Pricing

Buy credits once, spend them on any endpoint. You pay per successful request; the price of each endpoint is listed below.

Credit packs

25,000 credits

$20

$0.80 per 1,000 credits

100,000 credits

$70

$0.70 per 1,000 credits

500,000 credits

$300

$0.60 per 1,000 credits

2,000,000 credits

$1,000

$0.50 per 1,000 credits

Plan	Monthly fee	Included credits / month
Pay as you go	None	None, buy packs

Plans do not limit request rate. See rate limits for the safety ceiling that stops runaway clients.

Each successful response costs the price of the source that produced it, shown as meta.source. Endpoints try their cheapest source first.

Endpoint	Source	Price per successful request	Per 1,000 requests
Facebook Video Transcript API	Captions `captions`	1 credit	$0.50–$0.80
Facebook Video Transcript API	Speech-to-text `asr`	2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media)	$1.00–$1.60 + $1.00–$1.60 per started minute of media
Instagram Reels Transcript API	Captions `captions`	1 credit	$0.50–$0.80
Instagram Reels Transcript API	Speech-to-text `asr`	2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media)	$1.00–$1.60 + $1.00–$1.60 per started minute of media
TikTok Transcript API	Captions `captions`	1 credit	$0.50–$0.80
TikTok Transcript API	Speech-to-text `asr`	2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media)	$1.00–$1.60 + $1.00–$1.60 per started minute of media
YouTube Transcript API	Captions `captions`	1 credit	$0.50–$0.80
YouTube Transcript API	Speech-to-text `asr`	2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media)	$1.00–$1.60 + $1.00–$1.60 per started minute of media

meta.source	Source	What it means
`captions`	Captions	The platform's own caption track (uploaded or auto-generated).
`asr`	Speech-to-text	Transcribed by SocialTap from the media's audio when the platform has no captions.

10,000 requests to Facebook Video Transcript API served from Captions captions at 1 credit each = 10,000 credits, which is $5.00–$8.00 ($5.00 with the 2,000,000-credit pack).
One result with 7 started minutes of media from Speech-to-text asr on Facebook Video Transcript API (2 credits + 2 per started minute of media) = 2 + 2 × 7 = 16 credits, which is $0.008–$0.013. The largest accepted item (60 started minutes of media) costs 122 credits.
A failed request (for example method_not_allowed) costs 0 credits. A cache hit costs 0 credits.

Dollar ranges span the 25,000-credit pack ($0.80 per 1,000) to the 2,000,000-credit pack ($0.50 per 1,000).

Before calling the platform, SocialTap checks that your balance covers the endpoint's minimum price (1 credit) and sets that minimum aside, nothing more. With less than the minimum the request fails with insufficient_credits.
Right before costlier work (the prices with an “up to” amount above), more of your balance is set aside: the exact price when the size of the item is known in advance, otherwise as much as your balance allows, and the work is limited to what that pays for. A result that would cost more than your balance covers fails with insufficient_credits and costs nothing. Requests in parallel each set aside only what they need, never their “up to” amount in advance.
On success, the actual price is charged, the rest of the set-aside amount is released, and the charge is reported in meta.credits_charged and the x-credits-charged header. x-credits-remaining is your balance right after this request; other requests still in flight may lower it further.
On failure, the reservation is released: errors cost 0 credits.