Plan comparison
Four tiers. Each one buys strictly more of every dimension than the one below it, and every figure here is enforced by the engine rather than merely advertised.
| Free | Build | Scale | Archive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0/mo | $29/mo | $199/mo | $799/mo |
| Requests / month | 1,000 | 50,000 | 500,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Requests / minute | 120 | 600 | 3,000 | 12,000 |
| Archive depth | 30 days | 1 years | 5 years | Full archive |
| At the quota | Stops | Bills overage | Bills overage | Bills overage |
| Overage / 1k | — | $1.00 | $0.60 | $0.40 |
Prices and packaging live on the pricing page; plans are changed in the console. This page exists so the numbers your code will meet are documented next to the behaviour they cause.
Which dimension binds first
- A product with steady traffic is usually bound by the
monthly quota. Ask for bigger pages and prefer
/stories; both cut requests without cutting results. - A batch job or a backfill is bound by the per-minute rate. Serialise with a small concurrency limit rather than bursting and retrying.
- Research and analysis is bound by archive depth, and that is the one no amount of client-side cleverness works around.
The free tier
A real allowance, hard-capped, with no card. It stops at its quota rather than billing you, and it reaches back 30 days — enough to build and test an integration properly, and not enough to run an archive study on.