The token is the plan.
There is no subscription to buy and no invoice to approve. Hold 1 $PONSAPI on Robinhood Chain and every endpoint and stream is open. The only charge anywhere is 0.25% on trades the API builds or executes for you — and that money buys $PONSAPI back on the open market.
| Capability | Cost |
|---|---|
| Token state, price, market cap, FDV | Free |
| Trade history with cursor pagination | Free |
| Holder balances rebuilt from Transfers | Free |
| Exact pending creator fees (V3 math) | Free |
| subscribeNewToken | Free |
| subscribeTokenTrade | Free |
| subscribeAccountTrade | Free |
| Unsigned trade / launch / claim building | 0.25% of trade size |
| Lightning wallet execution | 0.25% of trade size |
Fees are calculated before slippage and exclude network gas and any fee charged by the pons contracts themselves.
| ponsapi | Typical third-party launchpad API | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-custodial trade building | 0.25% | 0.5% |
| Custodial / lightning execution | 0.25% | 1% |
| Trade streams | Free, unmetered | Charged per 10k events |
| Holder data | Included | Usually not offered |
| Exact creator fees | Included | Usually not offered |
| Where the fees go | $PONSAPI buybacks | Company revenue |
Usage buys the token.
Every bot that routes a trade through ponsapi pays 0.25%. That fee is spent buying $PONSAPI on the open market, and holding $PONSAPI is what keeps an API key alive. Builders need the token to build; the building bids the token. No emissions, no unlock schedule, no seat licences.
Need more? The limits are per key and we raise them for projects that ask.
The gate token, the minimum balance and the current fee are all readable from the API itself — no key required.
curl -s https://api.ponsapi.dev/v1/public/access