Charge for your API in 10 minutes, not 10 months.
Pricing pages, plans, metered billing, and self-serve subscriptions — built into your gateway. Free up to 100K monetization events / month.
Or read the 10-minute monetization tutorialPricing model
Charge per call. Grow with your customers.
Simple per-request pricing that scales naturally from a handful to thousands of calls.
Bronze
- 100 API requests
- 5K Tokens
- Discord channel
Silver
- 1K API requests
- 50K Tokens
- Webhooks
- Embed widget
Gold
- 10K API requests
- Custom Tokens
- Bulk discount
- AI evals
Why teams monetize with Zuplo
Turn API traffic into recurring revenue.
Stop stitching together six tools to charge for APIs. Zuplo bundles pricing, billing, and self-serve subscriptions into your gateway so monetization ships with your API.
Launch a paid API in days
Built-in pricing tiers, quota enforcement, and usage-based billing. Skip the 6-month integration project.
Self-serve from sign-up to payment
Customers sign up, pick a plan, and start using your API without ever touching your sales team. Your developer portal handles it end-to-end.
Track revenue per endpoint
See exactly which APIs drive revenue. Adjust pricing, quotas, and tiers based on real usage instead of guesswork.
Every revenue stream covered — from one platform.
Getting Started
Your portal ships with your API.
Plan selection, API key management, and usage analytics — ready the moment your API is.
Learn morePush to deploy. Monetization activates.
Git push deploys your gateway, generates your portal, and activates metering and billing — all in one step.
Learn moreMeter AI APIs by the token.
Per-model token metering across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and more — with real-time cost tracking.
Learn moreRevenue visibility, built in.
MRR, request volume, and key growth — all tracked automatically.
Learn moreSee it on your own API — free up to 100K events / month.
Start for FreeBoth sides covered
One platform for your team and your customers.
The same Zuplo project serves API providers and the developers who consume the API — no separate tooling, no separate auth.
For You
The API Provider
17+ auth methods, DDoS protection
Global edge gateway routing
Real-time usage tracking
Subscriptions, invoicing & overage
For Them
Your API Consumers
Instant, self-service onboarding
Interactive API playground
Auto-generated OpenAPI docs
Self-service plan selection
AI & LLM APIs
Purpose-Built to Monetize AI APIs
AI economics are different. Zuplo handles token-based complexity natively.
- Token-Based Billing: Meter by input/output tokens with per-model rates.
- Monetize your MCP Servers: Turn any OpenAPI route into a billable MCP tool — no extra config.
- Semantic Caching: Reduce LLM costs by 40–60% by caching similar requests.
- Prompt Injection Detection: Built-in edge security for your models.
API Routes
MCP Tools + Billing
Monetize AI APIs the same way — included on every plan.
Start for FreeMCP traffic
Monetize MCP traffic like the rest of your API.
Agents reach your API through MCP tools, and the teams behind them subscribe like any other consumer. The same plans, meters, and Stripe billing that monetize your REST traffic cover your MCP traffic too — no separate billing stack to build.
Gate MCP access by plan
Check a consumer's plan entitlement at the gateway before a tool call ever reaches your API. Free-tier callers get a clean upgrade path; subscribers connect and go.
Meter usage, bill through Stripe
MCP requests flow through the same request-level meters as the rest of your API traffic, so agent usage lands on the same Stripe invoice as everything else.
Agents authenticate like any customer
API keys or OAuth — the developers behind an agent subscribe to a plan through your portal, and the agent authenticates like any other consumer. No parallel auth stack to build or audit.
The business case
Stop Stitching. Start Shipping.
Developer Portal
$200K – $400K
AI Gateway
$84K – $126K
Complete Platform
$200K – $500K+
Time
6\u201312 months
Cost
$200K\u2013$500K+
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Underlying capabilities
The features that make this work.
Each capability is a first-class part of the platform, composable with everything else. Click into any feature to see how it works.
API Monetization
Tiered pricing, quota enforcement, real-time metering, and usage-based billing.
Learn moreDeveloper Portal
Sign-up, plan selection, key management, and live API docs — all self-service for your customers.
Learn moreAPI Key Management
Issue, rotate, and meter keys per customer. Bind them to plans and quotas.
Learn moreFrequently Asked Questions
Learn about API management and how Zuplo helps your team build better APIs.
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Turn your API into revenue.
Stop building billing infrastructure. Start earning.