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Pricing

Pay for what you retrieve.

$3 per 1,000 requests — the same price for everyone. Start with $20 of free credit, no card; top up only when you run out. No seats, no monthly fee, no overage.

Signing up issues an API key with $20 of credit. The balance never expires and never resets — top-ups add to the same wallet.
OperationCreditsPrice
Search · news · limit ≤ 253$0.0030
Search · news · limit 26–505$0.0050
Document · full text0free
Account · keys · research session management0free
Research · turn · billed by tokens usedup to 5,000up to $5.00
Research · read a finished turn0free

1 credit = $0.0010. Same prices and same rate limits for everyone — there are no tiers, so there is no other price sheet. Pagination is billed per page (each page is a full retrieval); idempotent replays are free.

Prepaid, start free.

Signing up gives you an API key and $20 of credit — no card, no monthly fee. When the balance runs out, requests return 402 and stop; top up with a one-time payment (from $5) and they continue. Optional auto-reload keeps the balance above a threshold you set. No overage, no invoice at the end of the month, no hidden charges.

Start free

Enterprise, by contract.

Volume pricing, custom terms and invoicing, and an SLA (99.9% + negotiable) with service credits — for teams that need a contract rather than a wallet.

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Rate limits

Requests per second, per key — the same for every account, because rate limits only guard against bursts; they are not a pricing axis. Enterprise limits are set by contract. The complete limit reference, including concurrency and burst behaviour, lives in the docs and is the authority if the two ever disagree.

EndpointPer key
Search · news10/s
Document · news5/s
Account · me5/s
Account · usage5/s
Account · keys5/s
Research · run1 / 2s
Research · read1/s
Research · attach1 / 2s
Research · manage1/s
Research · cancel1/s

One balance, one price.

Everything is priced in credits from a single prepaid balance, so the cost of a call never depends on who you are — there are no tiers to compare.

How much will I spend?

= 1,360,000 credits / month · $1,360.00

One price for everyone: credits × $0.0010. Research turns are counted at their per-turn cap here — they are billed by the tokens they actually use, so your real spend is at most this.

Billing, in plain words.

Do I need a card to get an API key?
No. Signing up gives you an API key and $20 of credit — no card, no monthly fee, nothing expires. Every request is priced in credits and drawn from that prepaid balance; rate limits and prices are the same for everyone. When the balance runs out, requests stop with a 402 — nothing silently bills. Topping up is a one-time payment (from $5); saving a card just makes the next top-up one click, and lets you turn on optional auto-reload. A card never changes your limits, and there are no hidden charges.
What happens when my balance runs out?
Requests that cost credits return 402 and stop — nothing silently bills, because there is nothing to bill: the wallet is prepaid and there is no pay-as-you-go, no overage rate, no invoice at the end of the month. Top up (a one-time payment, from $5) and requests continue immediately. If you would rather never see the 402, turn on auto-reload — it tops up by an amount you choose when the balance drops below a threshold you choose, and it is off by default.
Can my bill run away?
No — there is no bill. The wallet is prepaid: usage draws down a balance you already paid for, and when it reaches zero, requests stop. Auto-reload is the only way money moves without you clicking, it is off by default, and both its threshold and its amount are numbers you set.
Is there anything to cancel?
No. There is no subscription and no monthly fee — nothing renews, so there is nothing to cancel. If you stop using the API, your balance simply sits there; it never expires.
Do unused credits expire?
No. The credit you get at sign-up and the credit you buy live in one balance that never expires and never resets. Top-ups start at $5.
What counts as a request?
Every search and every page of results. Full-text document reads and research session management are free. Research turns are billed by the tokens they actually use, with a hard cap per turn. Idempotent replays are free. Pagination is billed per page because each page is a full retrieval.

Every number on this page is rendered from the plan contract in this repository, which is the machine form of the canonical pricing decision. Nothing here is typed by hand.