What it costs to send USDT in each network
What a network charges for one USDT transfer, taken from the blockchains themselves. It does not follow the amount: 10 and 10,000 cost the same.
Fees refreshed Sep 17, 2026 04:38
Cheapest right now is Avalanche C-Chain — ≈ < $0.0001 per transfer; priciest is TRON (TRC20) — ≈ $2.3.
What each network charges for USDT
| Network | Now | Week | Paid in | Speed | Orders from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avalanche C-Chain cheapest right now | < $0.0001 0.0000035 AVAX | — | AVAX | fast | 200 USDT |
| Optimism | $0.00016 0.000000067 ETH | — | ETH | fast | 200 USDT |
| Solana | $0.00049 0.000005 SOL | — | SOL | fast | 22.9787 USDT |
| Polygon | $0.0017 0.018 POL | — | POL | fast | 22.9787 USDT |
| BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) | $0.0024 0.0000033 BNB | — | BNB | fast | 22.9787 USDT |
| Arbitrum One | $0.0032 0.0000013 ETH | — | ETH | fast | 22.9787 USDT |
| Ethereum (ERC20) | $0.011 0.0000046 ETH | — | ETH | medium | 22.9787 USDT |
| TON | ≈ $0.04 0.03 TON · estimate | — | TON | fast | 22.9787 USDT |
| TRON (TRC20) | $2.3 6.8 TRX | — | TRX | fast | 22.9787 USDT |
TRON: if the receiving address has never held USDT, the transfer burns about twice the energy — ≈ 13 TRX ($4.5).
Solana: no USDT token account on the receiving side means the sender pays about 0.00204 SOL ($0.2) to open one.
Arbitrum and Optimism: the price includes writing the transaction data into Ethereum.
TON: this is an estimate — the amount depends on the wallet, and the unspent part usually comes back.
The figures cover a plain wallet-to-wallet USDT transfer; an exchange or a wallet may add its own cut. Data as of Sep 17, 2026 04:38.
Who pays this fee
The sender always pays, and always in the coin of the network (AVAX, ETH, SOL, POL, BNB, TON and TRX), never in USDT. Sending to us — the fee leaves your wallet, so keep a little of the network coin there. Receiving from us — we make the transfer, and the payout amount is visible in the form before the order is created.
What the figure is made of
AVAX C, Optimism, Polygon, BEP20, Arbitrum and ERC20: the current gas price × roughly 65,000 units — what a token transfer usually eats.
Arbitrum and Optimism run on top of Ethereum: publishing the data into Ethereum is added to the gas price, and we take it from the networks' own contracts.
TRON: about 65,000 energy at the current price (100 sun) plus roughly 345 bytes of bandwidth, when the sender has no frozen TRX and no rented energy.
Solana: the base 5,000 lamports plus the usual priority top-up from recent blocks.
TON: no live data, so we take a typical USDT transfer.
Sources are the networks' public nodes (PublicNode, TronGrid, Solana RPC), dollars at CoinGecko prices. Polled every 10 minutes; if a network stays silent we show the previous value and drop anything older than a day.
How to pay less
- Take the cheaper network when both wallets speak it: the gap between networks runs into hundreds of times.
- Keep a little of the network coin in the wallet (AVAX, ETH, SOL, POL, BNB, TON and TRX) — without it USDT simply will not leave.
- Send less often and in bigger chunks: the network charges the same for 10 and for 10,000 USDT.
- Check the network of the receiving address — a transfer into the wrong one usually means losing the money.
- In TRON an address that has already held USDT comes out cheaper, and frozen TRX or rented energy cuts the fee hardest.
What USDT can turn into
Common questions about USDT fees
Where is sending USDT cheapest right now?
What does USDT TRC20 cost to send?
Why is USDT ERC20 pricier than the rest?
Why hold AVAX, ETH, SOL, POL, BNB, TON and TRX if I am sending USDT?
Does the fee grow with the amount?
What happens if USDT goes into the wrong network?
USDT USDC network fees All bridges Where these numbers come from