eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas

Returns an estimate of how much priority fee, in wei, you need to be included in a block. This method uses 80 credits from your daily balance.

For Growth and Custom service plans

This JSON-RPC method allows a request to be forwarded to a partner service provider if Infura should experience a service issue or outage. See Failover protection and Enable API request forwarding for complete details.

If you would like failover protection but don't qualify under your current plan, then either self-upgrade to the Growth plan or contact a sales representative to upgrade to a Custom plan.

Parameters

None.

Returns

result: A hexadecimal value of the priority fee, in wei, needed to be included in a block.

Example

Replace <YOUR-API-KEY> with an API key from your MetaMask Developer dashboard.

Request

• curl
• WSS

curl https://polygon-mainnet.infura.io/v3/<YOUR-API-KEY> \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas", "params": [], "id": 1}'

wscat -c wss://polygon-mainnet.infura.io/ws/v3/d23391e03c6d40738530a1b4b679e66e -x '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas", "params": [], "id": 1}'

Response

• JSON

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x55d4a80"
}