Pay for the work, not the round trips

• Every game, every plan

  No game is gated behind a tier. Starter reads the same nine-game catalog as Scale — plans differ in volume and speed, never in coverage.

• Images are never metered

  Card artwork comes from a separate CDN and costs nothing on any plan. A collection grid rendering four hundred thumbnails does not touch your credits.

• Caching is rewarded, not punished

  Send an If-None-Match header and a 304 costs zero credits. Failed requests are not billed either — a 429 or a 500 is our problem, not your invoice.

• Bulk beats chatter

  A search costs 2 credits whether it returns 10 cards or 100. Paginating wide is dramatically cheaper here than on a per-request plan.

• No daily limit, and you choose the ceiling

  Spend the month's credits in a day if a backfill needs it. Past the allowance, requests keep succeeding as overage drawn from your prepaid balance, so a month never costs more than the balance you fund. Switch on the hard cap to stop at the allowance instead.

• Upgrading always wins

  Overage is priced above the rate of the plan it extends, on purpose. It is there to cover a busy week, never to make staying on a small plan the cheaper move.

• You can always leave

  Plans run month to month or year to year, prepaid from a balance you control, and there is no cancellation fee. Stop topping up and the plan simply lapses.

1. 1

   Pick a plan and pay the first period

   Choose a plan here or on the billing page and you go straight to card checkout for it. The payment lands in your balance, the plan is attached the moment it clears, and the key works straight away. A VAT invoice is issued for every payment.

2. 2

   Top up whenever you like

   Add any amount from $19 ahead of time and later periods are drawn from it. Switch plans whenever you like — the difference is prorated against the balance rather than invoiced.

3. 3

   We draw monthly

   On each renewal date the plan fee and any overage are deducted. We email you when the balance drops below two months so a lapse never arrives as a surprise.

If the balance will not cover the next draw, the plan lapses and your keys stop until you top up. Nothing goes to collections, because nothing was ever owed — the worst case is an API that stops answering, which is a problem you can fix in a minute.

• Cards, because everyone has one

  Visa, Mastercard and American Express, plus Apple Pay and Link. Expense it, invoice it, and get a VAT receipt your finance team will accept.

• Prepaid, so you can never be surprised

  You spend a balance you have already funded. There is no credit line, no invoice at the end of the month, and no way to owe us money.

• One balance either way

  Both methods top up the same prepaid balance. Nothing about your plan, your credits or your overage changes with how you paid.

• Automatic only if you ask

  Payments are one-off unless you switch on automatic top-ups, which recharge a saved card when the balance falls below a level you set. Off by default, and off again the moment you say so.

Payments credit instantly. VAT is added at checkout where it applies; EU businesses can enter a VAT number and be reverse-charged instead. We deliberately only offer methods that can be charged again later, so any payment you make can also become an automatic top-up. That rules out single-use bank redirects such as iDEAL, which require you to authenticate every payment in person.