A small base fee plus usage-based pricing that scales with your traffic. Client payments go directly to your wallet. We only charge for the platform.
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 weekly fee for running your gateway infrastructure: base fee plus usage-based pricing that scales with traffic.
Base fee + usage. That's it.
Billed weekly (1,000 sats/week). Includes 400 free requests per month.
Usage is tracked weekly, invoiced at the end of each 7-day cycle. Rates decrease as volume increases.
| 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.
Client payments settle directly to your Lightning wallet.bolthub charges a separate weekly platform fee for gateway infrastructure.
Client payments
Settle directly to your wallet
Platform fee
Usage-based, billed weekly
Fair pricing
Adjusted with BTC price moves
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