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How Credits Work: What You Need to Know Before You Start

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Written by Freddy Rodriguez
Updated over a week ago

Getting Familiar with Credits

If you’re new to Enrich Layer, you might be wondering how access and billing work.

Instead of traditional pricing tiers, Enrich Layer uses credits—a flexible, usage-based system that allows you to only pay for the data you actually request and receive.

Each API call costs a set number of credits depending on:

  • Which endpoint you use

  • What data you ask for

  • Whether optional features (like data freshness) are enabled

This guide breaks it all down, so you can feel confident before you make your first request.

✅ Key Things to Know

  • Every successful result consumes credits. You’re only charged when an API call returns valid data.

  • Different endpoints use different amounts.

    • A basic company profile request might cost 1 credit

    • Adding Data Freshness can increase that to 2 credits

  • Optional fields (like funding_data, acquisitions, or extra) may also increase credit use depending on how they’re configured.

  • Trial accounts include a set amount of credits so you can explore the platform and test freely. See what’s included in the trial

🧮 How to Estimate Your Credit Use

If you’re planning your integration or exploring how much a certain task might cost, here’s how to think about it:

You can reduce credit usage by:

  • Disabling data freshness (use_cache:if-present)

  • Excluding enrichments you don’t need

  • Limiting results (e.g., using page_size for Person Search)

🔽 Example of a lower-credit request:

{

"url": "<company-profile-url>",

"use_cache": if-present,

"funding_data": "exclude"

}

📊 Where to Track Your Usage

To check how many credits you’ve used—or how many you have left:

  • Go to your Dashboard

  • Open the Billing or Usage tab

  • There, you can see:

    • Your remaining credit balance

    • A breakdown by API or endpoint

    • Historical usage over time

Still Have Questions?

If you’re not sure why a call used more credits than expected, or want help understanding your usage, just send us the request details or a screenshot.

We’re always happy to walk through it with you.


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