Fees

Learn about estimated fees for common actions on the Accumulate Protocol.

Accumulates fees are fixed and stable. Business models built on Accumulate can rely on a predictable cost model to support their go-to-market strategies today and tomorrow.

The estimated fees below are converted to USD for actions like identity creation, token transactions, and issuances.

Type	Base Fee (credits)	Base Fee (USD, approx.)
Add Credits¹	0.00	$0.0000
Burn Credits¹	0.00	$0.0000
Transfer Credits	0.01	$0.0001
Send Tokens	3.00	$0.0300
Issue Tokens	3.00	$0.0300
Burn Tokens	0.10	$0.0000
Create ADI²	500.00	$5.0000
Create Token Account	25.00	$0.2500
Create ADI Data Account	25.00	$0.2500
Create Lite Data Account³	0.10	$0.0010
Create Token	5000.00	$50.0000
Write Data³	0.10	$0.0010
Write Scratch Data³	0.01	$0.0001
Create Key Page	100.00	$1.0000
Create Key Book	100.00	$1.0000
Update Key Page	3.00	$0.0300
Sign Transaction	0.01	$0.0001

¹Adding and burning credits have minimum amounts instead of a fee. Adding or burning less than 1 credit is prohibited. ²For 8+ characters. See the sliding fee schedule for the cost of shorter ADIs. ³Creating and writing to a Lite Data Account always costs 0.10 credits. Writing to an ADI Data Account normally costs 0.10 credits. Writing to an ADI Data Account costs 0.01 credits if the data is marked as scratch data. Lite Data Accounts do not support scratch data.

1. SendTokens, IssueTokens charge 1.00 credit for each output after the first transaction

Example: One output costs 3, two costs 4, three costs 5, etc.

1. UpdateKeyPage, UpdateAccountAuth charge 1.00 credit for each operation after the first

Example: One operation costs 3, two costs 4, three costs 5, etc.

1. CreateKeyPage - charge 1.00 credit for each key after the first

Example: One key cost 100, two costs 101, three costs 102, etc.

1. Delegation charge 0.01 credit for each layer of delegation

Example: A basic (non-delegated) signature costs 0.01, a delegated signature costs 0.02, a double-delegated signature costs 0.03, etc.

• SendTokens, IssueTokens - charge 1.00 credit for each output after the first

  • One output costs 3, two costs 4, three costs 5, etc.

• UpdateKeyPage, UpdateAccountAuth - charge 1.00 credit for each operation after the first

  • One operation costs 3, two costs 4, three costs 5, etc.

• CreateKeyPage - charge 1.00 credit for each key after the first

  • One key costs 100, two costs 101, three costs 102, etc.

• Delegation - charge 0.01 credit for each layer of delegation

  • A basic (non-delegated) signature costs 0.01, a delegated signature costs 0.02, a double-delegated signature costs 0.03, etc.

Sliding fee schedule

Short ADIs cost more. The length of an ADI is calculated as the number of bytes of the UTF-8 encoded string minus the .acme suffix, not the number of characters. For example, 屋.acme and abc.acme are both counted as 3 bytes long. The current schedule is as follows:

Length	Cost
1	4,800,000 credits
2	1,200,000 credits
3	350,000 credits
4	90,000 credits
5	25,000 credits
6	7,000 credits
7	1,800 credits
8+	500 credits

All transactions incur a 0.1 credit fee per every 256 bytes over a base of 256 bytes. The additional fee is 0.01 credits instead of 0.1 if it is a scratch transaction. Signatures incur a 0.01 credit fee for every 256 bytes over a base of 256 bytes.

Except for send tokens, failed transactions paying fees over one credit will be refunded less than one credit. No refund is made for fees less than or equal to 1 credit.

For send token transactions each failed output will refund 1 credit.