Credits & Pricing
Understand how clodo credits work, what each endpoint costs, and how to manage your balance.
clodo uses credits for people discovery, contact enrichment, and email drafting. The amount charged depends on the endpoint and its result.
#Get started
You need to sign up first on the Get Started page. Choose API pay as you go to create your account and add your starting credits, then open the API Console to create a key.
#API pricing
The self-serve API offer starts with a one-time credit purchase. There is no monthly API subscription.
| API pay as you go | |
|---|---|
| Starting payment | $25 |
| Starting balance | 1,250 credits |
| Additional usage | $0.02 per credit |
| Monthly commitment | None |
Every additional 1,000 credits costs $20. Applicable taxes are extra. See Get Started → Credit rates for current offer details and API rates.
API signup includes authorization for usage billing. After your starting balance is used, additional usage is charged automatically to your saved card at the stated per-credit rate. Review the checkout terms before completing signup.
#Manage your balance
Open API Console → Credits to review your available credits and purchase additional credits. The Usage tab shows request history and credit charges.
#Per-endpoint cost
| Endpoint | Cost | Charge model |
|---|---|---|
| Email Enrichment | 5 credits | Per call |
| Phone Enrichment | 50 credits on hit, 0 on miss | Per hit |
| Professional URL Enrichment | 3 credits | Per call |
| Professional Profile Enrichment | 2 credits | Per call |
| People Search | 1 credit per lead returned | Variable per result |
| Deep Search | 200 credits (mode: "standard") or 400 credits (mode: "extended") |
Fixed per run |
| Agentic Search | Variable, capped by max_credits (300–2,000; default 500) |
Reserve the cap, settle the final charge, release or refund the remainder |
| Outreach Emails | 2 credits per drafted email | Per successful draft |
Polling endpoints (GET /v1/.../{job_id}/, GET /v1/emails/...) consume no credits. For Outreach Emails, drafting is the only billable event — reviewing, editing, approving, cancelling, and sending are free, and a failed draft is not charged. Cancelling an already-drafted email does not refund the draft.
#Charge lifecycle
Agentic Search charges 100 credits for a completed search that performs work but returns no qualifying leads. Internal failures and cancellation before paid work starts are not charged. Partial deliveries remain billable within your cap. See Agentic Search for the full budget and cancellation behavior.
Each call creates an audit row that ends in one of these states (visible in the Usage tab of the Console):
charge_status |
Customer pill | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pending |
Pending | In flight (async endpoints, before settlement). |
charged |
Completed | Charged the committed amount. |
zero_result |
Completed | Variable-charge endpoint returned 0 results, no charge. |
released |
Completed | Validation reject or upstream error, no charge. |
lost_* states are operational anomalies.
#Topping up
Use the Credits tab in the Console.
#See also
- Per-endpoint reference pages for input shapes and full status mapping.