You are paid per call. We take a share of it.
No seats, no minimum, no charge for deploying. Your endpoint quotes a price, the caller pays it, and settlement lands in your own Algorand address — with Ripar’s share taken from revenue that actually settled.
Cost calculator
Your numbers- Callers pay
- $100.00
- Ripar share (0%)
- − $0.00
- Network fees
- 10 ALGO · facilitator pays
$0.01 of every call reaches you
What a call costs
Three separate amounts move when a request is paid for, and it is worth keeping them apart — only one of them is ours.
| Cost | Goes to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoint priceSet per endpoint — flat, metered on payload, or quoted per call by your own price() function. It arrives in the 402 before anyone pays. | The endpoint owner | Whatever it quotes |
| Network feePer settlement transaction. The default facilitator sponsors it, so it does not come out of your revenue. | Algorand | ~0.001 ALGO |
| Revenue shareTaken from what your endpoints actually earn. No seats, no per-deploy charge, and an endpoint nobody calls costs nothing. | Ripar | 0% of settled revenue |
An idle endpoint costs nothing
Pricing that scales with seats punishes you for putting a second person on the team, and pricing that scales with deployed services punishes you for listing something speculative. A share of settled revenue does neither: publish ten endpoints, and the nine nobody calls cost you nothing at all.
Worked examples
Three sample endpoints — invented to bracket the range, not customers of ours — run through the same arithmetic as the calculator, at the 0% share set above.
| Price feedSub-cent, called constantly by other agents | 250,000 | $0.001 | $250.00 | − $0.00 | $250.00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallet risk scoreOne lookup per address, priced at a cent | 20,000 | $0.01 | $200.00 | − $0.00 | $200.00 |
| PDF → structured rowsSlow, expensive work billed per document | 2,000 | $0.05 | $100.00 | − $0.00 | $100.00 |
Volumes and prices here are illustrative. Put your own into the calculator above.
Questions
- Is there a free tier?
- There is no seat to buy and no charge for deploying. An endpoint that is listed but never called costs nothing to keep listed, because the share is taken from settled revenue and there is none.
- Who pays the Algorand network fee?
- The default facilitator sponsors it, so neither you nor your caller funds an ALGO balance to make a payment. If you run your own facilitator you fund the fees yourself — about 0.001 ALGO per settlement.
- What does a caller pay, and what does Ripar take?
- The caller pays exactly the amount in the 402 quote. Ripar takes nothing from it, and structurally cannot: an x402 payment settles directly from the caller to the endpoint's own Algorand address, with nothing in the path to deduct from. The only fee mechanism that exists anywhere is on job escrow release — opt-in, capped at 2.5%, currently set to zero, and not yet deployed. The calculator above lets you model a share so you can price against a future one; today the number to use is 0.
- Can I charge less than a cent?
- Yes, and it is the case the rail was chosen for. Algorand finalises in about three seconds for a fraction of a cent, so a $0.001 call is not eaten by the cost of settling it.
- What happens to the money when my handler fails?
- A 5xx or a timeout refunds the caller, so it never becomes settled revenue and carries no share. You are paid for delivered work only.
- Do I get an invoice?
- No — there is nothing to invoice. Settlement is per request, direct to your Algorand address, and every payment carries the request it paid for, so reconciliation is a query rather than a statement.