Pricing

Search, publishing, the console, the data feeds and the API are free, without a key, with no time limit. A key raises your allowances. Position is never sold.

Free, no key

Verified, also free

Prove you control a domain with one DNS record and you get a key. The same features, allowances about six times higher (300 submissions and 200 audits an hour), 30 days of rank history rather than 7, and a search made with the key is not logged at all.

Credits: pay as you go

One prepaid balance, Neuronto credits, pays for everything past the free allowances, with no signature per call. One credit is $0.001. Packs: $1 for 1,000, $5 for 5,000, $20 for 22,000, $50 for 60,000, paid in USDC over x402. A verified domain key starts with 1,000 credits, once per domain.

Pro, self-serve

Any key holding 1,000 credits or more gets the Pro allowances: about 5 times its base allowances, 90 days of rank history, and metering you can read at /me. Nothing to sign and nobody to ask.

Publisher monitoring

We watch your domain and tell you by webhook when an endpoint stops answering or starts asking for credentials, when its tools change, when your manifest breaks or moves, or when you lose a position on your own queries. $19 (19,000 credits) a month per domain, the first 14 days free. Start the free trial.

Charge for your own API

The gateway puts any HTTPS API behind x402 without changing it: buyers pay your wallet directly, 1,000 paid calls a month are free, then 1% of each payment from your credits. Being listed in this index is never part of any price.

Private index

Your organisation's internal services, discoverable by your own agents, in their own tables, never mixed with the public index and never ranked against it. Built and isolated. Priced when somebody wants it.

What we do not measure, and will not pretend to

There is no search-volume figure anywhere here. Nearly every query this index has ever served was our own test suite or a scanner, so a volume number would be our traffic sold back to the person who most needs it to be true. /demand reports the real count, which today is usually zero, and says so. Positions we can measure honestly; demand we cannot, yet.

What is never for sale

Position. A relevance score is relevance only, the specification says it must not be read as trust, and the benchmark this index publishes is worth citing only because its author cannot rig it. There are no sponsored results, no bids for placement, and no paid badges.

A trust or safety verdict. We scanned all tool descriptions in the index and found model-directed text in 0.076% of them, with no override phrasing at all. There is nothing there to score, and a paid badge would be paid position wearing a different hat.

Charging for access is fine. Charging for rank would make everything else here worthless.

Taking payments yourself

A different product from the same operator: pay.neuronto.com is an x402 facilitator. Point any x402 server at it and it checks a buyer's signed stablecoin payment and settles it on-chain; it never holds the money, because the buyer signs the transfer and the facilitator only broadcasts it. Free while it is new. A live endpoint there charges a tenth of a cent and sends it straight back in the same request, so a client can be run end to end for nothing. Nothing about this index changes whether you use it or not: position is not for sale here either.

What the open source project gets

Everything a registry is: the index, the crawl, search, federation, submissions, conformance, the badge, the benchmark, the data feeds and the SDKs. Anyone can run a complete, conformant ARD registry from it, for nothing, forever. What is not in it is this layer: the analytics engine, multi-step discovery, and tiers.