What does it cost to run?

Reseller API: $1,000 setup, then $249 a month. White-label API: $2,500 setup, then $499 a month. On both, the API calls your customers make are billed at $0.70 per 1,000 credits, pooled across all of them. The monthly fee starts on launch day, not on the day you order. Data licence: from $2,000 a month, on an annual agreement.

Who decides what my customers pay?

You do. You set your own plans, prices and allowances, and keep the difference between what you charge and the wholesale cost of what your customers use.

How fast can I launch?

5 business days from the day you send your brand details and add the DNS records. If we miss that, the setup fee is refunded in full.

Reseller API and white-label run month to month after launch. Cancel any time and the month already paid runs out. Your customer list and their usage history are yours to export. The data licence is an annual agreement.

Can my customers scan cards too?

Yes, on request. Card recognition is priced per matched card, at a wholesale rate we quote with your order, and runs on your domain like the rest of the API.

Partner pricing

Three prices, published, and nothing hidden behind a call

A setup fee once, a monthly platform fee from launch day, and $0.70 per 1,000 credits for what your customers use. Live in 5 business days, or your setup fee back.

Reseller API

Our API on your domain, for a product you build yourself.

$1,000setup, once

then $249 a month from launch

Usage: $0.70 per 1,000 credits, pooled across your customers
For: Developers, agencies and software companies with their own front end

The full API on your domain, api.yourbrand.com
API keys with your prefix, issued to your customers
Customer accounts, per-customer credit limits and usage
Errors, links and image URLs that carry your name, not ours
All 9 games, every printing, four markets and graded prices
REST and GraphQL, images never metered
99.95% uptime commitment
Live in 5 business days, or your setup fee back

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White-label API

Turnkey

A complete card data business under your name: portal, docs and billing included.

$2,500setup, once

then $499 a month from launch

Usage: $0.70 per 1,000 credits, pooled across your customers
For: Founders, shops and communities who want their own API without building one

Everything in Reseller API
Your developer portal: sign-up, dashboard, keys and usage
Your documentation, with your name and your domain in every example
Your plans and prices, on your own pricing page
Customers pay you directly, into your own Stripe account
Account emails in your name, from your domain
Set up with you, step by step, by the people who run the API

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Data licence

Store, display and pass on our data from your own systems.

from$2,000a month

Annual agreement.

Usage: A flat fee, not metered per call
For: Marketplaces, price guides and platforms that need the catalogue in their own database

The right to store the full catalogue and its prices in your own database
Serve it to your users from your own systems: your API, your feeds, your exports
A flat licence fee instead of per-call metering
Daily price history and signed price webhooks
Graded prices by grading company and grade
A named contact for anything about the data

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A worked bill

Lantern Cards, a month after launch

A fictional white-label api partner with 40 customers paying $39 a month, each using 10,000 credits.

40 customers × $39: $1,560
White-label API platform fee: − $499
400,000 credits at wholesale: − $280
Kept, every month: $781

The $2,500 setup fee is paid once and is back in 4 months. Before Stripe fees and taxes; assumes every customer uses their whole allowance.

Your numbers

Try your own price and volume

It shows when a plan loses money as well as when it pays.

Programme

Paying customers

You charge each, a month

Your price, your decision.

Credits each uses, a month

10,000

Your revenue: $1,560/mo
Platform fee: $499/mo
Wholesale usage: $280/mo
You keep: $781/mo

Pays for itself from 16 customers. The $2,500 setup fee is back in 4 months.

Usage at $0.70 per 1,000 credits, assuming every customer uses their whole allowance, which is the most it can cost you. Before your own payment processing fees and taxes. The setup fee is paid once and is not in the monthly figures.

What a credit buys

Your customers spend the same credits ours do

Usage is metered per call in credits and billed to you at $0.70 per 1,000 credits, pooled across every customer you have.

Operation	Credits	Costs you
Lookup by idGET /v1/cards/{id} or /v1/sealed/{id}, any game	1	$0.0007
Current prices for one cardGET /v1/prices/{cardId}: every source, graded and per language	1	$0.0007
Search or filterGET /v1/cards, /v1/sealed, or a set with its cards; per page of up to 100	2	$0.0014
GraphQL requestOne request, whatever it selects; pages cap at 100 cards	2	$0.0014
Price history or salesOne card's or sealed product's series, up to five years per call	3	$0.0021
Games and set listsGET /v1/games, /v1/games/{slug}, /v1/sets	1	$0.0007
Image deliveryNever metered, on any plan	0	$0
Cached response (304)Send If-None-Match and pay nothing	0	$0
ErrorsA 4xx or 5xx is never billed	0	$0
Webhooks and price watchesManaging them and every delivery; watches are capped per plan instead	0	$0

Side by side

What the two API programmes include

Topic	Reseller API	White-label API
Setup, once	$1,000	$2,500
Platform fee	$249 a month	$499 a month
Usage	$0.70 per 1,000 credits	$0.70 per 1,000 credits
API, keys and images on your domain	Included	Included
Per-customer limits and usage	Included	Included
Developer portal and sign-up	You build it	Included, in your name
Documentation	OpenAPI file in your name	Full docs site, in your name
Customer billing	Your own system	Your Stripe account, wired up
Account emails	Your own system	Sent in your name
Needs a developer	Yes	No

The fine print

Said plainly

The setup fee is paid when you order. If your API is not live 5 business days after you send your brand details and add the DNS records, it is refunded in full.
The monthly platform fee starts on launch day, not on the day you order.
Usage is drawn from a prepaid balance at the wholesale rate, so a busy month never arrives as a surprise invoice.
Reseller API and white-label are month to month after launch. The data licence is annual.
Prices are in US dollars and exclude VAT or sales tax where it applies.
Wholesale costs more per credit than the credits included in our largest self-serve plan, on purpose: the partner programme is for selling data to others. To use data only in your own app, a regular plan is cheaper.

Regular plans for your own app are on the API pricing page. Partner terms are in the partner agreement.

FAQ

Questions about partner pricing

Your API could be live next week

Live in 5 business days, or your setup fee back. The clock starts once you have sent your name, logo and colours and the DNS records we send you are in place. If your API is not live 5 business days later, we refund the setup fee in full and you owe us nothing.

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