The WAVE platform
Media, routing, money, trust. One API.
The rails of the agentic internet. Encode and understand video on the learned codec, route work across the mesh, settle per-call in sub-cent x402 USDC, and read it all back from one meter. 25 product spokes are live today, 29 more in preview.
Plans
Build
You're building. Every product behind one API key, 10% off every meter rate. Issue an API key with no card; the 14-day Build trial requires a card and grants $50 credit; after it Build is $49/mo with $100 monthly usage credit.
- All products, one API key
- $100 / mo usage credit
- 10% off all meter rates
- Console dashboard + meter ledger
- Cancel anytime
Ship
You're in production. Priority routing, per-agent metering, a billing portal, $350 of usage credit each month and 20% off every meter rate.
- Everything in Build
- $350 / mo usage credit
- 20% off all meter rates
- Priority routing
- Billing portal + per-agent metering
- Email support
Scale
You're operating at volume. Dedicated GPU capacity, 30%+ volume discounts, a 99.95% SLA, and enterprise controls.
- Everything in Ship
- 30%+ volume discounts
- Dedicated GPU capacity
- 99.95% SLA
- SSO + audit export
No plan needed: every product also bills per use, sub-cent, over x402 USDC on Base. Agents pay the same rail you do.
The catalog: eight families, one meter
Live media
LIVEIngest, playout, delivery, every viewer-minute and egress-minute metered.
- Crest ingest · $0.002 / ingest-min
- On-Air participant · metered, price in preview
- On-Air output · $0.05 / output-min
- Zoom bridge · $0 / meeting-min (pilot)
- Listen playout · $0.002 / listen-min
- Transcription (live / prerecorded / premium) · $0.015 · $0.025 · $0.035 / min
- Captions · $0.025 / min
- Voice synthesis (premium) · $0.30 / min
- WHIP ingest · $0.005 / min
- Delivered watch-minutes · $0.003 / viewer-min
- WHEP egress · $0.003 / egress-min
- Realtime audio · $0.001 / min
- Realtime video · $0.003 / min
- AV pipeline · $0.05 / min
- Braid channels · $0.002 / channel-min
Encode & transform
transcode.wave.online/pricing LIVEMedia infrastructure. The learned codec, transcode ladders, mux, bridge, AV transforms.
- Cloud encode (WAVE Codec) · $0.01 / codec-min
- Transcode ladder · $0.015 / min
- Mux (remux) · $0.003 / min
- Mux AV1 export · $0.04 / min
- Bridge conversion · $0.005 / min
- AV transform · $0.0005 / sec
Media intelligence
LIVEQuality scoring, enhancement, and vision search over your media.
- Acuity scoring · $0.01 / min
- Acuity enhance · $0.025 / min
- Video enhance · $0.60 / output-min
- Vision summarize · $0.05 / min
- Vision index · $0.03 / min
- Vision search · $0.01 / query
- Vision ask · $0.05 / query
- Product search · metered, price in preview
- Clip minutes · $0.02 / min
- Visual QA run · $0.10 / run
Inference
LIVEThe LLM funnel at inference.wave.online: 13 providers, measured routing, automatic failover, per-token metering.
- gpt-5.6-luna · $0.40/M in · $1.20/M out
- deepseek-v4 · $1.19/M in · $3.56/M out
- claude-sonnet-5 · $3.33/M in · $10/M out
- gemini-3.7-flash · $0.63/M in · $1.88/M out
- qwen3.8-local · $0 (internal only)
- Automatic failover · included
Mesh & dispatch
LIVEThe routing fabric, per control op, presence, and failover.
- Mesh requests routed · $0.0002 / op
- Mesh failover · $0.02 / event
- Dispatch decisions · $0.001 / decision
- Active nodes · $2 / node-month
- Active flows · $1 / flow-month
Render & compute
LIVEGPU compute from flex to reserved, render, and the sandbox.
- Render · $0.60 / weighted-output-min
- Render GPU-seconds · $0.0016 / GPU-second
- GPU flex (L4–H100) · $3–$19 / GPU-hour
- GPU reserved · $2–$14 / GPU-hour prepaid
- Ampere 16/24 · $1–$2 / GPU-hour
- Sandbox exec · $0.0005 / call
- Sandbox vCPU · $0.00004 / vCPU-second
Storage
LIVEHot and cold tiers for pools, clips, recordings, media, render.
- Hot tier · $0.08 / GB-month
- Cold tier · $0.02 / GB-month
- Retrieval · $0.015 / GB
Comms
LIVEAgent email, SMS, transcript delivery, per-message sub-cent x402; free agent-to-agent messaging.
- Email (send / reply) · per-message, sub-cent x402
- Transcript-to-email · per-delivery, sub-cent x402
- SMS · per-send, A2P 10DLC
- Agent-to-agent messaging · free
Built to be relied on
Payments that machines can make
Every WAVE surface settles through the same rails, sub-cent x402 micro-settlements over HTTP on Base, a card rail at $0.50 and above. Your agents can meter, settle, and receipt without a card network in the loop.
GET https://api.wave.online/v1/x402/facilitator · x402: USDC sub-cent
For creators, your own pricing page
WAVE Pricing Pages: define your tiers in a manifest, and pricing.wave.online/<you> serves live prices straight from your meter ledger, buyers pay on the same rails (sub-cent x402 USDC, card at ≥ $0.50), and your payouts settle automatically to your account. Launching soon; the engine you see on this page is the same one your page will run on.
Get notifiedOne settlement rail, everywhere
Live today
Frequently asked
What do the tiers actually buy?
Credits and discounts, not access. Every tier unlocks the full platform: Build includes $100 of monthly usage credit and 10% off meter rates, Ship includes $350 and 20% with priority routing and a billing portal, Scale is negotiated volume pricing with dedicated capacity and an SLA. Usage beyond the credit bills at the meter rates on this page, minus your tier discount.
How does the 14-day trial work?
Card required, full access, $50 of usage credit from minute one, and automatic conversion to Build on day 15 — no cliff decision. Start it from the API: POST /v1/billing/checkout with your Build price and trial: true. If you cancel before day 15, nothing is charged.
Do I need a subscription to use the API?
No. Every product bills per use over x402 USDC on Base, fractions of a cent per operation, with no plan at all. Tiers exist to buy credits and discounts and to get production controls like routing priority and per-agent metering.
What rail settles sub-cent amounts?
x402 over HTTP on Base mainnet. The payment header carries a USDC micro-settlement that the facilitator validates, fractions of a cent per operation, no card network needed.
When does the card rail kick in?
At $0.50 and above, the card rail; below that, x402 on Base is the native rail.
Why are some products marked preview?
Every LIVE price on this page traces to a signed price in the WAVE pricing catalog. Products without a signed price are metered but marked preview: we never publish a number we haven't ratified.
Do individual products have their own pages?
Yes, every WAVE spoke serves its own /pricing page for its product line. This page is the full catalog; each section links to its spoke where one exists.
How does the meter work across products?
Every surface writes the same gateway meter; the ledger and rollup read it back. One meter, one settlement rail, per-product prices.
Build. Ship. Scale.
One API key from your first encode to your millionth viewer-minute. Per-use meters, one invoice, sub-cent settlement for agents.