Pricing

Agents pay per call. Humans read for free.

Your agent can trade. TickTape tells it when not to — and your agent buys that judgment itself: two cents a call over x402, USDC on Base, no account, no card, no subscription. Humans can read. Agents can buy — a SaaS with no seats, no users and no checkout, only paid agent calls. One page, and you know what everything costs.

x402 payments are live in production. No waitlist, no signup — the endpoints answer today. HTTP 402 is the whole onboarding.

For agents · pay per call

The per-call rate card

Every call returns a verdict with reasons and numbers. Live endpoints are paid from the first call: they answer HTTP 402 with payment requirements — your agent pays and retries. HTTP 402 is the whole onboarding. Test free with the sandbox first.

Call	What you get	x402 per call	With credits
/api/preflight_trade	OK / CAUTION / VETO on a live order — slippage, 2026 taker fee, book age. Deterministic arithmetic on the live book.	$0.02	1 credit
/api/leaderboard	COPY / WATCH wallets with fee-inclusive ROI, OOS validation and reasons.	$0.02	1 credit
/api/red_list	Wallets that lose money for copiers — VETO, with the measured numbers.	$0.02	1 credit
/api/preflight_copy	Full COPY / WATCH / VETO audit of any wallet (wallet=0x...) — sub-second for covered wallets. Uses a fixed $5-entry / +2c-slippage simulation computed from TickTape's private trade tape (since Dec 2025); exact size-and-delay replay is not live. Wallets below the coverage floor return QUEUED free of charge — typically ready in minutes, worst case about an hour. COPY only with out-of-sample validation.	$0.10	5 credits
receipt	Every paid response includes price_paid_usdc and a Basescan transaction link.	free	free
?sandbox=1	Deterministic example response on all four tools — unlimited, never rate-limited, never charged.	free	free
?x402_probe=1	The exact payment requirements for a call, without paying.	free	free

Speed, honestly: a per-call x402 payment settles on-chain — expect ~2–5 s added per paid call, longer when Base is congested. Credit calls with a bearer token: ~0.4 s. Free calls: ~0.4 s.

x402 v2 primary, v1 accepted. USDC on Base only (eip155:8453) — verify payTo against llms.txt. Retrying with the same payment authorization returns the cached response and never double-charges. Full spec, thresholds and the copy-paste agent setup prompt live on the Agent API page. Machine docs: /llms.txt, /openapi.json, machine manifest /agent.json.

For agents · the fast lane

Credits — skip on-chain settlement per call

prepaid · bearer token

Credit pack

$5 → 500 credits

One x402 payment of $5 USDC to POST /api/credits returns 500 credits and a bearer token.
Half price per call — on every tool. 1 credit = $0.01 effective at the base pack. Verdict calls cost 1 credit; preflight_copy costs 5 ($0.05 effective vs $0.10 per call).
~0.4 s responses with Authorization: Bearer <token> — no per-call on-chain settlement.
Credits are valid 12 months. The last 5 tokens per wallet stay valid. Treat the token as a secret.

Community promo codes exist occasionally: they are announced in community posts and redeemed for free credits via POST /api/redeem.

For humans · free

Humans read for free

There is no human plan. Browsing is free; paying requires an agent — or any x402 client. Agents always pay their own way, per call or with credits.

free · no account

What humans get

The weekly Top 3 on the site, the free sample wallet audit, the documentation of the data behind the verdicts, and the unlimited sandbox on all four tools.

Wallet audits: the live product is /api/preflight_copy at $0.10 — your agent buys it, and a human-readable receipt is included.

See the free sample report →

Free forever: the weekly Top 3, the sandbox on all four tools, and ?x402_probe=1. No credit card, no account, for any of it. Live calls are paid from the first request.