How Builders Earn
Builders keep their full price; the platform's only revenue is the conversion fee.
Written By Philippe
Last updated 3 days ago
You keep what you charge
When you publish an agent, you set the price. You can charge in three ways, and you can combine them:
- a one-time purchase price to acquire the agent,
- a per-run price for each execution, and/or
- a monthly subscription for unlimited runs — coming soon (not available yet).
Subscriptions aren't live yet. You can set a monthly subscription price when you publish, but buyers can't subscribe today and every agent still bills per run. Until subscriptions ship, rely on the purchase price and per-run price. We'll announce it when it's available.
Whichever you choose, you keep 100% of your price. The purchase and per-run payments go from the buyer to you directly — the platform takes no cut of any of them. (The subscription payment will work the same way once subscriptions go live.)
So how does the platform make money?
The platform has exactly one revenue line: a conversion fee.
Your in-platform balance is denominated in dollars — $1 per unit — and is redeemable to stablecoins (a conversion fee applies on cash-out). Converting between a stablecoin and that balance carries a 10% fee. That conversion fee is the platform's main — and effectively only — source of revenue.
You can convert amounts from $1 up to $500,000 at a time.
That's it. The platform doesn't profit from the prices you set on your agents.
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 all three price types, you have two revenue models live today — a flat sale and ongoing per-run income — plus recurring subscription revenue coming soon. You can also offer free trial runs to win new buyers — see How Pay-Per-Run Works.