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Pricing

The Influship API uses at $0.01 per credit. You pay for the endpoints you call and the results you receive — nothing else. Failed requests (401, 402, 429, 400) are never charged.

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Price Table

EndpointCost modelCreditsEffective price
POST /v1/searchBase + per creator delivered25 + 2/creator\$0.25 + \$0.02/creator
GET /v1/search/{id}Free pagination0\$0.00
POST /v1/creators/lookalikePer creator delivered1.5/creator\$0.015/creator
POST /v1/creators/matchPer creator scored1/creator\$0.01/creator
GET /v1/creators/{id}Per request0.1\$0.001
GET /v1/creators/autocompletePer request0.05\$0.0005
GET /v1/profiles/{platform}/{username}Per request0.1\$0.001
POST /v1/profiles/lookupPer profile found0.1/profile\$0.001/profile
GET /v1/postsPer post returned0.05/post\$0.0005/post
Live scraping endpointsPer request or returned item0.5\$0.005

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Why Search Has a Base Fee

Search runs AI inference on every query — your natural language input is processed through embedding models and matched against the creator index. The 25-credit base fee covers that compute cost, regardless of how many results match. The per-creator fee scales with what you actually receive. This means a search that finds 3 results costs less than one that finds 25, even though the same inference ran on both.

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Search Pricing in Detail

  • Base fee: 25 credits per search
  • Per creator: 2 credits per delivered result
  • Limit sets the cap on how many results the can return
  • Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is free
ScenarioCreditsCost
limit: 5, 5 creators delivered35$0.35
limit: 10, 7 creators delivered39$0.39
limit: 10, 10 creators delivered45$0.45
limit: 25, 20 creators delivered65$0.65
limit: 25, 25 creators delivered75$0.75

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What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Building a creator discovery tool, running 100 searches/month with some lookups and matching.
100 searches (limit: 10 avg)         = 4,500 credits
200 creator lookups                  =    20 credits
50 match scorings (5 creators each)  =   250 credits
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Total                                = 4,770 credits
Monthly cost                         = $47.70

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Free Tier

Every new account starts with credits to explore the API. The free tier includes:
  • 1,500 credits/hour rate limit budget
  • 150 credits/minute rate limit budget
  • Credits to run searches, lookups, and match scoring
This is enough to prototype an integration, test query quality, and evaluate the response format before committing to a paid plan. Once you make your first payment, your account upgrades to Tier 1 with higher rate limits. See Rate Limits & Tiers for the full tier breakdown.

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Track Cost Per Request

Every successful response includes billing headers: 
X-Credits-Charged: 45.00
X-Credits-Features: creators.search
X-Billing-Plan: free
RateLimit-Remaining-Minute: 105

const response = await fetch('https://api.influship.com/v1/search', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'X-API-Key': API_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ query: 'fitness creators', limit: 10 }),
});

const charged = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Charged');
const feature = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Features');
console.log(`Charged ${charged} credits for ${feature}`);

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What Tiers Change

do not change endpoint prices. They change your rate-limit budgets and billing thresholds. See Rate Limits & Tiers for details.

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Cost Controls

  • Keep search limit tight. Start with 5-10 while prototyping. Results past the top 15-20 are usually lower relevance anyway.
  • Cache creator and profile lookups. Creator data doesn’t change often — caching saves credits and latency.
  • Use autocomplete for search-as-you-type. At 0.05 credits per request, it’s 500x cheaper than running a full search on every keystroke.
  • Batch known work. If you have a list of usernames, use POST /v1/profiles/lookup instead of individual lookups.
Failed requests are never billed. This includes:
  • 401 — invalid or missing API key
  • 402 — billing suspended
  • 429 — rate limit exceeded
  • 400 — validation errors (bad request body, missing fields)
Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is also free — you’re stepping through results you already paid for.
There are no monthly credit allocations or rollover mechanics. Credits are charged per request as you use them. Your bill reflects actual usage.
You get a 429 response. No credits are charged for rate-limited requests. Wait for the reset window or reduce your request rate. See Rate Limits & Tiers.
Enterprise customers may have custom pricing, rate limits, and billing terms negotiated outside the standard tiers. If your current plan doesn’t reflect your agreement, reach out at elliot@influship.com.
If you’re an early-stage startup, check out the startup program for discounted access.