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 to $1.6M / atty / yr $299 to $15K per receipt
80% back to the human who supervises the agent
DeedLock Title-clearance officer + closing coordinator $95K to $140K / FTE / yr Per-deed receipt
priced against the closing fee
ProcureLock Procurement compliance analyst + supplier-due-diligence $110K to $180K / FTE / yr Per-PO receipt
tied to spend processed
FarmGuard / FSMA-204 Food-safety traceability coordinator + audit prep team $75K to $130K / FTE / yr Per-lot receipt
priced against audit hours
PurityScan QA reviewer + compliance attestation officer $85K to $150K / FTE / yr Per-batch receipt
priced against the QA hour
Atticus / Hive Legal Contract reviewer + redline associate $180K to $320K / atty / yr Per-contract receipt
priced against billable hour
Compliance (SOC2/ISO/HIPAA) Compliance manager + audit coordinator + evidence wrangler $160K to $280K / FTE / yr Per-control receipt
audit-as-feature, 80/20 split
A2A / Agent settlement Payment ops + treasury reconciliation + dispute handling $120K to $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 to $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. 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

Packaged subscription on the PQ signature tier. 1,000,000 PQ receipts included; beyond that, $0.0009 each, the Scale-volume PQ rate, locked in. Full CCACW pipeline. Webhooks. Priority support.

+1,000,000 receipts / mo included in commit
+Overage: $0.0009 / receipt (PQ tier, Scale volume)
+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

Three calculators, all live. Plug in your call volume and tier, see effective cost per receipt and monthly burn. Settling prediction-market contracts? Pricing starts at $0.25 per settled contract, banded down by volume.

Inference savings calculator → Cross-vertical ROI calculator → Settlement-feed calculator →
How Hive prices

A platform fee, plus a per-receipt meter.

A monthly platform fee for access and support, plus a per-receipt charge on every verification. Usage is uncapped. No minimum, no ceiling, you pay for exactly what you sign and verify. The meter is the business; the fee is the floor.

Floor · monthly platform fee
Access, support, signing keys, SLA
Starts at $360k / yr for the full Assurance suite. Verified tier alone, talk to us.
Meter · per receipt
signature tier × volume band × count
Five products. One formula. From $0.00007 / receipt at Hyperscale up to $0.0018 at MAX. See the grid ↓
Assurance tiers map to the meter
Verified → AFIR Standard rate
Verified Model → AFIR-PQ rate
Verified Agent → AFIR-S per signed span, or AFiR-Stream per segment
Verified Regulated → AFIR-MAX, hardware-attested, +25% on the segment rate for compliance boundary
Platform tiers

Six tiers. All of them self-serve.

The platform fee buys access, support, signing keys, and the SLA. Every tier includes a receipt allowance. Past the allowance you pay the per-receipt base rate for your vertical, plus an uplift on any primitive that needs hardware, custom silicon, or a sovereign registry anchor. Carnac™ sizes all of it from one sentence at /onboard/.

Starter
Devs and prototypes
$99 / mo

20,000 receipts included. Devs, prototypes, a single tenant.

  • 20,000 receipts included
  • Single tenant
  • Community support
  • Offline verifier included
Start in the wizard →
Team
Small teams
$299 / mo

60,000 receipts included. Small teams running a real workload.

  • 60,000 receipts included
  • Up to 5 sub-tenants
  • Business-hours support
  • Webhook callbacks
Start in the wizard →
Growth
Production teams
$2,000 / mo

400,000 receipts included. A production line of business.

  • 400,000 receipts included
  • Standard SLA, 99.9% rail uptime
  • Next-business-day support
  • Primitive uplifts billed per receipt
Start in the wizard →
Scale
Multi-region operators
$10,000 / mo

2,000,000 receipts included. Multi-region, multi-tenant.

  • 2,000,000 receipts included
  • Premium SLA, 99.95% rail uptime
  • 4-hour response, dedicated onboarding
  • Sub-tenant hierarchy
Start in the wizard →
Enterprise
Regulated volume
$50,000 / mo

10,000,000 receipts included. Regulated volume with named engineers.

  • 10,000,000 receipts included
  • Enterprise SLA, 99.99% rail uptime
  • 1-hour response, founder-engineer pairing
  • HSM or air-gapped key custody
Start in the wizard →
Sovereign
National and frontier scale
Custom · talk to us

Priced per deployment. National and frontier-lab scale, in-country signers, dedicated infrastructure.

  • Receipt volume set by the deployment
  • Sovereign SLA, dedicated infrastructure
  • In-country signers and registry anchoring
  • Named engineering pod
Size it in the wizard →
Sovereign is priced per deployment
National deployments, frontier labs, and defense boundaries do not fit a public monthly number. The meter math is the same and Carnac™ will show it to you receipt by receipt. The platform fee comes back in a signed proposal.
Start in the wizard at /onboard/, or send Steve the signed lead receipt the wizard generates.
Per-receipt base rates
High-volume, low-stakes decisions → $0.005 per receipt
Mid-volume, regulated decisions → $0.05 per receipt
High-stakes attestation, sovereign, defense → $0.50 per receipt
Primitive uplifts: S2S™ +$0.02, QPUF™ +$0.05, Sovereign registry +$0.03, HiveSeal™ +$0.01, MiR™ +$0.01, Carnac™ +$0.01
AFIR Product Family

Six products. One API.

Same endpoint. Swap product tier with one header. Each tier adds attestation depth on top of the one below it. AFIR / AFIR-PQ / AFIR-MAX sign every fragment; AFIR-S signs only the spans that matter; AFiR-RC signs every agent checkpoint and rollback; AFiR-Stream signs a continuous real-time stream segment-by-segment off the latency path.

AFIR
Signed Inference
$0.0003 / receipt

Default full-sign rate. Every fragment signed with ML-DSA-65. Volume entry tier at $0.0001 / receipt (Nano).

  • ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) signing
  • Ed25519 backward compat
  • smsh canonical receipt
  • Merkle root per request
  • Offline-verifiable
Mint a key →
AFIR-PQ
Post-Quantum Receipts
$0.0012 / receipt

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
Mint a key →
AFIR-MAX
Fastest. Cheapest. Strongest.
$0.0018 / receipt

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
Mint a key →
NEW · LIVE
AFIR-S
Selective Attestation
$0.0002 / inference
+ $0.0004 / signed span

Base covers the classifier, absence proof, and meta-receipt over every inference. You pay the span rate only for the material spans that actually get signed.

  • Per signed fragment, not the whole output
  • Material spans signed, rest proven absent
  • Selection policy travels inside the signature
  • Offline-verifiable, zero added latency
  • Span-level audit: FRE 902(13) · HIPAA · FINRA 24-09 · Part 11
Mint a key →
NEW · LIVE
AFiR-RC
Recoverable Checkpointing
$0.00040 / checkpoint
+ $0.00060 / rollback receipt
+ $0.00120 PQ-anchor (once / session)

Agents that catch their own bad steps. Signed checkpoint, signed rollback, signed repair: the whole recovery is provable, not patched after the fact.

  • Signed checkpoint at every agent decision point
  • Rollback receipt records the failure and the recovery
  • Repair attempt & outcome chained to the rollback
  • Cross-anchor with GiTM and GCA on critical steps
  • Offline-verifiable whole-session reconstruction
  • Audit-grade for SR 11-7, EU AI Act, Part 11
Mint a key →
NEW · LIVE
AFiR-Stream
Real-time Stream Attestation
$0.00010 / segment
+ $0.00030 / session receipt
+ $0.00120 PQ finalize (once / session)

Off-path sidecar signing for live voice agents, live translation, and streaming copilots. Meter spins fast, each unit tiny, so it rides below inference cost.

  • Off-path signing, zero hot-path latency
  • Rolling segment chain → session merkle root
  • Fast Ed25519 live, ML-DSA-65 PQ finalize at close
  • Per-segment compliance boundary (PCI · HIPAA · PHI)
  • Offline-verifiable whole-session reconstruction
  • Bench: 28us per-segment overhead, 200-segment 60s voice cadence
Mint a key →
AFIR-S Enterprise

High-volume commits, white-label, and wholly-separate partner-resident deployment inside your perimeter are negotiated directly. Talk to Steve →

How a receipt is priced

Your price = signature tier × your monthly volume.

Pick the signature strength you need (the four products above set the rate). Volume does the rest. Every tier earns the same discount as you grow. List prices are the Build column; nothing to apply for, the rate steps down automatically. Usage is metered and uncapped, with no monthly minimum and no ceiling: you pay for exactly what you sign and verify.

Signature tier Build
<1M / mo
Scale
1M to 50M
Platform
50M to 1B
Hyperscale
1B+
SLS · lateration floor (parent) $0.00010$0.00009$0.00008$0.00007
AFIR · Nano $0.00010$0.00009$0.00008$0.00007
AFIR · Standard $0.00030$0.00027$0.00024$0.00021
AFIR-PQ $0.00120$0.00108$0.00096$0.00084
MiR · Model-inference $0.00120$0.00108$0.00096$0.00084
AFIR-MAX $0.00180$0.00162$0.00144$0.00126
AFiR-Stream · segment (Nano) $0.00010$0.00009$0.00008$0.00007
AFiR-Stream · session receipt (Standard) $0.00030$0.00027$0.00024$0.00021
AFiR-Stream · PQ finalize (once / session) $0.00120$0.00108$0.00096$0.00084

What the short names mean. SLS is the parent lateration receipt (the base every receipt pays). AFiR / AFIR is a signed AI-inference receipt. MiR is a model-inference receipt (a signed record of one model call). PQ means the post-quantum signature, ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204). Full glossary on the definitions page.

Read down for stronger signatures, across for higher volume. AFIR-S selective is billed per signed span ($0.0002 / inference + $0.0004 / span). AFiR-Stream meters segments at Nano, session receipt at Standard, PQ finalize at PQ-tier. One 60s voice call lands around $0.02 attested end to end. SLS is the parent primitive: every receipt above is a lateration receipt that pays this floor, then a 20% savings clip on avoided_cost (1.5× cross-tenant). Verified Regulated compliance-boundary adds +25% to the segment rate. Hyperscale 1B+ floor negotiable. 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 to 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.

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