> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.zapfetch.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Billing and credits

> How credits work, how plans are priced, and what happens when you run out.

ZapFetch is billed in **credits**, in USD. One credit equals one successful
operation — no multipliers for output formats, no premium fees for
extraction, and no charge for failures.

## The one rule: 1 credit = 1 operation

| Operation          | Cost                                      |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| `POST /v1/scrape`  | 1 credit per successful scrape            |
| `POST /v1/search`  | 1 credit per call (regardless of results) |
| `POST /v1/map`     | 1 credit per call                         |
| `POST /v1/crawl`   | 1 credit per page fetched                 |
| `POST /v1/extract` | 1 credit per call                         |

A single `scrape` returning Markdown **and** HTML **and** a screenshot
**and** a structured-extract JSON is still **1 credit**. Same URL, same
price, whatever you ask for.

### Failures are free

Anything that didn't return the content you wanted doesn't cost a credit:

* HTTP `4xx` / `5xx` responses
* Timeouts
* DNS failures
* `robots.txt` denials
* Partial crawls: only pages that returned `2xx` count

## Plans

> Pricing below reflects **Launch Year 1** rates (through 2027-04-20).
> The source of truth for your current subscription is the
> [Billing page](https://console.zapfetch.com/dashboard/billing).

| Plan    | Price (Launch) | Credits / mo | Concurrency | Best for                 |
| ------- | -------------- | ------------ | ----------- | ------------------------ |
| Free    | \$0            | 1,500        | 2           | Prototyping, evaluation  |
| Starter | **\$5 / mo**   | 5,000        | 10          | Side projects, solo devs |
| Pro     | **\$12 / mo**  | 75,000       | 20          | Early-stage agent teams  |

Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. If you need larger volumes
or rollover credits, email `sales@zapfetch.com`.

### Launch pricing and what comes after

* **Starter / Pro** Launch prices ($5 / $12) are locked in for users who
  sign up on or before **2027-04-20** — for as long as you keep the
  subscription active.
* **Starter / Pro** new signups after 2027-04-20 are billed at the
  standard rate (**$10** and **$25** respectively). Still cheaper than
  the nearest comparable plan on Firecrawl.

### Annual and program discounts

| Program                       | Discount               |
| ----------------------------- | ---------------------- |
| Annual prepay                 | 15% off any paid plan  |
| OSS maintainers (≥500 ★ repo) | Pro free for 12 months |
| Students (`.edu` email)       | Pro free for 12 months |
| Registered nonprofits         | 50% off annual         |

Email `support@zapfetch.com` with proof and we'll apply it.

## Credit usage in responses

Every successful response carries a credit-usage chunk — the same shape
Firecrawl returns, so existing client code that reads remaining credits
works unchanged.

```json theme={null}
{
  "success": true,
  "data": { /* ... */ },
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "remainingCredits": 4823
}
```

`remainingCredits` is cached for \~10 minutes to keep hot paths fast, so a
burst of requests may see the count tick down in batches rather than
strictly one-by-one.

## What happens when you run out

* Once `remainingCredits` hits zero, subsequent requests return
  **`402 Payment Required`** with a message pointing to
  [console.zapfetch.com/dashboard/billing](https://console.zapfetch.com/dashboard/billing).
* In-flight crawls finish the pages already dispatched; no new pages are
  scheduled once the balance is exhausted.
* No silent overage. You'll never get a surprise bill — ZapFetch refuses
  to run above your cap unless you've explicitly opted into overage.

### Opt-in overage (Starter and up)

If you'd rather keep serving traffic past the cap than return `402`, turn
on overage in Billing. You'll be billed per 1,000 extra credits at a
flat rate that depends on your plan (Pro's per-credit rate is lower
than Starter's). A soft cap triggers a warning email; a hard cap (2×
soft) pauses billing so a runaway loop can't drain your card.

Free plan has no overage — runaway traffic hits `429` until the next
month.

## Add-ons (optional)

Add-ons are separate SKUs that stack on top of the Pro plan.

* **APAC Residential Proxy** — JP / KR / CN / SG / TW residential IPs
  for sites that block datacenter ranges (Rakuten, Naver, 1688, etc.)
* **CJK Extract Model** — Pretrained extractor for Chinese / Japanese /
  Korean e-commerce and news

See the [pricing page](https://zapfetch.com/pricing) for add-on rates, or email
`sales@zapfetch.com` for a quote.

## Tracking usage

The Console's **Usage** page shows per-endpoint credits over time and is
the authoritative source for billing reconciliation. Stripe handles
invoices, tax, and receipts; everything lives in your Stripe Customer
Portal, one click from the Billing page.