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title: "The Blind Machine pricing"
description: "Credit packs, compute metering, signup grant, and billing boundaries for hosted encrypted computation."
last_updated: 2026-08-05
canonical: "https://blindmachine.org/pricing"
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# The Blind Machine pricing

The open-source `blind` CLI and offline verification are free. Hosted computation
uses prepaid credit dollars. Checkout is a human-authorized Stripe action; an
agent must not initiate a purchase without explicit user approval.

## Compute rate

- Rate: $0.50 per CPU-minute.
- Signup grant: $20.00.
- A job estimate should be reviewed before the job is created.

## Credit packs

- $20.00 credit pack.
- $100.00 credit pack.
- $500.00 credit pack.

Credits are service credits, not cryptocurrency. They are consumed only by
authorized hosted computation; public inspection and certificate verification
do not spend credits.