naulon vs UsageRail

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naulon compared with UsageRail
Detail	naulon	UsageRail
What it does	Get paid when AI reads your work	API monetization platform for small teams
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Single site: free. Studio: free until agents have paid you $50, then $19/month (or yearly at 15% discount). Enterprise: custom pricing. Per paid read: 10% operator fee on top of your price, paid by the agent.	Free up to $1,000 billed per month. Starter $29/month, Growth $79/month, Scale $199/month. All plans billed monthly or yearly (save up to 17% on yearly). Free includes 1M requests/month and 1 live app. Starter includes 2M requests/month. Growth includes 10M requests/month with 3 live apps. Scale inc
Key features	HTTP 402 toll gate for AI agents Direct USDC settlement to author wallet Set custom read price and citation multiplier Multiple enforcement methods (DNS, Cloudflare, in-app) Real-time dashboard with earnings and activity Settlement on Arc network using x402 standard Co-author payment splitting at settlement	API key generation and management Rate limiting per customer, per second and per minute Quotas with overage billing or prepaid credits Usage metering by customer and endpoint Analytics with customer usage and billing data Automatic usage invoicing through Stripe Prepaid credit packs that customers can purchase Embeddable pricing table and usage widget
What makes it different	Custody-free payments: money goes directly from buyer to author, never held by naulon Open source toll gate that can run on your own server Studio free until agents pay you $50	No revenue share; customers pay through your own Stripe account Works with multiple languages via HTTP check endpoint for non-Node/Python APIs Full refund in first month if a paid plan doesn't work out
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	6 +6 (up) since last check	21 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	17
Citation Flow (Majestic)	17	20
Referring domains (Majestic)	5	7

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