Staging vs Production Environments

Crossmint’s console and first-party wallet operate in two different environments:

• Staging: free, for testing.
• Production: for your live projects. Blockchain operations incur credit costs.

You may access them from https://staging.crossmint.com, and https://www.crossmint.com.

Staging provides free self-serve access to most functionality.

Differences between the Environments

	Staging	Production
URL	https://staging.crossmint.com	https://www.crossmint.com
Payments	Test credit cards	Accepts real credit cards
API Credits	Free to test (no API credits required)	API credits required for some endpoints
Verification	NFT checkout does not require KYC or collection verification	NFT checkout requires KYC and collection verification
Blockchains	Testnets like Sepolia, and Amoy	Mainnets

FAQ

Does staging activity appear in the production account, and viceversa?

No, collections created in one environment will not appear in the other.

Typically, you would start developing your project in staging, and replicate and launch in production when you feel ready.