Pricing

Credit-based pricing for the Influship API

Pricing

The Influship API uses credits at $0.01 per credit. You pay for the endpoints you call and the results you receive — nothing else.

Failed requests (401, 402, 429, 400) are never charged.

Price Table

Endpoint	Cost model	Credits	Effective price
POST /v1/search	Base + per creator delivered	25 + 2/creator	\$0.25 + \$0.02/creator
GET /v1/search/{id}	Free pagination	0	\$0.00
POST /v1/creators/lookalike	Per creator delivered	1.5/creator	\$0.015/creator
POST /v1/creators/match	Per creator scored	1/creator	\$0.01/creator
GET /v1/creators/{id}	Per request	0.1	\$0.001
GET /v1/creators/autocomplete	Per request	0.05	\$0.0005
POST /v1/creators/ingest	Per creator ingested (new only)	5	\$0.05
GET /v1/profiles/{platform}/{username}	Per request	0.1	\$0.001
POST /v1/profiles/lookup	Per profile found	0.1/profile	\$0.001/profile
POST /v1/creator-emails/lookup	Per creator with at least one email returned	5/creator	\$0.05/creator
GET /v1/posts	Per post returned	0.05/post	\$0.0005/post
GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}	Per profile	0.5	\$0.005
GET /v1/raw/instagram/post/{shortcode}	Per post	1	\$0.01
POST /v1/raw/instagram/posts	Per successful post	1/post	\$0.01/post
GET /v1/raw/instagram/transcript/{shortcode}	Per transcript	5	\$0.05
POST /v1/raw/instagram/transcripts	Per successful transcript	5/transcript	\$0.05/transcript
GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}	Per channel	0.5	\$0.005
GET /v1/raw/youtube/transcript/{video_id}	Per transcript	0.5	\$0.005
GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel-transcripts/{handle}	Per transcript returned	0.5/transcript	\$0.005/transcript
GET /v1/raw/youtube/search	Per result returned	0.5/result	\$0.005/result

Batch Instagram raw endpoints charge credit-metered API-key and OAuth calls only for successful items. Pay-per-request x402 and MPP calls use their advertised request prices instead; see x402 pricing and MPP pricing.

Why Search Has a Base Fee

Search runs AI inference on every query — your natural language input is processed through embedding models and matched against the creator index. The 25-credit base fee covers that compute cost, regardless of how many results match. The per-creator fee scales with what you actually receive.

This means a search that finds 3 results costs less than one that finds 25, even though the same inference ran on both.

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 search session 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

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

Agency / Mid-Volume

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

Platform / High-Volume

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 — [e-mail].

Free Tier

Every new account starts with credits to explore the API. The free tier includes:

• 1,500 credits/hour rate limit budget
• 150 credits/minute rate limit budget
• Credits to run searches, lookups, and match scoring

This is enough to prototype an integration, test query quality, and evaluate the response format before committing to a paid plan. 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

Every successful response includes billing headers:

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

TypeScript

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']}")

What Tiers Change

Trust tiers 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 5-10 while prototyping. Results past the top 15-20 are usually lower relevance anyway.
• Cache creator and profile lookups. Creator data doesn’t change often — caching saves credits and latency.
• Use autocomplete for search-as-you-type. At 0.05 credits per request, it’s 500x cheaper than running a full search on every keystroke.
• Batch known work. If you have a list of usernames, use POST /v1/profiles/lookup instead of individual lookups.

FAQ: What's NOT charged?

Failed requests are never billed. This includes:

• 401 — invalid or missing API key
• 402 — billing suspended
• 429 — rate limit exceeded
• 400 — validation errors (bad request body, missing fields)

Pagination via GET /v1/search/{id} is also free — you’re stepping through results you already paid for.

FAQ: Do unused credits roll over?

There are no monthly credit allocations or rollover mechanics. Credits are charged per request as you use them. Your bill reflects actual usage.

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 [e-mail].

If you’re an early-stage startup, check out the startup program for discounted access.