eth_gasPrice

Get Gas Price

POSThttps://site1.moralis-nodes.com/:chain/:apiKey

Returns the current gas price in wei, which is the median gas price of the latest blocks. This value can be used to set the gas price for new transactions.

Note

Please refer to RPC schema page for more details on the RPC params and RPC response definitions of the RPC method.

PATH PARAMS

chainstringrequired

The blockchain to interact with.

ethsepoliaholeskybasebase-sepoliapolygonamoybscbsc-testnetarbitrumarbitrum-sepoliaoptimismoptimism-sepoliagnosisgnosis-testnetlinealinea-sepoliaavalanchemoonbeammoonrivermoonbaseblastblast-sepoliamantlemantle-sepoliapolygon-zkevmpolygon-zkevm-cardonazksynczksync-sepoliazetachainzetachain-testnetfantomopbnbflowflow-testnetroninronin-testnetlisklisk-sepoliapulse

apiKeystringrequired

Your API key for authentication.

BODY PARAM

Request Bodyobjectrequired

The request payload for retrieving the current gas price.

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "eth_gasPrice" }

Responses

200Returns the current gas price in wei.

400Bad Request

404Not Found

429Too Many Requests

500Internal Server Error

cURL

curl --request POST \
     --url 'https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "eth_gasPrice"
}
'

Node.js

// Node.js v18+ has native fetch support
// No additional dependencies required

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "eth_gasPrice"
  })
};

fetch('https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

url = "https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY"

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "eth_gasPrice"
}
headers = {
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
  "net/http"
  "io"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY"

  payload := strings.NewReader("{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"eth_gasPrice\"}")

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

  req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(res)
  fmt.Println(string(body))

}

PHP

<?php
// Dependencies to install:
// $ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY', [
  'body' => '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_gasPrice"}',
  'headers' => [
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

Response Example

200 Returns the current gas price in wei.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x3b9aca00"
}