Billing
Overview
You set a rate per kilobyte and Cladior buys your capacity at it. Readers buy metered access from Cladior, never from you, so you have no billing relationship with them and no invoices to chase. Earnings appear in real time.
How it works
You set a rate per KB when you create your app. That rate is what Cladior pays you for capacity, and it is shown to readers on the consent screen, plus our margin, before any request goes through. Every request through the proxy is measured, and what you are owed is credited at your rate.
The rate a user accepted is the rate they keep. Changing your rate later does not touch existing connections, only new ones. Nobody who already trusted you with a price gets a different one without being asked again.
What you earn
You receive the full rate you set. If you price at $0.000002 per KB, you are credited $0.000002 for every KB you serve. The platform fee is not taken out of it.
The fee is added on top instead. A user connecting to your app accepts 120% of your rate, and the extra 20% is what Cladior runs on. It is shown to them before they connect, so there is no surprise on either side, and it means the number you set in the dashboard is the number that reaches your balance.
What counts as billable data
Both directions. A request's body and its response body are added together, so an upload costs the same as a download of the same size. Headers are not counted.
Totals are rounded up, at the kilobyte and again at the charge. The rounding is in Cladior's favour and it is applied per request, so a very chatty integration pays marginally more than the raw byte count. On a 4 KB response the difference is fractions of a cent; it is mentioned because it is real, not because it is large.
When the money arrives
Immediately. The charge is credited to your earnings balance as part of the same transaction that bills the user, so a request either bills and credits or does neither. There is no batch job, no settlement delay, and no monthly close.
Withdrawing is separate. The minimum is $5.00, and two-factor authentication has to be on before your first withdrawal: it is the only thing between a stolen session and your earnings.
The first payout also requires a bank account whose name matches your profile, verified against the bank itself, and that account is then bound to you. Payouts go out within 5 business days.
Earnings calculator
Estimate your monthly earnings based on your rate and data volume.