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Calling an endpoint costs credits — the per-call cost varies by API. Building or revising a private (off-catalog) API costs 75 credits for a new build and 50 for a revision. Browsing, subscribing, and contributing back to the public catalog are always free.

A call's cost reflects the real work behind it — proxy rotation and anti-bot handling, the bandwidth moved, and the internal requests Parse makes to the source site to fulfill your one request. Heavier sites and multi-step actions cost more; a simple read costs less. You always get the credit headers back on every response so the math is never a surprise.

Usually much cheaper. Browser-rendering tools that render a full headless browser per request pay to load, script, and tear down a whole page every time. Parse talks straight to the network layer underneath, so one typed call replaces a page-load — you pay for the data you asked for, not for a browser session to render it.

Yes. Paid plans can top up credits anytime from the billing page — preset packs or a custom amount. Top-up credits don't expire at the end of your billing cycle.

They can. Bonus credits are separate from your plan allowance and can have their own expiry date, which the billing page shows next to them.

Yes. If a private build or revision fails on our side — an outage, a crash, a timeout, or a site we couldn't get through — its 75 or 50 credits are refunded automatically. A private revision that finishes without changing anything is refunded too. Contributed builds are free, so there's nothing to refund.

You build it yourself, and Parse does the work: sign in, click + New, paste the site URL, and describe the data you want. If the marketplace already has an API for that site, you'll see it first. Contributing the build to the public marketplace is free; a private build costs 75 credits.

Sign in, open Settings → Account, and click Create API Key in the API Keys section. The full key is shown once, when it's created — if you lose it, revoke it and create a new one.

No. The free plan comes with 200 credits and no card required. Upgrade only when you need more throughput or higher rate limits.