products / hosted-platform
One subscription, one meter, two on-ramps: the hosted gateway for APIs you don’t want to touch, the hosted facilitator for code you write with the Pay SDK. Non-custodial either way: your buyers’ payments settle straight to your wallet.
gateway · settlement
SETTLED⚡ to your wallet
On-ramp one · no code
Point it at an API you already run. The gateway terminates TLS, answers unpaid calls with 402 + a Lightning invoice, verifies payment, and proxies to your origin only after settlement. To be sure traffic really came from the gateway, drop @bolthub/verify into your origin (Express, Fastify, or Python) — or check the signed header yourself in a line. From zero to earning in a few minutes.
A fixed price for every call.
Price scales with response size.
Sell a batch of requests upfront.
Unlimited access for a window.
Prepaid balance, deducted per use.
All five models price what buyers pay you. None of it goes to bolthub.
On-ramp two · behind your SDK code
You wrote the paywall with the Pay SDK; the facilitator runs the fussy parts. Connect a wallet once in the dashboard, point your rail at bolthub, and the same code gains managed metering, replay protection, and analytics. Sats still land in your wallet; bolthub only ever sees the metering path.
Every paid call is counted and reconciled against your invoices, so usage and billing line up.
A proof spends exactly once, enforced at the platform, not in your process.
Issue, rotate, and revoke keys for your integration from the dashboard.
Revenue over time, your top-earning tools, and per-asset settlement — the numbers behind every payout.
Lightning (L402), live today. The platform answers unpaid calls with a Lightning invoice and verifies payment before proxying, so sats settle straight to your wallet with nothing in the middle to hold them.
A billable request is any call bolthub serves for you, gateway or facilitator, at the same tiered rates. See the full fee table.
Real-world use
You run a data API that costs you compute per query and today earns nothing. Create a gateway, point it at your origin, pick “per request” at 5 sats, add the one-line header check, and opt into the API Hub. Paying agents can discover and call it the same afternoon, with no accounts to manage and no invoices to send.
start selling
Self-host the SDK free, or start on the hosted platform: 1-month free trial, usage-based billing after that.