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Base transaction gas estimate
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What you receive
Demonstration data only. The paid endpoint returns a fresh result and settlement receipt.
{
"request_id": "018f1f54-7f38-7ba2-8dc3-5f90272d9f1a",
"service": "crypto.base-gas-estimate",
"version": "1",
"data": {
"network": "eip155:8453",
"status": "estimated",
"estimationAccepted": true,
"transaction": {
"from": "0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
"to": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"valueWei": "0",
"dataBytes": 36,
"dataSha256": "2da90680426443e99a57371fef89ebdb0cba7f941eda4e27491a3bd2069ef775",
"selector": "0x70a08231"
},
"block": {
"requestedTag": "safe",
"number": 34567890,
"hash": "0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
"timestamp": "2026-08-10T16:00:00+00:00",
"gasLimit": 120000000,
"baseFeePerGasWei": "500000"
},
"estimate": {
"gas": 24640,
"gasHex": "0x6040",
"bufferPercent": 20,
"suggestedGasLimit": 29568,
"suggestedGasLimitHex": "0x7380",
"bufferCapped": false,
"baseFeeComponentWei": "12320000000",
"suggestedBaseFeeComponentWei": "14784000000"
},
"rpcError": null,
"networkRequestsMade": 2,
"rpcCallsMade": 2,
"readOnly": true,
"transactionBroadcast": false,
"warnings": [],
"limitations": [
"The estimate is state-dependent and does not guarantee later execution.",
"Base-fee components exclude priority fees, L1 data fees, and other fee components.",
"Only one existing destination is estimated; contract deployment is not supported."
],
"source": "https://docs.base.org/base-chain/api-reference/ethereum-json-rpc-api/eth_estimateGas",
"disclaimer": "Read-only Base mainnet gas estimation only. No transaction is created, signed, submitted, or broadcast."
},
"meta": {
"duration_ms": 42,
"cached": false,
"sources": [],
"warnings": [],
"next_actions": []
}
}Example request
Input JSON
{
"from_address": "0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
"to": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"value_wei": "0",
"call_data": "0x70a082310000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
"block_tag": "safe",
"buffer_percent": 20
}Delivery contract
One paid POST
Estimate gas for one Base mainnet transaction context at a resolved block, add a bounded caller-selected buffer, and preserve RPC rejection evidence without signing or broadcasting.
POST /v1/crypto/base-gas-estimate
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