How Credits Work
Every APIVoid plan includes a monthly amount of credits. Each API consumes a fixed number of credits per successful call, so costs are predictable and easy to estimate.
Credit cost per API
The credit cost is fixed per API service and listed on each API's reference page. For example, DNS Lookup API costs 1 credit per request, while Screenshot API costs 20. To estimate your monthly credit needs and find the right plan for your expected usage, you can use the pricing calculator, just enter the estimated monthly API calls for each API.
Errors never consume credits
Only successful requests that return HTTP 200 consume credits.
Overage
Overage is available on Startup plans and above. It lets you continue making API requests after your monthly credit quota is exhausted (so the service is not interrupted), until your next reset.
- Overage is disabled by default and must be enabled from the Subscription page in the dashboard.
- The default overage limit is 250,000 credits and can be increased up to 500,000; contact us for higher limits.
- Overage credits are billed separately from the subscription at a rate that varies by plan.
- Check the X-Service-Quota header fields
overage-valueandoverage-limit.
Credit resets
Your credit balance replenishes at the start of each billing cycle. The exact reset time is always available as a Unix timestamp in the reset field of the X-Service-Quota header, returned with every successful response.
Monitoring your usage
You can track consumption in three ways:
- Programmatically, by reading the X-Service-Quota header on every successful response.
- Via the Account Info API, which returns your plan details, credits balance and usage, and consumes no credits.
- From the dashboard, where you can view your usage, remaining balance and overage status at any time.