> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scrapio.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Credit Management

> Read your current usage, estimate costs for planned operations, and set up monitoring.

## Reading usage from responses

Every successful inline response includes a `usage` field:

```json theme={null}
{
  "usage": { "credits": 2 }
}
```

For async jobs, credits are reported in the job status response once the job completes.

## Estimating costs

Use the credit table in [Rate Limits & Credits](/rate-limits) to estimate costs before running large jobs.

A quick formula for crawls:

```
estimated_credits = max_pages × credits_per_page
```

Where `credits_per_page` is 1 for static HTML or 2 for JS-rendered pages.

For extraction jobs, add 1–3 credits per page depending on extraction mode.

## Daily cap behaviour

Free plan tenants have a daily credit cap (1,000 credits). When the cap is reached mid-crawl, the job stops and returns a `429` with `daily_credit_cap_exceeded`. Partial results are returned for whatever pages were fetched before the cap.

## Monitoring usage

You can monitor usage through:

1. **Per-response `usage` field** — inspect credits in every API response.
2. **Dashboard** — aggregate daily and monthly usage at [scrapio.dev](https://scrapio.dev).

## Reducing credit usage

* Use `render_js: false` when pages don't need JavaScript (saves 1 credit per fetch).
* Use `mode: "selectors"` extraction instead of LLM-based extraction where the DOM is stable (saves 1–3 credits per page).
* Set a tight `max_pages` on crawls to avoid over-crawling.
* Use `same_domain_only: true` (the default) to prevent the crawler from following external links.
* Cache results client-side when the same URL is fetched repeatedly.

## Upgrading your plan

Visit [scrapio.dev#pricing](https://scrapio.dev#pricing) to upgrade from Free to Pro. Pro plans include 50,000 daily credits with rollover, higher `timeout_ms` limits, and priority execution.