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Bitcoin fees right now.

Fees depend on a payment's size and how quickly you want it to confirm, not the amount you send.

Help with a waiting payment

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Example payment

  • Fast

    $0.111 sat/vB

    Next block, about 10 minutes

  • Normal

    $0.010.1 sat/vB

    Within about an hour

  • Cheap

    $0.010.1 sat/vB

    Within about a day

All totals use 141 virtual bytes of block space. Your wallet shows the final fee.

sat/vBFee rate (sat/vB)The fee a payment offers for each unit of block space, in satoshis per virtual byte. Miners can evaluate related transactions together. is the fee per unit of block space. Choose a speed or enter this rate in your wallet. Times are estimates.

Transactions already waiting

These are typical (median) rates among transactions already waiting. They aren't the minimum rates needed to get into a block.

  1. Next block

    7,571 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  2. Block 2 in line

    7,734 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  3. Block 3 in line

    3,996 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  4. Block 4 in line

    26 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  5. Block 5 in line

    30 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  6. Block 6 in line

    43 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  7. Block 7 in line

    43 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

  8. Later

    33,125 transactions

    $0.010.1 sat/vB median

Totals use the same 141-virtual-byte example. The queue can change before a block is mined.

Fees over the past 3 months

The typical fee for a simple payment ranged from $0.07 · 0.7 sat/vB on 25 October to $0.32 · 2.9 sat/vB on 21 August.

30 Jul 2026 – 30 Oct 2026High $0.32 · 2.9 sat/vB

Each block's median fee rate, averaged by day, from mempool.space: what transactions paid, not the least they could have. Costed at today's price for the same 141-virtual-byte example. The scale starts at zero.

When fees have usually been lowest

Over the past 3 months, fees were usually lowest from Sunday 20:00 to Monday 08:00 UTC. At the typical rate then, a simple payment cost about $0.10 · 0.9 sat/vB, against $0.16 · 1.5 sat/vB across the whole week.

Averages of each block's median fee rate, 30 July to 30 October 2026, from mempool.space. A busy day can break the pattern.

Before you choose a fee

Allow for a longer wait.The Cheap estimate is for a payment that can wait. Demand can change, and no fee guarantees a confirmation time.
Check your wallet's final fee.These totals use example sizes. Your payment may need more or less space, so review the total fee before approving it.
Understand consolidation.Consolidation combines small pieces of bitcoin you received. It costs a fee now and links their histories; any later saving depends on which coins you spend and future fee rates.