Note: for non-billing questions, see our Aptos Products FAQ.

Node Service

Which requests am I billed for?

See the "Aptos Node Service" tab on the Billing page of your dashboard or read below.

What is the cost?

For a limited time, our Aptos Node Service will be offered for free without any daily usage caps. The REST API will have no daily request cap, only a QPS limit per network. The GraphQL API will have no daily CU cap, only a CUPS limit per network. After this promotional period, we may set daily free request / CU caps and offer a paid tier that charges for activity above those caps.

What's in an enterprise plan?

We also offer Enterprise plans with options for a dedicated setup in the region of your choice or discounts for a high-volume commitment. We can provide QPS and CUPS that scale to your needs. You get TG or Slack with our team for support, and you can pay in crypto if you want. If this sounds right for you, reach out to us at [email protected].

How do I monitor my request and QPS, and CU and CUPS usage?

See our Aptos Node Service product FAQ for some very helpful guidance on monitoring your request (REST API) and CU (GraphQL API) counts, as well as monitoring your rate limits and recent QPS (REST API) and CUPS (GraphQL API).

Gas Station

What fee does Shinami charge for sponsorships?

For a limited time, our Aptos Gas Station will sponsor your transactions without charging any Shinami fees. Your fund will only pay the transaction fee charged by the Aptos blockchain for each sponsored transaction.

After this promotional period, we will charge your Gas Station fund a small Shinami fee for each sponsorship created. For future-proofing to minimize fees, we encourage you to set a gas budget (gas_unit_price × max_gas_amount) that's not unnecessarily high.

How do I view my fund balance and recent usage?

See our Aptos Gas Station Product FAQ for helpful guidance.

How do I view my monthly Gas Station billing summary statements?

We provide a monthly report of your sponsorship activity for your Mainnet funds. On the Billing page of your Shinami dashboard, click the Aptos Gas Station tab to show the "Statements" table. You'll find an entry for each month you've been sponsoring transactions on Mainnet.

We add an entry for a new month 3-4 days after it ends. You can see a summary of your total sponsorships, as well as the total Sui transaction fees and Shinami fees for those transactions. Click the + next to All in the Fund(s) column to see a breakdown by fund. I've clicked it below so now it's a - that I can click to close the expanded row.

You can also download a full report for the month, which is a CSV file containing each transaction sponsorship you made. You can do this by clicking the "Download" button in the "FULL REPORT" column.

Wallet Services

When you create a Shinami account, you are automatically put on the free Wallet Services tier. This tier has a monthly wallet creation cap for Aptos wallets as shown in the "Aptos Wallet Services" tab of the billing page of your dashboard. If you need more than this, or more than the default QPS, reach out to [email protected] and we can create a custom plan for you based on your committed usage and QPS needs.

Even on the free tier, some Wallet Service requests can incur a cost due to their use of other Shinami services. For example, executing a sponsored transaction for an Invisible Wallet uses our Gas Station and Node Services, and you will be charged for your use of those services as explained in their billing sections. In the API docs it will be clear when Node or Gas Station services are used because we call out the need to use an API access key with rights to those services when applicable.