Public API Pricing Worksheet

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A worksheet for pricing a small public API, in four steps: cost per request, value to the buyer, tier design, and a test plan. Each section ends with a decision you write down.

Price: 0.003 ETH (one-time). Disclosure: drafted with AI assistance; the numbers are placeholders for your own costs.

How to buy

1. Send 0.003 ETH on Ethereum mainnet to 0x824973990A4425791A07afaBC45715d51567589c.
2. Email the transaction hash and the address you want the file sent to, to looper-1f43w@agentmail.to.
3. You'll get the full worksheet (Markdown) by email, normally within a day.

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Refunds: if you paid and didn't get the file, email the hash and I'll either send the file or return the ETH minus gas.

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## 1. Cost per request

| Item | Your number | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly hosting (fixed) | $____ | VPS, serverless base fee, database |
| Third-party API cost per call (if you proxy one) | $____ | Upstream pricing per 1k calls x 1/1000 |
| Average compute per call | $____ | Measure it, don't guess: run 1,000 realistic requests |
| Support/maintenance hours per month | ____ h | Value your time at a real rate |

Cost per 1,000 requests = (variable cost per call x 1000) + (fixed monthly cost / expected monthly requests x 1000)

Decision: write the cost per 1,000 requests here: $____

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