A small monthly platform fee covers the gateway, hub listing, and infrastructure. Your customers' per-call payments don't pass through us. They go straight to your wallet. The two paths never cross.
All prices are in sats (satoshis), the base unit of Bitcoin. 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 sats. USD estimates reflect the current BTC exchange rate.
Publishing an API? The numbers below are your platform bill. If you are consuming APIs, each provider sets their own per-call price. Browse the API Hub.
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 running your gateway infrastructure: base fee plus usage-based pricing that scales with traffic.
Base fee + usage. That's it.
Billed monthly at the end of each 30-day cycle. Includes 400 free requests per month. 7 days to pay before service is paused.
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 | Total/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400 | 4,000 | 0 | 4,000 sats |
| 5,000 | 4,000 | 9,200 | 13,200 sats |
| 25,000 | 4,000 | 49,200 | 53,200 sats |
| 100,000 | 4,000 | 149,200 | 153,200 sats |
| 500,000 | 4,000 | 549,200 | 553,200 sats |
USD estimates based on current BTC price. We periodically adjust sat amounts to keep costs predictable in real terms.
You set the price for your endpoints. Choose the model that fits your use case.
Fixed price per API call. Each request triggers a Lightning invoice. Client pays, gets the response.
Example
A weather API charges 10 sats per query. Client pays 10 sats, gets the forecast.
Buy a batch of requests upfront. Client pays once for N requests, then uses them without further payment interruption.
Example
An inference API sells 50 calls for 500 sats. The AI agent pays once and makes 50 requests.
Unlimited access for a time window. Client pays once, gets unlimited requests for the configured duration.
Example
A market data feed charges 1,000 sats for 60 minutes of unlimited access.
Prepaid balance, deducted per use. Client prepays a balance. Each request deducts a fixed cost. When depleted, they pay again.
Example
A GPU inference API: prepay 1,000 sats, each call costs 5 sats. That’s 200 calls.
Price scales with response size. Price is calculated based on the response payload size in kilobytes.
Example
A satellite imagery API charges 2 sats per KB. A 500 KB image costs 1,000 sats.
Two 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 gateway, hub listing, and infrastructure. That's the only money bolthub ever sees from you.
Client payments
Settle directly to your wallet
Platform fee
Usage-based, billed monthly
Fair pricing
Adjusted with BTC price moves
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