A service on the SkyBridge® platform mimics a website, while a consumer mimics a web browser. Therefore, the platform does not charge the consumers; it only charges the services for their connection time and the data they receive and send.
If, within a rolling 24-hour window, the total connection time to the SkyBridge® servers by your RPC services is less than 480 minutes and the total data sent and received is less than 4000 KB, you can use SkyBridge® for free and anonymously — no email or account required.
Once you exceed either limit, your RPC invocations will throw exceptions. You can either wait for enough usage and connection time to fall outside the rolling 24-hour window, or register a paid business account.
To use SkyBridge® for free and anonymously, simply use an arbitrary GUID as your RPC service ID. No API key is needed as you do not need to authenticate. You can then provide this ID to any party who intends to invoke your service.
To use SkyBridge® without the limitations, you need to register a business on the portal and a payment method. You then need to create a registered RPC service on the portal. The creation process will allocate an API key, which your code needs to supply to the SDK when you call the create-service method of the SDK.
The platform has the following charges:
Includes everything in SkyBridge® except the few Premium-only features below. That covers end-to-end encryption with preallocated keys, choice of service visibility (public or private), unlimited connection time, and unlimited data — see the RPC SDK reference for the full list.
Everything in Standard, plus:
Owners of a registered service on a Premium subscription may decide to charge its consumers a certain amount for each invocation. To invoke such a service, you need to register a business or personal account with a payment method, then create a registered consumer under this account. The platform will charge you per invocation for the amount demanded by the service. The platform deducts 25% as a processing fee and pays the owner of the service the remainder.
Both public and private services can charge their consumers.
All of the above figures are subject to change without notice.