API usage-based pricing calculator
Pick a base fee, how many requests it includes and a price per 1,000 extra requests. See what each customer pays, your monthly API revenue, and what metering it costs. Share your scenario with the link below.
| Total API requests / month | |
| Billable overage requests per customer | |
| Invoice per customer / month | |
| Effective price per 1,000 requests | |
| Monthly API revenue | |
| Cost to meter it with API Meter* | ( of revenue) |
*API Meter beta list price: free to 250K requests/month, Indie CA$19/month with 2M included, then CA$3 per extra million. Currency of your own prices is whatever you bill in. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.
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How to read the result
A base fee with included requests keeps invoices predictable; the per-1,000 price captures heavy users. Check the effective price per 1,000: if heavy customers pay far less than light ones, your included allowance may be too generous. To bill this way you need request counts per customer and plan, which is what per-customer API analytics gives you.