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Pay only for the validations you ship.
AuthForge is metered: $10 minimum, then per-thousand-call rates that drop as you scale. No per-seat fees. No per-application fees. No charge for failed validations. One balance covers every product on your account.
Simple, honest pricing.
One balance for every app. Pay after you sign in. Bigger packs are cheaper per thousand calls.
How credits work.
Credits are prepaid AuthForge usage on your account. Your customers buy licenses from you, not credits. You pay only for real auth traffic.
validate
Each license-key validation costs one credit. Triggered on launch, on entitlement check, or wherever your app asks "is this user allowed in?"
heartbeat
Heartbeats keep a session alive and detect concurrent use. Ten pings on the same license bill as one credit, so you can ping frequently without burning balance.
Full detail in the credit management docs. One balance for everything you ship.
Pricing FAQ.
Common questions about credits, refunds, and how billing actually works. Anything we missed? Full billing docs .
Do unused credits expire? +
No. Credits stay on your account indefinitely once purchased. There is no monthly burn or rolling expiration. Buy a top-up when balance gets low and use it whenever traffic shows up.
Can I share credits across multiple apps? +
Yes. Every application you register sits under a single account-level credit pool. Whether you ship one product or twenty, validation and heartbeat traffic all draws from the same balance. There's no per-app fee.
What counts as a credit? +
A successful license validation costs 1 credit. Heartbeats are billed at 10 pings per 1 credit, so a 15-minute heartbeat interval (4 pings/hour) costs roughly 1 credit per 2.5 hours of session time. Failed validations and rejected heartbeats are free.
Do failed validations cost a credit? +
No. If a key is invalid, expired, banned, or fails any other security check, the request is rejected without consuming credits. You only pay for traffic that actually returns a positive answer to your app.
What is the refund policy? +
Refunds for unused credit balance are available subject to the terms in our refund policy. The short version: we'll refund unused balance on request within the documented window. See /legal/refund for the full terms.
Do you offer custom or volume pricing above 1 million credits per month? +
Yes. The published tiers go up to 1,000,000 credits at $0.15/1k. Above that, contact us for a volume contract; we routinely negotiate custom rates for high-traffic SaaS, gamedev, and enterprise rollouts. Email pricing@authforge.cc.
Is annual prepay available? +
Yes. If you'd rather buy 12 months of expected traffic up front and avoid top-up admin, contact us. We invoice on net-30 terms for accounts that prepay annually, and the credits land on the same account-wide balance.
Can credit balance auto-refill? +
Yes. Settings → Credits lets you configure a low-balance threshold that triggers an automatic top-up of a chosen pack size. This keeps your apps from ever stalling on a depleted balance.
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