Wallet Setup

Fund your wallet with USDC on Base or Solana.

Choose Your Chain

Franklin supports two chains for payments: Base and Solana. Pick one and run the setup command:

bash

# Base (recommended — lower fees)
franklin setup base

# Solana
franklin setup solana

Base is recommended

Base has significantly lower transaction fees than Solana for micropayments. Unless you already hold USDC on Solana, start with Base.

Check Your Balance

After setup, verify your wallet address and current USDC balance:

bash

franklin balance

This displays your wallet address and USDC balance. Share the address to receive funds.

Fund Your Wallet

Send USDC to the wallet address shown by franklin balance. You can transfer from any exchange (Coinbase, Binance, etc.) or another wallet.

How much do I need?

Even $1 of USDCis enough for hundreds of API calls. Franklin uses micropayments — each model call costs fractions of a cent.

Free Tier

No funding needed to get started. Franklin includes free access to NVIDIA models out of the box. Just run:

bash

franklin

You can use free NVIDIA models immediately — no wallet setup, no USDC, no sign-up required. Fund your wallet later when you want access to premium models like Claude, GPT, and Grok.