Account
Pricing
What a search, a fetch and a monitor cost, and how you pay for them with prepaid credit.
You pay for each provider call that Telem makes for you, at the provider’s own published price, with no markup. The money comes from your organization’s prepaid credit.
Credit
Section titled “Credit”- Your first sign-in adds $20 of credit, in US dollars.
- To add more, open Billing in the console and pay by card. The minimum is $5. Only organization admins can add credit.
- Billing also shows your balance, your usage, each charge and your receipts.
What you pay for
Section titled “What you pay for”- Each provider that answers. A search that runs on three providers is three
charges. A search with no provider list runs on all the default providers. To
pay less, name the providers in
providers.include, or turn on auto-routing, which often runs a query on fewer providers. - A search with no results. The provider bills it, so Telem does too.
- Each URL that a fetch reads, at the price of the provider that read it.
A provider call that fails, with an error or a timeout, is free.
Prices
Section titled “Prices”Each provider has its own price, by the search, the page or the credit. The console shows the charge for each call. The platform providers are not in these tables: their billing units are on Supported platforms.
| Provider | Price |
|---|---|
brave |
$0.005 a search |
ceramic |
$0.00005 a search |
exa |
What exa charges for the call, as exa reports it |
linkup |
$0.005 a search, $0.006 with an answer. A deep search is $0.05, $0.055 with an answer |
parallel |
$0.001 a search. At the extended and max tiers, $0.005 (advanced mode) |
perplexity |
$0.005 a search |
seltz |
$0.005 a search |
serpapi |
$0.006 a search |
tavily |
$0.005 a search. At the extended and max tiers, $0.010 (advanced depth) |
tinyfish |
Free |
you |
$0.005 a search, plus $0.001 for each page it crawls live |
| Provider | Price |
|---|---|
brightdata |
$0.0015 a record |
exa |
What exa charges for the call, as exa reports it |
firecrawl |
$0.000798 a firecrawl credit, as firecrawl reports them. A page is usually 1 credit; a PDF is billed by the page |
jina |
$0.045 for each million tokens |
linkup |
$0.005 a URL |
parallel |
What parallel charges for the call, as parallel reports it ($0.001 a unit) |
tavily |
$0.001 a URL |
tinyfish |
Free |
you |
$0.001 a page |
Each run of a monitor costs $0.003 to $0.015, by the provider that runs it. Some providers add $0.001 for each result after the first 10. A run that fails or is cancelled is free. An hourly monitor runs about 720 times in 30 days: about $2 to $11.
With options.search, the web search of each run is billed like any search,
plus $0.00003 for Telem’s check that the results are on topic.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”- Rate limits: the per-minute limit, and the size limits on each request
- Auto-routing: fewer providers for each query
- Errors: what a
402means