Is there documentation for the calculation of transaction fees with examples and real parameter values somewhere ? Maybe something similar to the one on the minimum Ada value here: https://docs.cardano.org/native-tokens/minimum-ada-value-requirement
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Calculation procedure is here: Cardano fee structure
The formula for calculating minimal fees for a transaction (tx) is a * size(tx) + b, where:
- a/b are protocol parameters
- size(tx) is the transaction size in bytes
Where protocol parameters are (as of November 11, 2021):
- a: txFeePerByte = 44 lovelace
- b: txFeeFixed = 155381 lovelace
You can find those parameters using:
cardano-cli query protocol-parameters --testnet-magic 1097911063 --out-file protocol-params.json- Protocol params
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I meant documentation on the calculation itself. How are the fees determined. Is there a fixed part and a variable part ?; How high is the fixed part ?; Does the variable part depend on the byte-size of the transaction ?; How high are the costs per byte ?; How large (in bytes) as a transaction with some plain vanilla UTxOs ?; How large is a UTxO with some native assets ? ... and so on.– JeyCommented Nov 9, 2021 at 18:02
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1Thank you, this is helpful. Can I suggest you add the values of txFeePerByte and txFeeFixed at the time of writing to your response. I think, I can then accept it as the answer.– JeyCommented Nov 10, 2021 at 23:08
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But.. we can only know the size once that we said the outputs right? ... so how can I calculate the real fee incluiding the output to wich i am going to be sending the change if i dont know the fee yet? I ask because calculating the fee with cardanoserialization lib TxBuilder.add_change_is needed() is taking too long to run in the browser and i wanted to calculate manually the fees Commented Nov 11, 2021 at 6:14