You're building AI tools, MCP servers, or agent plugins. You need to get paid for them. Monaiq gives you the licensing, metering and checkout to charge for them — per call, per period, or both.
The AI Monetization Gap
AI agents, MCP servers, and tool plugins are a new kind of software, and charging for them takes more than a payment link. You need to gate capabilities, count calls, and bill for what was used. Without those primitives, builders either give tools away free or hack together custom solutions.
Monaiq provides the licensing and metering primitives AI tools need.
License the AI supply chain
The monetization primitives AI tools need.
Tool Invocation Metering
Meter every tool call your agent makes. Set rate limits, track consumption, and bill based on actual usage — not just seat count.
Feature-Level Gating
Gate specific agent capabilities behind license tiers. Free agents get basic tools. Paid agents unlock advanced capabilities.
MCP-Native
Monaiq's own MCP server proves the model. Your AI tools integrate with the same protocol — licensing becomes part of the agent ecosystem.
Subscription + Usage Hybrid
Charge a base subscription plus the usage you record, billed for the period it happened in. The natural pricing model for AI tools with unpredictable consumption.
No Account Key in the Agent
A license code authorizes and meters one seat and nothing else, and the authorization it fetches is signed and verified locally. Your account API key never ships inside the tool you distribute.
Allowances
Give each plan so many uses per billing period. Monaiq counts them across every runtime of the seat, the SDK reserves ahead so a call never waits, and a refused call is reported with the period reset date and never counted.
What you can monetize
Concrete monetization scenarios for the AI economy.
MCP Servers
Charge per tool invocation or monthly subscription for access to your MCP server's tools. Gate premium tools behind higher tiers.
AI Plugins
License agent plugins with feature gating. Free tier gets basic capabilities, pro tier unlocks advanced tools and higher rate limits.
Agent Toolkits
Sell SDK access with usage metering. Track API calls, token consumption, or custom metrics. Bill per usage or subscription.
From free tool to monetized agent in minutes
Meter tool invocations and gate capabilities with a few lines of code.
public async Task<ToolResult> HandleToolCall(ToolRequest request)
{
// AI agent tool gating
var canUseTool = await licensingService.AssertLicense(
LicensingServiceReference.ServiceReference, context,
ServiceAccessLicenseAssertion.Create(request.ToolName));
if (!canUseTool)
return ToolResult.Denied("Upgrade to access this tool.");
// Track tool invocations
await licensingService.PerformOperation(
LicensingServiceReference.ServiceReference, context,
new RateLimitLicenseFeatureOperation(toolInvocationFeature, amount: 1));
return await ExecuteTool(request);
}