name: Litecoin Space WebSocket API FinOps
description: The Litecoin Space WebSocket API is a free community service with no
  connection fees. FinOps considerations apply only to self-hosted deployments.
costs:
  - name: Public WebSocket Usage
    description: Zero cost for connecting to wss://litecoinspace.org/api/v1/ws.
      No account, API key, or subscription is required.
    type: free
    amount: 0
    currency: USD
  - name: Self-Hosted Deployment
    description: Self-hosting ltcspace for a guaranteed WebSocket feed requires a
      Litecoin Core full node and the ltcspace backend. Infrastructure costs mirror
      those of the REST API self-hosted plan.
    type: infrastructure
    unit: self-hosted
    notes: Same infrastructure footprint as self-hosted REST API. WebSocket connections
      are handled by the same Node.js backend service.