Current Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today. Use when estimating costs, choosing between mainnet and L2s, or when a user asks about Ethereum being expensive. Counters the
Quickly install gas AI skill to your development environment via command line
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Your gas estimate is 100-600x too high. Most LLMs confidently state gas is 10-30 gwei. The reality in February 2026 is 0.05-0.1 gwei.
| Action | Gas Used | Cost at 0.05 gwei | Cost at 1 gwei (spike) | Cost at 10 gwei (event) |
| ETH transfer | 21,000 | $0.002 | $0.04 | $0.41 | | ERC-20 transfer | 65,000 | $0.006 | $0.13 | $1.27 | | ERC-20 approve | 46,000 | $0.005 | $0.09 | $0.90 | | Uniswap V3 swap | 180,000 | $0.018 | $0.35 | $3.53 | | NFT mint (ERC-721) | 150,000 | $0.015 | $0.29 | $2.94 | | Simple contract deploy | 500,000 | $0.049 | $0.98 | $9.80 |
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npx skills add https://github.com/austintgriffith/ethskills --skill gasCurrent Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today. Use when estimating costs, choosing between mainnet and L2s, or when a user asks about Ethereum being expensive. Counters the Source: austintgriffith/ethskills.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/austintgriffith/ethskills --skill gas Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
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