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AI Pricing

AI Crawler Pricing

Pricing information for AI systems accessing TCT-enabled content.

For Website Owners

Cost to Implement TCT

FREE – No cost to add TCT to your website:

  • WordPress plugin: GPL v2+ (free)
  • Cloudflare Worker: MIT license (free)
  • Hosting: Use existing server/CDN
  • Bandwidth savings: 83% reduction = lower costs

Savings Example

1,000 page site, 10K AI crawler requests/month:

Before TCT After TCT Savings
Bandwidth 1.03 GB 0.177 GB 82.8%
Cost (@ $0.08/GB) $0.08 $0.014 $0.066/mo
Annual Cost $0.96 $0.17 $0.79/year

Scale to 100K requests/month = $7.90/year savings

For AI Companies

Token Cost Savings

86% token reduction = significant AI inference cost savings:

  • Before: 13,900 tokens/article
  • After: 1,960 tokens/article
  • Savings: 11,940 tokens/article (86%)

Example Savings (GPT-4 pricing)

Assuming $0.03/1K tokens input:

  • Before TCT: $0.417/article
  • After TCT: $0.059/article
  • Savings: $0.358/article

For 100K articles/month: $35,800/month saved

Commercial Licensing

Free Tier

Up to 10,000 URLs/month – FREE

  • No license fee
  • Use open source libraries
  • Full protocol access

Commercial Tier

Above 10,000 URLs/month – Contact for Pricing

  • Large-scale AI companies
  • CDN providers
  • Crawler operators
  • Custom licensing terms available

Contact: [email protected]

Patent License

US Patent Application 63/895,763 (Patent Pending)

Free for Website Owners

  • Implement TCT on your own websites
  • No patent licensing fees
  • Use open source implementations

Commercial Operations

Large-scale operators processing >10K URLs/month from multiple sites should contact us for commercial licensing terms.

Energy Cost Savings

Global Impact (10% Adoption)

  • 8,158 GWh/year energy saved
  • $815.8M/year @ $0.10/kWh
  • 4.08M metric tons CO₂ avoided

Per-Site Energy Savings

1,000 page site, 10K crawler requests/month:

  • Network: 0.051 kWh saved/month
  • AI processing: 2.23 kWh saved/month
  • Total: 2.28 kWh/month = $0.23/month @ $0.10/kWh

FAQ

Do I pay anything to use TCT on my website?

No. TCT is free for website owners. Install the WordPress plugin and you actually save money on bandwidth.

Do AI companies pay to access TCT endpoints?

Small-scale use (<10K URLs/month) is free. Large-scale commercial operators should contact us for licensing.

What about the patent?

Website owners have a free license. Commercial crawler operators at scale need licensing.

How do I get commercial licensing?

Email: [email protected] with your use case and volume estimates.

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