§ Pricing
Credit pools,
not daily caps.
LexAPI now runs on a monthly pool of credits instead of a daily call ceiling. Each operation costs a set number of credits; you spend your pool however the work demands. Semantic search joins the Free tier, and — this matters — every existing customer keeps their original plan, permanently.
What credits buy you.
One credit is the unit of consumption. Each call deducts a set number of credits from your monthly pool; your tier sets the pool size. Run low and you can top up or upgrade; run out without a top-up and the API returns a 402 with a typed CREDITS_EXHAUSTED response, so your client can retry, queue, or hand it to a human.
| Operation | Credits |
|---|---|
/info & metadata-only calls | 0 |
| Document fetch, keyword search, resolve, recent | 1 |
| Citation extraction | 2 |
| Semantic search | 5 |
| Citation network / graph | 20 |
| Document batch | 1 per CELEX |
| /export | per row, tier-capped |
| Tier | Price | Credits / month | Rate / min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | 500 | 15 |
| Starter | €15/mo | 30,000 | 60 |
| Professional | €39/mo | 150,000 | 120 |
| Business | €99/mo | 500,000 | 300 |
For steady, even usage the pool works out about the same as the old daily caps. The difference shows at the edges: an AI agent that needs 800 calls in one afternoon and nothing for a week used to burn 80% of a daily cap — now it's under 3% of the month. Same capacity, far more forgiving shape.
Semantic search is now on Free.
The best thing LexAPI does — letting a model find the right article without knowing its CELEX — used to be paid-only, so the developers most likely to fall for it never got to try it. The new Free tier includes 500 credits a month: about one hundred semantic searches, or five hundred document fetches. Enough to wire LexAPI into your stack and watch it answer a real EU-law question on the first try.
Already a customer? Nothing changes.
If you signed up before this change, your account is untouched. Same tier, same price, same limits. You stay on your current plan for as long as you keep your subscription — you don't have to do anything.
We're making that a standing promise, not a one-time courtesy: every future pricing change at LexAPI grandfathers the existing cohort. Most legal-data vendors eventually raise prices on their earliest customers. We'd rather be the one that doesn't.
Top-ups and annual billing.
Need more mid-month? Buy a top-up pack — 10k for €10, 50k for €40, 200k for €120 — and the credits never expire. Turn on auto-top-up in Settings → Billing and we'll refill from your chosen pack when the pool hits zero (off by default; you decide). Annual billing is live at a flat 20% off — €15/mo becomes €12/mo — and you can switch at any renewal.
The full per-operation table lives in the docs, and the Pricing page has a credit estimator you can drag around. The credit model exists because of the other thing we shipped this week — the MCP server, covered in its own launch post.