Priority
fees.

Window

150

recent slots, live

Unit

μlam/CU

micro-lamports per compute unit

Base fee

5,000

lamports per signature

SOL

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live price

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live

CU budget

live slots

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▸ /notes

Two markets, one meter.

Landing anywhere in a block is often free; landing a write against a hot AMM pool is an auction. The network-wide floor and the hot-account percentiles are both real, which is why this page shows both.

The rate is only half the fee.

Micro-lamports per compute unit times your CU budget gives the tip, and the budget is what you request, not what you use. The compute-unit guide covers typical consumption and why oversized budgets overpay.

Fees are not rent.

Priority fees are consumed per transaction; the refundable deposits that keep accounts alive are a separate system, priced with the rent calculator.

▸ /faq

What is a priority fee on Solana?

An optional per-compute-unit tip on top of the flat 5,000-lamport base fee, priced in micro-lamports (millionths of a lamport) per CU. Validators schedule higher-paying transactions first when blocks or specific accounts are contended.

Why are there two sets of percentiles?

The network-wide numbers answer "what does it take to land anywhere" and sit at zero in quiet periods. The hot-account numbers sample slots that touched heavily contended state (Jupiter, Raydium, USDC), which is the market you actually compete in when trading.

How do micro-lamports become a real fee?

Multiply the rate by your compute-unit budget and divide by a million: 10,000 micro-lamports per CU on a 200,000 CU budget is 2,000 lamports, or 0.000002 SOL. Even aggressive tips are usually fractions of a cent.

What CU budget should I use?

Whatever your transaction actually consumes, plus margin: the runtime charges for the budget you request, and unused budget still counts against block limits. Simulate first, then set the limit near measured usage. The compute-unit guide covers typical figures.

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