Pricing

Priced on usage, never on people.

Six products, bought and priced separately. Every plan states what it includes and what going past it costs, so you can work out the bill before you sign up.

None of the six charges per person.

IndicativeEvery number on this page is a work in progress.Final prices publish on 1 Nov 2026.

A marketplace has two sides, so it has two price lists: plans if you publish data, prepaid packs if you use it. Every price is the whole price — a request is a request.

Publishing data

Plans are flat rent on capacity. Traffic is metered from the first request, your price is yours, and we take none of it.

Cove

$5/mo

Most publishers start hereInlet

$25/mo

Bay

$125/mo

Gulf

$625/mo

Parking1
Capacitytables, views, indices1 GB10 GB100 GB1 TB
Datasets publishedno listing feeAs many as fitAs many as fitAs many as fitAs many as fit
Metered2
Traffic served$1 per 5,000$1 per 5,000$1 per 5,000$1 per 5,000
AI BuilderYour key, free — or AI credits at cost × 1.2Your key, free — or AI credits at cost × 1.2Your key, free — or AI credits at cost × 1.2Your key, free — or AI credits at cost × 1.2
Commission on your price0%0%0%0%
Service
Your priceAnything at or above $0.20 per 1,000 requests, changed with 30 days notice
PayoutsMonthly, once your balance reaches $10 — or accumulate until you say
StatementEarnings − traffic − parking − the rail's transfer fee at cost, itemized and never marked up
Indian tax1% deducted at source (Section 194-O), deposited against your PAN
Guardrails3
Response size512 KB512 KB512 KB512 KB
Headroom over your tier10% for a week10% for a week10% for a week10% for a week
If you stop paying30 days read-only grace, with notice to your subscribers — parking is netted from earnings first
Included4
Zero-code toolchainAuto API from your schema, Custom API shaped visually, AI Builder from a plain-language sentence
HostingReplicated storage in the region you pick — Germany, Finland or India — plus compute, network, caching, generated docs, billing and payout rails, audit logging, monitoring, uptime
ReportingLive traffic and earnings per endpoint
Cove Inlet Bay Gulf
  1. Parking. one flat rent, one rule: 10× the data, 5× the price — it holds at every step of the ladder. It is not a disk fee; everything under Included is in it. Sustained growth means a tier up, never a surprise charge.
  2. Metered. the only rows that can cost more than the plan price. Traffic is billed from the first request and netted off your earnings.
  3. Guardrails. ceilings the platform enforces — never billed
  4. Included. in every tier, from $5 up

A worked month: park 5 GB (Inlet, $25), price at $1 per 100 requests, serve 50,000 requests. Earnings $500 − meter $10 − parking $25 − 1% TDS $5 − rail fee $1.29 = $458.71 transferred. Our total share is $35 of rent and meter; our share of your price is zero — the marketplace we replaced took 20 to 30%.

Using data

No plan to pick. Start free, then load a prepaid wallet that works across the whole catalogue — so a bill can never exceed what you chose to load.

Free

$0

Most people start hereStarter

$10

Builder

$50

Pro

$100

What you get1
Credits in the wallet—$10$51$102
Bonus——+2%+2%
Requests per minute103060100
Requests per hour6001,8003,6006,000
Requests per day14,40043,20086,400144,000
Max Requestswallet at $1 per 1,000 requests—10,00051,000102,000
Free Quotaevery day, every plan, on the datasets we host100100100100
Valid forForever — the free tier never expires12 months12 months12 months
Card requiredNo———
Rates2
API Bay datasetsour curated catalogue$1 per 1,000 requests — any endpoint, any query
Community datasetsfrom independent publishersThe publisher's listed price, shown on the endpoint page and in every response header
Heavy queriesSame price as a lookup — a request is a request
Service
WalletOne balance across every dataset on API Bay
Paying by UPI₹ in equals credits out, 1:1, zero fees
Paying by cardThe card network's fee is its own line at checkout, never marked up or hidden
Guardrails3
Overage billsNone, by construction — spending stops at the wallet balance
Spending capsPer dataset, if you want tighter control
Auto-refillOff by default; obeys a monthly ceiling you set
Price increasesA publisher must give 30 days notice before one reaches you
Response size512 KB a response; paginate beyond that
Start free Load $10 Load $50 Load $100
  1. What you get. credits, not a subscription — you are charged again only when you load more.
  2. Rates. $10 = 10,000 calls on any API Bay dataset: sanctions screening, company registries, mandi prices, court judgments, climate history — same rate everywhere.
  3. Guardrails. ceilings the platform enforces — never billed

Prices in USD, exclusive of applicable taxes (GST invoiced at purchase for Indian customers). Neither side has plan tiers to outgrow: publishing is rent plus a meter, using data is a wallet.

Every plan on this page is sold on the Terms of Service, and personal data is handled under the Privacy Policy. The Terms define what each quota means, what an overage is billed at, the availability we commit to, and what happens to a project you stop using. The Policy sets out what we hold about you, what stays yours inside a project, and how long each is kept.

We never charge per person.

Users are unlimited on every paid plan, so a team of fifty pays what a team of two pays. Free is capped at two as an evaluation limit. Viewers on a dashboard are never licensed.

Free is never paused.

A free workspace stays up whether it was used yesterday or in March. It answers at once. Go a month untouched and we flag it, changing nothing; at four months we archive it to a portable export; the archive is deleted at sixteen. Six emails across that run, each naming the date of the next step, and the export is one click at every point.

Auth stays with you.

Minimal does not issue your users' credentials and does not connect your third-party services. Both stay where they already are.

The short answers.

What does using data cost?

The first 100 requests a day are free, forever. After that you load a prepaid wallet at $1 per 1,000 requests, and it works across the whole catalogue. Spending stops at what you loaded, so there is never an overage bill.

What does publishing cost?

Flat rent on capacity, from Cove at 1 GB for $5 up to Gulf at 1 TB for $625; ten times the data costs five times the price. Traffic is metered on top at $1 per 5,000 requests, from the first request.

What do I earn from a dataset?

You set the price, any amount from $0.20 per 1,000 requests, and you keep all of it. We take 0% commission.

Is there an enterprise tier, or plans to outgrow?

No. Publishing is rent plus a meter and using data is a wallet, so the pricing is the same for everyone.

$30M of Minimal, granted every year.

Ninety teams a year get the suite on their own hardware, with $333,333 of credit against the licence and twelve months to spend it. Otherwise, the prices above are the prices.