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title: "Space Context pricing: API, CLI, SDK and MCP server"
description: "Free test keys, then $1.00 per live scan from a prepaid balance, no subscription. Reading, search and questions are included."
lang: en
source_url: https://spacecontext.app/pricing/
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# Pricing for the developer platform

The API, the CLI, the SDK and the MCP server use one prepaid balance in US dollars: free to build with test keys, a price per live scan, no subscription. Reading, searching and asking are included.

## API, CLI, SDK and MCP

**Free to build. $1.00 per live scan.**

No plan to pick and no subscription: a prepaid balance in US dollars, used only for live scans. Reading, searching and asking are included. Prices exclude applicable taxes.

### Test: Free

Build the whole integration before you pay anything.

- The demo space: two real scans of a one-bedroom apartment
- Free test keys, no card needed
- Every endpoint, the SDK and the CLI
- Scans complete instantly and nothing is charged

[Get a free test key](https://spacecontext.app/developers/console/keys/)

### Live: $1.00 per scan (First scan free)

Your own spaces, from your own videos.

- Your first live scan is free (one per card)
- Prepaid balance from $10, by card through Stripe
- Live scans need a card on file; saving it charges nothing
- Failed scans are refunded to the balance
- Reading, search and questions included
- AI agents can pay by themselves in USDC on Base or Solana (x402)

[Open the console](https://spacecontext.app/developers/console/)

### Higher volume: Let’s talk

Many spaces, many scans, or limits above the defaults.

- Higher limits on scans, search and questions
- A direct line to the team that builds the API

[Contact us](mailto:support@finikos.it?subject=Space%20Context%20API%3A%20higher%20volume)

Pay as you go, no subscription, the balance never expires.

- [Space Context for developers](https://spacecontext.app/developers/)
- [Billing in the docs](https://spacecontext.app/developers/docs/account/billing/)

## Questions about pricing

### Is Space Context free to build with?

Yes. Test keys for the API, the CLI, the SDK and the MCP server are free and never charged: they read a real demo space. Live scans cost $1.00 each, after a first live scan that is free with a card on file.

### How much does a live scan through the API cost?

$1.00 per live scan, from a prepaid balance in US dollars topped up by card from $10, with no subscription. With a card on file the first live scan is free (one per card), and adding a card charges nothing. A failed scan is refunded to the balance. Prices exclude applicable taxes.

### Is reading, searching or asking about a space charged?

No. Reading, searching and asking are included: the balance is used only for live scans. Spaces scanned with the iPhone app are readable through the API, the console and MCP with the same account, at no cost.

### Do iPhone app credits pay for API scans?

No. API scans are paid from the prepaid balance, never from app credits; the app is billed by Apple through the App Store.

### Can an AI agent pay by itself?

Yes. An agent with a wallet can buy live credit in USDC on Base or Solana with x402, without an account, and gets a live key with its first payment. Agents paying with x402 get no free scan.

Something else? Write to [support@finikos.it](mailto:support@finikos.it)

## Start for free.

Get a free test key and read the demo space through the API, the CLI or the SDK.

- [Get a free test key](https://spacecontext.app/developers/console/keys/)