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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 settingsAPI credits cost
Simple request (no JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy1
Simple request (no JS rendering) + premium (residential) proxy25
Simple request to Google domain (no JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy10
Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy10
Headless browser (JS rendering) + premium (residential) proxy125

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
}