Billing and credits
How credits work, how plans are priced, and what happens when you run out.
ZapFetch is billed in credits, in USD. One credit equals one successful operation — no multipliers for output formats, no premium fees for extraction, and no charge for failures.
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 |
A single 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
Anything that didn't return the content you wanted doesn't cost a credit:
- HTTP
4xx/5xxresponses - Timeouts
- DNS failures
robots.txtdenials- Partial crawls: only pages that returned
2xxcount
Plans
Pricing below reflects Launch Year 1 rates (through 2027-04-20). The source of truth for your current subscription is the Billing page.
| 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 |
Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. If you need large volumes of rollover credits, talk to us about an Enterprise contract.
Launch pricing and what comes after
- 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). Still cheaper than the nearest comparable plan on Firecrawl.
- Scale / Business / Enterprise prices are permanent. No ramp-up, 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 |
Email support@zapfetch.com with proof and we'll apply it.
Credit usage in responses
Every successful response carries a credit-usage chunk — the same shape Firecrawl returns, so existing client code that reads remaining credits works unchanged.
{
"success": true,
"data": { /* ... */ },
"creditsUsed": 1,
"remainingCredits": 4823
}remainingCredits is cached for ~10 minutes to keep hot paths fast, so a
burst of requests may see the count tick down in batches rather than
strictly one-by-one.
What happens when you run out
- Once
remainingCreditshits zero, subsequent requests return402 Payment Requiredwith a message pointing to /dashboard/billing. - In-flight crawls finish the pages already dispatched; no new pages are scheduled once the balance is exhausted.
- No silent overage. You'll never get a surprise bill — ZapFetch refuses to run above your cap unless you've explicitly opted into overage.
Opt-in overage (Starter and up)
If you'd rather keep serving traffic past the cap than return 402, turn
on overage in Billing. You'll be 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 so a runaway loop can't drain your card.
Free plan has no overage — runaway traffic hits 429 until the next
month.
Add-ons (optional)
Add-ons are separate SKUs; they 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 / Korean e-commerce and news
- Zero Data Retention — Raw content is dropped within 7 seconds, never written to disk. Business+.
- 99.9% Uptime SLA — Contractual service credits on downtime. Business+.
- Priority Queue / Dedicated IP Pool — Isolated queues and IP pools for latency-sensitive or high-volume workloads.
See the pricing page for add-on rates, or email
sales@zapfetch.com for a quote.
Tracking usage
The Console's Usage page shows per-endpoint credits 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 from the Billing page.