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Pricing

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Price Table

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Why Search Has a Base Fee

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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 search session can return
• Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is free

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What Does a Typical Month Cost?

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

500 searches (limit: 15 avg)         = 27,500 credits
1,000 creator lookups                =    100 credits
200 lookalike searches (15 results)  =  4,500 credits
500 match scorings (10 creators)     =  5,000 credits
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Total                                = 37,100 credits
Monthly cost                         = $371.00

5,000 searches (limit: 10 avg)       = 225,000 credits
50,000 autocomplete requests         =   2,500 credits
10,000 creator lookups               =   1,000 credits
1,000 lookalike searches (20 results)=  30,000 credits
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Total                                = 258,500 credits
Monthly cost                         = $2,585.00

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Starter credits and rate limits

• 1,500 credits/hour rate limit budget
• 150 credits/minute rate limit budget

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Track Cost Per Request

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}`);

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.influship.com/v1/search',
    headers={'X-API-Key': API_KEY},
    json={'query': 'fitness creators', 'limit': 10},
)

print(f"Charged {response.headers['X-Credits-Charged']} credits")
print(f"Feature: {response.headers['X-Credits-Features']}")

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What Tiers Change

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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.
• Reuse creator and profile responses where appropriate. Creator data changes less often than live platform data, so repeated lookups may be unnecessary.
• 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.