eth_gasPrice

Returns the current gas price in wei.

Returns the current gas price in wei. For EIP-1559 transactions, use eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas and eth_feeHistory instead.

Parameters

No parameters.

Returns

result · string

The current gas price in wei as a hexadecimal string.

Example

Request

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "eth_gasPrice",
  "params": [],
  "id": 1
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x5b8d80"
}