# Pipeworx Pricing for AI Agents

Markdown form of the machine-readable price list. Every number below is rendered from the same generator as the JSON, which is built from the constants the gateway bills and rate-limits with.

## Endpoint Summary

- **Canonical markdown:** https://pipeworx.io/pricing.md
- **Machine-readable JSON:** https://pipeworx.io/ai/pricing.json
- **Human page:** https://pipeworx.io/pricing
- **Generated:** 2026-09-15T04:52:02.316Z

## How a Bill Works

Each request is priced by the category of its source at your plan's rate. A subscription is a monthly minimum credited against usage: you pay whichever is larger, the fee or your usage. A request that returns no data is not billed.

## Rate Card

Per request, by the category of the source.

| Category | Pay as you go | $49/month | $99/month |
|----------|------|------|------|
| Government & open data | $0.005 per request | $0.003 per request | $0.001 per request |
| Standard databases | $0.010 per request | $0.005 per request | $0.002 per request |
| Partner sources | $0.020 per request, or vendor cost x 1.5 if higher | $0.015 per request, or vendor cost x 1.3 if higher | $0.012 per request, or vendor cost x 1.2 if higher |
| Premium sources | vendor cost x 1.5, minimum $0.01 | vendor cost x 1.3, minimum $0.01 | vendor cost x 1.2, minimum $0.01 |
| AI services (coming soon) | inference cost x 1.5 | inference cost x 1.3 | inference cost x 1.2 |

- **Government & open data:** Public-sector and open sources, proxied live from their publisher.
- **Standard databases:** Curated, structured record databases, priced between government sources and partner sources.
- **Partner sources:** Vendors that bill us per request, where one request costs us $0.012 or less. The rate is a floor: max(rate, vendor cost x your markup).
- **Premium sources:** Requests whose vendor cost is above $0.012. Decided per request, not per source. Billed at vendor cost x your markup, floored at $0.01.
- **AI services (coming soon):** Optional inference resale at cost x your markup. Not available yet; nothing is billed unless you turn it on.

## What a Subscription Covers

- **$49/month:** $49/month, credited toward usage. Covers 16,333 government, 9,800 standard-database or 3,266 partner requests; past that you keep paying the same rates.
- **$99/month:** $99/month, credited toward usage. Covers 99,000 government, 49,500 standard-database or 8,250 partner requests; past that you keep paying the same rates.

## Limits and Other Prices

| Item | Price | Type | Note |
|------|-------|------|------|
| Credit peg | 1 credit = $0.0001 | flat | Single billing unit for every metered call; every price below settles in credits at this peg. |
| Anonymous daily limit | 50 calls/day, no key ($0.25 of government-rate data, daily) | flat | IP-based; resets at midnight UTC. Past this, pay per call with x402 or sign up. |
| Free account daily limit | 200 calls/day with a free API key or GitHub account ($1.00 of government-rate data, daily) | flat | Same limit for BYO API key and OAuth tiers. Past it, add credits and pay the pay-as-you-go rates. |
| x402 pay per call | 0.010 USDC per call on Base, no signup | flat | Pay-per-call rail for wallet-equipped agents. Discovery: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/.well-known/x402 |
| Answers (ask_pipeworx) | measured inference cost x 1.5, plus one request per data lookup it ran | cost_multiplier | ask_pipeworx-class answers. A lookup that returned nothing is not billed. |
| Partner / premium boundary | $0.012 of vendor cost per request | flat | At or below this a vendor-billed request is partner; above it, premium. |
| Credit pack: starter | $10 for 100,000 credits | flat |  |
| Credit pack: standard | $40 for 500,000 credits | flat |  |
| Credit pack: pro | $150 for 2,000,000 credits | flat |  |

## Plans

### Anonymous

- 50 calls/day, no key
- Full public catalog
- x402 pay-per-call available

### Registered (Free)

- 200 calls/day
- Free GitHub OAuth or API key
- Cross-session memory
- Add credits to keep going past the daily limit

### Pay as you go

- Government & open data $0.005, standard databases $0.010, partner sources from $0.020 per request
- Premium sources at vendor cost x 1.5
- No monthly fee; pay with credits

### $49/month

- Government & open data $0.003, standard databases $0.005, partner sources from $0.015 per request
- Premium sources at vendor cost x 1.3
- Fee credited toward usage: covers 16,333 government requests

### $99/month

- Government & open data $0.001, standard databases $0.002, partner sources from $0.012 per request
- Premium sources at vendor cost x 1.2
- Fee credited toward usage: covers 99,000 government requests

### Pay-per-call (x402)

- 0.010 USDC per call
- No account or signup
- USDC on Base

## Vertical Bundles

Scoped MCP URLs that serve one industry's tools. See https://pipeworx.io/verticals for what each bundle includes.

| Vertical | Tools | URL |
|----------|-------|-----|
| agri | 72 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=agri |
| company-research | 85 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=company-research |
| dmv | 78 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=dmv |
| fintech | 123 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=fintech |
| food-safety | 66 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=food-safety |
| govcon | 89 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=govcon |
| green | 69 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=green |
| housing | 87 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=housing |
| labor | 83 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=labor |
| legal | 124 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=legal |
| pharma | 355 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=pharma |
| procurement | 72 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=procurement |
| trade | 68 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=trade |
| us-auctions | 58 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=us-auctions |
| us-tenders | 49 | https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=us-tenders |

## Related Machine-Readable Files

- https://pipeworx.io/ai/capabilities.json: What Pipeworx does, typed selection signals, decision rules, and what it is not optimal for
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/rate-limits.json: Enforced daily limits per tier, what counts as a request, rate-limit headers
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/sla.json: No contractual SLA; measured synthetic-check availability with its window
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/resilience.json: Where it runs, how it degrades, and which resilience figures are not published
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/data-handling.json: Privacy-policy commitments about storage, encryption, retention and deletion
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/benchmarks.json: Dated router-accuracy measurements with their sample and caveats
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/methodology.json: Definitions of every signal and claim type used in this family
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/compatibility.json: Connect URLs, auth methods, and every AI client with published install steps
- https://pipeworx.io/ai/schema-changelog.json: When each file in this family appeared and what changed

## Sources

shared/src/categories.ts (PLAN_CARD rate card, includedCalls), shared/src/overage.ts (credit peg, x402 price, credit packs), shared/src/pricing.ts (answer markup, price floor), shared/src/ratelimit.ts (TIER_LIMITS), live gateway measurement (vertical tool counts)

Every number here is derived at build time from the constants the gateway enforces at runtime. Every priced response also carries its own cost in _meta.cost; trust that over this file if the two ever disagree.