Exceeding Quota Without Overages Enabled
If overages are not enabled and you exceed your daily API quota, your request will be rejected, returning a 403 ‘quota_exceeded’ error. You won’t incur any additional fees unless overages are turned on.
Enabling Overages
If overages are enabled (within your account), you can exceed the daily limit and incur a fee based on usage ($1 per 5,000-15,000 requests depending on your plan). Overages are charged on a daily basis.
Example for the Personal Plan (One Week of Daily Usage)
With a daily quota of 10,000 requests and overages charged at $1 per 5,000 extra requests, the cost for exceeding the quota is calculated as follows:
• Day 1: 10,001 requests → $0.0002 charged
• Day 2: 10,500 requests → $0.10 charged
• Day 3: 12,000 requests → $0.40 charged
• Day 4: 9,900 requests → $0 charged
• Day 5: 10,250 requests → $0.05 charged
• Day 6: 11,300 requests → $0.26 charged
• Day 7: 10,800 requests → $0.16 charged
Total overage charges for the 7 days: $0.97.
Note: Usage resets at 12:00 AM PST every night.