Free for the code that needs it most.
No seats. No tiers. No SaaS subscription. Public repos under 1GB are free forever. Everything else is a small protocol fee on value the protocol actually routes — denominated in what flows through, never in upfront stake.
The whole fee schedule, on one screen.
* Each fee is governance-mutable within a hard cap encoded in the contract (see tokenomics).
What a typical maintainer pays in a year.
A small-to-mid OSS library with 1,400 dependents, $87 MRR from streams, one credit-line draw for a $5k audit, and active merge insurance.
Compare with a typical payment processor (2.9% + 30¢ per transaction × hundreds of contributor payouts per year), or a Patreon-equivalent (~10–12% take rate). Open source has been quietly paying SaaS economics on infrastructure that should cost network economics.
vs everything you might use today.
| Feature | GITSEA | GH Sponsors | Gitcoin | Gitbank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free public repos | ✓ forever | n/a (tips) | ✓ rounds | ✓ |
| Automatic per-PR splits | ✓ | — | — | manual |
| Recurring royalty streams | ✓ | — | — | — |
| On-chain credit score | ✓ soulbound | — | — | — |
| Code-as-collateral loans | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Agent-to-agent credit | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Insurance pools | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Sleeper pool | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Custodial | No | Yes (GitHub) | Yes (Gitcoin) | No |
| Chain | Base | — | Ethereum | Base |
See the longer comparison in /docs/comparison.
Link a repo. Pay only what you actually route.
Open the app, connect a wallet on Base, drop an asset.toml, and your repo is live in five minutes.