Pricing and earnings

How pricing works

Every key listing has a floor price — the minimum a buyer pays per request. You set this when listing your key.

You choose between two pricing modes:

Fixed pricing

Buyers always pay exactly your floor price. Simple and predictable.

Dynamic pricing

cn2.ai adjusts the buyer price based on supply and demand. When fewer keys are available or demand is high, prices increase. Your floor price is the guaranteed minimum — you never earn less than it.

Pricing units

Your floor price is denominated in one of these units:

• Per request — a flat fee for each API call, regardless of tokens or payload size
• Per 1k tokens — scaled by the number of input and output tokens (for language models)

Platform fee

cn2.ai takes a percentage of each transaction:

Premium pool

The premium pool is a separate tier for high-reliability keys. Buyers who request premium routing pay 25% more than the standard price, and that premium goes to you.

To be eligible for the premium pool:

• Your key must have a priority score of 0.9 or higher
• Your key must have served at least 100 requests
• You must opt in (during onboarding or in the dashboard)

If your score drops below 0.9, your key is moved back to the standard pool automatically. Once your score recovers, you can re-enable premium manually — there is no automatic re-entry.

Maximizing earnings

• Price competitively — cn2.ai routes to the cheapest eligible key first
• Keep your key healthy — consistent uptime means a higher priority score, which means more routing
• Enable all routes — more routes means your key is eligible for more requests
• Opt into premium — if your key qualifies, the 25% markup increases your earnings
• Use dynamic pricing — it captures more revenue during demand spikes while staying competitive at baseline