Deterministic Transaction Fees

Calculating fees

Before sending a transaction to the cluster, a client may query the network to determine what the transaction's fee will be via the rpc request getFeeForMessage.

Fee Parameters

The fee is based on the number of signatures in the transaction, the more signatures a transaction contains, the higher the fee. In addition, a transaction can specify an additional fee that determines how the transaction is relatively prioritized against others. A transaction's prioritization fee is calculated by multiplying the number of compute units by the compute unit price (measured in micro-lamports) set by the transaction via compute budget instructions.