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Base Accounts use more gas for transactions than traditional Ethereum accounts. On L2 networks, the cost difference to the user is a matter of cents. The gas difference is due to the additional overhead required for:
  1. ERC-4337 Bundling
  2. Smart Contract Operations, including one time deployment of the Base Account contract
  3. Signature Verification

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Gas Usage Breakdown

Here’s a rough comparison of gas usage per account: