---
title: "eth_gasPrice"
description: "Returns the current gas price on Base in wei as a hexadecimal string; for EIP-1559 fee estimation use eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas and eth_feeHistory."
source: https://basehub.org/api-reference/eth/eth_gasprice/
---
Returns the current gas price in wei. For EIP-1559 transactions, prefer [`eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas`](/api-reference/eth/eth_maxpriorityfeepergas/) and [`eth_feeHistory`](/api-reference/eth/eth_feehistory/) instead.

## Parameters

None.

## Returns

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `result` | string | The current gas price in wei as a hexadecimal string. |

## Example

### Request

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

### Response

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0xfa"
}
```