Usage and pricing

The price

validate is pure — no model, no network — and costs almost nothing to run; its price is a price, not a bill passed on. read fetches a page and may call the model; its price follows the cost.

The free calls

Each calendar month (UTC), the account’s first 500 calls are on us, validate and read together, no card. Enough to build with, not enough to run a product on.

At the 501st call with no card on file, the API answers 402 payment-required and does not run the call. Add a card in the console; calls resume at once.

The count

A call is counted when it answers — a 400, a 401, a 429 do not count. The counter is per account, all keys together, and the console shows it day by day.

Every counted answer carries the Rikaido-Usage-Op header, validate or read.

What is not kept

The recipe, the source, the constraints: nothing. The counters hold only numbers — a day, a month, two integers and cents. No recipe, no key and no person can be rebuilt from what we keep.