Band Protocol Plans Pricing
BandChain is a public permissionless blockchain. Access to the REST and gRPC APIs is free and open — no API key or subscription is required to query price feeds, oracle scripts, or request data. Costs arise on-chain in the form of BAND token gas fees for submitting data requests and transactions. Data sources may charge per-query fees payable to their publishers in BAND.
Band Protocol Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Band Protocol on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering free, usage-based, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Public Node Access, On-Chain Data Request, Validator Node.
Tagged areas include Blockchain, Oracle, DeFi, and Cross-Chain.
Plans
Free, open access to BandChain mainnet and testnet REST and gRPC endpoints. No authentication required for read-only queries including price feeds, oracle script results, and block data.
- Mainnet REST endpoint (laozi1.bandchain.org/api)
- Mainnet gRPC endpoint (laozi1.bandchain.org)
- Testnet REST endpoint (band-v3-testnet.bandchain.org/api)
- Testnet faucet for test BAND tokens
- Block explorer access (cosmoscan.io)
Submitting a MsgRequestData transaction to BandChain to trigger an oracle data request incurs a gas fee in BAND tokens. The fee depends on the oracle script complexity, the number of validators asked, and gas price. Data sources may charge additional per-query fees set by their publishers.
- Gas denominated in uband (1 BAND = 1,000,000 uband)
- Customizable gas limit per request
- Validator ask count configurable per request
- Minimum validator count threshold per request
Running a BandChain validator requires hardware, staking BAND tokens as collateral, and operating data-fetching infrastructure (yoda reporter). Validators earn block rewards and data request fees in BAND from the network.
- 4+ CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, 150 GB+ storage recommended
- Top 100 staked validators become active
- Earn block rewards and data request fees
- Requires yoda reporter for data submission