pricing
The software is free: the bolthub Pay SDK is open source (MIT), self-hosts with no account, and you keep 100% of what you charge. Want us to run it? The hosted platform is one subscription with one meter, covering the no-code gateway and the hosted facilitator behind your SDK integration. Your customers' per-call payments still settle straight to your wallet.
prices in sats · 1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats · USD estimates use the live BTC price
The numbers below are the hosted platform's bill. Consuming tools instead? Each provider sets its own per-call price. See paying for tools.
what you keep
SETTLED⚡ client payments go straight to your wallet
You set the price. Per-request, per-KB, token bucket, time pass, or metered. Clients pay your price in sats via Lightning.
A small monthly fee for the hosted infrastructure, whether that's the no-code gateway or the facilitator behind your SDK: base fee plus usage-based pricing that scales with traffic.
Optional. One base fee + one meter, covering both on-ramps: the no-code gateway and the facilitator that backs your Pay SDK integration.
Billing only starts when you publish your first endpoint or tool: until then, a workspace is free and no trial clock runs. Cycles close every 30 days and include 500 free requests; a cycle with zero requests is waived entirely, so there is no invoice to pay and nothing to cancel. The usage fee is capped at 5% of what your endpoints earned that cycle. Once billed, you have 7 days to pay before service is paused.
Never more than 5% of what you earn
A billable request is any call bolthub's infrastructure serves for you: a gateway request or a facilitator verification. Usage is tracked monthly, invoiced at the end of each 30-day cycle. Rates decrease as volume increases. 7 days to pay before service pauses.
| Monthly requests | Base fee | Usage fee (max) | Total/month (max) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | 5,000 | 0 | 5,000 sats |
| 5,000 | 5,000 | 9,000 | 14,000 sats |
| 25,000 | 5,000 | 49,000 | 54,000 sats |
| 100,000 | 5,000 | 149,000 | 154,000 sats |
| 500,000 | 5,000 | 549,000 | 554,000 sats |
Totals show the full usage schedule, the most a cycle can cost. If 5% of what you earned that cycle is lower than the usage fee shown, you pay that instead. Example: 500,000 calls priced at 1 sat each earn 500,000 sats, so the usage fee is capped at 25,000 sats and the whole bill is 30,000 sats, not the 554,000 shown above. USD estimates based on current BTC price. We periodically adjust sat amounts to keep costs predictable in real terms.
One subscription covers all hosted infrastructure. Every other product has no bolthub price tag at all.
Sell tools and buy tools in code. Open source (MIT), zero runtime dependencies, no account. Self-host and keep 100% of what you charge.
Browsing, searching, and calling listed tools is free for everyone. Listing your own tools is included in the hosted platform.
bolthub adds no fee. You pay your VPS provider directly, from ~$3.50/month, and you hold the keys.
The whole payment layer runs without bolthub. The subscription buys managed infrastructure, not permission.
What you charge your buyers is set by you, per endpoint or per tool, and none of it goes to bolthub. On the hosted gateway you can choose from five pricing models (per request, per KB, token bucket, time pass, metered); with the Pay SDK you set a per-call price in code.
See the five gateway pricing models in actionTwo independent flows. Your customers pay you per call, directly to your Lightning wallet. Those sats never touch bolthub. Separately, bolthub bills you a monthly fee for running the hosted infrastructure (gateway or facilitator), hub listing, and analytics. That's the only money bolthub ever sees from you.
Client payments
Settle directly to your wallet
Platform fee
Usage-based; idle months free
Fair pricing
Adjusted with BTC price moves
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