Gas Usage

Base Accounts use more gas for transactions than traditional Ethereum accounts. On L2 networks, the cost difference to the user is a matter of cents. The gas difference is due to the additional overhead required for:

ERC-4337 Bundling
Smart Contract Operations, including one time deployment of the Base Account contract
Signature Verification

Gas Usage Breakdown

Here’s a rough comparison of gas usage per account:

Operation Type	Traditional Ethereum Account	Base Account
Native Token Transfer	~21,000 gas	~100,000 gas
ERC-20 Token Transfer	~65,000 gas	~150,000 gas
First Deployment	N/A	~300,000+ gas

Overview

Base Account SDK

Base Chain API

Gas Usage Breakdown

​Gas Usage Breakdown

Gas Usage Breakdown