# Fees in StarkNet Alpha

**URL:** <https://community.starknet.io/t/fees-in-starknet-alpha/286>\
**Category:** Starknet Technical Development\
**Tags:** fees, alpha\
**Created:** [January 3, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.starknet.io/t/fees-in-starknet-alpha/286 "2022-01-03T14:10:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tienthebros](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.starknet.io/tienthebros/32/68358_2.png) [@tienthebros](https://community.starknet.io/u/tienthebros)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://community.starknet.io/t/fees-in-starknet-alpha/286/50 "2023-04-26T05:18:23Z")

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This is the first time I learn about the mechanism of gas fee. The current mechanism is quite interesting that it needs a service to estimate the gas fee. One thing that I realized that on Argent wallet I cannot customize fee like on metamask. I guess it relates to mechanism in this article. In the future, optimization to reduce the cost is great for users. I have not understood the last sentence that you said: " introducing fee abstraction will allow network participants to specify fees in tokens other than ETH". Is this mean we can pay fee using other tokens than ETH?

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**Author:** ![Inso](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.starknet.io/inso/32/985_2.png) [@Inso](https://community.starknet.io/u/Inso)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.starknet.io/t/fees-in-starknet-alpha/286/51 "2023-06-10T13:41:37Z")

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Hello Lior,  
Interesting post thank you!

I have a little question about the `base_fee` or “gas price floor”. Only `max_fee` are mentioned, for a particular reason, specific to StarkNet?  
Are there any plans to implement this at a later date, or has the question not yet arisen?

For example:  
Arbitrum have currently 0.1 gwei gas fees like `base_fee` for any transactions  
Optimism have currently 0.001 gwei gas fees like `base_fee` for any transactions

### Update

‘base\_fee’ is a concept related to EIP-1559, given that Arbitrum and Optimism have forked Ethereum and end up with the same codebase.

Thanks @henrli for your help!

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