# Pricing



threadapi sells credit packs. There is no subscription: packs add to one balance and never expire.

|             Pack | Credits | Per 1,000 | Rate limit                        |
| ---------------: | ------: | --------: | :-------------------------------- |
| Free, on sign-up |     200 |           | 1 request per second, 100 per day |
|               $9 |   3,000 |     $3.00 | 300 per minute                    |
|              $29 |  15,000 |     $1.93 | 600 per minute                    |
|              $79 |  80,000 |     $0.99 | 1,000 per minute                  |

Buy packs in the [billing dashboard](https://stage.threadapi.dev/app/billing?utm_source=docs). Over 80,000 a month, [ask about volume pricing](https://stage.threadapi.dev/contact?utm_source=docs).

What a request costs [#what-a-request-costs]

One credit is one page of Reddit:

| Request                                                                                                                             | Credits |
| :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------: |
| [Post](/reddit/post) with up to 500 comments                                                                                        |       1 |
| Each further 100 comments, or part of 100                                                                                           |       1 |
| Any [listing](/listings) page, up to 100 items: subreddit posts or comments, search, user posts or comments, subreddits, duplicates |       1 |
| [Comment search](/reddit/search-comments), one page                                                                                 |       1 |
| [Things](/reddit/things), up to 100 posts and comments                                                                              |       1 |
| [Subreddit about](/reddit/subreddit-about) or [User](/reddit/user)                                                                  |       1 |
| A running [monitor](/monitors), per day                                                                                             |      10 |
| Monitor matches, webhook deliveries, and managing monitors                                                                          |       0 |
| Any failed request                                                                                                                  |       0 |

* A post request asks for 200 comments unless you set `max_comments`, so it costs 1 credit. `max_comments=1000` costs at most 6.
* You pay for the comments a response returns, not for the requests threadapi makes to produce it. Retries on our side are never billed.
* A response served from cache costs the same as a fresh one.
* If your balance covers fewer pages than you asked for, you get what it covers and `meta.limited_by_balance` is `true`. The balance never goes below zero.
* MCP tool calls cost the same as the routes they call. The playground in the dashboard is billed like a key.
* `X-Credits-Used` on every successful response says what it cost; the [logs](https://stage.threadapi.dev/app/logs?utm_source=docs) list each request.

Monitors [#monitors]

A [monitor](/monitors) charges 10 credits when you create or resume it, then 10 every 24 hours while it runs. Pausing or deleting it stops the charges. When a renewal finds less than 10 credits, the monitor stops until you add credits and resume it.

How many monitors you can run depends on the largest pack you've bought:

|          | Monitors | Matches per monitor per day |
| :------- | -------: | --------------------------: |
| Free     |        1 |                         200 |
| $9 pack  |       10 |                       1,000 |
| $29 pack |       50 |                       1,000 |
| $79 pack |      100 |                       1,000 |

Low-balance emails say how many days your running monitors have left.

Refunds [#refunds]

Within 14 days of buying a pack, if none of its credits were used. Email [hello@threadapi.dev](mailto:hello@threadapi.dev).