Pricing

Cloven ships two billing paths in parallel: prepaid credit packs for human developers with API keys, and per-call USDG payments for autonomous agents (x402). They are independent — you can have an active credit balance and also run a separate agent paying via x402 from its own wallet.

Both rails settle in USDG (Paxos Global Dollar) on Robinhood Chain, into the same treasury.

USDG is 1:1 USD with the same 6 decimals USDC uses, so every dollar figure on this page is unchanged from the previous rail — only the denomination label moved.

Free tier

Every Cloven account includes a permanent free tier: 100 calls per day on the crypto pack, no credit pack required. Calls that error before reaching the pack pipeline (auth failures, malformed params, 404 on unknown packs) do not count against the daily limit.

Credit packs

Credit packs are one-time USDG purchases on Robinhood Chain. Credits land in your api_keys.credit_balance after on-chain verification. Each API call debits 1 credit from the balance. There are no monthly renewals, no cancellation flows, and no subscriptions.

Larger packs have a lower effective per-call rate — bulk discount applied at purchase, not retroactively. Purchase a pack from /console/credits. Payment is verified on-chain; credits appear within 60 seconds of confirmation.

Send the exact amount you are quoted. The deposit screen asks for the pack price plus a small unique tail — for example 1.004237 USDG rather than a round 1.000000. Those final digits are how Cloven binds your on-chain transfer to your deposit: no other open deposit is asking for that amount, so your payment can't be claimed by another account and can't be confused with a simultaneous purchase of the same pack. The extra is under one cent and is credited as part of your purchase. A rounded transfer will not be matched automatically — contact support if you send one.

How deposit verification works

1. Open /console/credits, select a pack, click "Buy".
2. A deposit intent is created: you receive the exact USDG amount, the Cloven treasury address on Robinhood Chain, and a QR code.
3. Send USDG to the address from any wallet configured for Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663). Do not modify the amount — the cron matches deposits by exact amount.
4. Paste your tx hash into the modal or wait — the verify cron runs every 60 seconds. Credits land automatically when the on-chain Transfer event is confirmed.
5. Deposits expire after 30 minutes if no matching transfer is found. No charge applies to expired deposits.

You need two things in the paying wallet: USDG for the deposit, and a small amount of ETH for gas (Robinhood Chain's native token). A transfer costs a fraction of a cent.

Credits balance is visible on the Overview and Credits pages in the console. Every active non-revoked key contributes to a shared pool.

x402 — per-call USDG on Robinhood Chain

Autonomous agents can pay per call without provisioning an API key. The price table below is locked v1 — re-quote is required for any future increase, and every quote includes a validUntil timestamp so the agent cannot be sniped mid-flight.

Prices settle in USDG on Robinhood Chain (contract 0x5fc5360D0400a0Fd4f2af552ADD042D716F1d168). Any underpayment fails closed — Cloven does not partially credit.

Cloven's x402 is a Cloven-native on-chain-receipt scheme: your agent broadcasts its own USDG transfer and hands Cloven the settled tx hash, which the server verifies against the chain. It is not a hosted-facilitator integration and does not interop with third-party x402 facilitators, which do not support chain 4663. Gasless EIP-3009 settlement is a possible future phase — USDG exposes transferWithAuthorization and permit — but it is not shipped.

Full wire format: x402 payments. Verification rules: x402 verification.

When to use which

Use credit packs when:

• You are building a backend service or dashboard that makes predictable API calls.
• You want cost visibility without per-transaction gas overhead.
• You prefer buying in bulk and not thinking about payment per call.

Example: a research agent that fetches cloven.fresh on a schedule, run by a human who logs into the console to top up credits.

Use x402 when:

• You have an autonomous agent with its own EOA (a bare viem WalletClient is enough) configured for Robinhood Chain.
• No human is in the loop to provision a key or top up a balance.
• Your agent reads its own ETH balance, signs its own USDG transfer, and pays its own bill.

Example: an LLM loop running in a cloud function that needs fresh context on demand and can authorize on-chain payments from its embedded wallet.

$CLOVEN stake discounts (Phase 3)

Stake-tier discounts are scaffolded in the codebase today and dormant until the $CLOVEN token launches in Phase 3. The discount table is informational only — lib/billing/discounts.ts currently returns 0% for every wallet.

$CLOVEN's launch chain, launch mechanics and staking contract are TBD and to be re-spec'd for Robinhood Chain. The token was previously specced against Base tooling; none of that carries over automatically.

Discounts apply at quote time. The wallet paying via x402 is the same wallet whose $CLOVEN stake determines its tier. Discount math happens at quote time, not retroactively.

Revenue routing

All revenue (credit packs + x402) is split:

• 50% — $CLOVEN buyback-and-burn (Phase 3 onwards; Phase 1 accumulates in a public reserve). Buyback routing is chain-TBD — the previously-specced Base DEX routing does not apply to Robinhood Chain and will be re-spec'd.
• 40% — infrastructure (Groq tokens, Vercel, Supabase, Upstash, RPC providers).
• 10% — team.

Receipts and invoices

Credit pack purchases are USDG transactions on Robinhood Chain — the chain explorer is your receipt:

https://robinhoodchain.blockscout.com/tx/<txHash>

Cloven does not issue per-deposit email receipts. x402 per-call payments are equally on-chain. Contact ops@cloven.cloud for enterprise invoicing.