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Predictable pricing

Use this feature page to understand how Linea prices transactions, how to estimate fees, and how Layer 1 and Layer 2 costs are accounted for.

Here's a video walkthrough explaining how gas fees work on Linea:

How gas works on Linea​

Linea supports the Ethereum EIP-1559 gas price model:

total fee = units of gas used * (base fee + priority fee)

It includes support for type 0, type 1, and type 2 transactions.

Linea is EVM-equivalent, and gas works similarly to Ethereum. The main difference is that the base fee effectively stabilizes at 7 wei. Linea blocks use up to around 50% of the maximum block size of 2 billion gas, and the base fee decreases or increases by 12.5% per block according to network traffic, identically to Ethereum. However, when the base fee reaches 7 wei, 12.5% is less than 1 wei, and the reduction is rounded down to zero; so the fee remains 7 wei. The base fee is also burned, like on Ethereum.

The gas cost to submit your transaction and include it on Ethereum involves the following fee components:

  • Layer 2 cost: The execution fee; the cost of including your transaction on the Linea sequencer, and calculated using a similar formula to Ethereum (as described above)
  • Layer 1 cost: The cost of publishing your L2 transaction on Ethereum, which varies based on the blob fee market

These two resource costs are abstracted by the rollup and covered by the recommended L2 gas price and gas used.

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