estimateGas

Estimates the gas required to execute a transaction. The gas is returned as a bigint and in gwei units.

Example


import { estimateGas } from "thirdweb";
const gas = await estimateGas({
  transaction,
  from: "0x...",
});


function estimateGas(
  options: EstimateGasOptions,
): Promise<EstimateGasResult>;

Parameters

The options for estimating gas.

Type


let options: Prettify<
  { transaction: PreparedTransaction<any> } & (
    | { account: Account; from?: never }
    | { account?: never; from?: string }
  )
>;

Returns


let returnType: bigint;

A promise that resolves to the estimated gas as a bigint.