TOPO discount
Pay for inference in TOPO and every token costs 20% less. The discount stacks with your plan discount.
How the discount works
When a request is paid in TOPO, its USD cost is cut by 20% and converted at the 15-minute time-weighted average price from the network oracle. The rate used is written on the receipt.
Effective prices
Output tokens on claude-sonnet-5.5, list price $10.00 per million.
| Plan | Pay in USDT | Pay in TOPO | Total saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | $10.00 | $8.00 | 20% |
| Builder | $9.00 | $7.20 | 28% |
| Max | $8.00 | $6.40 | 36% |
Pay with TOPO
Set pay_with to topo on a single request, or make TOPO your wallet's default so every request uses it.
cURL
curl -X PATCH https://api.topolabs.ai/v1/wallet \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOPO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "default_pay_with": "topo", "fallback_pay_with": "usdt" }'Staking and governance
TOPO is also what node operators stake as collateral and what holders use to vote on network parameters such as sampling rates. See Verification and Run a node.