Working with it
Credits
What a call costs, before and after.
Every plan includes a monthly allowance of credits, shared by every endpoint. Most pages cost 1 credit. Failed requests cost nothing.
The rate card
| Unit | Credits | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Standard page | 1 / request | A page that loads with a standard request. Most pages do. |
| Premium proxy page | 2 / request | A page that needs a premium proxy to load. |
| Browser page | 1 / request | A page that needs a real browser to render. |
| Browser page with premium proxy | 9 / request | A page that needs a real browser and a premium proxy. |
| PDF parsing | 1 / 10 pages | Per 10 pages parsed (or part of 10), added to the fetch cost. |
| Cached page, your own | 0 / request | A page you already fetched, served again within maxAge. |
| Web search | 2 / request | Per search call. Result pages fetched are metered as scrapes on top. |
| Site map | 1 / request | Per map call, however many URLs come back. |
| Catalog or feed page | 1 / page | Up to 250 products, or 100 posts, in a single call. |
| Domain lookup | 1 / request | Registration, DNS and known backlinks for one domain. |
| Company enrichment | 3 / request | Firmographics, contact emails, LinkedIn and social profiles for one company. |
| Places search | 10 / request | One search for business listings, however many come back. |
| Place detail | 2 / place | Website, phone and contacts for one business. Only when you ask for them. |
| Lead | 4 / lead | One business found by Find Leads, with its phone, website and address. Only leads delivered are charged. |
| Lead contacts | 4 / lead | The emails, social profiles and contact form a lead publishes. Only when found. |
| Named contact | 8 / person | A named person at a lead, found by the role you ask for. Only when found. |
| Domain availability screen | 1 / name | Whether a name is available to register. Up to 500 names a call; names we cannot check are not charged. |
| Domain report: quick | 5 / report | Registration, DNS, email records and what the website shows today. |
| Domain report: buyer | 33 / report | The quick report plus archive history, known backlinks and a check that linking pages still link. Six archived snapshots included. |
| Domain report: deep | 160 / report | The buyer report with larger samples: up to 50 linking pages checked and twelve archived snapshots included. |
| Fit check | 3 / business | Your own questions answered from a business's website, with a quoted line. Only when its site was read. |
| Social data | 1 / call | One structured answer from a social platform: a profile, a post, a video, a page of comments or a transcript. Only when data comes back. |
| Social data (heavy pages) | 2 / call | The same, for the platforms whose public pages are the largest to read. Only when data comes back. |
| A request that failed | 0 / request | Nothing came back, so nothing is charged. |
Reading the cost
Every response includes a cost object with what the request was charged. Run a few requests before a large job to see what it will cost:
"cost": { "credits": 1, "cached": false}
Your activity log shows the same numbers for every request, with its URL.
Reducing spend
- Use the cache. Re-reading a page you already fetched, within
maxAge, is free. RaisemaxAgefor pages that rarely change. - Map before you crawl. Map lists a site's URLs for 1 credit, so you can crawl only the section you want.
- List instead of crawling. Products and Posts return up to 250 products or 100 posts per call, for 1 credit, instead of paying for every page.
Out of credits? Requests return
402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS and nothing is charged. See Pricing to add more.