eth_gasPrice

Get the current gas price

Defined in the Ethereum JSON-RPC Specification

Returns the current price per gas in wei.

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters.

Returns

result · string

A hexadecimal string representing the current gas price in wei.

Request

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

Success Response

{
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x09184e72a000"
}

Error Handling

Code	Message	Description
4100	Requested method not supported	The method is not supported by the wallet

The result is in wei. To convert to gwei, divide by 10^9.