pricing
Try the catalogue and current prices on the free 30-day trial. Developer gives you 50,000 credits a month for 29 €. Growth adds ongoing photo recognition, graded quotes, complete price history and movers for 79 € a month.
Yearly: 2 months free, refunded in full within 30 days
Trial Free, no card: 800 credits once you confirm the address (80 before), 30 days from signup. Up to 1,000 distinct cards and today’s price, 400 credits a day, one key, 5 trial recognitions after email verification. Centering trial: 5 measure and 5 confirm calls, independently; grade and standards included. Centering credits: measure 25, confirm 5, grade 1, standards 1.
Start the trial →29 €/mo
290 € billed yearly. 2 months free.
0.58 € per 1,000 catalogue lookups
For a tracker or an inventory that reads the catalogue and today’s price.
79 €/mo
790 € billed yearly.
About 1 euro cent a scan · about 0.40 € per 1,000 lookups
For products that scan cards, measure centering or need graded quotes, complete price history and movers.
149 €/mo
1,490 € billed yearly.
About 0.75 euro cents a scan · about 0.30 € per 1,000 lookups
The same product with more users behind it: twice Growth’s requests per second, 40 keys, support the same business day.
Enterprise Credits by contract, 400 requests a second, 100 keys, a named contact. Priced on volume and terms, annual.
Contact sales →POST /v1/vision/identify: a phone photo in, the catalogue id out, 25 credits a photo. Verified trial accounts get 5 calls. After that, the call answers 403 PLAN_REQUIRED before any credit is spent. How the scanner endpoint works
Graded quotes by company and score, the complete price series instead of 30 days, and the movers feed ranked since yesterday. Prices in every printing language start one step lower, on Developer.
200,000 credits a month, 80 requests a second, 16 in flight, 15 keys: one per environment and service. Upgrades apply immediately and are prorated to the day.
Commercial use is allowed on every tier, trial included, with attribution where the data is displayed. Terms exclude rebuilding a bulk dataset for redistribution and reselling raw price series.
The person who built the API. In September a customer reported that set totals were wrong on several Japanese sets, where reverse holos were counted separately and a complete card list looked incomplete; the fix shipped the same day, and it is in the changelog. Write to riccardo (at) rarebit.app and you reach him, not a queue.
Unit costs assume the whole monthly quota goes to that request type; photo recognition and every other call share the same credits. Prices exclude VAT.
plans
The trial and the three plans you can buy. /v1/billing/plans returns the plan limits; /v1/me reports your remaining trial recognitions.
| Feature | Developer | Growth | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| The contract What it costs and what it grants. | |||
| Per month | 29 € | 79 € | 149 € |
| Per year | 290 € | 790 € | 1,490 € |
| Credits | 50,000 / mo | 200,000 / mo | 500,000 / mo |
| Distinct cards per period | 30,000 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Support | Email, one business day | Email, same business day | |
| Market data Developer covers the catalogue and current prices; Growth adds graded quotes, complete history and movers. | |||
| Price history | 30 days | Complete | Complete |
| Graded quotes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Movers feed | No | Yes | Yes |
| Card centering and person-confirmed lines | No | Yes | Yes |
| Card recognition from a photo | No | Yes | Yes |
| Throughput The monthly ceiling is not what breaks first. The peak is. | |||
| Requests / second | 30 | 80 | 160 |
| Requests / minute | 1,800 | 4,800 | 9,600 |
| Requests in flight | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| Operations | |||
| API keys | 5 | 15 | 40 |
weights
Most calls cost 1 credit. A catalogue page costs per request, not per row: a full page of cards costs what a single card costs.
Every response carries its own cost in X-Credits-Cost, and a 304 costs nothing. Batch and include pricing scales with the rows requested.
Move the sliders to your real traffic.
500 × 1 × 30 days = 15,000 credits
50 × 5 × 30 days = 7,500 credits
0 × 25 × 30 days = 0 credits
0 × 25 = 0 credits
A 30-day month, weights applied as published above. Images, reference data and 304 responses cost nothing, so they are not in this calculation. Centering counts measures here; confirm, grade and standards consume additional credits.
weighted total
22,500credits / month
About 23K credits a month fits Developer at 29 €/mo, with 55% of the quota still unused. Go over it and requests answer 429 until the reset. Overage is switched off; nothing extra is charged.
included
billing
Start with Developer if your product reads the catalogue and current prices. Growth adds graded quotes, price history beyond 30 days, the movers feed and ongoing recognition from photos. The API names what your plan withholds in meta.withheld; nothing is silently dropped. Upgrades apply immediately and are prorated to the day.
Pick a plan above. The button opens the Stripe checkout for that exact plan and interval. If you are not signed in it asks for the email and password first, then goes straight on to the payment. Nothing to paste, no API key to find. Enterprise includes the market features of Professional, with 24,000 requests a minute and 32 in flight, on an annual contract with DPA and SCCs. /v1/billing/plans returns all its limits.
No. The plan lives on the account, not on the key. Within about a minute of the payment landing, the same key answers with the new ceilings; GET /v1/me is where you watch it happen.
Credits count requests; the allowance counts how many different cards a period may retrieve: 1,000 for the whole trial, 30,000 a month on Developer, no limit from Growth up. An app that keeps reading the same cards never meets it; a full mirror of the catalogue needs Growth. At the limit, cards you already retrieved keep answering and a request that would add new ones answers 403 CARD_ALLOWANCE_EXCEEDED, uncharged. Every response carries X-Cards-Limit and X-Cards-Used.
Requests answer 429 with the code QUOTA_EXCEEDED and a Retry-After header, until the period rolls over or you upgrade. Nothing is charged that you did not ask for.
Not today. Overage is switched off on every plan because there is no metered price to bill it with. If your volume regularly reaches the ceiling, choose a larger plan or contact sales for a contract.
No. The trial is 800 credits granted once, valid for 30 days, with a ceiling of 400 a day. It includes 5 trial recognitions after email verification. It also includes 5 centering measure and 5 confirm calls, independently; grade and standards are available during the verified trial. Centering costs 25 / 5 / 1 / 1 credits for measure / confirm / grade / standards. When the credits are gone the account answers 429; when the 30 days are up it answers 403 TRIAL_EXPIRED on every credited route, until a plan is chosen. The key stays valid. /v1/me and the billing routes keep answering. The trial includes 7 days of price history with English price quotes, 5 requests a second, 300 a minute, 3 in flight and community support. Paid plans have no daily cap.
Upgrades apply immediately and are prorated to the day. Downgrades are prorated the same way and the credit lands on the next invoice. Keys are not rotated. New limits are live within a minute.
Prices are in euro, net of tax. Checkout collects and validates your VAT number and billing address; both are printed on every invoice. A business with a valid EU VAT number outside our country of establishment is invoiced under the reverse charge.
Yes. Yearly plans grant the monthly credits every month for twelve months.
Yearly plans are refunded in full within 30 days of the payment. Monthly plans are not refunded mid-cycle: you cancel, and the plan stays active until the period you paid for runs out.
You keep the paid plan until the end of the period you already paid for. Nothing is deleted: keys stay valid, invoices stay readable, and choosing a plan again picks the limits straight back up on the same keys. After the paid period the account stops answering data endpoints. Trial credits do not come back.