Pricing

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Billing

When you first sign up with a professional email address, your account is automatically credited with $20. We will top up eligible accounts back to $20 each month. You can add money to your account in the Billing section of the Linkup app. Please reach out to support@linkup.so for custom needs. Each time you make a successful request to our API endpoints, an amount is subtracted from your account. The amount deducted per call depends on the endpoint and parameters:

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Search endpoint

For the Search endpoint, the cost depends on both the depth and outputType parameters. "sourcedAnswer" and "structured" invoke an LLM to compose or shape the response and carry a small premium over raw "searchResults".

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Fetch endpoint

For the Fetch endpoint, the cost depends on the renderJs parameter:

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Research endpoint

For the Research endpoint, the cost depends on the reasoningDepth parameter:

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Extract endpoint

For the Extract endpoint (closed beta), cost is variable and scales with crawl complexity. Most completed tasks fall in the $2–10 range. The exact amount charged is returned as creditsUsed in the task output. No credit is deducted for failed tasks. A minimum account balance of $10 is required to submit an extract task.

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Tasks endpoint

Each task is billed exactly like the corresponding direct Search, Fetch, Research, or Extract call.

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x402 payment protocol

You can also pay per request using the x402 protocol with USDC on Base — no account needed. x402 pricing follows the same per-request costs listed above. A minimum charge of $0.01 per request applies. If your account runs out, the API will respond with a 429 HTTP error. You can view your current consumption in the Billing section of the Linkup app.