0.053 USDC per query
Paid with x402 (exact scheme, USDC on Base mainnet). No account, subscription or API key. One price for every category and every market.
Charged
PRICE_ESTIMATE_AVAILABLE, LIMITED_DATA, INSUFFICIENT_COMPARABLES, NO_COMPARABLE_DATA — including NO_COMPARABLE_DATA, because the research was done.
Never charged
SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE, UNABLE_TO_ESTIMATE, AMBIGUOUS_TASK (refused before payment); invalid requests; quotes; coverage; retrieving a stored result or its comparables.
How the price is set
Measured variable cost of one paid query × 3, rounded up to 0.001 USDC, with a 0.005 USDC floor. The sources charge nothing, and no language model, paid search or browser is used.
| Compute (serverless function time, incl. source refresh) | $0.000081 |
| Database (conservative wake window) | $0.004625 |
| Storage (evidence snapshot 90 days + newly stored observations) | $0.011649 |
| Data transfer | $0.000053 |
| x402 settlement (Coinbase CDP facilitator) | $0.001000 |
| Auction data sources (Freelancer, TED, USAspending, ECB rates) | $0.000000 |
| Language model | $0.000000 |
| Paid search | $0.000000 |
| Browser automation | $0.000000 |
| Estimated variable cost | $0.017409 |
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| Gross margin at 0.053 USDC | 67.2% |
Calibration 2026-10-01 (28 measured paid queries), pricing version apri-cost-plus-2026-10-01-v1. Machine-readable: /api/v1/pricing.