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

API credits usage status

It's possible to get the current status of API credits usage at the dashboard or using API endpoint:

GET https://api.scrapingant.com/v1/usage?x-api-key=<YOUR_SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY>

With the following output:

{

"plan_name": "Enthusiast", // Active subscription plan name

"start_date": "2022-01-11T00:00:00", // Active subscription start date

"end_date": "2022-02-11T00:00:00", // Active subscription end date

"plan_total_credits": 100000, // Active subscription total credits

"remained_credits": 96740 // Active subscription credits left

}