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Credits & limits
Understand Crawly credit costs, plan limits, and API error responses.
Credit costs
- HTTP scrape: 1 credit per page
- Browser-rendered scrape: 5 credits per page
- Search: 2 credits plus 1 per scraped result page
- Extract: 6 credits base, plus browser delta when required
- Crawl: 1 credit per successful page
- Batch: 1+ credit per URL
- Monitor check: 1 credit
- Interact: 5 credits to start, then 1 per action
Free plan
Free includes 500 credits each month with no rollover.
- 10 requests per minute
- 2 concurrent requests
- Up to 200 URLs in one logical batch
- 3 monitors
- 10 crawl pages and depth 2
Errors
- 401 — missing, invalid, expired, or revoked credentials
- 402 — insufficient credits
- 429 — request-rate or concurrency limit exceeded; inspect Retry-After
Note: Check the response status and Usage history together. A failed request should not consume credits unless the response documents partial success.