Pricing

graph8 has two paid plans plus a free tier. Both paid plans give you full access to every API surface - the difference is how you pay for it.

Quick pick

• Just exploring or low-volume? Start on PAYG - no card, 1,000 free credits.
• Running real GTM workflows? Platform at $499/mo gives you unlimited graph8 index lookups inside a 5 rps cap.

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Plan Comparison

	Free trial	PAYG	Platform
Price	$0	$0.05 / credit	$499 / month
Free credits on signup	See below	1,000	2,500
Card required to start	No	No	No
Included AI credits / month	-	Pay-per-credit	75,000
graph8 index lookups	Metered	Metered	Unlimited (5 rps)
Waterfall enrichment (3rd-party)	Credits	Credits	Credits
Auto-CRM-capture	Off	On (default)	On (default)
Rate limit	5 rps	5 rps	5 rps
Work email required	Yes	Yes	Yes
Best for	Trying graph8	Developers, evaluators, low volume	Teams running real GTM

Credit value

Each credit is worth $0.05 on PAYG. The Platform plan’s 75,000 included AI credits work out to ~$3,750 in PAYG-equivalent value, before the unlimited index-lookup bundle.

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Free Tier

Two ways to start free, both without a card:

• PAYG signup: 1,000 free credits, no expiration timer.
• Platform trial: 2,500 free credits to evaluate the full Platform experience before subscribing.

Personal email domains (gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc.) are blocked - signup requires a work email.

Auto-capture is off on free tier

Free tier API calls are stateless probes - results are returned but not saved into your CRM. Capture turns on automatically when you upgrade to PAYG or Platform.

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PAYG (Pay-as-you-go)

The entry tier. Every feature is available - everything is credit-gated, no feature walls.

• $0.05 per credit, billed against your balance
• 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
• Full platform access - search, enrichment, sequences, campaigns, copilot, intent, ads, voice, landing pages
• Auto-CRM-capture is on - every contact or company returned by the API is saved into your CRM
• 5 requests/second on data API endpoints

What it costs

Operation	Credits
Person lookup (/enrichment/lookup/person)	2
Company lookup (/enrichment/lookup/company)	2
Search record returned (/search/contacts, /search/companies)	1 per record
Save search to list (/search/contacts/save, /search/companies/save)	1 per record saved
Email verification (/enrichment/verify-email)	1
Waterfall enrichment (/enrichment/enrich)	Variable (provider-dependent)

Best for: developers, evaluators, scripts, low-volume integrations.

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Platform - $499/month

For teams running real GTM workflows on graph8.

• 2,500 free credits on signup to trial before subscribing (no card)
• 75,000 AI credits per month included
• Unlimited graph8 index data lookups via API (rate-capped at 5 req/sec)
• Auto-CRM-capture is on - every API result lands in your CRM as a permanent record
• Full access to sequences, campaigns, copilot, intent, ads, voice, and landing pages

What’s included free (within the 5 rps cap)

These endpoints are backed by graph8’s own indexes (OpenSearch + ClickHouse). On the Platform plan, they do not consume credits:

Endpoint	What it does
POST /api/v1/search/contacts	ICP contact search, paginated
POST /api/v1/search/companies	ICP company search, paginated
POST /api/v1/enrichment/lookup/person	Email / LinkedIn / name+domain → person (index hit)
POST /api/v1/enrichment/lookup/company	Domain / name → company (index hit)
POST /api/v1/enrichment/verify-email	Internal validator only
GET /api/v1/contacts	Read your CRM contacts
GET /api/v1/companies	Read your CRM companies
GET /api/v1/lists	Read your lists
GET /api/v1/deals	Read your deals
GET /api/v1/fields	Read your custom fields

Coming soon

LinkedIn-keyed lookup endpoints (POST /api/v1/linkedin/person, POST /api/v1/linkedin/company) are part of the unlimited bundle but not yet exposed on the public Developer API. Use /enrichment/lookup/person with a linkedin_url in the meantime.

What still consumes credits

These call out to third-party providers, real message infrastructure, or paid services - they consume credits on both PAYG and Platform.

Endpoint	Why
POST /api/v1/enrichment/enrich	Waterfall - third-party providers (Prospeo, Dropcontact, Cognism, etc.)
POST /api/v1/sequences/{id}/contacts	Real message sends (SMTP, SMS, WhatsApp)
POST /api/v1/campaigns/launch	Multi-channel orchestration
POST /api/v1/ads/launch	Ad spend triggers
External email verifiers (Kickbox / ZeroBounce)	Per-verification cost

Why “unlimited within rate cap”

The 5 rps cap is per-org and applies to all data API endpoints. There is no monthly cap on index-backed endpoints for Platform - if you stay under 5 rps, you can lookup as much as you want.

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Auto-CRM-Capture

Every contact and company returned by the API is automatically saved into your CRM. The next time you query GET /contacts or open the Contacts grid in the app, it’s there.

Defaults by plan

Plan	Capture default
Free trial	Off
PAYG	On
Platform	On

How captured records appear

Captured records are tagged so you can find and audit them:

• source = 'api_lookup'
• created_via = 'api'
• api_endpoint records which endpoint produced the record
• last_api_touched_at updates on each subsequent lookup

A second lookup of the same person updates last_api_touched_at rather than creating a duplicate. Dedup is per-org against the canonical MashupContact / MashupCompany.

Opting out

You can disable capture at three levels:

1. Per call - append ?capture=false to a GET, or pass "capture": false in the JSON body of a POST.
2. Per API key - configure the key with capture disabled in Settings → API.
3. Org-wide - toggle auto_capture_enabled off in Studio Settings → API.

# Per-call opt-out via query string
curl "https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/enrichment/lookup/person?capture=false" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "jane@acme.com"}'

# Per-call opt-out via JSON body (POST)
curl -X POST "https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/enrichment/lookup/person" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "jane@acme.com", "capture": false}'

Coming soon

Auto-CRM-capture is approved and rolling out. The capture flag, the per-key setting, and the org-wide toggle are documented here so you can plan against them, but they are not yet wired into every endpoint. Until rollout is complete, treat lookup and search results as read-only and use /search/contacts/save to persist records explicitly.

Cost of capture

Capture is bundled into the same request - there is no double-charge. On Platform, captured records from index-backed endpoints stay free. On PAYG, you pay the per-record credit cost once and then own the record.

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Rate Limits

All data API endpoints enforce 5 requests/second per org, on both PAYG and Platform.

• The cap is the same on both plans.
• There is no monthly cap on index-backed endpoints for Platform - “unlimited” means unlimited within the 5 rps cap.
• Exceeding the cap returns 429 Too Many Requests with a Retry-After header.

See Rate Limits for retry strategies and headers.

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FAQ

Do I need a credit card to start?

No. Both PAYG (1,000 free credits) and the Platform trial (2,500 free credits) start without a card.

Why is a work email required?

graph8 is B2B - we use the work email domain to scope your org and prevent abuse. Personal email providers (gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc.) are blocked at signup.

Is the unlimited bundle really unlimited?

Yes, within the 5 rps cap. There is no monthly volume cap on index-backed endpoints for the Platform plan. The cap exists to keep the platform stable, not to meter usage.

What counts as a “third-party” enrichment call?

Anything under POST /enrichment/enrich that runs the waterfall through an external provider (Prospeo, Dropcontact, Cognism, and others). The waterfall consumes credits because graph8 pays the provider per record. The single-record lookup/person and lookup/company endpoints hit graph8’s own index and are free on Platform.

What happens to my saved data if I downgrade?

Your CRM data stays. Captured records remain in your workspace regardless of plan. You only lose the ability to make new credit-consuming calls if your balance hits zero on PAYG.

Can I switch between PAYG and Platform?

Yes. Switching to Platform is instant. Switching from Platform back to PAYG takes effect at the end of your billing cycle.

Are MCP and CLI calls billed the same way?

Yes. The MCP server and CLI call the same Developer API under the hood - the same credit and rate-limit rules apply.

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What’s next

• Authentication - create an API key
• Rate Limits - retry headers and backoff
• Search - the index-backed search endpoints
• Enrichment - lookup vs. waterfall, in detail