---
title: "Privy (a Stripe company)"
slug: "privy-a-stripe-company"
status: "acquired"
last_checked: "2026-07-05"
categories:
  - "money"
---

# Privy (a Stripe company)

Privy provisions self-custodial crypto wallets that AI agents can use to transact onchain under programmable policy controls.

- Status: acquired
- URL: https://www.privy.io/ai
- Last checked: 2026-07-05
- Freshness: 1 days
- Founded: not published
- Funding: not published

- Aliases: Privy, Privy.io
- Status note: Acquired by Stripe in 2025 and continues to operate as a standalone product.

## Editorial

Privy is crypto wallet infrastructure, not a bank account, but it is one of the more explicit vendors marketing wallets for agentic use cases and Stripe is positioning it as the payment governance layer (spend limits, approvals) for agents interacting with crypto rails.

## Offerings

### Money

- Offering status: live
- What you get: Agents get self-custodial server-side wallets provisioned via API, with programmable policies, session keys, and gas subsidization to transact onchain across EVM and Solana chains.
- Acquisition: self_serve
- Geographies: not published
- Pricing: Free developer tier includes 50K signatures and $1M transaction volume monthly; paid Scale tiers by monthly active users are $299/month for 500 to 2,499 MAU and $499/month for 2,500 to 9,999 MAU; Enterprise plans use custom per-transaction or per-wallet pricing, quoted as low as $0.001 per signature.
- Pricing URL: https://www.privy.io/pricing
- API: yes
- SDK: yes
- MCP: not published
- Standards: not published

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| offering_type | wallet |
| custody_model | self |
| partner_bank | not published |
| fdic_passthrough | not published |
| rails | not published |
| spend_controls | programmable policy engine, session keys, manual approval workflows, role and permission management |
| fees | not published |
| who_can_open | not published |

## Sources

- https://www.privy.io/ai
- https://www.privy.io/pricing
- https://docs.privy.io/
- https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/11/stripe-to-acquire-crypto-wallet-startup-privy-in-bid-to-expand-web3-capabilities
- https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/stripe-acquires-privy-to-strengthen-ai-agent-payment-governance