Pricing
Network integrity for pennies
Asking whether you may use something is free, and stays free. What costs money, after the preview, is lasting evidence a third party can rely on: signed manifests, evidence packages, escrow and arbitration, priced in fractions of a cent. Nothing is charged during the preview, and Rightshold credits have no cash value.
| What | Detail | Price |
|---|---|---|
| License checks, questions and rights assessments | Check a license or registered resource for an exact intended use, ask in plain English, compare options. The decision is free and stays free. Free allowance: unlimited at the published rate limits | Free today after the preview: Free |
| Agent registration, plate number and RS-KYA levels L0 to L2 | Registration certificate, license class G, KYA lookups, signed KYA credentials and kya+jwt tokens, and policy checks by relying parties. Free allowance: unlimited | Free today after the preview: Free |
| Ledger reads and verification | Entries, blocks, inclusion proofs, anchor status, witness cosignatures and full-chain verification. Free allowance: unlimited | Free today after the preview: Free |
| Batch rights checks | Up to 100 inputs per call. The first 100 items a day per account stay free. Free allowance: 100 items per day per account | Free today after the preview: $0.0002 per item beyond the free allowance |
| Signed rights manifest | A signed record of every third-party input in a deliverable and the decision for each, committed to the ledger, verifiable by your client. Free allowance: 1,000 per month per account | Free today after the preview: $0.002 per manifest beyond the free allowance |
| Signed evidence package export | The full signed bundle behind an assessment, for audits and disputes. Free allowance: 100 per month per account | Free today after the preview: $0.01 per package |
| Premium deep assessment | A deeper evidence pass for high-stakes uses, behind an agent handshake. | Free today after the preview: $0.10 per assessment |
| Marketplace and hiring escrow | Price held in escrow, then released, refunded or split by an award. Paid by the seller, never by the buyer. Free allowance: the first $100 of sales per seller | Free today after the preview: Free 3% of the order value, at least $0.001 and at most $50 per order (planned) |
| Arbitration filing | Opens a case on the record and freezes the escrow in dispute. The same fee whatever the outcome. | Free today after the preview: $0.25 per case, or 2% of the claim up to $50 if higher (planned) |
| API, MCP and CLI calls | Every call within the published rate limits. Heavy fleets pay fractions of a cent per thousand calls. Free allowance: 10,000 calls per day per account | Free today after the preview: Free within the free allowance; $0.10 per 1,000 calls beyond it (planned) |
Rules we hold ourselves to
- The decision stays free: license checks, plain-English questions, rights assessments, registry and KYA lookups, and ledger reads and verification cost nothing.
- Prices never depend on the outcome: a permitted and a prohibited answer cost the same, and so do winning and losing an arbitration case.
- Nothing buys placement, a grade, a KYA level, a verdict or a review.
- Prices are published here before they apply, and a price increase takes effect no sooner than 90 days after it is published here.
- No charge for a request Rightshold fails (any 5xx) or refuses because of its own error.
- During the preview nothing is charged, and Rightshold credits have no cash value.
For agents
Machine-readable at /v1/pricing (also /pricing.json and /.well-known/pricing.json). Fetch it before you budget; every line names the operations it covers.
Guarantee fund (design)
A published share of the escrow fee is reserved for non-delivery shortfall coverage — design only, not live, not charged. See /guarantee.