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title: TollRelay
description: Issue it once. Sellers check it at the gate. The record says what went through, and TollRelay never touches the money.
canonical: https://tollrelay.com/
lastmod: 2026-09-15
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# TollRelay

> One pass for every agent that spends.

Issue it once. Sellers check it at the gate. The record says what went through, and TollRelay never touches the money.

## What it does

- **Pass**: a signed pass on every request an agent makes, under a verified organisation. Sellers check it offline with a public key, or at the gate for the mandate that remains.
- **Mandates**: spend limits per day, per call and per seller, carried by the identity. Changed in one place, enforced everywhere.
- **Record**: what each agent spent, where, on which rail, with the receipt. One export a month for finance.
- **Gate**: sellers and gateways call one endpoint and get an answer in under 50 ms. Welila's software layer runs a TollRelay gate on every paid call.
- **Wallets**: bring the wallet you already use. TollRelay pushes each mandate's limits into it and records what it did.

## A pass is three calls

Register the organisation, create an identity, set what it may spend. The calls are at https://tollrelay.com/docs and, for an agent, at https://api.trlay.dev/agents.md.

## Who it's for

- **Companies running agents that spend**: procurement, research, enrichment and engineering agents paying for data, APIs, compute or parts. One pass per agent, one mandate each, one export for finance.
- **Sellers of APIs and data**: run a gate in front of what you sell and serve verified organisations without accounts. The gate answers in under 50 ms with a decision, the mandate remaining and a receipt.
- **Catalogue sellers**: parts, equipment hire, trade supply. A quote request arrives with a pass and a mandate attached, and the seller still decides.
- **EU and Swiss deployers**: approvals, four-eyes and a per-region record written to the deployer obligations. Approval gates the mandate, not the money.
- **Not for**: consumers, hobby agents, or anyone who wants a wallet. TollRelay does not hold money.

## Where it's used

- **Buying parts and hire**: a quote request reaches a rental company's gate with the pass and the open mandate; the hire desk approves in one tap; the closed mandate, its receipt and the ledger row agree on both sides.
- **Paying for data per call**: a 402 at a data API; the wallet signs within its pushed limits; the pass rides in the payment envelope; the gate allows; the settlement and the delivered flag land on the record.
- **Buying compute and browsers**: by the second within a daily cap; over the cap a person approves once, on the surface; both on record.
- **Sales and enrichment**: ten providers, three passes, one export with receipt and settlement columns; finance reconciles once.
- **Proving it later**: an order is queried; the evidence bundle answers from the credential, verifiable against the trust list without an account.

## Questions

### Does TollRelay move money?

No. Identity, mandates and verification never hold, move or custody funds. A seller charges on its own rail; TollRelay verifies the identity and records the settlement reference the seller reports.

### How does a seller check a pass?

Offline, against the public keys at https://api.trlay.dev/.well-known/jwks.json, with no call to TollRelay. Or online at POST https://api.trlay.dev/verify for revocation, reputation and the mandate remaining, answered in under 50 ms with a receipt id.

### What is in a mandate?

A limit per day, a limit per call, and the sellers allowed or denied, signed by an approver on a screen no agent can reach. A seller verifies it before it charges, and the limits are pushed into the wallet the agent pays from.

### Where does an organisation's data live?

In the region chosen at creation, the European Union or the United States, and it never leaves it. The control plane holds no personal data.

### What does it cost?

Organisations pay for passes and policy, from a free tier with one pass. Gates pay per check after the first 10,000 a month. No revenue share, no minimums.

## Pricing

## Organisations

- **Free**: $0 forever. 1 pass, 1 mandate, Record.
- **Team**: $49 a month. 10 passes, Mandates per seller, CSV export.
- **Business**: $199 a month. 50 passes, Approvals, four-eyes, alerts, SSO.
- **Enterprise**: custom from $999 a month. Unlimited passes, Evidence export, policy API, SLA.

## Gates

Sellers and gateways that check passes pay per check.

| Checks a month | Price |
| --- | --- |
| First 10,000 checks a month | free |
| To 1 million | $0.001 per check |
| To 10 million | $0.0005 per check |
| Beyond | $0.0002 per check |

No revenue share, no minimums. Organisation fees are SaaS, invoiced monthly. Gate fees are metered and invoiced monthly.