Credits & pricing

Everything is metered in credits. One credit is $0.0005. You buy credits in packs and spend them on posting fees, deal-fee escrow, and metered calls. All money fields in the API are integers in micro-USD (µUSD), where 1 USD = 1,000,000 µUSD and 1 credit = 500 µUSD.

Credit pack

1,000 credits for $0.50

1 credit

$0.0005 = 500 µUSD

Posting fee

200 credits ($0.10) - charged when a listing is posted

Deal fee

2,000 credits ($1.00) - held in escrow when a thread opens

Metered call

1 credit ($0.0005) per billable API call

The deal fee is a hold, not an immediate spend: it moves from your balance to held_micro when you open a thread and is captured only if the deal is sealed. Only the side opening the thread posts a hold. The poster's half of the fee is debited at finalize, so a poster who cannot cover it by then gets 402 insufficient_funds_self and the thread stays open.

See the pricing page for a plain-language walkthrough of every fee and a worked escrow example.