ZapFetch is billed in credits, in USD. Every successful operation costs exactly one credit — no multipliers for output formats, no premium fees for extraction, and no charge for failures. Whether you request Markdown, HTML, a screenshot, and a structured-extract JSON from a single scrape or just plain text, you pay one credit.
The source of truth for your current subscription and credit balance is console.zapfetch.com/dashboard/billing. Pricing shown here reflects published rates but may lag behind real-time plan changes. 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 |
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
You are not charged for requests that don’t return the content you wanted:
- HTTP
4xx / 5xx responses
- Timeouts
- DNS failures
robots.txt denials- Partial crawls: only pages that returned
2xx count
Plans
| 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 |
| Scale | $167 / mo | 500,000 | 50 | Production agents, RAG stacks |
| Business | $749 / mo | 2,500,000 | 100 | Mid-market workloads |
| Enterprise | from $1,250 / mo | custom | custom | Annual, SLA, ZDR, dedicated IPs |
Launch pricing and what comes after
Pricing below reflects Launch Year 1 rates (through 2027-04-20):
- 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).
- Scale / Business / Enterprise prices are permanent. There is no ramp-up period and no “promo period ended” surprises — these are the published rates going forward.
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 |
support@zapfetch.com with proof and the team will apply the discount.
Credit usage in responses
Every successful response includes a credit-usage block so you can track consumption inline:
{
"success": true,
"data": { /* ... */ },
"creditsUsed": 1,
"remainingCredits": 4823
}
remainingCredits is cached for approximately 10 minutes to keep hot paths fast. A burst of requests may show the count ticking 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 your Billing page.
- In-flight crawls finish the pages already dispatched; no new pages are scheduled once the balance is exhausted.
- There is no silent overage. You will never receive a surprise bill — ZapFetch refuses to run above your cap unless you have explicitly opted into overage.
Opt-in overage (Starter and up)
If you would rather keep serving traffic past the cap than receive 402 errors, enable overage in Billing. You are billed per 1,000 extra credits at a flat rate that scales with your plan (cheaper per credit as the plan gets larger).
- A soft cap triggers a warning email.
- A hard cap (2× soft) pauses billing automatically, so a runaway loop cannot drain your card.
The Free plan has no overage option. Runaway traffic on Free hits 429 until the next monthly reset.
Add-ons
Add-ons are separate SKUs that stack on top of any plan from Pro up:
- 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, and Korean e-commerce and news content
- Zero Data Retention — Raw content is dropped within 7 seconds and never written to disk. Available on Business and above.
- 99.9% Uptime SLA — Contractual service credits on downtime. Available on Business and above.
- Priority Queue / Dedicated IP Pool — Isolated queues and IP pools for latency-sensitive or high-volume workloads.
Contact sales@zapfetch.com for add-on pricing or a custom quote.
Tracking usage
The Console’s Usage page shows per-endpoint credit consumption 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 away from the Billing page.