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Get fee estimate

get/api/v2/{coin}/tx/fee

Returns the estimated fee for a transaction. UTXO coins will return a fee per kB, while Account-based coins will return a flat fee estimate.

The fee estimate provided by BitGo is higher than the usual network fee. This additional fee is not charged by BitGo but is used to ensure that the transactions are processed faster and do not fail on the blockchain network.

Path Parameters

  • coinstringRequired
    A cryptocurrency or token ticker symbol.
    Example: btc

Query Parameters

  • numBlocksinteger
    target number of blocks
  • recipientstring
    Recipient of the tx to estimate for (only for ETH)
  • datastring
    ETH data of the tx to estimate for (only for ETH)
  • amountstring
    Amount in base units being sent to estimate for (only for ETH)
  • hopboolean
    True if we are estimating for a hop tx, false or unspecified for a wallet tx (ETH, AVAXC and POLYGON)

200 Response

One of
feePerKb integer required
Fee per kilobyte for a transaction to be confirmed across two or more blocks. Defaults to 2 if 'numBlocks' is not provided in the request query.
Example: 15902
cpfpFeePerKb integer
Child-Pays-For-Parent (CPFP) fee per kilobyte where the fee includes the fees for all unconfirmed transactions dependent on this transaction.
numBlocks integer required
The target block confirmation.
Example: 2
confidence integer
(BTC only) Confidence, as a percentage, in the accuracy of the fee estimate.
Minimum: >= 0
Maximum: <= 100
Example: 80
feeByBlockTarget object
(BTC only) Fee estimates are stored as a key-value pair where the key is the block target (between 1 and 1000) and the value is the corresponding fee estimate (in baseunits per kilobyte).
Example: {"1":50536,"2":15902,"3":1579}

400 Response

error string required
Human-readable error message
requestId string required
Client request id
context object
Properties that apply to a specific error name
name string required
Error code