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Zekio · 2023-07-04 16:44:33

25 bucks a month for 10k api calls? seems pricy

lilc | karma 4 | avg karma 0.33 · | 2012-09-23 17:50:30+00:00

$10,000 per API call...

originalsimba | karma 262 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2018-03-04 18:24:55+00:00

uh, try $1 per 10,000 API calls and maybe you're on to something.

polynomial | karma 563 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2021-07-04 19:58:37+00:00

How could their API possibly cost $20-$30 per call? How could that even be a business model? Clearly, I am missing something here.

ricardo81 | karma 1641 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2023-06-12 03:49:49

Is there any good reads wrt the blowback on cost of the API? I've only read that it costs $0.25 per 1000 calls which seems relatively cheap, but I haven't looked into how it affects use cases.

HPouillot | karma 62 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2019-09-18 20:28:21

You have 10k API calls when you sign up and 1k per month after that. Does it answer your question ?

anonfunction | karma 1909 | avg karma 2.34 · | 2018-04-02 23:24:10+00:00

The two pricing tiers for the hosted API don't seem practical for real usage.

$0 for 1,000 slow API calls

$79 for 10,000 fast API calls

To put that into perspective the 10k API calls is less than 10 minutes of 24 fps video. You should have a much higher plan or pay per request overage price.

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Legend2440 | karma 816 | avg karma 3.25 · | 2023-08-31 15:48:18

What? Some of the APIs I use at work cost $100+ per call. (it's not really about the call, it's about the data it provides)

jeffnappi | karma 539 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2018-02-01 23:06:18+00:00

Only ~$1.00 per API call...

goldbrick | karma 271 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2016-05-23 13:30:33+00:00

> ~15 million API calls per day

Isn't that horrifically expensive?

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drewch | karma 3 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2012-11-20 17:28:46+00:00

It's 1000 api calls a day, right now we are in an early phrase and it is free. If you require more calls we can accomodate more calls based on your needs, and it would still be at no cost.

cardine | karma 863 | avg karma 4.11 · | 2018-05-17 16:18:03

$17/mo is for 300 API calls per day - so that would be closer to 9,000 calls.

If you are looking to do more API calls than that there would definitely be cheaper pricing - especially if your use case involves sending requests as the user types!

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coderholic | karma 2742 | avg karma 7.6 · | 2020-03-22 17:16:54+00:00

Currently the API is priced at $0.01 per call, with $10 of free credit when you signup.

We'll likely add monthly subscriptions in the future perhaps with a recurring monthly free tier, but we don't have them yet.

If you do run out of the free $10 credit and want more time to see if the API is going to be useful for you shoot me an email and I'll be happy to issue more credit.

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KingMob | karma 2448 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2024-03-12 15:20:22

$.30 per API call, but throw in free nights and weekend calls.

theolivenbaum | karma 729 | avg karma 4.42 · | 2024-02-15 19:30:29

Also unless they significantly change their pricing model, we're talking about 0.5$ per API call at current prices

prepend | karma 20867 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2020-04-05 00:16:45

Sorry, I meant the price it sets for the api calls. The article calls out $10/1000 so the current price is a penny per call. I’m interested in how they set that rate.

EngCanMan | karma 99 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2023-06-09 14:41:42

No, I don't think you did...it would be 4000 API calls per month.

tzs | karma 45790 | avg karma 3.13 · | 2023-06-08 17:40:49

> I have no idea if they prorate charges if you use less than 1000 calls so lets assume they don't, so the minimum daily cost for a user is $0.24.

The way these things work nearly everywhere is that $0.24 for 1000 API calls means your cost in a given billing period for N API calls during a billing period is 0.24 ?N/1000? or 0.24 N/1000. The first is if they do not prorate, the second is if they do.

If it takes on average 345 requests per day per user, that would be 10 500 per month per user, which would be $2.64 per month per user if they do not prorate and $2.52 per month per user if they do prorate.

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pentae | karma 2577 | avg karma 4.59 · | 2020-02-20 09:48:51+00:00

Fixed monthly costs are great.

But Starting at 5 cents per API call? Hard pass.

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rhacker | karma 3943 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2018-03-04 18:34:06+00:00

While he's suggesting $1 for 1000 calls, I find it interesting to suggest $1 per call for "anything" wouldn't be worth it... for example would you pay $1 to pull someone's credit report? (not that you need to, but just as an example where $1 per API call would actually be cheap).