#arbitrum

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.

api.oanor.com/l2fees-api

Live oracle prices from GMX, the leading decentralised perpetual-swap exchange on Arbitrum and Avalanche. Unlike order-book DEXs, GMX executes trades against its GLP/GM liquidity pools at prices set by a keeper-signed oracle that quotes a MIN and a MAX price per token — the execution band traders open and close positions against. The prices endpoint returns every supported token's min/max/mid oracle price and the execution spread; the price endpoint returns a single token by symbol; the tokens endpoint returns the supported-token registry (contract address, decimals, synthetic flag); the spread endpoint ranks tokens by their oracle execution spread (the on-chain cost band of trading that token on GMX). Every endpoint accepts a chain parameter (arbitrum default, or avalanche). Read live from GMX's public oracle, nothing stored. This is GMX's own pool-DEX oracle min/max-price and execution-spread layer — distinct from centralised-exchange tickers, aggregate price feeds and order-book DEX feeds such as dYdX and Hyperliquid.

api.oanor.com/gmx-api

Live Arbitrum One on-chain data as an API, built on the open Blockscout explorer. Arbitrum is the largest Ethereum Layer-2 by total value locked (chain id 42161); gas and balances are denominated in ETH and fees are a fraction of mainnet. Pull network stats (total blocks and transactions, ETH price, live gas), a gas oracle with slow, average and fast prices in gwei, the most recent blocks and full block detail by height or hash. Look up any address for its ETH balance and contract status, any transaction by hash for its value, fee, status, sender and receiver, and any ERC-20 token by contract for its name, symbol, decimals, holders and USD rate. A universal search resolves addresses, tokens, blocks and transactions in one call. Real on-chain data, no key needed upstream. Ideal for Arbitrum wallets, block explorers, gas trackers, DeFi dashboards and on-chain analytics.

api.oanor.com/arbitrum-api