Pay for the work, not the round trips

• Every game, every plan

  No game is gated behind a tier. Starter reads the same eight-game catalog as Scale — plans differ in volume and speed, never in coverage.

• Images are never metered

  Card artwork comes from a separate CDN and costs nothing on any plan. A collection grid rendering four hundred thumbnails does not touch your credits.

• Caching is rewarded, not punished

  Send an If-None-Match header and a 304 costs zero credits. Failed requests are not billed either — a 429 or a 500 is our problem, not your invoice.

• Bulk beats chatter

  A search costs 2 credits whether it returns 10 cards or 100. Paginating wide is dramatically cheaper here than on a per-request plan.

• Overage is capped, twice over

  A daily ceiling of a tenth of your monthly allowance stops a runaway loop the same afternoon, and overage stops once it reaches your plan price. The worst a month can cost is double.

• Upgrading always wins

  Overage is priced above the rate of the plan it extends, on purpose. It is there to cover a busy week, never to make staying on a small plan the cheaper move.

• You can always leave

  Bulk exports in JSON, NDJSON and Parquet are included from Growth up, and they are complete rather than crippled. Your data is not held hostage.

1. 1

   Top up

   Add any amount from $19. It lands in your balance immediately, and a VAT invoice is issued for it that you can download whenever your accountant asks.

2. 2

   Pick a plan

   The first month comes out of the balance immediately and the key works straight away. Switch plans whenever you like — the difference is prorated against the balance rather than invoiced.

3. 3

   We draw monthly

   On each renewal date the plan fee and any overage are deducted. We email you when the balance drops below two months so a lapse never arrives as a surprise.

If the balance will not cover the next draw, the plan lapses and your keys stop until you top up. Nothing goes to collections, because nothing was ever owed — the worst case is an API that stops answering, which is a problem you can fix in a minute.

• Cards, because everyone has one

  Visa, Mastercard and American Express, plus Apple Pay and Link. Expense it, invoice it, and get a VAT receipt your finance team will accept.

• Prepaid, so you can never be surprised

  You spend a balance you have already funded. There is no credit line, no invoice at the end of the month, and no way to owe us money.

• One balance either way

  Both methods top up the same prepaid balance. Nothing about your plan, your credits or your overage changes with how you paid.

• Automatic only if you ask

  Payments are one-off unless you switch on automatic top-ups, which recharge a saved card when the balance falls below a level you set. Off by default, and off again the moment you say so.

Payments credit instantly. VAT is added at checkout where it applies; EU businesses can enter a VAT number and be reverse-charged instead. We deliberately only offer methods that can be charged again later, so any payment you make can also become an automatic top-up. That rules out single-use bank redirects such as iDEAL, which require you to authenticate every payment in person.