# PinData API — Complete LLM & AI Agent Technical Reference (llms-full.txt)

> Real-time REST & Remote MCP API for Pinterest visual pins, 5-swatch dominant hex color palettes, creator moodboards, verified merchant profiles, outbound shop-the-look domains, and Airbnb boutique stay listings & market pricing.
> Base URL: `https://api.pindataapi.com` | Main Website: `https://pindataapi.com`
> Remote MCP Server (Streamable HTTP): `https://mcp.pindataapi.com/mcp` | Aliases: `https://mcp.pindataapi.com/v1/mcp`, `https://api.pindataapi.com/mcp`
> AI Skill Manifest: `https://pindataapi.com/SKILL.md` & `https://pindataapi.com/.well-known/skills/default/SKILL.md` | APIs.json: `https://pindataapi.com/apis.json` | MCP Registry Manifest: `https://pindataapi.com/server.json`
> OpenAPI 3.1 Spec: `https://pindataapi.com/openapi.json` | Compact Summary: `https://pindataapi.com/llms.txt`
> Free Studio Browser Tools: `https://pindataapi.com/tools/pinterest-color-palette-extractor` | Live Status & 7d p95 SLA: `https://pindataapi.com/status` | Apify Migration Bridge: `https://pindataapi.com/from-apify`

## 1. Authentication, Remote MCP & Core Architecture

- **Base URL**: `https://api.pindataapi.com`
- **Authentication Header**: Pass either `x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key` OR `Authorization: Bearer pn_live_your_api_key` on every request.
- **Zero Pinterest OAuth App Review Waiting**: Instant `pn_live_` key provisioned in 3 seconds at `https://pindataapi.com/signup`.
- **1-Click Remote MCP & OAuth 2.1 (Claude Web, ChatGPT Connectors, Cursor)**:
  - 1-Click OAuth 2.1 DCR + PKCE `S256` Connector URL (read-only `mcp:tools:read` scope): `https://mcp.pindataapi.com/v1/mcp` (`https://mcp.pindataapi.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`)
  - API-Key Streamable HTTP Endpoint (public `initialize` & `tools/list`): `https://api.pindataapi.com/mcp` (alias: `https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/mcp`)
- **Free Studio Trial & Sandbox Streak ($3.20 / 32,000 Total Free Credits)**: Every new account receives **$1.20 (12,000 Free Credits)** immediately upon sign-up at `https://pindataapi.com/signup` with zero credit card, plus **+$1.00 (+10,000 Credits)** on Day-2 return and **+$1.00 (+10,000 Credits)** on 3-day integration via the Developer Sandbox Streak.
- **Zero Charge on Empty Searches & Errors**: Any search returning 0 items or 4xx/5xx error costs **0 Credits**.
- **Latency SLA**: Warm PostgreSQL 16 + Redis DB 7 Cache: `18–45 ms`; Live Multi-Rail Upstream Fetch: `0.6–1.8 s`.

## 2. Pricing & Unit-Based Credit System ($1 = 10,000 Credits)

| Data Stream / Endpoint | Credits | Base PAYG ($9+) | Starter ($19/mo) | Pro Studio ($69/mo) | Business ($199/mo) |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Pinterest Pins Search (`/v1/pins/search`) | 2 Credits / pin | $0.20 / 1K pins | $0.15 / 1K pins | $0.115 / 1K pins | $0.08 / 1K pins |
| Pin Details (`/v1/pins/details`) | 5 Credits / pin | $0.50 / 1K pins | $0.38 / 1K pins | $0.29 / 1K pins | $0.20 / 1K pins |
| Creator Boards Search (`/v1/boards/search`) | 2 Credits / board | $0.20 / 1K boards | $0.15 / 1K boards | $0.115 / 1K boards | $0.08 / 1K boards |
| Creator Profile (`/v1/users/profile`) | 10 Credits / profile | $1.00 / 1K profiles | $0.76 / 1K profiles | $0.58 / 1K profiles | $0.40 / 1K profiles |
| Airbnb Boutique Stays (`/v1/stays/search`) | 5 Credits / stay | $0.50 / 1K stays | $0.38 / 1K stays | $0.29 / 1K stays | $0.20 / 1K stays |
| Stays Market Benchmark (`/v1/stays/market`) | 3 Credits / listing | $0.30 / 1K listings | $0.23 / 1K listings | $0.17 / 1K listings | $0.12 / 1K listings |
| Travel Destinations (`/v1/stays/destinations`) | 2 Credits / call | $0.20 / 1K calls | $0.15 / 1K calls | $0.115 / 1K calls | $0.08 / 1K calls |

## 3. Complete Endpoint Reference & Code Samples

### Search Pinterest pins with 5-swatch hex palettes & shop-the-look domains (`GET /v1/pins/search`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/pins-search
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Searches real-time Pinterest pins by aesthetic or product keyword. Returns HD image URLs, exact pixel dimensions & aspect ratio (`2:3`, `3:4`), extracted dominant hex color + 5-swatch palette, save velocity, creator metadata, and outbound e-commerce merchant domain. **Cost:** 2 Credits / pin returned (min 4 Credits; 0 Credits if empty).
- **Parameters**:
  - `query` (query, required): Visual aesthetic, interior style, or product keyword (also accepts alias `q` or `keyword`). 
  - `limit` (query, optional): Maximum pins to return per page (1–50, default 20). 
  - `cursor` (query, optional): Opaque pagination bookmark cursor from `data.next_cursor`. 
  - `color` (query, optional): Optional 6-digit hex color filter (e.g. `#C9B096` or `C9B096`). 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/pins/search?query=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/pins/search?query=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

---

### Inspect single Pinterest pin metadata, color swatches & outbound product URL (`GET /v1/pins/details`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/pins-details
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Fetches full normalized metadata for a single Pinterest pin by numeric `pin_id`, Pin token, or full `https://www.pinterest.com/pin/{id}/` URL. **Cost:** 5 Credits (0 Credits if not found).
- **Parameters**:
  - `pin_id` (query, required): Pinterest Pin ID, token, or full Pinterest Pin URL (also accepts `id` or `url`). 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/pins/details?pin_id=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/pins/details?pin_id=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

---

### Search curated Pinterest moodboards & aesthetic collections (`GET /v1/boards/search`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/boards-search
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Searches public Pinterest boards by aesthetic, interior design movement, fashion season, or brand topic. Returns cover & collage preview URLs, pin counts, palette swatches, and owner metadata. **Cost:** 2 Credits / board returned (min 4 Credits; 0 Credits if empty).
- **Parameters**:
  - `query` (query, required): Moodboard or collection keyword (also accepts `q`). 
  - `limit` (query, optional): Maximum boards to return (1–50, default 20). 
  - `cursor` (query, optional): Pagination cursor from `data.next_cursor`. 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/boards/search?query=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/boards/search?query=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

---

### Inspect Pinterest creator or verified merchant profile (`GET /v1/users/profile`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/users-profile
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Returns follower count, verified merchant status, website URL, signature 5-swatch color palette, and sample pins for any public Pinterest creator or brand handle. **Cost:** 10 Credits (0 Credits if not found).
- **Parameters**:
  - `username` (query, required): Pinterest handle (without `@`) or full profile URL. 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/users/profile?username=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/users/profile?username=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

---

### Search boutique short-term stays with nightly USD rates, Superhost badges & HD photos (`GET /v1/stays/search`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/stays-search
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Searches short-term rental & boutique stay listings by city/destination and optional check-in/out dates. Returns nightly & total USD pricing, Superhost status, guest rating, review count, coordinates, interior photo gallery, and aesthetic color swatches. **Cost:** 5 Credits / stay returned (min 10 Credits; 0 Credits if empty).
- **Parameters**:
  - `location` (query, required): Destination city, neighborhood, or region (also accepts `query` or `city`). 
  - `checkin` (query, optional): Check-in date `YYYY-MM-DD` (defaults to +30 days if omitted). 
  - `checkout` (query, optional): Check-out date `YYYY-MM-DD` (defaults to +33 days if omitted). 
  - `adults` (query, optional): Number of adult guests (1–16, default 2). 
  - `currency` (query, optional): ISO-4217 currency code (default `USD`). 
  - `limit` (query, optional): Maximum listings to return (1–40, default 20). 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/search?location=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/search?location=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

---

### Fetch short-term rental market supply, average nightly ADR & Superhost share (`GET /v1/stays/market`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/stays-market
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Retrieves market-level short-term rental listings and summary metrics (average nightly USD rate, average guest rating, Superhost share) for any global city or destination. **Cost:** 3 Credits / listing returned (min 6 Credits; 0 Credits if empty).
- **Parameters**:
  - `market` (query, required): City or travel market name (also accepts `location` or `city`). 
  - `limit` (query, optional): Listings to return (1–50, default 20). 
  - `offset` (query, optional): Zero-based pagination offset (default 0). 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/market?market=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/market?market=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

---

### Autocomplete travel destinations, cities & neighborhoods (`GET /v1/stays/destinations`)
- **Documentation URL**: https://pindataapi.com/docs/stays-destinations
- **Cost**: 2 Credits / Pin (From $0.08/1K)
- **Description**: Resolves partial city, island, or neighborhood strings into structured destination place IDs, display labels, and ISO country codes. **Cost:** 2 Credits / request.
- **Parameters**:
  - `query` (query, required): Destination prefix or city name (also accepts `q`). 

```bash
curl "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/destinations?query=" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/destinations?query=",
    headers={"x-api-key": "pn_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())
```

## 4. Engineering Guides & Architecture Blueprints

### Pinterest API Pricing in 2026: Official OAuth v5 Limits vs Real-Time Visual Data Costs
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/guides/pinterest-api-pricing
- **Summary**: Complete 2026 breakdown of Pinterest API pricing, Trial vs Standard OAuth v5 access tiers, rate limits, and unit economics for public pin, board, and color palette discovery.
- **Key Takeaways**:
  - Official Pinterest API v5 is free for approved OAuth 2.0 apps managing their own or consented users' pins and ad campaigns, but cannot query global public aesthetic trends without user OAuth tokens.
  - Third-party headless Actor scrapers typically cost $39/month platform fees plus residential proxy bandwidth ($1.50–$4.00 per 1,000 pins) and suffer 20–40 second container cold starts.
  - PinData API uses a unified $1.00 = 10,000 Credits ledger: 2 Credits per pin or board ($0.20/1K base, $0.08/1K on Business), 5 Credits per pin detail, and 10 Credits per creator profile.
  - Every new developer receives 12,000 instant free Credits ($1.20 = 6,000 pins) in 3 seconds with zero OAuth approval waiting, plus a $9 Indie Starter Pack option whose credits never expire.

### Pinterest Scraper API Guide (2026): Extract Pins, Boards, Creators & Merchant Links Cleanly
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/guides/pinterest-scraper-api-guide
- **Summary**: Step-by-step developer guide to extracting Pinterest pins, cursor pagination, creator boards, verified merchant links, and 5-swatch hex color palettes in Python & Node.js.
- **Key Takeaways**:
  - Direct browser scraping against pinterest.com hits TLS JA3 fingerprinting, React Relay hash rotation, and blank CSR shells.
  - PinData API normalizes all image tiers (originals + 236x thumbnails), width/height/aspect_ratio, 5-swatch palette_hex arrays, save counts, and outbound e-commerce merchant domains.
  - Use data.next_cursor for deterministic multi-page cursor pagination across thousands of aesthetic pins and creator boards.
  - Pass any raw pinterest.com/pin/... URL directly to /v1/pins/details — our gateway extracts the canonical Pin ID automatically.

### Airbnb API Alternative for Developers (2026): Boutique Stays, Nightly Rates & Market Benchmarks
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/guides/airbnb-api-alternative
- **Summary**: Official Airbnb Partner API is closed to public signups. Learn how developers query live boutique stays, nightly USD pricing, Superhost ratings, and market supply via PinData API.
- **Key Takeaways**:
  - Airbnb's official API Portal does not accept self-serve developer applications for search, pricing research, or AI travel assistants.
  - PinData API provides three dedicated short-term stay endpoints: /v1/stays/search (date-specific nightly & total pricing + HD photos), /v1/stays/market (city-wide supply & benchmarks), and /v1/stays/destinations (fast region autocomplete).
  - Multi-rail architecture pairs live check-in/out search with high-quota market failover and PostgreSQL 16 caching.
  - Every stay record includes aesthetic dominant_color and palette_hex swatches so travel UIs can pair Pinterest destination inspiration directly with bookable boutique stays.

### Building a Visual Trend, Color-Palette & Shop-the-Look Engine with PinData API
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/guides/visual-trend-discovery-api
- **Summary**: Architect an automated visual trend radar, dominant hex color palette clustering pipeline, and AI moodboard agent using PinData API and Remote MCP.
- **Key Takeaways**:
  - Every PinData API response extracts dominant_color plus a 4–5 swatch palette_hex array, eliminating server-side Pillow/Sharp image downloading just to compute color histograms.
  - Combining saves_count velocity with merchant_domain surfaces breakout Etsy, Shopify, and boutique home/apparel SKUs before traditional ad spy tools.
  - Passing ?color=#HEX to /v1/pins/search filters visual results by aesthetic color harmony.
  - AI design and merchandising agents can invoke pins_search, boards_search, users_profile, and stays_search natively over Streamable HTTP MCP.

## 5. Competitor Benchmarks

### PinData API vs Official Pinterest API v5 (developers.pinterest.com)
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/compare/pinterest-official-api-v5-alternative
- **Title**: Official Pinterest API v5 Alternative (2026) — Zero OAuth Review & Public Search | PinData API
- **Headline**: 3 sec vs 2–4 wks to production API key (zero OAuth app review waiting).
- **Summary**: Official Pinterest API v5 is designed for managing an authenticated user's own boards and ad campaigns — requiring business verification, screencast submissions, and user OAuth 2.0 tokens while restricting global public keyword search. PinData API issues a live pn_live_ key in 3 seconds to search public pins, boards, creator profiles, extracted 5-swatch dominant hex color palettes, and shop-the-look merchant links from $0.08–$0.20 per 1,000 pins.

### PinData API vs Apify Scrapers (apify.com)
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/compare/apify-pinterest-airbnb-scraper-alternative
- **Title**: Apify Pinterest & Airbnb Scraper Alternative (2026) — Real-Time REST API | PinData API
- **Headline**: 38 ms vs 18–45 s warm response latency for live interactive apps & AI agents.
- **Summary**: Containerized scraper Actors are built for offline cron jobs: every lookup boots a headless browser container, burns residential proxy bandwidth, and forces your backend to poll /acts/.../runs until a dataset is ready. PinData API serves normalized Pins, Boards, Profiles, and Boutique Stays over synchronous HTTP GET and Remote MCP in 35 ms (warm cache) to 1.6 s (live fetch) — with $0 monthly platform fees.

### PinData API vs Enterprise Web Unlockers (brightdata.com)
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/compare/bright-data-pinterest-scraper-alternative
- **Title**: Bright Data Pinterest & Airbnb Scraper Alternative — From $9 PAYG | PinData API
- **Headline**: $0.08 vs $1.50+ per 1,000 pins at scale (clean JSON, zero proxy management).
- **Summary**: Raw residential proxy networks and Web Unlockers charge $1.50–$3.50 per 1,000 unblocked requests (often with $500/month minimum commitments) and still dump 600 KB of obfuscated hydration scripts in your lap. PinData API delivers clean, typed JSON with extracted hex palettes, aspect ratios, merchant domains, and nightly stay pricing starting from a $9 never-expiring starter pack.

### PinData API vs AirDNA (airdna.co)
- **URL**: https://pindataapi.com/compare/airdna-alternative
- **Title**: AirDNA Alternative (2026): Real-Time Stays & Listings API
- **Headline**: $9 PAYG vs Custom self-serve short-term stays API ($0.20/1K requests at scale vs enterprise sales quote).
- **Summary**: AirDNA excels at multi-year macro short-term rental reports, but its programmatic REST API is gated behind enterprise sales consultations — while its self-serve $125/mo ($400/yr) Market Research plan does not include API keys. PinData API issues a live pn_live_ key in 3 seconds with 12,000 free credits ($1.20) to query live check-in/check-out stay pricing, Superhost ratings, calendar availability windows, and listing-level details from $0.20/1K requests.
- **3-Line BLUF**:
  - Instant Key vs Sales Gate: AirDNA's Enterprise API is quote-only (and its $125/mo monthly or $400/yr Market Research tier is web-UI only); PinData API provisions a live pn_live_ key in 3 seconds with 12,000 free credits ($1.20) + a $9 never-expiring Indie Starter Pack.
  - On-Demand Stays, Rates & Calendar Windows: Query live nightly USD rates, date-scoped check-in/out availability, Superhost ratings, coordinates, and /v1/stays/detail-level property attributes via GET /v1/stays/search, /v1/stays/market, and /v1/stays/destinations from $0.20/1K requests.
  - Objective Decision Rule: Choose AirDNA Enterprise if you underwrite REIT portfolios needing 10-year historical RevPAR regressions across Airbnb + Vrbo; choose PinData API for live stay pricing, STR comp tools, travel discovery UIs, and Claude/Cursor MCP agents with $0 monthly minimums.
- **Official Pricing Citation (https://www.airdna.co/short-term-rental-data/api)**: "For more information on our API and its use cases, Contact Sales to get started with an API Key." — Per AirDNA's public API and Pricing pages (verified November 2026), self-serve plans — Free ($0), Market Research ($125/mo billed monthly or $34/mo billed annually at $400/yr), and Adapt ($20/listing/mo) — are dashboard/host tools without REST API access. Programmatic API tokens require a custom enterprise agreement scoped by geography, call volume, and modular packages.

```bash
# 1) Date-scoped live pricing, availability & inline listing details (5 Credits / stay = $0.20/1K on Business)
curl -sS "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/search?location=Paris&checkin=2026-12-10&checkout=2026-12-13&adults=2&limit=5" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"

# 2) City-wide ADR, Superhost share % & active listing comps (3 Credits / listing = $0.12-$0.30/1K)
curl -sS "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/market?market=Paris&limit=20" \
  -H "x-api-key: pn_live_your_api_key"
```

```python
import os
import requests

API_KEY = os.environ.get("PINDATA_API_KEY", "pn_live_your_api_key")

# Pull live check-in/out availability, nightly USD rate, rating & property details
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.pindataapi.com/v1/stays/search",
    params={
        "location": "Paris",
        "checkin": "2026-12-10",
        "checkout": "2026-12-13",
        "adults": 2,
        "limit": 5,
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY},
    timeout=20,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
payload = resp.json()["data"]

for stay in payload["stays"]:
    print(
        stay["stay_id"],
        stay["name"],
        f"${stay['nightly_rate_usd']}/night",
        f"★ {stay['rating']} ({stay['reviews_count']} reviews)",
        "Superhost" if stay["is_superhost"] else "Host",
    )
```

## 6. Frequently Asked Questions

### How does the $1 = 10,000 Credits pricing model work?

PinData API uses a transparent item-based credit ledger where $1.00 = 10,000 Credits. Pinterest Pin and Board search endpoints (/v1/pins/search and /v1/boards/search) cost 2 Credits per returned record ($0.20 per 1,000 base, down to $0.08 per 1,000 on the Business plan). Single Pin inspection (/v1/pins/details) and Boutique Stay search (/v1/stays/search) cost 5 Credits per record ($0.50 per 1,000 base). Rental market benchmarks (/v1/stays/market) cost 3 Credits per listing, creator profiles (/v1/users/profile) cost 10 Credits, and destination autocomplete (/v1/stays/destinations) costs 2 Credits per request. Empty results or failed calls always cost 0 Credits.

### Do I need an approved Pinterest Developer OAuth v5 app or user access tokens?

No. Official Pinterest API v5 requires manual developer app review, business verification, and user-scoped OAuth tokens that cannot search global public aesthetic trends, shop-the-look outbound links, or multi-swatch dominant color palettes. PinData API issues a live pn_live_ key in 3 seconds with zero OAuth approval waiting.

### How are the Dominant Hex Color Swatches and aspect ratios extracted?

Every pin, creator board, profile, and boutique stay returned by PinData API includes normalized image dimensions (width, height, aspect_ratio such as '2:3' or '4:5'), a primary dominant_color hex code, and a 4-to-5 swatch palette_hex array ready for CSS variables, moodboard generators, shop-the-look visual search, and AI design agents.

### What travel and short-term stay data do /v1/stays/* endpoints include?

Our /v1/stays/search, /v1/stays/market, and /v1/stays/destinations endpoints return normalized boutique stay listings with nightly USD pricing, total stay price, guest rating, review volume, Superhost & Rare Find badges, bedroom/bed/bath counts, GPS coordinates, and high-resolution interior photo galleries — backed by multi-rail automatic failover.

### What is the response latency for cached vs. live real-time queries?

Queries hitting our warm PostgreSQL 16 + Redis DB 7 visual index respond in 18–45 ms. Cold long-tail queries or paid requests passing ?fresh=1 execute a live multi-rail fetch in 1.1–2.2 seconds and automatically write-through to our persistent index.

### Am I charged when a search returns 0 results or when an API request fails?

Never. Searches that return 0 matching pins, boards, or stays cost 0 Credits. Missing Pin IDs (HTTP 404), invalid parameters (HTTP 400), rate-limited requests (HTTP 429), and gateway errors (HTTP 5xx) always cost 0 Credits.

### Should I start with the $9 Indie Starter Pack, a Monthly Subscription, or larger PAYG packs?

For side projects, prototypes, and AI agents, the $9 Indie Starter Micro-Pack grants 90,000 never-expiring Credits (+5% Crypto bonus = 94,500 Credits, ~45,000 pins) and unlocks 60 RPM. For continuous production pipelines, Monthly Subscriptions ($19 Starter / 250K credits at 120 RPM, $69 Pro / 1.2M credits at 300 RPM, $199 Business / 5M credits at 600 RPM) lower your unit cost down to $0.08 per 1,000 pins. Larger one-time PAYG packs ($25 / $89 / $249) never expire.

### What are the RPM rate limits across Free Trial and Paid plans?

Free Trial accounts include 12,000 instant Credits ($1.20 + up to $2.00 Sandbox Streak bonus) and 30 RPM (2 RPS). Paid accounts unlock burst-smoothed concurrency: 60 RPM / 3 RPS ($9 Indie Starter), 120 RPM / 5 RPS (Starter), 300 RPM / 10 RPS (Pro), and 600 RPM / 15 RPS (Business). Need 1,000+ RPM? Dedicated Enterprise Key Pool available.

### What payment methods and invoice options are supported?

Every new account starts with 12,000 Free Credits ($1.20) + up to $2.00 in Sandbox Streak rewards. For top-ups ($9+ PAYG) and monthly subscriptions, we support instant 0%-fee Multi-Chain Cryptocurrency checkout (USDT, USDC, BTC, SOL, ETH, BNB across Solana, Tron, Polygon, Arbitrum, BSC, and Ethereum) with an automatic +5% Bonus Credits reward and corporate VAT/Tax ID billing profiles.

### What is your refund policy?

Payments made within the last 14 days are eligible for a pro-rated refund of unused purchased credits. Promotional signup credits have no cash value.