Pricing

The Influship API uses at $0.01 per credit. API-key and OAuth calls are billed for successful operations. API-key and OAuth requests that return a 4xx or 5xx response are not charged. Agentic payment rails have separate settlement timing; see x402 pricing and MPP pricing.

Price Table

Endpoint	Cost model	Credits	Effective price
`POST /v1/search`	Base + per creator delivered	`25 + 2/creator`	`\$0.25 + \$0.02/creator`
`GET /v1/search/{id}`	Free pagination	`0`	`\$0.00`
`POST /v1/creators/lookalike`	Per creator delivered	`1.5/creator`	`\$0.015/creator`
`POST /v1/creators/match`	Per creator scored	`1/creator`	`\$0.01/creator`
`GET /v1/creators/{id}`	Per request	`0.1`	`\$0.001`
`GET /v1/creators/autocomplete`	Per request	`0.05`	`\$0.0005`
`POST /v1/creators/ingest`	Per creator ingested (new only)	`5`	`\$0.05`
`GET /v1/profiles/{platform}/{username}`	Per request	`0.1`	`\$0.001`
`POST /v1/profiles/lookup`	Per profile found	`0.1/profile`	`\$0.001/profile`
`POST /v1/creator-emails/lookup`	Per creator with at least one email returned	`5/creator`	`\$0.05/creator`
`GET /v1/posts`	Per post returned	`0.05/post`	`\$0.0005/post`
`GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}`	Per profile	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/instagram/post/{shortcode}`	Per post	`1`	`\$0.01`
`POST /v1/raw/instagram/posts`	Per successful post	`1/post`	`\$0.01/post`
`GET /v1/raw/instagram/transcript/{shortcode}`	Per transcript	`5`	`\$0.05`
`POST /v1/raw/instagram/transcripts`	Per successful transcript	`5/transcript`	`\$0.05/transcript`
`GET /v1/raw/tiktok/profile/{username}`	Per profile	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/tiktok/profile/{username}/videos`	Per source page	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/tiktok/video`	Per video	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/tiktok/video/comments`	Per source page	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/tiktok/video/transcript`	Per transcript	`5`	`\$0.05`
`GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}`	Per channel	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/youtube/transcript/{video_id}`	Per transcript	`0.5`	`\$0.005`
`GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel-transcripts/{handle}`	Per transcript returned	`0.5/transcript`	`\$0.005/transcript`
`GET /v1/raw/youtube/search`	Per result returned	`0.5/result`	`\$0.005/result`

Batch Instagram raw endpoints charge credit-metered API-key and OAuth calls only for successful items. TikTok transcript pricing is fixed for every delivered transcript, including a cached result. Pay-per-request x402 and MPP calls use their advertised request prices instead.

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.

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

Scenario	Credits	Cost
`limit: 5`, 5 creators delivered	35	$0.35
`limit: 10`, 7 creators delivered	39	$0.39
`limit: 10`, 10 creators delivered	45	$0.45
`limit: 25`, 20 creators delivered	65	$0.65
`limit: 25`, 25 creators delivered	75	$0.75

What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Indie Hacker / Small Team
Agency / Mid-Volume
Platform / High-Volume

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
─────────────────────────────────────
Total                                = 4,770 credits
Monthly cost                         = $47.70

Running campaigns for multiple clients, 500 searches/month with heavy lookalike usage.

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
─────────────────────────────────────
Total                                = 37,100 credits
Monthly cost                         = $371.00

Integrating search into a product, 5,000+ searches/month with autocomplete.

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
─────────────────────────────────────
Total                                = 258,500 credits
Monthly cost                         = $2,585.00

At this volume, reach out for volume pricing — elliot@influship.com.

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.

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}`);

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']}")

What Tiers Change

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

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.

FAQ: What's NOT charged?

API-key and OAuth requests are not billed when they return a 4xx or 5xx response. This includes validation errors, authentication or permission failures, unavailable data, rate limits, and temporary service failures.Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is also free — you’re stepping through results you already paid for.x402 settlement is final when PAYMENT-RESPONSE reports success, including on an error response. MPP authorizes and settles before the endpoint runs, so an error response can still carry a Payment-Receipt. See x402 and MPP for the settlement contracts.

FAQ: Do unused credits roll over?

There are no monthly credit allocations or rollover mechanics. Credits are charged per request as you use them. Your bill reflects actual usage.

FAQ: What happens if I exceed my rate limit?

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.

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Pricing

Price Table

Why Search Has a Base Fee

Search Pricing in Detail

What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Free Tier

Track Cost Per Request

What Tiers Change

Cost Controls

​Pricing

​Price Table

​Why Search Has a Base Fee

​Search Pricing in Detail

​What Does a Typical Month Cost?

​Free Tier

​Track Cost Per Request

​What Tiers Change

​Cost Controls

Pricing

Price Table

Why Search Has a Base Fee

Search Pricing in Detail

What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Free Tier

Track Cost Per Request

What Tiers Change

Cost Controls