CatFee vs TEnergy: price, API, conditions

One-hour TRON energy at 16–28 SUN, stepping on the hour, and the widest product range in this market: flash refill, TRON Mate subscriptions, an exchange.

  • Peak until 16:00 UTC
  • 1h energy 28 SUN
  • 65k · 1h 1.820 TRX

CatFee suits you if you want TRON Mate subscriptions, flash refill or its exchange beside energy; its API rents energy for 1 hour only. TEnergy sells that hour and five more terms, from 5 minutes to 1 day. CatFee's website: catfee.io.

Every CatFee fact on this page carries its source and date; the docs were read on 2026-10-21 and prices come from our board. Prices move; if something here is out of date, it is our error and we want to hear about it at support@tenergy.me. Source: https://catfee.io/.

CatFee price now

CatFee: 1-hour TRON energy at 28 SUN per unit (1.82 TRX for one USDT transfer) at 2026-11-13 15:13 UTC, #1 of 25 providers on our board, 48 % below the board's average of 53.7 SUN. Last 24 hours: 16–28 SUN. TEnergy now: 28 SUN (1.82 TRX).

Read at 2026-11-13 15:13 UTCCatFee
1-hour price28 SUN · 1.82 TRX per 65,000 energy
1-day pricenot published
Available energynot published
Rank by 1-hour price1 of 25
1-hour price, last 24 h16–28 SUN (1439 readings)
TEnergy 1-hour price now28 SUN · 1.82 TRX
Burning instead100 SUN · 6.5 TRX

Read every minute from CatFee's API; its site may show other prices. All providers → 24-hour history (JSON)

What CatFee sells

CatFee's published terms and our board's prices, each with its source and date.

CatFeeTEnergySource
Rental window1 hour (the API takes 1h only)5, 10, 15 and 30 minutes, 1 hour and 1 day; by a plain TRX transfer, 1 hour or 1 dayCatFee API docs · 2026‑10‑21
Order sizeFrom 65,000 energy; no published maximum — up to the energy CatFee has available64,000 – 5,000,000 energyCatFee API docs · 2026‑10‑21
Price, 1 hour16–28 SUN, stepping on the hour (UTC): 00–06 20 · 06–08 16 · 08–10 18 · 10–12 20 · 12–14 24 · 14–24 28. Observed, not a published scheduleThe best live price for your amountour board, 14 days · 2026‑10‑08…22
Fee per orderNone in the docsRouting fee of 2–5% of the provider's price, already in our quoted priceCatFee API docs · 2026‑10‑21
Address activationAdded to an order by default; 1.2 TRX in CatFee's dashboard1.20 TRXdocs · dashboard 2026‑10‑22
Without an accountSend TRX to CatFee's address: 3 TRX = 65,000 energy, in multiples of 3 TRXSend TRX to the order address: the TRX you send ÷ the live price, from 64,000 energyCatFee API docs · 2026‑10‑21
API paymentPrepaid balance, topped up in TRXPrepaid balance, or pay per orderCatFee API docs · 2026‑10‑21
Flash refillRestores used energy: 500,000–5,000,000 at 29 SUN; bandwidth 50,000–1,000,000 at 197 SUN (live estimate)Not offereddocs · estimate 2026‑10‑21
SubscriptionsTRON Mate: 3, 6 and 12-month plans in USDTNot offeredCatFee API docs · 2026‑10‑21
Special conditions. None for CatFee: no volume cap or surcharge in its docs, and none in our bills (2026-10-21).

CatFee and TEnergy by the hour

Over the last 24 hours CatFee's 1-hour price moved between 16 and 28 SUN. Against our windows — today's prices so far, our forecast for the rest of the day (UTC) — TEnergy is cheaper in 6 of 13 windows, by 4–30 % and the same in 7. Cheapest with us: 04:00 – 06:00 UTC at 14 SUN, 0.910 TRX for one USDT transfer.

Bars: our windows. Line: CatFee's 1-hour price.

24 h price map · 1-hour rental, SUN per energy · your time (UTC)
Compare with
PeriodYour timeUTCSUN65k · TRX131k · TRX
Off-peak00:00 – 01:0000:00 – 01:00191.2352.489
Night peak01:00 – 02:0001:00 – 02:00201.3002.620
Night drop02:00 – 04:0002:00 – 04:00171.1052.227
Off-peakCheapest04:00 – 06:0004:00 – 06:00140.9101.834
Morning ramp06:00 – 08:0006:00 – 08:00161.0402.096
Morning ramp08:00 – 10:0008:00 – 10:00181.1702.358
Morning ramp10:00 – 12:0010:00 – 12:00201.3002.620
Pre-peak ramp12:00 – 14:0012:00 – 14:00241.5603.144
Midday peakHighest14:00 – 18:0014:00 – 18:00281.8203.668
Off-peakForecast18:00 – 19:0018:00 – 19:00271.7553.537
Evening peakHighestForecast19:00 – 20:0019:00 – 20:00281.8203.668
Evening dropForecast20:00 – 22:0020:00 – 22:00261.6903.406
Evening dropForecast22:00 – 00:0022:00 – 00:00231.4953.013

Prices to the right of the now line are our forecast: for each hour we take our prices over the last 3 weeks on the same kind of day (weekdays or weekends), recent days counting most. To the left is what we charged today.

One USDT transfer, window by window

What one transfer costs at each window (UTC): 65,000 energy to an address that holds USDT, 131,000 to one that does not.

Window, UTCTEnergy, 65k TRXCatFee, 65k TRXTEnergy, 131k TRXCatFee, 131k TRX
00:00 – 01:001.2351.3002.4892.620
01:00 – 02:001.3001.3002.6202.620
02:00 – 04:001.1051.3002.2272.620
04:00 – 06:000.9101.3001.8342.620
06:00 – 08:001.0401.0402.0962.096
08:00 – 10:001.1701.1702.3582.358
10:00 – 12:001.3001.3002.6202.620
12:00 – 14:001.5601.5603.1443.144
14:00 – 18:001.8201.8203.6683.668
18:00 – 19:001.7551.8203.5373.668
19:00 – 20:001.8201.8203.6683.668
20:00 – 22:001.6901.8203.4063.668
22:00 – 00:001.4951.8203.0133.668

CatFee: its 1-hour price on our board. TEnergy: our window price, a forecast from now on.

Side by side

DimensionCatFeeTEnergy
Tiers1 hour only in the widget5, 10, 15 and 30 minutes, 1 hour and 1 day; by a plain TRX transfer, 1 hour or 1 day
Price, 65,000 energy, 1 hour1.30 TRX off-peak, 1.95 TRX at peakThe best available live price, shown at the top of this page
Activation1.2 TRX1.20 TRX
Auto-refillTRON Mate: Basic keeps 131,000 energy available; Pro refills when available energy drops below 325k, 650k or 1.3M, a daily fee plus 16 SUN per unitNot offered
PaymentTRX or USDTTRX
Uptime99.9 % stated on their siteA public status page (status.tenergy.me)
Direct transfer3 TRX = 65,000 energyThe TRX you send ÷ the live price, from 64,000 energy
Batch sizeUp to 20 addressesUp to 100 receivers in one batch
AuthCF-ACCESS-KEY / CF-ACCESS-SIGN / CF-ACCESS-TIMESTAMP, 5 s clock toleranceX-API-KEY / X-API-TIMESTAMP / X-API-SIGN, 5 s clock tolerance
Signed stringbase64(HMAC-SHA256(ts + method + path?query, secret)), all params in the queryThe same, plus the body — which is empty on the endpoints you are already calling
WebhooksX-EVENT-ID / TYPE / VERSION, 10 retries, an optional v1 signature (since 2026-10)The same retry schedule, signed — and there is no unsigned mode
Idempotencyclient_order_idclient_order_id, plus Idempotency-Key elsewhere
Testnetnile.catfee.ioapi-nile.tenergy.me, separate keys and ledger
Agent surfacellms.txt and llms-full.txt publishedllms.txt, llms-full.txt, quickstart.json

What CatFee does that we do not

  • The broadest product range here: TRON Mate auto-refill, Flash Refill, Seamless Energy, a Telegram bot builder, a staking vault, Flash Unstake and a C2C partner programme.
  • They publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt already — the only pool in this market that does.
  • A large bilingual documentation tree, in English and Chinese.

Keep your CatFee integration

Our API also answers in CatFee's format: keep your client, change the base URL to the one below and use a TEnergy key. What each compatible API covers →

Which CatFee calls our API takes as they are:

CatFee callWith TEnergy
GET /v1/estimateSame path and response
GET /v1/marketSame path and response
POST /v1/orderSame path and body
GET /v1/order/{id}Same path and response
POST /v1/reclaim/{id}Same path
GET /v1/accountSame path and response
Flash refill: GET /v1/flash/open/estimate, POST /v1/flash/open/order, GET /v1/flash/open/order/{id}Same paths and bodies

Swap CatFee's base URL for https://api.tenergy.me/compat/catfee and sign with a TEnergy key as you do now. Not covered: TRON Mate, seamless energy, the exchange, webhooks and the address monitor. Nile: api-nile.tenergy.me.

https://api.tenergy.me/compat/catfee

CatFee: common questions

How much does CatFee charge for energy?

On our board CatFee's 1-hour price steps on the hour between 16 and 28 SUN — 1.04 to 1.82 TRX for one USDT transfer (2026-10-08…22). It has no per-order fee; activating a new address adds 1.2 TRX.

Does CatFee have an API?

Yes: a REST API with CF-ACCESS signed requests, webhooks and a Nile testnet; orders are 1 hour, from 65,000 energy. TEnergy answers its order, estimate, market, account and flash-refill calls in the same format at https://api.tenergy.me/compat/catfee.

Can I keep my CatFee API code?

For 1-hour energy, address activation, webhooks, transactions sent through our node with energy added: yes. Only the base URL and the key change.

How do CatFee's rental terms compare with TEnergy's?

CatFee: 1 hour only in the widget (measured 2026-10-21). TEnergy: 5, 10, 15 and 30 minutes, 1 hour and 1 day; by a plain TRX transfer, 1 hour or 1 day.

What does CatFee offer that TEnergy does not?

The broadest product range here: TRON Mate auto-refill, Flash Refill, Seamless Energy, a Telegram bot builder, a staking vault, Flash Unstake and a C2C partner programme. They publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt already — the only pool in this market that does. A large bilingual documentation tree, in English and Chinese.

Is CatFee cheaper than TEnergy?

Hour by hour today, TEnergy is cheaper in 6 of 13 windows, by 4–30 % and the same in 7. The live numbers are at the top of this page.