Pricing

The platform is free.
You pay vendor pass-through.

Glide OSS is MIT-licensed and free to self-host. Every fee below is either zero (Glide-side) or a pass-through to the underlying vendor (card issuer, on-chain gas, fiat rail). No SaaS markup, no per-seat fee, no minimums.

Effective 2026-04-27 · v2026.04.27

The platform itself

Glide OSS is free. Self-hosters pay nothing to Glide; you pay only the vendor pass-through fees listed below.

Item	Cost	Pass-through to
OSS license MIT-licensed, no contributor agreement, no per-seat fee.	Free	—
MCP gateway calls Self-hosted: free. Hosted (mcp.glide.co): free up to the published rate-limit tier.	Free	—
Self-host quickstart 90-second TTHW via `docker compose -f docker-compose.demo.yml up`.	Free	—

Card issuance

Pass-through fees from the card issuer (Bridge / Wirex / Gnosis Pay). Glide adds zero markup on the OSS path.

Item	Cost	Pass-through to
Bridge virtual card — issue Per virtual card, US/EU/global. Includes Apple Pay + Google Pay tokens. MCC allow/blocklist supported.	$1.00	Bridge
Bridge card — load (top-up) Per top-up, in basis points (100 = 1%). Funded from your Glide vault.	1%	Bridge
Bridge physical card — issue Per physical card. Includes shipping (US: USPS first-class).	$10.00	Bridge
Wirex EU/UK debit card — issue No issuance fee. Spending fees in vendor docs.	Free	Wirex
Gnosis Pay card — issue No issuance fee. Self-custody on Gnosis Chain.	Free	Gnosis Pay

On-chain payments

Gas pass-through. Glide does not mark up gas. The relayer key pays gas on EVM gasless flows; you reimburse via the principal vault at the next settlement.

Item	Cost	Pass-through to
EVM payment (Ethereum / Base / Arbitrum / Optimism / Polygon) Network gas only. Typical USDC transfer on Base: ~$0.001. Mainnet Ethereum: $1–$5 depending on congestion.	Pass-through	on-chain gas
Solana payment Network gas only. Typical USDC SPL transfer: ~$0.0005.	Pass-through	on-chain gas
Tempo payment (post Wave 3) Network gas only. Typical TIP-20 USDC transfer: <$0.001 with 0.6s finality.	Pass-through	on-chain gas
Stellar payment (post Wave 3) Network gas only. Typical SAC USDC transfer: ~$0.000006.	Pass-through	on-chain gas

Fiat on/off ramps

Pass-through to the fiat-rail vendor. Glide does not mark up. Use `pricing.get` MCP tool to fetch live quotes per corridor.

Item	Cost	Pass-through to
Bridge ACH (US) Pass-through. 1% standard rail.	1%	Bridge
Noah global on/off-ramp Pass-through. Vendor-quoted per corridor.	1%	Noah
Avenia BR (BRL) PIX off-ramp; pass-through.	1%	Avenia
Monerium EU (EURe) No platform fee. SEPA pass-through only.	Free	Monerium
IDRX (Indonesian Rupiah) 0.75% pass-through.	0.75%	IDRX

Agent platform features

Agent-platform-specific surface (MCP, grants, audit). All free at the OSS layer.

Item	Cost	Pass-through to
Glide MCP gateway 24 MCP tools including payments.initiate, cards.issue, cards.get_details, x402.pay. No per-call charge.	Free	—
Agent grant issuance Issue scoped grants with 13-axis policy envelope. No per-grant charge.	Free	—
killSwitch.all (atomic revoke + freeze) Forensic kill-switch. Always free. Always rate-limit-exempt.	Free	—
4-tier audit retention (Hot/Warm/Cold/Regulatory) Storage on your own infra (self-host) or hosted SaaS (mcp.glide.co). Tier policy configurable per entity.	Free	—

Compliance & screening

Pass-through to compliance vendors. KYC / sanctions screening / AML.

Item	Cost	Pass-through to
Chainalysis address screen Per address screened, vendor-quoted. Mock provider available for OSS dev.	Pass-through	Chainalysis
Bridge KYC (consumer) Per KYC pass. Pass-through to Bridge.	$2.00	Bridge

Notes

All fees are denominated in USD cents (or basis points where labelled "percent"). Vendor pass-throughs may settle in the local currency of the corridor.
Self-hosters pay zero to Glide. The fees above are all pass-through to upstream vendors — the same vendors you would integrate with directly.
Hosted (mcp.glide.co) pricing matches OSS pricing during the public-beta period. SaaS markup will be added transparently in v0.4.0+ with at least 30 days notice.
Use the `pricing.get` MCP tool for programmatic access. The same constant powers this page and the tool — no drift.

Programmatic access

Agents can query the same pricing document via MCP. The constant backing this page is the constant the tool returns — zero drift.

// Via Glide MCP gateway
await mcp.callTool('pricing.get', { category: 'card-issuance' });
// → { version, effective_at, categories: [...], notes: [...] }

See the developer docs for the full MCP tool catalog.

The platform is free.You pay vendor pass-through.