Pricing and fees
What GAKN charges, what payment providers charge, and how a sale splits. Authors set their own prices.
Commission on sales by members
GAKN keeps this share of each third-party sale. Sales paid directly to a seller’s wallet in USDC carry no GAKN commission.
Worked example
| Price set by the seller | $10.00 |
| GAKN commission | − $1.00 |
| Card fee estimate (deducted from the seller share) | − $0.59 |
| Seller receives (via Stripe Connect) | $8.41 |
| GAKN keeps after Stripe’s actual fee | ≈ $1.00 |
GAKN services
Search API Hybrid native + federated search through the API and MCP. api.search | Free |
Multilingual embeddings Return 512-dimension multilingual embeddings for your texts. processing.embed | $0.00005 / 1,000 tokens |
Audio/video transcription Speech-to-text for published audio and video. Not yet offered: needs a speech provider. processing.transcribe | not offered yet |
Machine translation Translate an item into another language with a labelled machine translation, linked to the original. processing.translate | $0.0015 / 1,000 source tokens |
Featured placement A labelled "Promoted" slot on the catalogue front page. Not yet offered. promotion.featured | not offered yet |
Media hosting Hosting of uploaded files (documents, audio, video) beyond the item itself. storage.media | Free |
Payment providers
US cards 2.9% + $0.30; international cards +1.5%; currency conversion +1%; dispute $15. Connect: $2 per active account per month + 0.25% + $0.25 per payout.
Primary processor for people. Third-party card sales only through Connect destination charges (Stripe holds and pays out seller funds).
Coinbase CDP facilitator: first 1,000 settlements per month free, then $0.001 each; gas sponsored. Verification free.
Best rail for agents. Sub-cent per-request prices are technically possible; below ~$0.01 the facilitator fee dominates, so prepaid credit is offered for GAKN services.
No per-use fee; the top-up is charged through Stripe or x402.
Redeemable only for first-party services and items; third-party use is off until counsel confirms the stored-value model.
PayPal Checkout 3.49% + $0.49; cards 2.89% + $0.29; micropayments 4.99% + $0.09; FX spread 3–4%; chargeback $20.
Deferred. Multiparty (marketplace) needs PayPal approval; first-party use needs REST credentials from the owner.
Shown only inside the Coinbase Business account (third parties report ~1%; unverified). Coinbase Commerce reportedly closed 2026-03-31.
Optional, first-party only. Needs a Coinbase Business account for ActivLife Hub LLC.
$0.13 + interchange++ + 0.60% per card transaction; unpublished minimum monthly invoice; sales-led onboarding.
Not for MVP: marketplaces are "restricted" for merchants and "prohibited" for platform sub-sellers in Adyen’s list.
5% + $0.50 per transaction.
Not usable: Paddle’s acceptable-use policy (2026-04-13) prohibits digital marketplaces, human services and resale of others’ content.
5% + $0.50; +1.5% international; +1.5% PayPal.
Not usable: prohibits marketplaces and services; product appears to be migrating into Stripe Managed Payments (unverified).
Provider fees as published on 2026-10-22; the actual fee of every transaction is recorded from the provider’s own report.