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Pricing & Billing

PipeAgent follows a premium pay-as-you-go model designed for high-performance AI integration. We prioritize reliability, data quality, and predictable billing for professional data consumers.

Billing Model

PipeAgent supports three pricing modes per feed:

1. Free Feeds (price_type = free)

  • Consumers access at no charge.
  • These calls do not create paid payout amounts.

    • 2. Metered Feeds (price_type = metered)

  • Consumers are billed by usage (price_per_1k).
  • Provider earnings are calculated from paid metered usage.

    • 3. One-time Purchase Feeds (price_type = one_time)

  • Consumers pay a single unlock amount for access.
  • Minimum unlock price: $1.00 (one_time_price_cents >= 100).
  • Unlock is granted only after successful Stripe checkout completion and server-side amount verification.
  • These feeds use one-time payment events rather than per-call metered accumulation for access.

    • Pricing Transparency Policy

    Providers are allowed to adjust API pricing to reflect data acquisition costs. However, to ensure predictability for AI agents and developers:

  • Any price increase requires a minimum of 24-hour advance notice displayed on the Feed details page.
  • Your historical API calls are always billed at the price point effective at the time of the request.

    • Revenue Share Rules

    Provider revenue is computed from paid usage only (free feeds and free-credit calls do not generate provider payouts).

  • No affiliate attribution: Provider receives 90% of gross usage value.
  • With affiliate attribution: Provider receives 75%, affiliate receives 15%, platform keeps 10%.
  • Platform fee: 10% in both cases.

    • Gross usage is measured from metered credits and converted with platform billing units (1 credit = $0.000001).

    For one-time feeds, payout treatment follows the same platform/provider policy but is sourced from one-time purchase cash events instead of per-call metered usage.

    Settlement Framework

    PipeAgent uses Stripe Connect to automatically route funds to your verified bank account.

    The T+7 Holding Window

    After a payable entry is created, it enters a T+7 hold (hold_until) to reduce chargeback and fraud risk.

  • Day 0: Usage accrues and is later matched to collected cash.
  • Day 0-7: Entry remains payable but not eligible for transfer.
  • Day 7+: Entry can be transferred by settlement cron if threshold is met.

    • Automatic Payout Threshold

    We execute Stripe Connect transfers when eligible payable amounts meet the minimum threshold:

  • Minimum transfer threshold: $5.00 (500 cents) per recipient execution batch.
  • Below threshold: balance rolls forward.
  • Transfer source: provider_payable_ledger entries with status = payable and hold_until <= now.
    • Version 1.0.4 - Premium Infrastructure