costs in USD and ETH, throughput in TPS and Mgas/s, no key, nothing stored.
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