Metered billing

How it works

• → Free — every account starts with 100,000 free signed writes (Protected Flow assessments, R3Pv vectors, receipt-relay events, evidence exports).
• → Grace — after the 100,000th write, the next 5,000 keep working with a top-up nudge on each response. No hard stop yet.
• → Paused — once grace is exhausted, further writes return HTTP 402 with a top-up address, amount, and memo.
• → Active paid — send USDC to the treasury address on Base or Ethereum. The indexer credits within one confirmation, state flips, next write goes through. No email, no ticket, no invoice.

• 0 – 1,000,000 writes / month — $0.010 per write
• 1,000,000+ / month — $0.005 per write
• 5,000,000+ / month — $0.002 per write
• 50,000,000+ / month — custom, contact [email protected]

Tier applies automatically based on rolling monthly write count. No commitment, no contract, no reset penalty.

One write = one canonical, Ed25519-signed, replay-safe receipt of an agentic action. Priced per receipt, not per API call, not per transfer, not per dollar moved.

Enter the activation key you use in the X-Hive-Activation-Key header. Your meter binds automatically the first time you use the key on any signed-write endpoint.

If you already have an activation key, you can bind and inspect your meter without ever opening this page:

# Bind your key to a metered account (idempotent)
curl -s -X POST https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/billing/activate \
  -H "X-Hive-Activation-Key: $HIVE_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"label":"prod"}'

# Look up your account_id at any time
curl -s https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/billing/whoami \
  -H "X-Hive-Activation-Key: $HIVE_KEY"

# Fetch a signed usage snapshot (round-trips /v1/receipt/verify)
curl -s https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/billing/usage/$ACCOUNT_ID \
  -H "X-Hive-Activation-Key: $HIVE_KEY"

# Request a USDC top-up intent
curl -s -X POST https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/billing/topup/intent \
  -H "X-Hive-Activation-Key: $HIVE_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"account_id":"'$ACCOUNT_ID'","chain":"base","amount_cents":1000}'

• — Hive does not call Circle APIs. Ever.
• — Hive does not reverse finalized on-chain transactions.
• — Hive does not mint USDC. It receives USDC into a Hive-controlled treasury on Base or Ethereum and credits your account by intent match.
• — Hive does not offer exclusivity. This meter is the same shape for every customer.
• — Hive does not sell seats. Every dollar you spend buys a specific, signed, verifiable write.