How APIs charge

Pricing models, entry prices and billing units, read from the providers' own pricing pages. Pick a market, or browse every pricing document below.

7173providers whose pricing pages we have read
2889state no pricing model
$29/momedian entry price, from 681 developer APIs
1.5%median take rate, from 86 providers

How they charge

4284 of 7173 providers state a pricing model. Shares are of those that do.

Tiered subscription 38% · 1615 Negotiated 20% · 836 Per call 15% · 640 Other usage-based 13% · 539 Per seat 7% · 287 Flat platform fee 4% · 160 Free 2% · 104 Share of transaction 2% · 103

What you pay for

Quoted or calculated from quotes, per unit. Calculated figures assume the plan's quota is fully used. Units are never averaged together, credits get no price because each vendor defines its own, and units with fewer than 5 providers show a count only.

Billing unitProvidersMedian price per unit
credit232—
request232$0.00189
message75$0.002
token50$0.000003
transaction39$0.15

We moved 1150 providers out of per seat because their plans never mention a seat or user.

By industry

Only industries where at least 20 developer APIs quote an entry price. Providers can belong to several, so these don't add up. Pricing data as of 2026-10-30.

IndustryMost common modelMedian entryPriced APIs
Artificial Intelligence Tiered subscription (37%) $29/mo293
Developer Tools & DevOps Tiered subscription (40%) $25/mo180
Data & Analytics Tiered subscription (37%) $25/mo138
Cybersecurity & Identity Tiered subscription (33%) $26/mo79
Telecommunications & Connectivity Tiered subscription (40%) $24.9/mo59
Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 Per call (35%) $39/mo45
Marketing & Advertising Tiered subscription (52%) $44.5/mo40
Investing & Venture Capital Tiered subscription (52%) $39/mo31
Media Tiered subscription (43%) $23.2/mo31
Music, Audio & Creator Economy Tiered subscription (50%) $25/mo30
Legal & Compliance Tech Negotiated (32%) $52/mo28
Payments & Money Movement Tiered subscription (38%) $27/mo28
Financial Technology Tiered subscription (34%) $47/mo26
Weather & Geospatial Per call (41%) $24.8/mo24

By tag

Canonical and established tags with at least 20 quoted entry prices.

TagMost common modelMedian entryPriced APIs
Artificial Intelligence Tiered subscription (38%) $25.9/mo183
MCP Tiered subscription (45%) $29/mo138
Developer Tools Tiered subscription (51%) $22.5/mo90
AI Agents Tiered subscription (45%) $30/mo73
Real-Time Tiered subscription (48%) $29/mo57
Agents Tiered subscription (41%) $29.5/mo54
A2A Per call (37%) $29/mo49
Machine Learning Per call (31%) $49/mo42
Data Tiered subscription (41%) $25/mo37
LLM Per call (44%) $30/mo37
Agent-Native Per call (34%) $19/mo33
Finance Tiered subscription (46%) $29/mo33
Web Scraping Per call (73%) $29/mo33
Serverless Other usage-based (35%) $20.5/mo32
Automation Tiered subscription (44%) $27.5/mo30
Webhook Tiered subscription (52%) $20/mo30
Market Data Tiered subscription (57%) $29/mo28
Security Tiered subscription (31%) $27/mo28
Analytics Tiered subscription (40%) $24.9/mo27
Data Extraction Per call (60%) $30/mo27
Integration Tiered subscription (42%) $49/mo27
Observability Tiered subscription (39%) $49/mo27
Authentication Tiered subscription (40%) $25/mo26
Cryptocurrency Tiered subscription (41%) $29/mo26
Search Per call (34%) $22.5/mo26
Fintech Tiered subscription (34%) $44.9/mo25
Infrastructure Other usage-based (40%) $20.3/mo24
Messaging Tiered subscription (39%) $39/mo23
Inference Per call (49%) $20/mo22
Cloud Other usage-based (35%) $20/mo21
Database Other usage-based (54%) $10/mo21
Blockchain Per call (45%) $35.7/mo20

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