A game studio’s usual experience of distribution is a private negotiation. The rate you get depends on how badly you needed the deal that quarter. You do not know what the studio next door got. Payment terms stretch, invoices go unanswered, and when a payment is three weeks late your only real move is to ask politely again.
We wrote the opposite into the contract. Everything below is a numbered clause in the Provider Service Offer, which is published in full before anyone signs it. Read the clause, not our summary of it.
One rate, the same for everyone
Section 8.2: USD $0.0012 per metered successful API call. This rate is universal and applies to all Providers.
There is no volume ladder, no launch discount that expires, and no better number for whoever pushed hardest. A studio shipping its first title is on the same rate as the largest catalogue on the platform.
Universal pricing costs us the easiest lever in distribution, which is charging different studios different amounts for the same work. We gave it up because a rate you cannot compare is a rate you cannot trust, and because a market where every provider quietly suspects it got the worse deal is a market where nobody invests in the relationship.
You can see the rate without signing anything. It is on the same open endpoint as the operator price list:
curl https://api.aggregator.gg/v1/pricingPaid for processing, not for someone else’s revenue
Section 2.2: there is no GGR royalty, revenue share, or content-licensing fee in this arrangement. Section 8.1: the unit is one metered successful API call, mapped to one billable round, and no round produces more than one.
That makes your payout a function of one thing you can count. Not the operator’s marketing, not their bonus policy, not how a cohort of players ran last month, and not a GGR figure calculated on a system you have no access to.
Section 8.8 puts the ledger itself in scope: if either side sees a discrepancy in the metering records, there is a joint reconciliation using those records, and a corrected invoice follows. No independent audit is required and no audit cost is charged to you.
Money on a clock, with a penalty on us
Section 8.4: we generate the invoice. Each month we issue a self-billing statement, acting as a recipient-created tax invoice, covering your calls for the previous month. You do not raise an invoice and you do not chase one.
Section 8.5: net-15. Payment is due within fifteen calendar days of that statement being available, in USD, or in USDT on TRC-20 or ERC-20 at par during the bootstrap phase.
Section 8.7 is the clause that matters, because it is the one that costs us. If we fail to pay an undisputed amount within thirty days of its due date, you may claim simple interest at 1% per month, accruing daily. More than two undisputed late payments in a rolling twelve months, or one left outstanding beyond thirty days, gives you the right to suspend and to terminate.
A payment term with no penalty attached is a preference, not a commitment. This one has a number and a date on it.
No floor to clear before you earn
Section 8.9: no minimum volume guarantee, no setup fee, no signing payment, no integration credit, no minimum monthly commitment. Payment is strictly usage-based.
The reason to say this out loud is that minimums are how a distributor makes a small studio subsidise the shelf space it did not use. If your titles do a thousand rounds in a month, you are paid for a thousand rounds and you owe nothing for the rest.
Your content stays yours
Section 7.1: all intellectual property in your content remains yours. Section 7.2 grants us a limited, non-exclusive, revocable technical right, for the term, to route, decode, cache where technically necessary, authenticate and transmit your payloads, plus your thumbnails and metadata for listing purposes. That is the whole grant, and it is not a distribution licence. Section 7 is itself listed in Section 11.4 among the provisions that survive termination, which is the half that matters to you: 7.1 keeps working after we part.
Section 5.3 keeps availability in your hands. You configure rules that suspend specific content for specific operators or geographies, ordinary catalogue changes take effect within twenty-four hours, and we may withhold your reasoning from the operator. One honest limit: the same clause lets us disclose that a restriction came from you where the law, a competent authority, the operator’s own agreement, or fair incident handling requires it. Quiet is the default, not a guarantee.
Section 9.3(b) is where we accept fault. Where a root-cause analysis establishes that a money-path loss was directly and solely caused by a verified routing or metering fault of our own infrastructure, we bear that loss, subject to the liability cap in 9.3(a). Mixed causes are allocated under Schedule C rather than defaulted onto you.
What this is not
It is not a promise that we will sell more of your games than someone else. We have not been doing this long enough for that claim to mean anything, and a distributor who leads with reach before they have it is telling you something about the next conversation.
What we are willing to put in the contract is the part we control: the rate is the same for everyone, the invoice is our job, the money moves in fifteen days, and if it does not, the clause that bites bites us.