Getting started
Credits & pricing
Ohsee is usage-based. Every operation spends credits from your balance, and you only pay for work performed.
The credit model
Credits are prepaid and deducted per request. New accounts start with 100 free credits. Credits never expire while your account is active. Synchronous endpoints charge on completion. Asynchronous jobs reserve credits up front and settle on completion, refunding any unused reservation.
These are the current metering rules. For live pricing and packs, see the pricing page.
Cost per operation
| Operation | Credits |
|---|---|
| Search (ultra-fast / fast / basic) | 1 (include_answer is free) |
| Search (advanced) | 2 (include_answer is free) |
| Search + include_evidence | +1 |
| Extract | 1 per 5 successfully extracted URLs (rounded up) |
| Structure | 2 per URL (+1 per URL if schema has more than 8 fields) |
| Research (standard / deep) | 10 / 25 (+5 for detailed, comparison, timeline; +1 evidence) |
| Map | 1 per 10 URLs found (rounded up) |
| Crawl | 1 per 5 pages (rounded up); 1 per page with a schema |
| Domain | 5 + 3 per requested section |
| Monitor run | Depends on type; 1 when no change is detected |
| Estimate | Free |
Estimating cost
Use POST /estimate to preview the credit cost of any operation before you run it. Estimates never charge credits.
Insufficient credits
When your balance cannot cover a request, the API returns 402 with the current balance, the required amount, and a billing_url. Top up from your dashboard and retry.