Pay for what you use. No subscriptions.
No plans, no seats, no minimums. Each call debits one prepaid balance at the price shown before you call, and a provider you don't use costs nothing. New accounts get $5 of credit. Everything below is just the receipts.
$5 of credit to start
New accounts get $5.00 of credit — no call with sales. Across the catalog that's thousands of real requests before you spend a cent.
Usage at the provider's price
What Serper, Firecrawl or ElevenLabs metered for the call is what leaves your balance. The number you benchmarked against is the number you pay.
Nothing to subscribe to
No plan to pick, no seat to count, no floor to hit each month. Add credits when you need them; a provider you never call is a provider you never pay for.
Checkout math, pre-computed
Same rounding the checkout uses — the figure here is the figure your card sees.
Whole dollars, $10–$5,000 per purchase.
- Lands in your balance
- $25.00
- Service fee (5.5%)
- $1.38
- Card is charged
- $26.38
| Credits bought | Fee (5.5%) | Card charged | Balance receives |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | $0.55 | $10.55 | $10.00 |
| $25 | $1.38 | $26.38 | $25.00 |
| $100 | $5.50 | $105.50 | $100.00 |
| $1,000 | $55.00 | $1,055.00 | $1,000.00 |
What the free $5 covers
Computed from the per-call prices the gateway bills, read from the live catalog on 2026-09-19. Each provider's best board placement sits next to its price.
≈5,000
Google SERP queries via Serper — $0.001 per query · SERP verticals #1 of 4.
≈1,500
Clean page scrapes via Firecrawl — $0.0032 per scrape · Screenshot #1 of 8.
≈10,000
Page fetches via ScraperAPI — $0.00049 per plain fetch · Scrape-domain #6 of 6.
Subscriptions, provider by provider — or one balance
| Subscribing to each provider | One NativePort balance | |
|---|---|---|
| Plans and tiers | One plan choice per provider, usually with a monthly floor | None — prepaid dollars, spent per call |
| Monthly minimum | Whatever each plan's floor is, whether you call or not | $0 |
| Seats | Per-user pricing on many plans | None — one key, any number of agents |
| Sign-ups | One onboarding per provider — up to 34 | One |
| Secrets in your agent | Up to 34 keys within its reach | One — upstream keys injected server-side |
| Invoices | Up to 34 plans and billing cycles | One dollar balance |
| Per-call price | The provider's metered rate | The identical metered rate |
| Idle providers | Often a plan floor or expiring plan credits | $0 — unused means unbilled |
| Cancelling | Up to 34 cancellations, each on its own cycle | Nothing to cancel — stop calling, stop paying |
| Our cut | — | 5.5% at top-up, full stop |
Weighing this against another gateway instead? Read the NativePort vs. OpenRouter or NativePort vs. Eden AI breakdown.
Why the fee lives at top-up
So the rankings stay clean
We publish head-to-head scores for every provider we carry. If margin hid inside per-call prices, pricier routes would pay us more and every ranking would deserve your suspicion. A flat fee at top-up earns the same 5.5% whether you route to the #1 provider or the #8 — the leaderboards have no stake in your choice.
So every number is auditable
The fee is a visible line at checkout and on the receipt; each request's exact provider cost sits in your ledger; and credits are plain dollars — no points currency with an exchange rate to hide arithmetic in.
So there's nothing else to find
The 5.5% funds payment processing, the ledger and receipts, server-side custody of two dozen upstream keys, provider monitoring, and the benchmark fleet itself. It is the entire business model.
Asked and answered
Does a request cost more through the gateway?
No. A call debits exactly what the provider metered for it — the same amount you'd pay them directly. Per-call prices carry no markup; our margin lives entirely in the top-up fee.
Where does the 5.5% fee apply?
Only when credits are purchased, including auto-top-ups. It rides on top of the amount: buying $100 of credits charges your card $105.50 and puts the full $100.00 in your balance, with the fee itemized on the Stripe receipt. It never touches individual requests or the $5 of credit.
How do I get the $5?
Create an account at accounts.nativeport.ai and open the Credits page of your panel. The $5 of credit is spent at each provider's own price, with no markup.
What are the top-up limits?
Whole dollars, $10 minimum and $5,000 maximum per purchase. Auto-top-up recharges at the same 5.5% — there is no separate rate.
What happens at zero balance?
Every request answers HTTP 402 until credits are added. Turn on auto-top-up in the dashboard if an agent should never stall mid-run.
Is this safe for an unattended agent?
That's the design center. Failure is deterministic (402, never a silently degraded response), auto-top-up keeps long runs funded, every request is individually debited in an auditable ledger, and upstream provider keys stay server-side — your agent's only secret is its NativePort key.
Can I see what a call will cost before making it?
Provider pages publish the track-specific measured cost metric next to quality and latency, per-endpoint prices live in the docs, and after the fact the ledger shows the exact debit for every request.
Is there anything to cancel?
No. There is no plan, so there is no cancellation: if you stop calling, you stop paying, and your balance simply stays where it is. Turn auto-top-up off if you had it on.
What does a month with no calls cost?
Nothing. Charges are per call and per provider; a month without requests is a month without charges, and no monthly quota is lost.
Do credits expire? Are they refundable?
Credits are plain dollars in your balance — no monthly cycle sweeps them away. They're non-refundable except where the law requires it; the Terms of Service carry the current policy.