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Credit cost for your requests

What is API credit? How to calculate API credit cost?

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 settingsAPI credits cost
Simple request (no browser usage) + standard (datacenter) proxy1
Headless browser (no JS rendering, return_page_source parameter is true) + standard (datacenter) proxy2
Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy10
Simple request (no browser usage) + premium (residential) proxy25
Headless browser (no JS rendering, return_page_source parameter is false) + standard (datacenter) proxy50
Headless browser (JS rendering) + premium (residential) proxy125
Any request to Google domain + standard (datacenter) proxy10

Each response from web scraping API contains the Ant-credits-cost header that shows the amount of credits that were spent for the request.