BTC: Confirmation Time by Fee Rate (90th Percentile)

Included with Plus.

For each fee-rate band, the time within which nine in ten of the transactions confirmed each day had been mined, in minutes.

Why use it. A tail measure: it says how long a transaction could reasonably wait at a given fee rate, not just how long the typical one did. How to read it. Compare it with the median chart: when the 90th percentile sits far above the median, a few transactions at that rate waited much longer than most.

Calculation. As for the median chart, using the value that 90% of the band's transactions waited less than. From the snapshots our mempool collector takes of our own Bitcoin node's mempool, about once a minute, from 3 October 2026; no earlier values are reconstructed. One node's view: other nodes hold slightly different transactions, and a transaction that arrives and is mined between two snapshots is not observed.