Bitcoin fees today
These recommended rates come from mempool.space (with automatic fallback to Blockstream.info) — not from our own node's mempool, which does not expose this figure today. The historical context further down does come from our own node; the dollar and euro costs combine these rates with the CoinGecko price.
Recommended fees by confirmation speed
| Level | sat/vB |
|---|---|
| Fastest (next block) | 1 |
| 30 minutes | 1 |
| 1 hour | 1 |
| Economy | 1 |
| Minimum (no rush) | 1 |
Right now all five levels cost the same: the network is not congested, so there is no reason to pay extra even for the next block.
What a real transaction costs today
sat/vB alone does not say much — this converts it into the actual cost, in dollars and euros, of common transaction sizes at each fee level:
| Level | Simple send (1 in, 2 out, ~141 vB) | 2 inputs (2 in, 2 out, ~208 vB) | Taproot send (1 in, 2 out, ~154 vB) | Consolidation (10 in, 1 out, ~719 vB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any level | $0.12 €0.11 | $0.18 €0.16 | $0.13 €0.12 | $0.61 €0.54 |
Historical context, from our own node
Our own node samples the average fee paid per transaction every 2,016 blocks (~2 weeks). Across the 417 samples with known daily price since March 25, 2011, the most recent complete sample (block 967,680, September 19, 2026) paid an average of 74 sats per transaction — around $0.06 at that day's price. That places it at the 21st percentile of this series, right in the middle of its historical range: neither unusually cheap nor unusually expensive by this measure. See the full chart on the network page.
Fee pressure moves with each mining difficulty adjustment period and, further out, with each halving, which changes miner revenue directly.
Is it a good time to consolidate UTXOs?
Lower fees make it cheaper to combine several UTXOs into one transaction — that is what "consolidate" usually means in a wallet. But consolidation has a cost that is not measured in sats: every UTXO included in that transaction becomes publicly, permanently linked to the others on the blockchain. When those UTXOs came from unrelated places (say, two different exchange withdrawals), that link is what our own toxic consolidation article describes. Today even the fastest rate is 1 sat/vB, practically the network minimum, so consolidating costs very little in fees. Either way, the privacy cost does not move with the fee. If you want to know whether your own addresses are already exposed to this kind of link, our free privacy audit checks it.
This page describes data; it is not financial or technical advice on whether or how to consolidate your own funds.
Last updated: September 23, 2026