Pricing
Our cost + 20%.
No plans and no monthly fee. Most tools are free to call. When something costs us money, a domain, a running app, storage, email or an audit, you pay exactly what it costs us plus 20%, and this page shows both numbers.
60tools free to call
20%markup, on every charge
$20.00smallest credit top-up
Every tool
Grouped like the tool list. The same prices are on each tool in /tools.json as price, so an agent can see the cost before it calls.
| Tool | You pay | Our cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainsFind a name, buy it inside a budget, bring one you own from another registrar, and see where it stands. | |||
check_domain | Free | $0 | Registrar availability and price lookup; free at Porkbun.Limit (enforced): 1 per 10 s and 200 per day per key (registrar rate limit) |
buy_domain | Registrar + 20%per year, see domains below | registrar price | Registrar price at the moment of purchase plus 20%. Renewal is billed yearly at the registrar renewal price plus 20%. Premium names are refused. |
list_domains | Free | $0 | Reads our Cloudflare account.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
domain_status | Free | $0 | Reads our Cloudflare account.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
check_transfer | Free | $0 | Registry (RDAP) lookup and a Porkbun dry run; nothing is charged.Limit (enforced): 10 per minute and 100 per day per key |
initiate_domain_transfer | Registrar transfer + 20%adds a year; charged only when the transfer completes | registrar price | Porkbun's transfer price (it includes a one-year renewal) plus 20%, quoted to the cent by a dry run. Held when the transfer is submitted, charged when it completes, released if it is canceled. Needs the account owner's key, an open spend budget, a reason and confirm. At most 5 transfers a day per account and one live transfer per domain. Premium names and .uk are refused.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
confirm_domain_transfer | Free | $0 | Polls the transfer; a corrected auth code costs nothing more. The charge belongs to initiate_domain_transfer.Limit (enforced): 30 per hour per key |
cancel_domain_transfer | Free | $0 | Porkbun refunds a canceled transfer, and the hold is released.Limit (enforced): 10 per day per key |
request_transfer_out | Free | $0 | An operator task: the domain is unlocked and its auth code emailed to the registrant.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
| DNSRecords on zones hosted on our Cloudflare account. | |||
list_records | Free | $0 | Cloudflare DNS is free on our plan.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
upsert_record | Free | $0 | Cloudflare DNS is free on our plan.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
delete_record | Free | $0 | Cloudflare DNS is free on our plan.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
| EmailMail on your domain, delegated to AI Mail MCP. | |||
setup_domain_email | Free | $0 | MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records plus sending onboarding; no vendor charge.Limit (enforced): 10 per day per key |
create_mailbox | Freeresource metered below | $0 | A mailbox costs nothing by itself; mail sent and stored is metered.Limit (enforced): 50 per day per key |
| DeployShip from a GitHub repo and keep it running. | |||
create_app | Freeresource metered below | $0 | Creating the service is free; it then accrues compute, memory and egress.Limit (enforced): 10 per day per key |
deploy | Free | $0 | Railway does not charge for builds.Limit (enforced): 30 per hour per app |
deploy_status | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
logs | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
rollback | Free | $0 | Redeploys an existing image; no build.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per app |
restart | Free | $0 | No build.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per app |
| Config and secretsSet values without ever reading them back. | |||
set_env | Free | $0 | Sets a variable and redeploys; builds are free.Limit (enforced): 30 per hour per app |
list_env | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
rotate_secret | Free | $0 | Generated and written server side; builds are free.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per app |
| StorageBuckets and volumes, with scoped credentials. | |||
create_bucket | Freeresource metered below | $0 | Creating a bucket is free; storage is metered.Limit (enforced): 10 per day per key |
bucket_credentials | Free | $0 | Scoped keys cost nothing.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per key |
create_volume | Freeresource metered below | $0 | Creating a volume is free; its size is metered.Limit (enforced): 10 per day per key |
| RoutingPoint a hostname at an app and check its certificate. | |||
attach_domain | Free | $0 | A Railway custom domain and a proxied DNS record; no edge Worker, so no per-request meter.Limit (enforced): 30 per day per key |
ssl_status | Free | $0 | One HTTPS probe from our server.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
| Pre-deploy checksEvery deploy checked against the exact commit: risk from the diff, then the commit's own CI. | |||
validate_changes | Free | $0 | Read only: GitHub compare and contents reads, Railway reads; one report row.Limit (enforced): 30 per hour per app |
preflight | Free | $0 | Read only: validate_changes plus three GitHub CI reads; one report row.Limit (enforced): 30 per hour per app |
get_preflight_report | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
| AuditsSecurity, privacy and regulation, and patent risk before launch. | |||
security_audit | $0.096up to 500 files$2.04up to 1,500 files$4.08up to 3,000 files | $0.08$1.70$3.40 | Priced by the number of code files scanned. Above 500 files imagia switches to a stronger model, which costs about ten times more per file. |
compliance_audit | $0.108per audit | $0.09 | Privacy, terms and regulation, run through Legalia. Priced at the 90th percentile. |
patent_audit | $0.216per audit | $0.18 | Up to 25 features, each searched and assessed by Legalia. Priced at the 25-feature cap. |
get_report | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
| BrandLogo options as clean SVG, and the favicon and app-icon set for the one you pick. | |||
generate_logo_options | $0.18per call (up to 6 options) | $0.15 | One Claude Opus 5.5 call that writes the SVG marks, plus at most one retry for options that fail validation. Priced at the 6-option cap; the call records its real tokens and cost in the audit log.Limit (enforced): 20 per hour per key |
export_logo_assets | Free | $0 | Rasterised on our server with resvg; no vendor charge.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
| GitHubConnect the GoLive GitHub App, link a repo and branch to an app, and read code at an exact commit. | |||
connect_github | Free | $0 | A one-time link; GitHub charges nothing for app installations.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per key |
list_repos | Free | $0 | Read only; GitHub API calls are free to us.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
link_repo | Free | $0 | A record in our database plus one GitHub read.Limit (enforced): 30 per hour per app |
read_repo_file | Free | $0 | Read only; GitHub API calls are free to us, and files at a commit are cached.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
| SMSTwo tracks: a transactional number or a marketing number, each with its registration pre-filled; texts checked by an AI model before they go out, consent and opt-out handling built in, and one-time codes from GoLive's own verification sender. | |||
search_phone_numbers | Free | $0 | Telnyx number search is free.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
buy_phone_number | $1.32per number (first month) | $1.10 | The first month of rent is charged at purchase; after that the number is metered monthly until released. Needs confirm, an open resources budget and room under the account spend limit. Provisional rate.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
get_transactional_number | $1.32per number (first month) | $1.10 | Buys a number for transactional texts. Local (default): the first month of rent now, and its pre-filled 10DLC MIXED campaign is charged separately as register_campaign (review fee plus 3 months of rent, read live from Telnyx, plus 20%; not refunded if rejected; needs an open spend budget and a reason). Toll-free: its pre-filled toll-free verification has no fee. Then the number is metered monthly. Needs confirm and an open resources budget. Provisional number rate.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
get_marketing_number | $1.32per number (first month) | $1.10 | Buys a number for promotional texts. Local (default): the first month of rent now, and its pre-filled 10DLC MARKETING campaign is charged separately as register_campaign (review fee plus 3 months of rent, read live from Telnyx, plus 20%; not refunded if rejected; needs an open spend budget and a reason). Toll-free: its General Marketing verification has no fee. Then the number is metered monthly. Needs confirm and an open resources budget. Provisional number rate.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
release_phone_number | Free | $0 | Releasing a number costs nothing; its rent stops. Rent already charged is not refunded.Limit (enforced): 10 per day per key |
request_short_code | Free | $0 | Records a request and quotes it; nothing is bought. A short code itself is about $1,000 or more a month (Telnyx quote, plus 20%), 8 to 12 weeks to provision.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
record_consent | Free | $0 | A row in GoLive's database.Limit (enforced): 120 per minute per key |
revoke_consent | Free | $0 | A row in GoLive's database.Limit (enforced): 120 per minute per key |
resume_phone_number | Free | $0 | Lifts a content-filter pause after review.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per key |
list_phone_numbers | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
verify_toll_free | Free | $0 | Telnyx charges no toll-free verification fee; review takes 1 to 2 weeks. If a fee is ever introduced, this tool moves to the spend path and its budget.Limit (enforced): 5 per day per key |
register_business | Registry fees + 20%at submission, not refunded if rejected | registry fees | The brand registration fee (plus the vetting fee, if you ask for vetting) plus 20%, charged when the brand is submitted and NOT refunded if it is rejected: the registry keeps it. Spends money: needs an open budget, a reason and confirm.Limit (enforced): 20 per day per key |
register_campaign | Registry fees + 20%at submission, not refunded if rejected | registry fees | The campaign review fee plus the first three months of campaign rent (charged up front by the registry), plus 20%, charged at submission and NOT refunded if the campaign is rejected; a resubmission is a new fee. Spends money: needs an open budget, a reason and confirm.Limit (enforced): 20 per day per key |
messaging_status | Free | $0 | Read only; may refresh pending registrations from Telnyx.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
send_sms | from $0.011per segment per recipient, provisional; rates under metered resources+ $0.001 per send for the AI content check | $0.01$0.009 | Held when sent (segments x rate, at the highest carrier fee) and settled on the delivery receipt at the cost Telnyx reports plus 20%; a message Telnyx never sent is not charged. Each send is checked by an AI model first (about $0.0002 plus 20%, once per send, not for identical text within 24 h); a refused send is not charged. New accounts may send 50 messages a day, 20 of them promotional. Receiving and the automatic STOP / HELP replies are free for now. Provisional rates.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute and 500 per day per key |
send_verification_code | from $0.012per segment per code, provisional; rates under metered resources | $0.01 | One SMS from GoLive's shared verification sender with a fixed template; held when sent and settled on the delivery receipt at the cost Telnyx reports plus 20%. Counts against the account's daily cap. Not content-checked (the text is GoLive's). Provisional rate.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute and 500 per day per key |
check_verification_code | Free | $0 | A comparison against the stored hash.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
list_messages | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
get_message | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
| WhatsAppConnect a GoLive number to WhatsApp through Meta's signup, write message templates for Meta's review, then send them or reply inside the 24-hour window. | |||
connect_whatsapp | Free | $0 | A one-time Meta embedded-signup link through Telnyx; no charge to create it.Limit (enforced): 10 per hour per key |
list_whatsapp_templates | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
create_whatsapp_template | Free | $0 | Meta and Telnyx charge nothing to submit a template; the content check of its example text is included.Limit (enforced): 20 per day per key |
delete_whatsapp_template | Free | $0 | No charge.Limit (enforced): 20 per day per key |
send_whatsapp | from $0.005per message, provisional; rates under metered resources+ $0.001 per free-form text for the AI content check | $0.004$0.003$0.003$0.025 | Telnyx's per-message fee, plus Meta's template fee for a template sent outside an open 24-hour window, plus 20%; held when sent and settled on the receipt. Free-form replies are only possible inside the window, and are checked by an AI model first (about $0.0002 plus 20%). Provisional rates.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute and 500 per day per key |
| Fleet and analyticsEvery app at a glance: deploy state, live commit, health, deploy history, grouped errors, resource use, edge traffic and spend. | |||
fleet_overview | Free | $0 | Read only: Railway reads plus one health probe per app.Limit (enforced): 10 per minute per key |
app_metrics | Free | $0 | Read only; Railway metrics are free to us.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
traffic | Free | $0 | Read only; Cloudflare zone analytics are free on our plan.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
deploy_history | Free | $0 | Read only: one Railway read plus our preflight reports.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
error_digest | Free | $0 | Read only: up to 2,000 Railway log lines, grouped on our server.Limit (enforced): 10 per minute per key |
cost_report | Free | $0 | Read only: our own metering, plus one Railway estimate when an app is named.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
| GovernanceWhat you may still spend, and everything that was attempted. | |||
budget_status | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
get_usage | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 30 per minute per key |
audit_log | Free | $0 | Read only.Limit (enforced): 60 per minute per key |
Metered resources
An app, a volume, a bucket or a mailbox keeps costing a little while it exists. It is billed by usage, at our cost plus 20%.
| Resource | You pay | Our cost | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | $24.00 | $20.00 | vCPU-month | vendor list price: Railway pricing, $0.000463 per vCPU-minute |
| Memory | $12.00 | $10.00 | GB-month | vendor list price: Railway pricing, $0.000231 per GB-minute |
| Volume storage | $0.18 | $0.15 | GB-month | vendor list price: Railway pricing |
| Network egress | $0.06 | $0.05 | GB | vendor list price: Railway pricing |
| Bucket storage | $0.018 | $0.015 | GB-month | vendor list price: Railway Buckets; S3 operations and bucket egress free |
| Email sent | $0.42 | $0.35 | 1,000 emails | vendor list price: Cloudflare Email Sending, $0.35 per 1,000 beyond the shared allowance |
| Email received | $0.00 | $0.00 | 1,000 emails | vendor list price: Cloudflare Email Routing is free; receiver Worker within the included 10M requests |
| Mail storage | $0.072 | $0.06 | GB-month | estimate: raw source in a Railway bucket ($0.015) plus parsed rows in Postgres (~30% of raw size at $0.15) |
| Routed requests | $0.96 | $0.80 | 1M requests | vendor list price: Cloudflare Workers $0.30 + KV read $0.50 per million beyond included |
| Phone number (SMS) | $1.32 | $1.10 | number-month | Provisional. vendor list price: Telnyx, provisional 2026-10-08: number rent from $1.00/mo + $0.10/mo SMS enablement (telnyx.com/pricing/numbers), US local or toll-free |
| SMS from a toll-free number | $0.012 | $0.01 | segment per recipient | Provisional. vendor list price: Telnyx, provisional 2026-10-08: $0.0055 per part + carrier fee up to $0.0045 (T-Mobile, Verizon) (telnyx.com/pricing/messaging); held at the highest carrier fee, settled at the reported cost |
| SMS from a local (10DLC) number | $0.011 | $0.009 | segment per recipient | Provisional. vendor list price: Telnyx, provisional 2026-10-08: $0.004 per part + carrier fee up to $0.005 (US Cellular) (telnyx.com/pricing/messaging); held at the highest carrier fee, settled at the reported cost |
| SMS content check (AI model) | $0.001 | $0.0002 | checked send | estimate: Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 list price, $0.10 / $0.50 per MTok (2026-10-06); about 1,500 tokens in and 100 out per check; identical text from the same number is cached 24 h and not charged again |
| 10DLC campaign (after 3 prepaid months) | $12.00 | $10.00 | campaign-month | Provisional. vendor list price: Telnyx support "10DLC fees and charges", 2026-10-08: $10/mo standard ($1.50 low-volume mixed, $3 charity) |
| WhatsApp message (Telnyx) | $0.005 | $0.004 | message | Provisional. vendor list price: Telnyx, provisional 2026-10-08: $0.004 per message, no platform fee (telnyx.com/pricing/whatsapp) |
| WhatsApp marketing template (Meta) | $0.03 | $0.025 | delivered template | Provisional. vendor list price: Meta North America rate, provisional 2026-10-08 (third-party mirror of developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/pricing) |
| WhatsApp utility template (Meta) | $0.005 | $0.003 | delivered template | Provisional. vendor list price: Meta North America rate, provisional 2026-10-08; free inside an open 24-hour window |
| WhatsApp authentication template (Meta) | $0.005 | $0.003 | delivered template | Provisional. vendor list price: Meta North America rate, provisional 2026-10-08 |
Domains
Priced live from the registrar at the moment you buy, plus 20%. These are examples sampled on 2026-10-08; check_domain always has the current number.
| Ending | First year | Each renewal | Our cost (year / renewal) |
|---|---|---|---|
.com | $13.30 | $13.30 | $11.08 / $11.08 |
.net | $15.03 | $15.03 | $12.52 / $12.52 |
.org | $9.58 | $14.21 | $7.98 / $11.84 |
.io | $33.75 | $62.16 | $28.12 / $51.80 |
.dev | $10.50 | $15.45 | $8.75 / $12.87 |
.app | $10.50 | $17.92 | $8.75 / $14.93 |
.ai | $99.24 | $99.24 | $82.70 / $82.70 |
.co | $18.92 | $37.44 | $15.76 / $31.20 |
Worked examples
A small app here means a Node web service and a Postgres database at the load we measure on our own small apps: about 0.1 GB of memory, a sliver of CPU, 1 GB of disk, 1 GB of traffic and 100,000 requests a month.
Launch a small app with a .com, email and a security audit
| .com registration, first year | $13.30 |
| Small app with Postgres, one month | $2.30 |
| 500 emails sent, 100 MB stored | $0.22 |
| Security audit (up to 500 files) | $0.096 |
First month$15.92
Each month after$2.52
Domain renewal, yearly$13.30
A small app with Postgres on a hostname you already route here
| Compute, memory, 1 GB volume, 1 GB egress, 100k requests | $2.30 |
First month$2.30
Each month after$2.30
All three pre-launch audits on a typical repo
| Security (S) | $0.096 |
| Privacy and compliance | $0.108 |
| Patent risk | $0.216 |
First month$0.42
Each month after$0
How billing works
You buy credits, and tools draw them down. A card payment costs $0.30 plus 2.9%, so charging every action on its own would hand most small charges to the card network. Credits make one card fee cover hundreds of actions.
Credits
Top up from $20.00, or turn on auto top-up. Each action draws its price from your balance and shows up in audit_log with its cost. Budgets still apply: an agent spends only inside the budget an operator opened.
| Top-up | Card fee | Share | Left of our 20% |
|---|---|---|---|
| $20.00 | $0.88 | 4.4% | $2.45 |
| $50.00 | $1.75 | 3.5% | $6.58 |
| $100.00 | $3.20 | 3.2% | $13.47 |
Why not charge per action
The card fee is larger than the whole markup on any charge under $2.18. Charged one by one, these would lose money:
| Charge | Card fee | Share | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.10 | $0.30 | 300% | $0.28 lost |
| $1.00 | $0.33 | 33% | $0.16 lost |
| $2.00 | $0.36 | 18% | $0.03 lost |
Teams that prefer it can pay a monthly invoice by bank transfer (ACH: 0.8%, capped at $5.00).
Questions
Why cost plus 20%?
Because you can check it. Every price on this page is what the vendor charges us, from our own metrics or their published price list, times 1.2. The 20% pays for running GoLive itself, the payment fees, and the occasional purchase that goes wrong.
Why are most tools free?
Reading, DNS changes, deploys, restarts and secrets cost us nothing at our vendors, so they cost you nothing. Each has a rate limit instead (listed in the table), so a looping agent cannot hammer the services behind them.
How is a domain priced?
At the registrar price when you buy, plus 20%. check_domain returns the exact first-year and renewal amount before anything is spent, and buy_domain with dry_run: true shows it again. Premium names are refused.
What about renewals?
Domains renew yearly at the registrar renewal price plus 20%, which for some endings is higher than the first year (.io, .co, .app). We draw the renewal from your credits 30 days ahead and email you first. If there are not enough credits, the domain is not renewed on our money.
What does bringing a domain from another registrar cost?
The registrar's transfer price, which adds a year to the registration, plus 20%. check_transfer quotes it to the cent with the checks the registry runs (lock, 60-day rule) before anything is paid. It is held when the transfer is submitted, charged only when it completes, and released if it is canceled. Copying the DNS into GoLive is free.
Can I get a refund on a domain?
A domain purchase that fails is never charged. A domain that was registered cannot be refunded, because the registrar does not refund us. Unused credits are refundable on request.
Why is a big repo audit more expensive?
Above 500 code files, the security audit moves to a stronger model that costs about ten times more per file. Repos above 3,000 files are refused rather than surprising you; split the audit by directory.
Is there a monthly fee?
No. You pay for what you use, drawn from prepaid credits.
Are these prices final?
They are what billing will charge when it is switched on; during the invite-only beta nothing is charged. Prices were last derived on 2026-10-08 and change only when our costs do.