In production dApps, developers usually slightly overestimate gas budgets to ensure transactions don’t fail, but also implement gas estimation tools and monitoring to avoid unnecessary overspending. The balance is safety first, then optimize for efficiency.

When setting gas budgets in Sui, you balance safety and efficiency by estimating slightly higher than your expected usage to avoid failed transactions, but not excessively to waste funds. In production dApps, you can start with simulated transactions using dev_inspect to measure gas consumption under typical scenarios, then add a small buffer for unexpected operations or network congestion. Dynamic adjustments based on historical transaction data or user patterns help optimize costs over time. You can also separate compute-heavy operations into smaller transactions to prevent exceeding budgets. For more details, see: Sui Gas and Transactions.