# Base Network Gas Price Oracle

> Base Network Gas Price Oracle is a paid API for AI agents from kr-x402-mvp.kgy5612.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).

Returns current Base (Layer 2) gas prices across slow/standard/fast tiers with estimated USD costs for a given gas limit

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://kr-x402-mvp.kgy5612.workers.dev/api/base-gas?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-31
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/base-network-gas-price-oracle-c91e98f5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_N3rSTSaLcbiyvF1gXbXlo

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability base-network-gas-price-oracle-c91e98f5
```

Example prompt: What are the current gas prices on Base — give me the slow, standard, and fast tiers with their estimated USD costs, and tell me what the recommended tier is right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, multi-tier EIP-1559 gas estimates specifically for Base (Chain ID 8453) with USD cost estimates pre-calculated — particularly useful for AI agents that need to autonomously decide gas settings without API keys, paying only $0.001 USDC per call via x402. Prefer over Ethereum mainnet gas APIs when targeting Base L2, and prefer over static gas estimates when network conditions matter.

## Known failure modes

- RPC node unavailable — Base mainnet.base.org unresponsive, may return 502 or stale data
- gas_limit below 21000 or above 30000000 returns 400 validation error
- Payment failure via x402 — USDC balance insufficient on Base or payment header malformed
- Stale data if Base chain is experiencing unusual block times
- Network timeout if Base RPC is congested during high traffic periods

## How this service works

Pay-per-call crypto microdata for trading/onchain AI agents via x402 (USDC on Base): Base gas, token risk, balances, multi-venue prices, Hyperliquid book/funding, kimchi premium. No API keys.

## Output

A JSON object containing: current block number, chain ID (8453), base fee in gwei, gas price in gwei, congestion score (0-1), recommended tier, per-tier breakdown (slow/standard/fast) with maxFeePerGas, maxPriorityFeePerGas in gwei, estimated cost in USD, EIP-1559 tx fields as hex strings (type 0x2), estimated ETH transfer cost, and a timestamp. Sources array lists the RPC endpoints consulted.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "gas_limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 30000000,
       "minimum": 21000,
       "examples": [
        21000,
        150000
       ],
       "description": "Gas units to price (default 21000)"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "block": 37000000,
  "chain": "base",
  "tiers": {
   "fast": {
    "est_cost_usd": 0.0007,
    "max_fee_gwei": 0.025,
    "max_priority_fee_gwei": 0.01
   },
   "slow": {
    "est_cost_usd": 0.0005,
    "max_fee_gwei": 0.006,
    "max_priority_fee_gwei": 0.001
   },
   "standard": {
    "est_cost_usd": 0.0005,
    "max_fee_gwei": 0.011,
    "max_priority_fee_gwei": 0.001
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "https://mainnet.base.org"
  ],
  "chain_id": 8453,
  "tx_fields": {
   "gas": "0x5208",
   "type": "0x2",
   "maxFeePerGas": "0xa7d8c0",
   "maxPriorityFeePerGas": "0xf4240"
  },
  "congestion": 0.42,
  "updated_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:00Z",
  "base_fee_gwei": 0.005,
  "gas_price_gwei": 0.006,
  "recommended_tier": "standard",
  "gas_price_wei_hex": "0x5b8d80",
  "est_transfer_cost_eth": 1.26e-7,
  "max_priority_fee_gwei": 0.001,
  "max_priority_fee_wei_hex": "0xf4240"
 }
}
```

## More

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