Pricing#

The shape:

5 messages free. No deposit. No management fee. Beyond that you pay only for what you use — plus a small fee only when Ava takes a value-creating action.

That's it. No tiered plans, no annual commit, no subscription you have to remember to cancel.

The three lines, in detail#

1. Free trial — 5 messages#

You can paste a wallet address, get a portfolio scan, ask follow-ups, and set up alerts using 5 free messages. That's typically enough to evaluate whether Ava sees your wallet correctly and whether the warnings feel useful.

2. Usage — pay only for what you use#

Beyond the free messages, Ava is metered: you pay a small per-message fee. There is no monthly subscription, no required deposit, no minimum balance. If you don't use Ava one month, you pay nothing that month.

Settlement is non-custodial via x402 (on-chain micropayments through a one-time spend permission on your wallet). You set a cap; usage is debited inside that cap; you can stop or revoke at any time.

3. Success fee — only when Ava protects you#

For value-creating actions — Ava topping up your Aave health factor to prevent liquidation, Ava moving idle USDC into a safer/higher-yield position — there is a small success fee charged on the action, also debited via the same spend permission.

The keyword is value-creating: Ava doesn't charge you to monitor, doesn't charge you to warn, doesn't charge you to refuse an action. The fee is on the outcome, not the activity.

What we deliberately don't charge for#

• No deposit. Funds never leave your wallet to "fund Ava." Your spend caps are the only commitment, and they're on-chain.
• No management fee. No % of your portfolio, no annual AUM fee — that's a custodial-broker model and Ava is not custodial.
• No "advice" fee. Ava explains what it sees and proposes fixes. That's the product, not an upcharge.
• No subscription. Quiet months cost nothing.

Spend caps you control#

Every fee Ava can ever debit from your wallet is bounded by an on-chain cap you set when you first authorize the Guardian. The cap is enforced by the smart contract — Ava cannot exceed it, period.

If you ever want to stop paying Ava, you don't need to log into anything, cancel a card, or email support. You revoke the permission on-chain. See Revoking Access.

Caveat — we're validating willingness to pay#

We're still measuring exactly which line item lands fairly with users. If you have strong opinions ("the per-message fee should be a flat monthly", "I'd happily pay 2x for X but not 1x for Y"), tell us — that's what the probe pages and the in-Telegram prompts are for. The shape above is what's launching; the numbers can move.