Pricing

The Influship API uses at $0.01 per credit. API-key and OAuth calls are billed for successful operations. API-key and OAuth requests that return a 4xx or 5xx response are not charged. x402 and MPP have separate payment and settlement rules; see x402 pricing and MPP pricing.

Try it and estimate costs

New API customers receive 500 one-time starter credits, with no expiry and no card required. Keys share the same account balance. The allowance does not renew; rate-limit windows do.

Example	Assumption	API-key/OAuth cost
Search for five creators	Five creators delivered	$0.35
Resolve 50 profiles	All 50 found	$0.05
Score 10 creators	All 10 scored	$0.10
Read saved shortlists	Account-owned list operations only	$0.00

Search has a base fee even when no creators match. Starter-credit rules explain reservation and paid billing.

Estimate monthly usage

Set your expected monthly volumes below. This estimates API-key/OAuth prices for delivered results, before starter credits. x402/MPP quote requested limits and include separate premiums and rounding; use their payment guides instead of this estimate.

Price table

Prices below apply to API-key and OAuth requests.

Search and creator discovery

Paths below are relative to /v1.

Endpoint	Credits	Price
`POST /search`	25 + 2/creator	$0.25 + $0.02/creator
`GET /search/{id}`	0 (saved results)	$0.00
`POST /creators/lookalike`	1.5/creator	$0.015/creator
`POST /creators/match`	1/creator	$0.01/creator

Creator, profile, and post lookups

Paths below are relative to /v1.

Endpoint	Credits	Price
`GET /creators/{id}`	0.1 per request	$0.001
`GET /creators/autocomplete`	0.05 per request	$0.0005
`POST /creators/ingest`	5 per creator ingested (new only)	$0.05
`GET /profiles/{platform}/{username}`	0.1 per request	$0.001
`POST /profiles/lookup`	0.1/profile	$0.001/profile
`POST /creator-emails/lookup`	5/creator	$0.05/creator
`GET /posts`	0.05/post	$0.0005/post

Instagram live data

Paths below are relative to /v1/raw/instagram.

Endpoint	Credits	Price
`GET /profile/{username}`	0.5 per profile	$0.005
`GET /post/{shortcode}`	1 per post	$0.01
`POST /posts`	1/post	$0.01/post
`GET /transcript/{shortcode}`	5 per transcript	$0.05
`POST /transcripts`	5/transcript	$0.05/transcript

TikTok live data

Paths below are relative to /v1/raw/tiktok.

Endpoint	Credits	Price
`GET /profile/{username}`	0.2 per profile	$0.002
`GET /profile/{username}/videos`	0.2 per source page	$0.002
`GET /video`	0.2 per video	$0.002
`GET /video/comments`	0.2 per source page	$0.002
`GET /video/comment/replies`	0.2 per reply page	$0.002
`GET /music`	0.2 per sound lookup	$0.002
`GET /search/users`	0.2 per source page	$0.002
`GET /search/videos`	0.2 per source page	$0.002
`GET /hashtag/videos`	0.2 per source page	$0.002
`GET /music/videos`	0.2 per source page	$0.002
`GET /video/captions`	0.2 per delivered caption response	$0.002
`GET /video/transcript`	2.5 per transcript	$0.025
`POST /videos`	0.2 per successful video (1–20 urls)	$0.002
`POST /video/transcripts`, auto	2.5 per successful transcript (1–10 urls)	$0.025
`POST /video/transcripts`, captions	0.2 per successful caption response (1–10 urls)	$0.002

YouTube live data

Paths below are relative to /v1/raw/youtube.

Endpoint	Credits	Price
`GET /channel/{handle}`	0.5 per channel	$0.005
`GET /transcript/{video_id}`	0.5 per transcript	$0.005
`GET /channel-transcripts/{handle}`	0.5/transcript	$0.005/transcript
`GET /search`	0.5 per fetched page	$0.005
`GET /video/{video_id}`	0.5 per video	$0.005
`GET /typeahead`	0.5 per request	$0.005

Batch Instagram and TikTok raw endpoints charge credit-metered API-key and OAuth calls only for successful items. TikTok transcript pricing is fixed for every delivered transcript, including a cached result. Pay-per-request x402 and MPP batches quote all requested items. Settled payments are nonrefundable, including partial or entirely failed batches. The premium and whole-cent rounding apply once to the total batch, not separately to each item.

Why Search Has a Base Fee

Each search costs 25 credits plus 2 credits per creator delivered. The base fee applies to every successful search, including an empty result set. For example, three delivered creators cost 31 credits ($0.31), while 25 cost 75 credits ($0.75).

Search Pricing in Detail

Base fee: 25 credits per search
Per creator: 2 credits per delivered result
Limit sets the cap on how many results the can return
Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is free

Scenario	Credits	Cost
`limit: 5`, 5 creators delivered	35	$0.35
`limit: 10`, 7 creators delivered	39	$0.39
`limit: 10`, 10 creators delivered	45	$0.45
`limit: 25`, 20 creators delivered	65	$0.65
`limit: 25`, 25 creators delivered	75	$0.75

What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Indie Hacker / Small Team
Agency / Mid-Volume
Platform / High-Volume

Building a creator discovery tool, running 100 searches/month with some lookups and matching.

100 searches (limit: 10 avg)         = 4,500 credits
200 creator lookups                  =    20 credits
50 match scorings (5 creators each)  =   250 credits
─────────────────────────────────────
Total                                = 4,770 credits
Monthly cost                         = $47.70

Running campaigns for multiple clients, 500 searches/month with heavy lookalike usage.

500 searches (limit: 15 avg)         = 27,500 credits
1,000 creator lookups                =    100 credits
200 lookalike searches (15 results)  =  4,500 credits
500 match scorings (10 creators)     =  5,000 credits
─────────────────────────────────────
Total                                = 37,100 credits
Monthly cost                         = $371.00

Integrating search into a product, 5,000+ searches/month with autocomplete.

5,000 searches (limit: 10 avg)       = 225,000 credits
50,000 autocomplete requests         =   2,500 credits
10,000 creator lookups               =   1,000 credits
1,000 lookalike searches (20 results)=  30,000 credits
─────────────────────────────────────
Total                                = 258,500 credits
Monthly cost                         = $2,585.00

At this volume, reach out for volume pricing — elliot@influship.com.

Starter credits and rate limits

New API customers receive 500 one-time starter credits, with no expiry and no card required. Use them across metered API endpoints. Your API keys share the same account balance; creating another key does not add credits. The API reserves the maximum request cost before processing, then charges for the successful results delivered. Unused reserved credits return to your available balance. Requests in progress can temporarily reduce the credits available for another request. If a request needs more credits than your available balance, a cardless account receives 402 insufficient_credits. With paid usage enabled, the entire request uses paid billing and your remaining starter credits stay available for smaller requests. The free tier also has separate request-speed budgets:

1,500 credits/hour rate limit budget
150 credits/minute rate limit budget

These budgets renew with their rate-limit windows. Your starter-credit balance does not renew. Once you make your first payment, your account upgrades to Tier 1 with higher rate limits. See Rate Limits & Tiers for the full tier breakdown.

Track Cost Per Request

Successful metered API-key/OAuth responses include billing headers:

X-Credits-Charged: 45.00
X-Credits-Features: creators.search
X-Billing-Plan: free
RateLimit-Remaining-Minute: 105

const response = await fetch('https://api.influship.com/v1/search', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'X-API-Key': API_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ query: 'fitness creators', limit: 10 }),
});

const charged = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Charged');
const feature = response.headers.get('X-Credits-Features');
console.log(`Charged ${charged} credits for ${feature}`);

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.influship.com/v1/search',
    headers={'X-API-Key': API_KEY},
    json={'query': 'fitness creators', 'limit': 10},
)

print(f"Charged {response.headers['X-Credits-Charged']} credits")
print(f"Feature: {response.headers['X-Credits-Features']}")

Unmetered saved-shortlist operations use separate request limits; do not use their headers to infer a credit balance.

What Tiers Change

do not change endpoint prices. They change your rate-limit budgets and billing thresholds. See Rate Limits & Tiers for details.

Cost Controls

Keep search limit tight. Start with 5 while prototyping. Increase it when you need more candidates to review.
Reuse creator and profile responses where appropriate. Creator data changes less often than live platform data, so repeated lookups may be unnecessary.
Use autocomplete for name and handle suggestions. It costs 0.05 credits per request. Run a creator search when the user submits a discovery brief.
Batch known work. If you have a list of usernames, use POST /v1/profiles/lookup instead of individual lookups.

FAQ: What's NOT charged?

API-key and OAuth requests are not billed when they return a 4xx or 5xx response. This includes validation errors, authentication or permission failures, unavailable data, rate limits, and temporary service failures.Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is also free — you’re stepping through results you already paid for.x402 settlement is final when PAYMENT-RESPONSE reports success, including on an error response. MPP authorizes and settles before the endpoint runs, so an error response can still carry a Payment-Receipt. See x402 and MPP for the settlement contracts.

FAQ: Do unused credits roll over?

Your one-time starter credits do not expire. Standard paid API usage is charged per request, with no monthly credit allocation. Enterprise allowances follow your agreed billing terms.

FAQ: What happens if I exceed my rate limit?

You get a 429 response. No credits are charged for rate-limited requests. Wait for the reset window or reduce your request rate. See Rate Limits & Tiers.

Enterprise customers may have custom pricing, rate limits, and billing terms negotiated outside the standard tiers. If your current plan doesn’t reflect your agreement, reach out at elliot@influship.com.

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Try it and estimate costs

Estimate monthly usage

Price table

Search and creator discovery

Creator, profile, and post lookups

Instagram live data

TikTok live data

YouTube live data

Why Search Has a Base Fee

Search Pricing in Detail

What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Starter credits and rate limits

Track Cost Per Request

What Tiers Change

Cost Controls

​Try it and estimate costs

​Estimate monthly usage

​Price table

​Search and creator discovery

​Creator, profile, and post lookups

​Instagram live data

​TikTok live data

​YouTube live data

​Why Search Has a Base Fee

​Search Pricing in Detail

​What Does a Typical Month Cost?

​Starter credits and rate limits

​Track Cost Per Request

​What Tiers Change

​Cost Controls

Try it and estimate costs

Estimate monthly usage

Price table

Search and creator discovery

Creator, profile, and post lookups

Instagram live data

TikTok live data

YouTube live data

Why Search Has a Base Fee

Search Pricing in Detail

What Does a Typical Month Cost?

Starter credits and rate limits

Track Cost Per Request

What Tiers Change

Cost Controls