What confirmation costs right now
Transaction Fees
Recommended fee rates by confirmation target, translated into the real cost of a standard Bitcoin payment in sats and dollars.
Right now
What a Bitcoin payment costs.
By confirmation target
Choose how long you are willing to wait.
A fee rate on its own is hard to judge, so each tier below is also priced as a real transaction. Reference: a one-input, two-output native SegWit payment.
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Estimates describe current conditions. If the mempool empties while your transaction waits, it may confirm sooner than the target; if a burst of demand arrives, it may take longer.
How fees work
Why the same payment costs different amounts.
You pay for space, not for value
Fees are quoted in satoshis per virtual byte. Sending 0.001 BTC and sending 1,000 BTC cost the same if the transactions are the same size. What changes the price is how many bytes your transaction occupies.
Address type changes the size
A Taproot payment is around 111 vB; the same payment from a legacy address is around 226 vB. At an identical fee rate, the legacy transaction costs roughly twice as much. The tools page lets you compare them directly.
Inputs are the real cost driver
Every coin you consolidate adds roughly 58–68 vB. A wallet that has received many small payments will pay noticeably more to spend them, which is why low-fee periods are a good moment to consolidate.
Open the fee calculator to price a specific transaction shape, or see the queue these estimates are derived from.