Credits are the currency you use to pay for email verifications and lookups in OrbiSearch. You purchase credits in advance and they are deducted as you use the API. Understanding how credits are counted, and how deduplication reduces consumption, helps you get the most out of your balance.
Credits are the pay-as-you-go billing model. The email finder is also available on flat-rate unlimited plans, where no credits move; email validation is credits-only on every plan.
Cost per operation
There are no separate charges for API calls, substatus lookups, or failed requests.
Repeat requests
Every returned response is charged, including repeats of the same input: each lookup costs 1 credit and each verification costs 0.2 credits every time. Within a single bulk job, duplicates are removed before billing (see below), but separate requests and separate jobs are each charged in full.
Deduplication in bulk jobs
When you submit a bulk verification job, OrbiSearch automatically deduplicates the list before processing. You are only charged for each unique email address, regardless of how many times it appears in the input file.
You do not need to deduplicate your lists before uploading them. OrbiSearch
handles this automatically and you will never be charged twice for the same
address in a single job.
Checking your credit balance
You can check your remaining credits at any time via the API or in the dashboard.
API
Send a GET request to /v1/credits with your API key:
The response includes your current balance and your user ID:
Dashboard
Your credit balance is displayed in the top navigation bar of the dashboard and on the Billing page, where you can also view your usage history and purchase additional credits.
Tips for managing credit usage
Verify once, reuse the result. Store verification results in your own
database so you can reference them without re-verifying.
Filter obvious invalids before verifying. Use client-side syntax
validation to catch malformed addresses (missing @, invalid TLD) before
submitting them to the API. This prevents spending 0.2 credits on addresses
that would return invalid_syntax.
Batch with bulk jobs. Bulk verification jobs are the most efficient way
to process large lists. Deduplication is automatic and you avoid the overhead
of making individual API calls per address.
