GET /api/gas-oracle

etherscan.io:etherscan-api

Summary: Gas Oracle
Operation ID: getGasOracle
Auth: api_key
Description

Get current gas price estimates for Safe, Proposed, and Fast confirmation times. Returns prices in Gwei.

Parameters (4)

action (string, query, required)

Constraints: {'enum': ['gasoracle']}

apikey (string, query, required)

Your Etherscan API key (obtain free key at https://etherscan.io/apis)

chainid (string, query, required)

Chain ID (1=Ethereum Mainnet, 11155111=Sepolia, 8453=Base, 137=Polygon, 56=BSC, 42161=Arbitrum)

module (string, query, required)

Constraints: {'enum': ['gastracker']}

Examples (3)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get gas prices for Ethereum Mainnet curl https://api.etherscan.io/api/?module=gastracker&action=gasoracle&chainid=1&apikey=YourApiKey
Get gas prices for Sepolia testnet curl https://api.etherscan.io/api/?module=gastracker&action=gasoracle&chainid=11155111&apikey=YourApiKey
Get gas prices for Polygon curl https://api.etherscan.io/api/?module=gastracker&action=gasoracle&chainid=137&apikey=YourApiKey

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:49:18.189034 200 535ms
2026-03-23 10:19:53.105750 200 545ms
2026-03-23 09:11:27.198669 200 558ms