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title: Optimizing operation costs
slug: optimizing-operation-costs
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createdAt: 2023-06-15T09:28:32.000Z
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So you're ready to mint your NFT. Before you start consider the following:

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The difference in cost of minting a single NFT and the cost of minting multiple NFTs as a part of one order is not linear. Minting cost can be broken down as follows

Blockchain Operation Cost + Blockchain Transaction Cost + Platform Cost 

Minting a single NFT and multple NFTs will have the same Transaction Cost and a different Operation Cost. Platform Cost is fixed for each operation.

The Operation Cost of minting the a single NFT is very similar to the Operation Cost of minting multple NFTs. 

**TL;DR - If you have more than 5 NFTs - mint them as a batch in a single API operation.**


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