API credits usage
API credits billing and related questions
What is API credit?#
API credit is an internal entity used for billing and cost metering. It allows differentiating API requests with different parameters, complexity, and pricing.
API credits amount#
Each subscription plan contains a particular amount of API credits that can be used during the subscription period. Unused API credits are not transferred to the next subscription period.
Request cost#
Each API request price can be found in the following table:
| Request settings | API credits cost |
|---|---|
| Simple request (no JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy | 1 |
| Simple request (no JS rendering) + premium (residential) proxy | 50 |
| Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy | 10 |
| Headless browser (JS rendering) + premium (residential) proxy | 250 |