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Pricing

Clear plans for governed agent transactions.

Choose the free Developer tier or a paid plan for your volume. Gateway usage, marketplace settlement, and optional seller services are priced separately.

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MONTHLY PLATFORM FEE WITH INCLUDED TRANSACTIONS · ANNUAL BILLING: TWO MONTHS FREE
The unit

What counts toward your gateway plan.

A signed request that clears identity verification and reaches a policy decision. That decision is the billable event.

§1

What counts

Allowed, throttled, modified, held, or denied. Each one is a policy decision the gate made, recorded, and will show you.

§2

What doesn't

Requests refused at signature, replay, freshness, or key lifecycle never reach policy. Releasing a reservation is not an additional policy decision.

§3

How it's billed

Monthly, against the same signed ledger you can audit yourself.

Gateway usage counts the policy decision, including a hold or denial. Purchase funds are separate: releasing them does not erase the policy decision from your usage. The counter resets monthly.

Tiers

Five ways in. One gateway underneath.

Same identity checks, policy engine, ledger, and receipts on every tier.

01
Free

Developer

One agent, one spend cap, real production keys. You set the limit, we enforce it.

Free NO PLATFORM FEE · NO CARD · NO EXPIRY
Included1,000 transactions/month
OverageNone, the meter stops
SupportCommunity, no SLA
  • The same ledger and receipts every paying tenant uses
  • Ed25519 identity, issuance to revocation
  • Ordered policy on your agents
  • Spend caps your agent cannot exceed
  • Signed receipts, append-only audit log
  • Marketplace discovery and procurement

NO SLA · AT 1,000 THE METER STOPS, REFUSED WITH A REASON, NEVER BILLED

Get a key

Self-serve signup. Real production keys, no sales call.

02
Commercial

Growth

More agents than one person can watch. Multi-agent policy, a review queue, per-team costs.

$199 PER MONTH · INVOICED · ANNUAL: TWO MONTHS FREE
Included5,000 transactions/month
At the cap$99 credit pack per 1,000 transactions
OrUpgrade to Scale
SupportPriority
  • Everything in Developer
  • Multi-agent, multi-team policy
  • Review queue, funds in escrow
  • Per-team and per-agent cost attribution
  • Priority support

NO SURPRISE BILLS · CARD ONLY IF YOU BUY A PACK · ANNUAL BILLING: TWO MONTHS FREE

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03
Volume

Scale

Sustained volume across many agents and teams. The same gateway, the deepest published rate.

$1,499 PER MONTH · INVOICED · ANNUAL: TWO MONTHS FREE
Included50,000 transactions/month
Overage$0.008/transaction
Above 250,000/monthDirect terms
SupportPriority
  • Everything in Growth
  • The lowest published overage rate
  • Room to grow before Enterprise terms make sense

OVERAGE INVOICED IN ARREARS · NO CARD ON FILE · ANNUAL BILLING: TWO MONTHS FREE

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04
Custom

Enterprise

The same gateway sized for scale, with every control documented control by control on the security page, so a review starts from evidence.

Contact us PRICED TO YOUR VOLUME AND ARCHITECTURE
Platform feeNegotiated per account
MeteringVolume-discounted
SupportDedicated, named contact
  • Everything in Growth
  • Advanced audit and evidence export
  • Private or isolated deployment on request
  • A named contact for security review

PRICED AGAINST YOUR ARCHITECTURE AND VOLUME, NOT A LIST

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05
Public sector

Government

Every agency agent action authorized, priced, and permanently recorded. Records outside agents want become a governed channel, priced only where your law allows.

Contact us TERMS AND VEHICLE DISCUSSED DIRECTLY
Platform feeNegotiated per agency
MeteringConfigurable to zero
SupportDedicated, named contact
  • The Enterprise set for agency-run agents
  • Record-custodian listings, redaction-aware
  • A signed record for every record pulled
  • Metering runs at zero, full governance path
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Annual billing carries two months free on every published gateway tier. Early customers keep their pricing: if the published rates change, yours does not.

Design partner program

Hands-on onboarding, direct founder access, terms case by case. Limited seats.

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Signet

Signet, our governed engineering delivery system: design-partner program, limited seats.

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Founding cohort

The founding cohort enters through hands-on onboarding: tenant, keys, policy, and first listings stood up with you.

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Marketplace fees

Settlement, priced in the open.

GateCore's standing fee schedule for marketplace settlement: marginal bands from 5% down to 1.5%, plus $0.25 per settlement. One formula, published, the same for every seller.

Standard settlement

5% to $1,000, 3% to $10,000, 1.5% to $100,000, plus $0.25 per settlement.

The bands are marginal: each rate applies only to its portion. A $5,000 settlement pays 5% on the first $1,000 ($50), 3% on the remaining $4,000 ($120), plus $0.25: $170.25 in total, an effective 3.4%. Micro-transactions batch into a single settlement, so small payments stay economical.

  • No fee to list, ever
  • Machine-readable terms, price, and scope, set by you
  • Metered consumption with an audit trail of every access
  • Payment processing is passed through at cost and itemized, never marked up
  • Above a $100,000 ticket size: custom terms, arranged directly
  • High-volume sellers can negotiate down from published rates, never up
Enhanced governance

Enhanced governance from a $1,000 ticket. Same bands.

Tickets of $1,000 or more and regulated categories settle under the enhanced governance posture, which adds review and audit steps. The trigger changes the governance, not the price: the same marginal bands apply.

  • Applies automatically from a $1,000 ticket size
  • Applies to regulated categories at any ticket size
  • Elevated review and the audit posture are in the schedule, not an add-on
  • Regulated categories above a $100,000 ticket size: custom terms

Fees never influence discovery ranking, trust scores, or policy decisions. Trust on GateCore is earned from verified outcomes; it cannot be bought.

Sell on the marketplace

Three ways to sell. One settlement schedule.

Publish one listing, your price and terms, and every qualified buyer agent can find it. The settlement fees above apply to every seller; these tiers change how much of the work we do for you.

S1
Free

List Free

List your product or service and let qualified agents find it. No identity, trust-gating, or billing to build.

Free NO LISTING FEE · NO PLATFORM FEE
ListingsYour price, your terms
DiscoveryOrganic agent discovery
SettlementStandard fees apply
  • Machine-readable terms, price, scope
  • Trust-gated discovery: unqualified agents see nothing sensitive
  • Procurement enforced against versioned terms
  • Metered consumption, audit trail of every access

STANDARD SETTLEMENT FEES APPLY · NOTHING ELSE DOES

List a product
S2
Self-serve

Merchant

The self-serve toolkit for sellers who run their own storefront and want to see how it performs.

$349 PER MONTH · INVOICED
IncludesEverything in List Free
ToolingSelf-serve toolkit
SupportPriority
  • Listing quality scoring
  • Analytics as they roll out
  • Priority support

SETTLEMENT FEES UNCHANGED · TOOLING, NOT TREATMENT

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S3
Done for you

Merchant Concierge

We optimize your listings for agent discovery, so agents can read exactly what you sell.

$1,499 PER MONTH · INVOICED
IncludesEverything in Merchant
OptimizationDone for you
AuditsQuarterly
  • Done-for-you listing, schema, and capability-tag optimization
  • Quarterly listing audits
  • Hands-on onboarding

SETTLEMENT FEES UNCHANGED · CONTENT WORK, NEVER PLACEMENT

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An optional one-time Agent-Ready Audit is available with Concierge.

Optimization services improve your listing content; they never influence ranking, trust, or policy. Fees never influence discovery ranking, trust scores, or policy decisions.

Government, in the open

Where a public-sector engagement lands.

Three things shape what we can do together.

Three we could quietly omit.

  • Accreditation support, not an existing authorization. We provide the fail-closed control and immutable-audit architecture an authorization asks for, and support you through the process. GateCore holds no FedRAMP, FISMA, or ATO today, so if your acquisition requires one in hand, you hear that on the first call.
  • Free records stay free, and still get governed. Metering runs at zero purely for control, audit, and anti-scraping. Only categories your jurisdiction already permits can carry a price, and that is your law rather than our software.
  • Your counsel rules on what you may charge for. GateCore governs, meters, and proves access. It does not decide what you are allowed to sell.

Better read here than discovered in procurement.

FAQ

About the meter.

What counts as a transaction?
A signed request that clears identity verification and reaches a policy decision, whichever way it goes. Requests refused at signature, replay, freshness, or key lifecycle never reach policy, so they are never billed.
Is the free tier a practice environment?
No. Developer runs on real production keys against the live gateway, on the same ledger every paying tenant uses. Nothing to graduate out of, no code to change at Growth. What you do not get is an SLA.
What happens when I hit 1,000 transactions?
The meter stops. Further actions are refused with a reason rather than quietly billed, and the counter resets monthly. Growth lifts the ceiling.
What happens at the Growth cap?
You hear about it first: notifications at 80% and 95% of the included 5,000. At the cap, new transactions are refused with a reason while in-flight settlements always complete. Buy a credit pack, $99 per 1,000 transactions, or upgrade to Scale. Nothing is silently billed.
How do I actually pay?
By invoice, arranged directly, against the metered record. Scale overage is invoiced monthly in arrears; Growth credit packs are the one purchase that takes a card. That record is the same signed ledger you can audit yourself.
Can we run at zero and still get the governance?
Yes. Zero is a valid price and the full governance path still runs: identity checks, policy, holds, receipts, audit trail. Money simply never moves. A common shape is zero-cost governance internally beside per-request pricing outside.
Is there an annual plan?
Yes. Annual billing carries two months free on the subscription component of every published gateway tier; monthly invoicing runs against the metered record. The published tiers are exactly what we charge, and early customers keep their pricing: if the published rates change, yours does not. Anything negotiated carries its own term in writing.
What does the marketplace charge sellers?
GateCore's standing schedule for marketplace settlement runs in marginal bands: 5% up to $1,000, 3% on the portion from $1,000 to $10,000, and 1.5% on the portion from $10,000 to $100,000, plus $0.25 per settlement. Above a $100,000 ticket size, custom terms. Micro-transactions batch into a single settlement, so small payments stay economical. Tickets of $1,000 or more and regulated categories settle under the enhanced governance posture, which adds review and audit steps, at the same bands. Payment processing is passed through at cost and itemized, never marked up. Fees never influence discovery ranking, trust scores, or policy decisions.
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