Pricing

graph8 has two paid plans plus a free tier. Both paid plans give you the same graph8-owned data for free within a 5 rps cap — contacts, B2B index search + lookup, intent signals, website visitors. Credits only deduct when you reach for third-party providers, AI generation, outreach sends, voice minutes, or paid integrations.

Quick pick

• Just exploring or low-volume? Start on PAYG - no card, 1,000 free credits. Free contact/B2B/intent/visitor data within 5 rps; credits only deduct on AI, voice, sends, and 3rd-party enrichment.
• Running real GTM workflows? Platform at $499/mo bundles 75,000 credits for those always-charged surfaces, same free graph8-data access.

Mental model

graph8-owned data is free on both paid plans. Third-party data, AI generation, voice minutes, outreach sends, and meeting bookings charge credits on both plans. That’s the whole pricing model.

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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-owned data (contacts, B2B, intent, visitors)	Metered (1 cr / record)	Free (5 rps)	Free (5 rps)
Waterfall enrichment (3rd-party)	Credits	Credits	Credits
AI generation (copilot, replies, copy, drafts, landing-page chat)	Credits (per LLM tokens)	Credits (per LLM tokens)	Drawn from 75k bundle, then $0.00666/credit
Voice minutes	20 / min	20 / min	Drawn from 75k bundle
Meeting bookings (booking confirmation)	20 each	20 each	Drawn from 75k bundle
Sequencer / campaign / newsletter sends	Per step or recipient	Per step or recipient	Drawn from 75k bundle
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 and $0.00666 on Platform overage. The Platform plan’s 75,000 included credits work out to ~$3,750 in PAYG-equivalent value covering AI / voice / sends / 3rd-party enrichment. Both plans share the same free graph8-data tier (contacts, B2B, intent, visitors) within the 5 rps cap.

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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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Free on both PAYG and Platform

graph8-owned data has no third-party COGS, so it is free for paid orgs within the 5 rps cap on both plans.

Contact + B2B data (graph8’s 700M+ / 100M+ index)

Endpoint	What it does
POST /api/v1/search/contacts	ICP contact search across 700M+ records
POST /api/v1/search/companies	ICP company search across 100M+ records
POST /api/v1/search/contacts/save, /search/companies/save	Save matching records to a list
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 (free); external Kickbox/ZeroBounce providers charge separately

Your CRM (first-party data)

Endpoint	What it does
GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/v1/contacts	Full contact CRUD
GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/v1/companies	Full company CRUD
GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/v1/lists	Manage lists
GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/v1/deals	Manage deals
GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/v1/tasks, /notes, /fields, /quotes	Tasks, notes, custom fields, quotes (metadata)

Intent + website-visitor signals

Endpoint	What it does
GET /api/v1/intent/stats	Org-level intent rollups
POST /api/v1/intent/keywords/list	Tracked keyword groups
POST /api/v1/intent/pages/visitors	Visitor records for a page URL
POST /api/v1/intent/pages/contacts	Contacts that visited a page
POST /api/v1/intent/keywords/{id}/companies|contacts|urls	Per-keyword aggregations
GET /api/v1/public/visitors/score, /visitors/company	Anonymous-visitor IP resolution
POST /api/v1/public/signals/company	Aggregate company-level intent score

Workflow / Studio / webhook plumbing

Endpoint	What it does
Workflow / skill / pipeline / landing-page CRUD	Metadata management (execution charges separately — see below)
Studio reads (ICPs, personas, brand brief, intelligence, research reports)	Read-only context for AI generation
Webhook subscription mgmt + delivery	Configure + receive event callbacks
Calendar widget load, slot lookup (g8.calendar.slots)	Browse availability without booking (booking confirmation charges — see below)

Why “free within 5 rps”

The 5 rps cap is per-org and applies to all data API endpoints. There is no monthly cap on the graph8-data endpoints listed above for either paid plan — if you stay under 5 rps you can search, look up, and read intent/visitor data as much as you want. The cap exists to keep the platform stable, not to meter usage.

Coming soon

LinkedIn-keyed lookup endpoints (POST /api/v1/linkedin/person, POST /api/v1/linkedin/company) are part of the free graph8-data tier but not yet exposed on the public Developer API. Use /enrichment/lookup/person with a linkedin_url in the meantime.

Backend implementation note

The per-record constants in developer_api/constants.py (CREDITS_PER_RECORD, CREDITS_PERSON_LOOKUP, etc.) are fallback rates for free-tier and grandfathered legacy orgs. Plan-aware gating that exempts paid orgs from those charges is being implemented in parallel — the documentation here describes the published policy that gating will enforce.

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What consumes credits

These call out to third-party providers, send real messages, run AI, or trigger paid services. They consume credits on both PAYG and Platform - the only difference is whether they draw from your pay-per-credit balance (PAYG) or your 75,000-credit monthly bundle (Platform).

Action	Credits	Where
Waterfall enrichment (1 contact)	0.5-20 per provider hit (typically 1-3)	POST /api/v1/enrichment/enrich — full per-provider matrix in Enrichment
Copilot turn (chat message)	Per LLM tokens (~1 per 1,000)	g8.copilot.ask(), Studio Copilot, /api/v1/public/copilot/chat
AI inbox draft	Per LLM tokens	POST /api/v1/inbox/{id}/draft
AI generation — copy, brief, brand kit, intelligence	Per LLM tokens	Studio generation tasks
Landing-page chat edit	Per LLM tokens	POST /api/v1/pages/{id}/chat
Skill execute (type=llm)	Per LLM tokens	POST /api/v1/skills/{id}/execute
Voice AI minute	20	Voice / dialer (call audio)
Meeting booked (booking confirmation)	20	POST /appointments/bookings — calendar widget load + slot lookup are free
Process 1 intent signal	1	Intent processing (background)
Event stream ingest at scale	1 per 10 events	Tracking / CDP
Campaign step / sequence send 1	1 per step	/campaigns/launch, sequencer engagement sends
Newsletter send	1 per recipient	Newsletter / nurture campaigns
Bulk email verification (internal)	1 per email	POST /api/v1/contacts/verify-emails
External email verifier (Kickbox, ZeroBounce)	1 per verify	/enrichment/verify-email?provider=...
Skill execute (type=api)	Free (graph8-side)	Third-party HTTP may charge
Audience-sync push	Per-record where the destination platform meters	/audience-syncs/{id}/trigger

Storing contacts and companies in your CRM is free. Credits only apply when data is enriched via third parties, used in outreach, processed by AI (copilot, drafts, generation), or pushed to a metered destination.

Sequencer charge timing — confirmation pending

The “1 credit per campaign step / sequence send” rate is the published marketing rate. As of this page revision, an internal code audit could not pinpoint whether the charge fires per send or once at campaign launch. Treat the per-step rate as authoritative for planning; we will update this row if the audit lands a different conclusion.

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PAYG (Pay-as-you-go)

The entry tier. Every feature is available - 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
• Free graph8-owned data within 5 rps — contact CRM, B2B index search + lookup, intent + visitor signals — same as Platform
• 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

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 credits per month included for AI generation, voice minutes, meeting bookings, waterfall enrichment, and outreach sends
• Free graph8-owned data within 5 rps — contact CRM, B2B index search + lookup, intent + visitor signals — same as PAYG
• Additional credits at $0.00666 each beyond the 75,000 included
• 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

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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 both plans, index-backed lookups and searches are free within the 5 rps cap, so capturing the records they return doesn’t cost credits either. Waterfall enrichment, AI drafts, voice minutes, meeting bookings, and message sends consume credits on both plans as documented above.

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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.
• On both PAYG and Platform, there is no monthly cap on graph8-owned data endpoints (contacts, B2B index, intent, visitors) — free 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 graph8-owned data really free on both plans?

Yes, within the 5 rps cap. Contacts CRM, B2B index search + lookup, intent signals, and website-visitor data all hit graph8-owned infrastructure with no third-party COGS — both PAYG and Platform get unlimited access within the rate cap. There is no monthly volume limit on these endpoints. The 5 rps cap exists to keep the platform stable, not to meter usage.

So what’s actually different between PAYG and Platform?

Only the always-charged surfaces (AI generation, voice minutes, meeting bookings, outreach sends, waterfall enrichment through 3rd-party providers). PAYG bills $0.05 / credit against your balance as you go; Platform bundles 75,000 of those credits into the $499 monthly fee and prices any overage at $0.00666 / credit. Free graph8-data access is identical on both plans.

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

Anything under POST /enrichment/enrich that runs the waterfall through an external provider (Prospeo, Dropcontact, Cognism, Apollo, Hunter, Kickbox, ZeroBounce, and others). The waterfall consumes credits on both plans because graph8 pays the provider per record. Single-record lookup/person and lookup/company hit graph8’s own index — free on both plans within 5 rps.

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 costs, rate limits, and per-plan rules apply (PAYG meters index endpoints; Platform makes them unlimited within 5 rps).

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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

Footnotes

1. See the caution note above — per-step vs per-launch charge timing is being confirmed by the backend team. ↩