API pricing
Understand the pricing model for Machine Library API endpoints.
Pay‑as‑you‑go API access
- Top up and immediately start using
- Pay only per API request — transparent, usage‑based pricing
- Subscriptions cover searches on machinelibrary.ai; API and MCP usage is always billed per request
- $1 of free credit included for testing
How pricing works
Each endpoint below shows its billing unit. Search and conversation requests combine a base price with a per-result rate. Document text is billed by returned tokens, while originals and recognition are billed per document. Search feedback, comments, votes and document activity are not billed.
For example, if the base price is $0.01, the multiplier is $0.001, and you set a limit of 10, the total cost for that call would be $0.01 + ($0.001 × 10) = $0.02.
You can optimize costs by choosing the limit parameter to match your needs — higher limits return more results at a higher cost per call.