Introduction

What to expect as the Rated API transitions to v1.

The Rated API is evolving!

We are gearing up to let the API out of beta and into v1; a more powerful, flexible, and developer friendly version of the Rated API. At the end state, v1 will offer easy to grok and integrate with schemas, data on multiple networks and agent sets, as well as all the tools integrators need to efficiently and robustly monitor their consumption, manage their organizations and so on.

As part of the v1 rollout, we are also introducing a "value-based exchange" pricing model that has a notion of Compute Units (CUs) at its core. CUs are a metric denoting the computational resources consumed per API request. We feel that CUs are the best way to align the costs with the value that users get from the API, and allow those to scale gracefully with demand.

Learn more about Compute Units in the relevant section of the docs.

Over the course of Q4 2023, we will be slowly rolling out this new model with a phased approach. The table below covers what each of those phases will entail.

Phase	What to expect	Completion
Alpha	Top API users will be reached out with weekly reports on their compute unit usage and potential future subscription tier they will lie in.	Completed
Beta	ALL active API users will be reached out with weekly reports on their compute unit usage and potential future subscription tier they will lie in.	Completed
Org Migration to Console	All existing API users will migrate to the Rated Console	Completed
General Launch	Rated Console with API v0 launches	Completed
Transition to API v1	Highly composable and scalable API across multiple networks with intent based responses across performance, rewards and metadata	Not started