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title: "ENSv2 pricing: $8 a year, paid in USDC, and up to 44% off for longer terms"
description: "A .eth name is no longer $5 a year in ETH. The ENSv2 price list, the multi-year discounts, and how to pay $4.50 a year for a 5-letter name."
published: "2026-11-02"
author: "ENS.Tools"
canonical: "https://ens.tools/blog/ensv2-pricing-multi-year-discounts"
readingMinutes: 5
tag: "Guide"
---

# ENSv2 pricing: $8 a year, paid in USDC, and up to 44% off for longer terms

A .eth name is no longer $5 a year in ETH. The ENSv2 price list, the multi-year discounts, and how to pay $4.50 a year for a 5-letter name.

If you learned ENS before October 2026, you probably remember “$5 a year for a 5-letter name, paid in ETH”. That stopped being true when ENSv2 went live on Ethereum mainnet on 27 October 2026. Here is what a `.eth` name costs now, and how to pay as little as possible for it.

## The new price list

Name length1 year2 years3–5 years6+ years5+ characters$8$7$5.50$4.504 characters$160$140$110$903 characters$640$560$440$360

Price per year, in USDC, as published by ENS for the ENSv2 launch. Gas is extra. Mainnet quotes are authoritative.

## Three things that changed

### 1. Five-plus character names went from $5 to $8

The base price for the most common names went up by $3 a year. Four- and three-character names kept their prices.

### 2. You pay in USDC, not ETH

ENSv1 quoted prices in dollars but charged ETH, so the amount you sent changed with the ETH price. ENSv2 charges USDC. $8 is $8, whenever you renew.

### 3. Longer terms are cheaper

ENSv2 rewards commitment. Adding two full years takes 12.5% off. Three to five years takes about 31% off, and six years or more about 44%. The discount applies to registrations and renewals. It doesn't apply to the Price Cooldown fee charged on recently released names, and a term of one year and eleven months is still priced at the one-year rate.

## What this means in practice

- **One 5-letter name for 6 years:** $27 in total, instead of $48 paid year by year.
- **A 4-digit club name for 6 years:** $540 instead of $960.
- **Ten 5+ character names for 6 years:** $270, or $45 a year for the whole portfolio.

If you plan to keep a name anyway, the 6-year tier is the best deal in ENS. You also stop worrying about the shorter 28-day grace period on ENSv2 names for a long while.

## Renewing existing names

The same prices and discounts apply to renewals of every `.eth` name, whether it is still an ENSv1 name or has been upgraded to ENSv2. On ENS.Tools you can renew any mix of both in one USDC checkout, for 1 to 10 years, with the discount applied and no ENS.Tools fee. [Here is how the checkout works](/blog/renew-ens-names-in-usdc-ensv2).

## Registering a new name

New `.eth` registrations are ENSv2 names, registered in the official ENS App. ENS.Tools is the place to find the name first:

- [AI Search](/ai) finds names by meaning. Describe what you want in plain English.
- [Expiry Explorer](/find/expiry) shows names in grace and in Price Cooldown before they open up.
- [The marketplace](/trade) lists names you can buy today.

[Renew for 6 years in USDC](/dashboard)[Find a name with AI Search](/ai)