Surveying the first mainnet blocks…
Priority-fee survey · Solana mainnet
The Solana priority-fee market, surveyed live as a landscape.
Each ridge is one sampled block. Left to right: every fee percentile its transactions paid. Height: the compute-unit price (micro-lamports per CU), on a log scale.
What lands nowµL/CU
Waiting for the first sampled block…
Sampled blocks
One full mainnet block every few seconds. Vote transactions excluded from fee stats.
RPC fee floor
getRecentPrioritizationFees — the lowest priority fee that landed in each of the last 150 slots.
How to read the terrain
- Plains on the left are transactions that set no priority fee at all — the block still had room for them.
- The cliff marks where paying begins. When it slides left, more of the block is bidding.
- Peaks on the right are the top percentiles: bots and urgent swaps bidding for the front of the queue.
- Contours step every ×10. Cyan guides trace p50, p75 and p90 back through time.
- Solana fee markets are local: a hot pool can be expensive while the rest of the chain is free. Use the estimator for the accounts you touch.