Mint Fee
The cost of issuing a new NFT or jetton on a blockchain. On TON the fee combines network gas, the collection creator's fee, and any platform fee — typically ranging from a few cents to a few dollars per item.
Aliases: minting fee, mint cost, nft mint fee
A mint fee is what a user pays to create a new NFT or jetton. It usually splits into three components:
- Network gas. The protocol fee for executing the deploy transaction and writing initial state — see gas.
- Creator fee. A flat or percentage amount sent to the collection author. Can be zero.
- Platform fee. If the mint goes through a marketplace or launchpad, that platform charges its own cut.
Typical values on TON
- Gas for an NFT mint: 0.02–0.1 TON (a few cents).
- Gas to deploy a jetton-master plus the first jetton-wallet: 0.1–0.3 TON.
- Creator fees on NFT collections on Getgems usually sit between 0.5 and 5 TON.
Why it matters
For buyers — mint fee is part of the all-in cost, especially noticeable on gas-sensitive launches where a mint wave bumps gas.
For creators — it is a marketing knob: too high and the community walks away, too low and the deploy and support costs are not covered.
Related terms
- gift-upgrade-cost — a specific kind of mint fee for upgrading a Telegram gift
- gas
- tep-62