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Charge for Your API in 5 Minutes
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INRI_ACCESS
April 29, 2026
Block execution unless the user has paid. No custom billing logic.
The complexity of custom billing logic often distracts founders from actually improving their core product because they end up spending more time on credit logic than on features. Having a plug-and-play enforcement layer effectively turns a technical hurdle into a simple business switch. Since you're targeting quick implementation are you finding that users are applying this mostly to rate-limiting existing endpoints or are they using it to gate access to high-compute AI functions?
Interesting approach honestly. The “block execution unless payment is validated” flow is a lot cleaner than the custom billing logic most teams end up hacking together around APIs. I’ve worked on a lot of backend/API/cloud systems and can imagine reliability and enforcement edge cases get pretty tricky once usage scales.