Bitcoin fee estimator

Bitcoin fees are priced per byte of transaction data, not per bitcoin sent. Moving $10 and moving $10 million cost exactly the same if the transactions are the same size.

Next block · ~10 min 2 sat/vB $0.22 for a normal send

Within 30 min · ~30 min 1 sat/vB $0.11 for a normal send

Within an hour · ~60 min 1 sat/vB $0.11 for a normal send

No hurry · hours 1 sat/vB $0.11 for a normal send

BTC price: $77,858 Built into the page

Cost by transaction type

Transaction	Size	Next block	Within 30 min	Within an hour	No hurry
Simple send (1 in, 2 out) Legacy P2PKH — the most expensive format.	141 vB	$0.22	$0.11	$0.11	$0.11
SegWit send (1 in, 2 out) Native SegWit, bech32 address starting bc1q.	141 vB	$0.22	$0.11	$0.11	$0.11
Taproot send (1 in, 2 out) The cheapest standard format, bc1p addresses.	111 vB	$0.17	$0.09	$0.09	$0.09
Consolidation (5 in, 1 out) Merging small UTXOs into one.	350 vB	$0.55	$0.27	$0.27	$0.27

What sat/vB means

A satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin. A vByte is a unit of transaction weight — SegWit and Taproot transactions carry their signatures in a discounted section, so they weigh less than a legacy transaction moving the same money. Miners sort the mempool by fee rate, so a small transaction paying 20 sat/vB gets confirmed ahead of a huge one paying 5.

Why your wallet quotes more than this

More inputs. If your balance arrived in twelve small deposits, spending it uses twelve inputs, and the transaction is several times larger.
Address type. Legacy 1… addresses cost roughly 25% more than bc1q, and bc1p Taproot is cheaper again.
Safety margin. Most wallets add padding so the transaction still confirms if the mempool fills while it is in flight.

Paying less

Wait for a quiet window — weekend fee rates are routinely a fraction of weekday peaks.
Consolidate small UTXOs when fees are low, so you are not forced to do it when they are high.
Use a wallet that supports RBF: send cheap, bump the fee only if it is taking too long.
For exchange withdrawals, check whether Lightning is offered. It settles for a fraction of a cent.

Source: mempool.space recommended-fee endpoint, refreshed live in your browser. Dollar figures use the current BTC price from CoinGecko. Estimates, not quotes — your wallet decides the final fee.