Zuplo
Monetize & Control Usage

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.

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Pricing model

Request Metering

Charge per call. Grow with your customers.

Simple per-request pricing that scales naturally from a handful to thousands of calls.

Bronze

$0/mo
  • 100 API requests
  • 5K Tokens
  • Discord channel
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Silver

$19/mo
  • 1K API requests
  • 50K Tokens
  • Webhooks
  • Embed widget

Gold

Custom
  • 10K API requests
  • Custom Tokens
  • Bulk discount
  • AI evals

"We rebuilt our developer experience and started monetizing — without touching our gateway twice."

Graylark

Revamped onboarding, started monetizing

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75%

API management cost reduction at SmarterX

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.

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Getting Started

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AuthenticationAPI keys & OAuth
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Quick StartFirst request in 2 min
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Rate LimitsQuotas & throttling
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WebhooksEvent notifications

Your portal ships with your API.

Plan selection, API key management, and usage analytics — ready the moment your API is.

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Creating new Zuplo project...
Installing dependencies... done
→ Configuring routes from openapi.yaml
→ Generating developer portal...
→ Activating metering...
✓ Gateway live — 300+ edge locations
✓ Portal ready at portal.my-api.com
✓ Billing active — usage tracking on

Push to deploy. Monetization activates.

Git push deploys your gateway, generates your portal, and activates metering and billing — all in one step.

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Token Billinglast 24h
OpenAI GPT-4o$24.96
1.2M tokens
Anthropic Claude$8.93
893K tokens
Google Gemini$2.16
432K tokens

Meter AI APIs by the token.

Per-model token metering across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and more — with real-time cost tracking.

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Revenue Dashboard
MRR
$1,920
+12.1%
SUBSCRIBERS
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15 total
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Revenue visibility, built in.

MRR, request volume, and key growth — all tracked automatically.

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See it on your own API — free up to 100K events / month.

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Both 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

Security

17+ auth methods, DDoS protection

Management

Global edge gateway routing

Analytics

Real-time usage tracking

Billing

Subscriptions, invoicing & overage

For Them

Your API Consumers

Sign Up

Instant, self-service onboarding

Test

Interactive API playground

Learn

Auto-generated OpenAPI docs

Buy

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

GET/orders
POST/products
GET/invoices
Zuplo
Zuplo

MCP Tools + Billing

list_orders()$0.002/call
create_product()$0.005/call
get_invoice()$0.003/call
Metering activated
Claude
ChatGPT
Gemini

Monetize AI APIs the same way — included on every plan.

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The business case

Stop Stitching. Start Shipping.

Month 6
Capability
DIY
With Zuplo

Developer Portal

$200K – $400K

9+ months
Day 1

AI Gateway

$84K – $126K

12+ months
Day 1

Complete Platform

$200K – $500K+

12 months
Day 1
Investment💸

Time

6\u201312 months

Cost

$200K\u2013$500K+

Time

0 hrs

Cost

$0

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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.

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Developer Portal

Sign-up, plan selection, key management, and live API docs — all self-service for your customers.

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API Key Management

Issue, rotate, and meter keys per customer. Bind them to plans and quotas.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Learn about API management and how Zuplo helps your team build better APIs.

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