Costs#

Every price the service charges, from one place. The table below is generated at build time from the same policy object the dashboard, the API (GET /v1/costs) and the MCP tool spending_costs read, so the numbers here cannot drift from what is charged.

Prices in force since 2026-09-05. GET /v1/costs returns the same list as JSON with one sentence per line.

The rules#

• Every fee comes out of the wallet it concerns. The opening fee is taken from the wallet the first time it holds a dollar; payment fees are taken from the wallet that paid, when its payment settles; the funding cent is paid by the sender on top of the amount. There are no account credits and no invoices.
• You are told before you fund. The create screen says whether the next wallet is free or owes the opening fee; spending_budget and every pay_x402 result quote the fee; a refusal names both numbers.
• Free wallets are a person's. An account an agent opened for itself with spending_signup gets no free wallets while nobody has claimed it: every wallet it opens, the first included, owes the opening fee from its first dollar. Once a person claims the account the usual rule applies to the wallets that follow.
• Nothing on rehearsals, nothing on burns. A /test checkout costs nothing to pay. Burning a wallet is free and we pay the gas.
• No gas, ever. Wallets hold dollars only. The endpoint being paid, or our relayer, pays the network fee.
• Nothing on the balance. Money in a wallet is on the chain, in a burner we hold the key to. It is never lent, staked or pooled and we never earn on it.

Where the numbers show#

Changing the prices#

Operators change the price list in the console under Settings; the change applies within a minute everywhere the list is read. This page is rebuilt with the site.