Pricing

The Influship API uses . Pay only for what you use, with costs visible in every response.

Pricing Table

Endpoint	Cost Model	Price
Search `/v1/search`	Per creator returned	2.0 credits
Search (detailed)	+ per social account	+0.05 credits
Lookalike `/v1/lookalike`	Per creator returned	1.0 credits
Lookalike (detailed)	+ per social account	+0.05 credits
Lookalike seed processing	Per seed creator	0.05 credits
Creators `/v1/creators`	Per creator	0.1 credits
Creators (profiles, lite)	+ per profile	+0.01 credits
Creators (profiles, detailed)	+ per profile	+0.05 credits
Creators (with email)	+ per creator	+0.5 credits
Profiles `/v1/profiles`	Per profile (lite)	0.01 credits
Profiles (detailed)	Per profile	0.05 credits
Autocomplete `/v1/creators/autocomplete`	Per request	0.001 credits
Post Analysis `/v1/posts/analyze`	Per post	1.0 credits
Post Analysis (AI)	+ AI analysis	+0.5 credits
Posts by Creator `/v1/posts/by-creator`	Per post returned	0.01 credits
Match `/v1/match`	Per creator scored	0.1 credits

What's NOT charged?

Health check endpoint
Authentication errors (401, 403)
Validation errors (400)
Rate limit errors (429)

Failed requests don’t consume credits.

How are credits calculated for detailed mode?

Detailed mode adds a surcharge per social account returned:Example: Search returns 25 creators, each has 2 profiles on average:

Base: 25 creators × 2.0 credits = 50 credits
Detailed: 50 profiles × 0.05 credits = 2.5 credits
Total: 52.5 credits

What happens when I hit my billing threshold?

When your monthly usage reaches your plan’s billing threshold (e.g., $5 for Free plan), Stripe automatically creates an invoice and charges your payment method. Your API access continues uninterrupted. If payment fails, API access is suspended until the payment issue is resolved.

How do I get higher rate limits?

Rate limits automatically increase as you spend more. Starter unlocks after your first successful payment, then Pro at

500 and Business at

2,000 lifetime spend. See Plans & Tiers for details.

Plans

Plans are a trust ladder based on lifetime spend. As you spend more, you earn higher rate limits and larger billing thresholds (how much usage accumulates before Stripe invoices you). Plans never downgrade — a slow month won’t reduce your limits.

Plan	Rate Limits	Billing Threshold	How to Reach
Free	10 rpm / 100 rph	$5/month	Signup (default)
Starter	50 rpm / 500 rph	$25/month	First successful payment
Pro	100 rpm / 1,000 rph	$100/month	$500 lifetime spend
Business	200 rpm / 2,000 rph	$250/month	$2,000 lifetime spend
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Contact sales

Automatic Upgrades: Plans upgrade automatically when you hit lifetime spend milestones. No manual action required — your limits increase as you grow.

Startup Program: Building something cool? Contact elliot@influship.com for preferred pricing or custom plan progression.

See Quotas & Rate Limits for detailed information on rate limiting mechanics, how credits are enforced in real-time, and best practices for handling 429 and 402 errors.

Example Calculations

Typical Search
Autocomplete Heavy
Full Campaign Flow

25 creators with detailed profiles (2 accounts each)

Base cost:      25 × 2.0 = 50 credits
Detailed mode:  25 × 2 × 0.05 = 2.5 credits
─────────────────────────────────
Total:          52.5 credits

10,000 autocomplete requests

Cost:  10,000 × 0.001 = 10 credits

💡 Extremely cost-effective for search-as-you-type!

Campaign Discovery Workflow:

1 search (25 creators, detailed)      = 52.5 credits
20 lookalike results (detailed)       = 22.0 credits
──────────────────────────────────────
Total:                                = 74.5 credits

At $0.01/credit = $0.75 per campaign workflow.

Tracking Costs

Every response includes billing headers:

Response Headers
TypeScript
Python

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Credits-Charged: 52.5
X-Credits-Features: search,detailed
X-Billing-Plan: free
RateLimit-Remaining: 997

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

const creditsCharged = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Charged');
const features = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Features');

console.log(`Used ${creditsCharged} credits (${features})`);

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

credits = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Charged')
features = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Features')

print(f"Used {credits} credits ({features})")

Cost Optimization

Use Lite Mode First

Start with mode: "lite" for exploration. Switch to detailed only when needed. Saves 0.04 credits per profile.

Right-Size Limits

Request only what you need. limit: 10 costs less than limit: 100. Don’t over-fetch.

Cache Results

Cache creator data for 24-48 hours. Avoid repeated lookups for the same creators.

Use Autocomplete

At 0.001 credits/request, autocomplete is extremely cost-effective for search-as-you-type.

Getting Started

Start Free

Get 1,000 credits/month free. No credit card required. Sign up at developers.influship.com.

Monitor Usage

Check X-Credits-Charged headers to understand your consumption.

Scale Up

Contact elliot@influship.com for Pro or Enterprise pricing.

Getting Started

Concepts

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Updates

Pricing

Pricing

Pricing Table

Plans

Example Calculations

Tracking Costs

Cost Optimization

Use Lite Mode First

Right-Size Limits

Cache Results

Use Autocomplete

Getting Started

Getting Started

Concepts

SDKs

Updates

​Pricing

​Pricing Table

​Plans

​Example Calculations

​Tracking Costs

​Cost Optimization

Use Lite Mode First

Right-Size Limits

Cache Results

Use Autocomplete

​Getting Started

Pricing

Pricing Table

Plans

Example Calculations

Tracking Costs

Cost Optimization

Getting Started