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HALLUX pricing
The price list for HALLUX, the identifier verification API. BlvkWare's agent kits are priced on the home page.
Only the open tier is available today. The paid tiers below are priced and documented, but no payment rail is connected yet, so none of them can be bought. The open tier needs no account and no key.
The constraint
HALLUX is never paid more because it blocked you.
The obvious model here is to charge per stop verdict: you pay when we save you. It aligns with value, it tracks cost almost exactly, and it makes a beautiful invoice line.
It is also disqualifying. A verification vendor paid per positive finding has the same structural flaw as a scanner paid per vulnerability: every marginal block is revenue, so the corpus has a commercial reason to grow, and no customer can ever fully rule out that the reason they were stopped was the invoice. This product is an argument about trustworthy verification. Being paid per block loses that argument before it starts.
So billing is a function of questions asked, never of answers given. This is enforced in code rather than promised: the quoting function accepts a count of identifiers and has no parameter through which a verdict could reach it, and a test asserts that the charge for a batch is identical whatever the batch resolves to.
The same rule governs watches. They are priced on what a customer chose to watch, never on whether it fired.
The ladder
| Tier | Who buys it | What it is | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Any agent or developer, no account | Single-lookup GET, 500 identifiers/day, every verdict, no receipt | Free |
| Metered | An individual agent or small team | Batch, receipts, watches. Capped, see below | $0.0008 per identifier |
| Team | A company putting HALLUX in CI | Unmetered, 100 watches, private-namespace exclusions | $299/month, $2,990/year |
| Feed | Registries, IDE vendors, CI platforms, security vendors, insurers | Full ledger, complete history, per-model attribution, live transition stream, unlimited watches, licence to surface findings in your product | $1,500/month, $15,000/year |
| Embedded | A platform shipping HALLUX inside its product | Self-hosted or white-labelled, BSL 1.1 commercial grant | From $2,500/month |
Watches on Metered are $0.02 per watched identifier per month.
An annual commitment is twelve months charged as ten.
The same list, machine-readable: GET https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/v1/pricing. How a paid request is settled is at /docs/payment, and why the numbers are what they are is section 8 of the specification.