How Builders Earn
You set your price; the only cut is 10% when you cash out.
Written By Philippe
Last updated 3 days ago
You keep what you charge
When you publish a workflow, you set the price. You can charge in two ways, and you can combine them:
- a one-time purchase price to acquire the workflow, and/or
- a per-run price for each execution.
Monthly subscriptions are not available — every workflow bills per run.
Whichever you choose, you set your price and the only cut is 10% when you cash out — the purchase and per-run payments go from the buyer to you directly. Earnings spent inside the platform — buying a workflow, a pass, paying per run at the paywall — pay nothing; workflow balances and prepaid balances are the exception, since both are topped up in USDC, so earnings routed to either pay the 10% on the way.
So how does the platform make money?
The 10% at cash-out is the platform's revenue line, along with optional passes (listing, feature, chat).
Your in-platform balance is denominated in dollars — $1 per unit. Deposits are 1:1. The 10% fee applies only when you cash Earnings out to USDC — not on deposits, and not when you withdraw unused prepaid balance.
You can convert from $1 up to $500,000 at a time — that is the on-chain range in both directions. Cashing earnings out to USDC has its own floor: $10.
That's it. The platform doesn't profit from the prices you set on your workflows.
What about the per-run charge?
You may have seen a small per-run charge mentioned in How Pay-Per-Run Works. It's worth being precise about what that is:
On pay-as-you-go runs there's a flat $0.001 payment-processing fee. It covers the cost of processing that payment and is passed straight through to the payments provider — it is not platform margin, and it isn't charged on pre-funded or free-trial runs.
So the full picture is simple:
Three ways to earn
Because you set both price types, you have two revenue models — a flat sale and ongoing per-run income. You can also offer free trial runs to win new buyers — see How Pay-Per-Run Works.
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