Pricing · Labor, not software

Pricing for receipt volume
and operating support.

Hive prices issuance, hosted access, retention, and operating support according to the selected profile. Local checking of a supported receipt with retained verifier materials is not metered. Hosted lookup, managed verification, and evidence operations may be included in a paid order form. Payment method and evidence architecture are separate choices.

The labor we replace, by product family

Estimate cost from your workflow and evidence volume.

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
commercial terms scoped by engagement
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 evidence priced by scope and volume
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
Illustrative rate; algorithm and verifier require endpoint acceptance

How to read this. Every Hive product is priced against the workflow and evidence volume, not against a seat count. Account-specific terms, including any revenue share, apply only when defined in a signed order form. No payout to any individual is implied.

Pay your way

Choose card, ACH, or USDC. Base is an optional payment rail, not a requirement for issuing or verifying a receipt.

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. The payment transaction is on-chain; the evidence receipt remains a separate signed record.

Try it before you pay

Anonymous modeler. No signup, no email gate. Pick a vertical and request backend receipts. The visualization does not independently verify signatures. Scheme availability depends on the exact endpoint and acceptance evidence, not the price tier.

Pick a vertical

Selected vertical: Banking

Each spin requests a batch from the Hive backend. The lattice visualizes returned records, not observed node attestations. A returned signature field is not verified dual signing. Check the receipt's schema, algorithm, key and trust against the endpoint capability record. 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 capacity examples

Receipt usage may be metered under an accepted profile.

Builder and Operator below are A2A capacity examples, not the Starter and Team platform plans shown later. They are not orderable for a post-quantum profile until the named endpoint, algorithm, included quantity, overage, retention, and support terms are accepted in one order form. The order form is the only governing schedule and states whether any platform fee is included or additive.

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 only on separately accepted endpoints
+Public /v1/receipt/{id} verification
+No API key, no signup
Try it free →
Operator · A2A metered
Operator
$299 / mo + per-receipt

Draft A2A capacity example: 1,000,000 receipts and a $0.0009 overage, subject to accepted endpoint and profile terms. This is not the Team platform plan.

+1,000,000 receipts / mo included in commit
+Overage: $0.0009 / receipt (PQ tier, Scale volume)
+Each integrated 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
Scope and accept the profile first

USDC on Base 8453 is available as an optional payment method. Card and ACH remain available. The treasury transaction records payment; it is not the customer’s receipt or a required part of the evidence trail. 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

Receipt capacity, usage, and operating fees

Enterprise buyers may prepay receipt capacity and reconcile actual issuance. An operating fee can cover hosted access, support, signing-key administration, retention, and the agreed service level. Local checking with retained materials is not metered. Hosted lookup or managed verification can be billable when the order form includes them.

Operating layer · annual fee
Access, support, signing keys, SLA
Scoped to the workflow, support model, key administration, retention, and service level. Enterprise terms are quoted after workflow mapping.
Primary commercial unit · 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
How the packages relate
Self-serve monthly tiers package access and included receipt capacity. A broader Assurance engagement receives one integrated quote for the covered scope. That quote must identify the subscription, metered usage, volume commitments, retention, key custody, support, and service levels in the governing order form. Do not assume that one price replaces or stacks with another unless the order form says so.
Platform tiers

Compare the six pricing tiers.

Starter through Enterprise are platform access plans. They are separate from the A2A capacity examples above. Each accepted order form must identify the included receipt profile, allowance, overage, retention, support, and any hardware or optional anchor work. Charges do not stack or replace one another unless that order form says so. Buyer-specific terms are governed only by a separate dated commercial schedule.

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
Document Evidence · eleven instruments

Document instruments and their published rates

These eleven have Ed25519 mint/verify implementations and reported nine-gate source coverage. Production execution acceptance must be checked per endpoint; a catalog entry is not a passed run. They meter the same way everything else does: free under 100,000 receipts a month, then $0.01 a receipt, $0.005 above 1,000,000 a month, and $0.002 above 5,000,000 a month. Rates are PROPOSED; check the current meter declaration. No account has been sized against these yet, so there is no revenue to report. Full write-up at /afir-ocr/.

Decision Provenance Binding
9 gates · Ed25519

Which read value, transform and model version produced a decision.

Meter this instrument →
Staged Preprocessing Chain
9 gates · Ed25519

Every preprocessing stage in order, with the parameters it ran under.

Meter this instrument →
Verdict Custody Declaration
9 gates · Ed25519

Which fields of a receipt the issuing service computed itself.

Meter this instrument →
Reader Divergence Attestation
9 gates · Ed25519

Two readers of the same field disagreed, and by how much.

Meter this instrument →
Determinism Class Declaration
9 gates · Ed25519

Deterministic, seeded stochastic, or declared nondeterministic.

Meter this instrument →
Issue-Time Tolerance Bond
9 gates · Ed25519

The permitted distance and the metric, fixed before the comparison ran.

Meter this instrument →
Render Profile Commitment
9 gates · Ed25519

The settings that produced the pixels a coordinate points at.

Meter this instrument →
Table Binding Uncertainty
9 gates · Ed25519

How confident the header binding behind a lifted number is.

Meter this instrument →
Scoped Absence Assertion
9 gates · Ed25519

What was actually searched before you said a thing is not there.

Meter this instrument →
Raster Origin Assertion
9 gates · Ed25519

Whether a region of a page came from paper or from software.

Meter this instrument →
AFiR-OCR DocProof
9 gates · Ed25519

What an engine read, from where, and at what confidence.

Meter this instrument →

Every card above runs against the live signer. Change one character of a signed body and the SIGNATURE gate fails, which you can try yourself from the demo link. Pay from the pay panel in card, ACH or USDC on Base 8453.

AFIR Product Family

Profiles and development status

These profile names do not imply one interchangeable production endpoint. Availability, accepted algorithms, fields, verifier behavior, retention, and pricing must be confirmed for the exact endpoint and revision. Planned profiles are not orderable until those acceptance checks pass.

AFIR
Signed Inference
$0.0003 / receipt

Default full-sign rate. Separate Modal health self-declares ML-DSA-65; output acceptance is unverified. Typed AFiR is a distinct Ed25519 contract. Volume entry tier at $0.0001 / receipt (Nano).

  • ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204 algorithm), self-declared by Modal only
  • Ed25519 typed path, not proof of dual signing
  • smsh canonical receipt
  • Merkle root per request
  • Offline-verifiable
Check current endpoint status →
AFIR-PQ
Post-Quantum Receipts
$0.0012 / receipt

Planned ML-KEM-768 key-encapsulation envelope with ML-DSA-65 signatures. These are FIPS 203 and FIPS 204 algorithm names, not dual certification. Endpoint acceptance required.

  • ML-DSA-65 primary signing, conditional profile
  • ML-KEM-768 envelope, planned; not a signature
  • smsh-pq receipt tier
  • Long-retention regulated evidence
  • FINRA WORM / EU AI Act controls require separate validation
Request profile acceptance →
AFIR-MAX
Prototype profile, not orderable
$0.0018 / receipt

Prototype profile. Current endpoint performance, availability, and production acceptance are unverified.

  • Live-wake propagation
  • Predictive tier demotion
  • Conditional ML-DSA-65 signing + planned ML-KEM-768 encapsulation
  • smsh-max + separate Base/USDC payment record; any evidence anchor requires separate selection and specification
  • SR 11-7 · HIPAA · EU AI Act evidence support, not compliance certification
Define a validation plan →
PROFILE REVIEW
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
  • Designed for local verification; production added latency is unverified
  • 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; illustrative, not currently accepted)

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 design; production latency unverified
  • Rolling segment chain → session merkle root
  • Ed25519 stream path; ML-DSA-65 finalize conditional on endpoint acceptance
  • Compliance suitability requires workflow-specific review
  • Local reconstruction depends on the supported profile and complete package
  • Reported bench: 28us per-segment overhead, 200-segment 60s voice cadence; not current production acceptance
Review profile evidence →
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 issuance rate. Volume does the rest. Every tier earns the same discount as you grow. List prices are the Build column. Usage is metered and uncapped, with no monthly minimum and no ceiling: you pay for exactly what the selected endpoint issues.

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. Integrated responses carry signed receipts that can be verified without a blockchain lookup. Any chain anchor must be separately selected and specified.

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

Planned post-quantum sealed profile. ML-DSA-65 + SLH-DSA pillars require endpoint-specific acceptance; this tier is not proof of available dual signing.

+Everything in smsh
+PQ-sealed receipt goal (3-of-3 pillars), not accepted here
+Retention and algorithm-transition terms require a separate accepted plan
+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.

Hive

Receipt verification scope

Check the receipt, algorithm and trust key

This mark is not proof that every displayed record is signed, PQ-verified or independently certified. Hive-operated signing is not an outside-party attestation. Use the exact receipt's verifier and endpoint acceptance evidence.

Verify a receipt → Signature scheme is endpoint-specific Verification requires trusted keys
Neutral verifier link
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