Pay per call. USDC-denominated.
No subscription, no minimum, no API keys. Every signed inference call is a single USDC settlement — inference cost passed through 1:1 from OpenRouter, plus a $0.01 receipt fee. Half of every receipt fee buys and burns $NEXUS.
What a paid call actually costs.
Two components. Pass-through inference cost + flat receipt fee. The receipt fee is the only thing Nexus charges; everything above that is what the upstream model provider charged for the inference.
Passed through 1:1 from the upstream model provider's reported USD cost. No markup at the protocol layer. Whatever the call would cost on OpenRouter, that's what the agent pays in USDC.
Flat per-call fee on every paid /v1/chat/completions and /v1/inference call. Funds the signed-receipt infrastructure: KMS-backed operator signing, on-chain settlement, verifier availability, receipt permalink hosting.
50 / 50. On-chain transparent.
Every receipt fee splits two ways at the protocol layer. Both halves are auditable from the burn_pool_ledger view. The burn loop is the load-bearing economic mechanism of $NEXUS — every paid call contributes.
$NEXUS burn pool
Accumulates in USDC pre-launch. At launch, a public buy-and-burn bot swaps the pool's USDC for $NEXUS on the pump.fun pool and sends to a public burn address. Live counter on /token. Burn pressure scales with rail usage — every paid call contributes.
Protocol treasury
Funds KMS signing infrastructure, RPC nodes, verifier hosting, ongoing development, security review, and Spanish legal compliance. Held in USDC, on-chain transparent.
Beta pricing only. Enterprise tier ships at v1.
There is no volume tier, no enterprise SLA, no committed-use discount during Beta. The single price is the per-call price above. v1 (shipping at $NEXUS launch) introduces a Business tier with custom receipt schemas, compliance export, SLA, and dedicated support — pricing in the $299–$2,000/month range depending on contract.
For enterprise or compliance-driven evaluations now, email dennis@vdmnexus.com with use case and required SLAs. Beta-tier evaluations get the founder directly; v1-tier contracts land into the Business tier when it ships.
Beta pricing — receipt fee is configurable per endpoint and may be adjusted before v1 ships. Pricing is the v1 commitment; beta-stage may iterate. All changes versioned in git and announced on /roadmap.