Pricing · Labor, not software

Stop comparing us to software.
Compare us to headcount.

Hive isn't seats and dashboards. Every product replaces a job that an expensive human does today — and clears 80% of revenue back to the human who supervises the agent. We don't sell seats. We sell finished work.

The labor we replace, by product family

If the workflow has expensive humans, we're priced against them — not against Salesforce.

Product family Labor it absorbs today Today's annual stack What Hive costs
IP Intelligence Patent associate hours: FTO, prior art, claim drafting, litigation prep $240K–$1.6M / atty / yr $299–$15K per receipt
80% back to the AG
DeedLock Title-clearance officer + closing coordinator $95K–$140K / FTE / yr Per-deed receipt
priced against the closing fee
ProcureLock Procurement compliance analyst + supplier-due-diligence $110K–$180K / FTE / yr Per-PO receipt
tied to spend processed
FarmGuard / FSMA-204 Food-safety traceability coordinator + audit prep team $75K–$130K / FTE / yr Per-lot receipt
priced against audit hours
PurityScan QA reviewer + compliance attestation officer $85K–$150K / FTE / yr Per-batch receipt
priced against the QA hour
Atticus / Hive Legal Contract reviewer + redline associate $180K–$320K / atty / yr Per-contract receipt
priced against billable hour
Compliance (SOC2/ISO/HIPAA) Compliance manager + audit coordinator + evidence wrangler $160K–$280K / FTE / yr Per-control receipt
audit-as-feature, 80/20 split
A2A / Agent settlement Payment ops + treasury reconciliation + dispute handling $120K–$220K / FTE / yr Per-transaction bps
pure rail economics
Banking & CLARITY Act
12-month deadline
Compliance analyst + audit coordinator + activity-based yield tracker (Section 404) $160K–$280K / FTE / yr $0.00020 / attestation
real-time · PQ-signed · Base-anchored

How to read this. Every Hive product is priced against the headcount it absorbs — not against the per-seat SaaS it loosely resembles. The right buyer question isn't “how much does this industry spend on software” but “how much labor spend exists around this workflow, and what percent can the agent absorb.” Every receipt clears 80% to the human operator of record. Hive's 20% covers the rails, the signing, the audit trail.

Pay your way

Both paths settle to USDC on Base 8453. No subscription lock-in.

Option 1

Fiat — Card or ACH

Pay with any card or bank account via Square. Instant provisioning after settlement. Familiar checkout flow.

Option 2

USDC on Base

Send USDC directly to the treasury on Base 8453. Zero intermediaries. On-chain settlement, machine-verifiable.

Try it before you pay

Anonymous modeler — no signup, no email gate. Pick a vertical, spin the system, see real dual-signed receipts on the wave-lattice visualization.

Pick a vertical
Each spin asks the Hive backend to generate a batch of agent-to-agent transaction receipts for your selected vertical. Each receipt is signed twice — once with Ed25519 (today's standard) and once with ML-DSA-65 (post-quantum, FIPS 204). The lattice on the right visualizes nodes attesting each receipt. Nothing is gated — no email, no wallet, no signup.
Select a vertical and click
Spin the Hive to generate receipts

Your receipts are ready.

Promote this spin session to your starting tenant dashboard.

A2A pricing · per receipt

Every call emits a receipt. Every receipt is billable.

This is agent-to-agent pricing, not SaaS seats. The monthly commit just unlocks the volume rate. Every call still emits a signed receipt and every receipt is metered. Pick a tier, send USDC on Base 8453, ship in <60s.

Tier 0 — Free
Free
$0 / month

100 receipts/IP/day. No login. No signup. Just curl and ship.

+100 receipts / IP / day, then 429
+Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 dual signature
+Independent /v1/receipt/{id} verification
+No API key, no signup
Try it free →
Operator · A2A metered
Operator
$299 / mo + per-receipt

1,000,000 receipts included. Every receipt beyond billed at $0.0009 each. Full CCACW pipeline. Webhooks. Priority support.

+1,000,000 receipts / mo included in commit
+Overage: $0.0009 / receipt (smshMax tier)
+Every call emits a billable, signed receipt
+Full CCACW: Compile + Compress + Amplify + Certify
+Webhook notifications per receipt issued
+Priority support, response <4h
+Monthly attestation report
Best for
AI products embedding receipts in workflows
Compliance-led teams needing audit reports
Series-A and up

All tiers settle in USDC on Base 8453. Treasury 0x15184...436E. Commit unlocks rate, every receipt is metered. Need volume? See the enterprise commit ladder.

Model your spend before you commit

Two calculators, both live. Plug in your call volume and tier, see effective cost per receipt and monthly burn.

Inference savings calculator → Cross-vertical ROI calculator →
Per-receipt pricing

Pay per stamp

Prefer pay-as-you-go? Three per-receipt tiers. No monthly minimums. Every receipt is Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 dual-signed on Base 8453.

Tier 1 — Nano
Nano
$0.0012 / receipt

Micropayment-scale receipts. Ideal for agentic pipelines and high-frequency settlement.

+Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 dual signature
+USDC on Base 8453 settlement
+Machine-verifiable envelope
+5 tx/s throughput
Receipt profile
schema: hive-receipt-v1.0
signing_algs: Ed25519, ML-DSA-65
chain_id: 8453 (Base)
settlement: USDC T+0
Tier 3 — Post-Quantum
PQ
$0.0192 / receipt

Triad-Bound Receipt. All-of-3: Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 + SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f. 15-year cryptographic durability.

+Everything in Standard
+SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f (FIPS 205) third pillar
+Hybrid KEM: ML-KEM-768 + Classic-McEliece
+All-of-3 verify rule — tamper any pillar, fails
+50 tx/s throughput
Receipt profile
triad_pillars: 3-of-3 required
kem: ML-KEM-768 + McEliece-6688128f
domain_tag: HIVE-CRE-v1.0
retention: 15-year cryptographic

What's in every receipt

Schema
hive-receipt-v1.0
Signing
Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65
Chain
Base 8453 (USDC)
Treasury
0x15184...436E
Settlement
T+0 USDC
Verify
Free, always
Transparency
Basescan clickable
Audit evidence
Per-transaction
Machine-readable pricing ladder /v1/x402/pricing
AFIR Product Family

Three products. One API.

Same endpoint. Swap product tier with one header. Each tier adds attestation depth and inference optimization on top of the one below it.

AFIR
Signed Inference
$0.0001 / fragment

Fragmented inference with ML-DSA-65 receipts. Production baseline.

  • ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) signing
  • Ed25519 backward compat
  • smsh canonical receipt
  • Merkle root per request
  • Offline-verifiable
See AFIR →
AFIR-PQ
Post-Quantum Receipts
$0.00015 / fragment

ML-KEM-768 sealed evidence envelope. FIPS 203 + FIPS 204 dual-certified.

  • ML-DSA-65 primary signing
  • ML-KEM-768 sealed envelope
  • smsh-pq receipt tier
  • Long-retention regulated evidence
  • FINRA WORM / EU AI Act ready
Contact Sales →
AFIR-MAX
Fastest. Cheapest. Strongest.
$0.00022 / fragment

Dynamic live-wake + predictive demotion. 6× faster, 82% cheaper on complex queries.

faster wall time
complex queries
82%
cost reduction
vs AFIR baseline
294ms
critical path
4-fragment query
7ms
signing overhead
ML-DSA-65
  • Live-wake propagation
  • Predictive tier demotion
  • ML-DSA-65 + ML-KEM-768
  • smsh-max + Base/USDC anchor
  • SR 11-7 · HIPAA · EU AI Act
Talk to Steve →
Inference ladder · per 1M input tokens

smsh family

Five tiers. Per-call inference with progressively stronger receipts, compression, and corpus moat. All tiers route through HiveCompute; every response carries a signed receipt on Base 8453.

Tier 1 · smsh
smsh
$0.80 / 1M in

Base inference with signed receipt. Standard depth.

+Ed25519 receipt per call
+D0–D4 depth bands
+Smart Router on by default
+smsh-Lite at $0.40/1M for batch
Tier 2 · smshPQ
smshPQ
$1.10 / 1M in

Post-quantum sealed receipts. ML-DSA-65 + SLH-DSA pillars.

+Everything in smsh
+PQ-sealed receipt (3-of-3 pillars)
+15-year cryptographic durability
+smshPQ-Lite $0.55 · Sealed $1.60
Tier 3 · smshMax
smshMax
$1.40 / 1M in

smsh plus full CCACW corpus compression. AmpliHive-enabled.

+Everything in smsh
+5-stage CCACW pipeline
+Compile · Compress · Amplify · Certify · Writeback
+Corpus moat — partner_id bindable
Tier 5 · AmpliHive · Enterprise Tenant
AmpliHive ET
$120K / yr base

Wholly-separate partner-resident instance. Corpus stays with you.

+Partner-resident deployment on Render
+partner_id locked in every receipt
+Tenant-private registry
+PQ keys in partner IAM · custom DPA
+Hyperscale overage at smshPQMax floor

Enterprise commit ladder

Starter
1M · 10% off
Growth
10M · 25% off
Scale
100M · 40% off
Hyperscale
500M · 50% off (floor)
Multi-year
+5% / 24mo · +10% / 36mo
smsh floor
Inference does not discount below 30%

Patent Pending on CCACW pipeline and AmpliHive corpus moat. Enterprise Tenant contracts via billing@thehiveryiq.com.