Pricing model
How Velarum makes money is itself a design constraint, because it determines whether Velarum ever has an incentive to sit in your funds path.
Velarum never takes a percentage (HC-NC-4)
Velarum never charges a percentage of transaction value. This is a hard constraint (HC-NC-4): no basis-points fee, no spread capture (you send 100 USDC, 100 USDC arrives), and no gas markup. Velarum is not in the money path, so it cannot and does not skim it.
How Velarum charges
Revenue is fixed subscription + usage by API calls/seats — prices you can predict from your plan, independent of how much value flows through. A bigger customer pays more because they make more API calls, run more agents, and add more seats — not because their payments are larger.
Subscription tiers
| Tier | Monthly | Positioning |
|---|---|---|
| Free / Sandbox | $0 | Developer experience, testnet |
| Starter | $99 | Early production, small teams |
| Growth | $299 | Scaling SaaS integrators |
| Enterprise | from $2,000 | High-volume, custom quotas |
Overage is billed per 1,000 API calls (e.g. Starter $0.50 / 1,000), again with no relation to transaction value. Phase-0 is testnet-only, so paid tiers are reference pricing until mainnet.
Where revenue does not come from
What this means for you
Your on-chain gas is paid by you, at cost, from your own wallet — Velarum only shows an estimate and labels its source. Third-party KYC/Anchor/custody vendors you choose are paid directly by you; Velarum takes no referral or channel cut. Your bill scales with integration size, not with the value you move.