Pricing

Transparent pricing - Pay only for what you use

Pay only for what you use. Transparent pricing with no hidden fees.

Search API Pricing

Pay per retrieval with CPM (Cost Per Mille) pricing.

Cost Control

Set your maximum price per thousand retrievals to control spending:

from valyu import Valyu

valyu = Valyu(api_key="your-api-key-here")

response = valyu.search(
    "Implementation details of agentic search-enhanced large reasoning models",
    max_num_results=5,
    max_price=30  # Optional: Maximum CPM
)

If max_price is set, the total CPM cost will be equal to or lower than your limit.

If your max price is too low, you’ll get a partial response:

{
    "response_code": 206,  # Partial success
    "success": true,
    "error": "3 data points were removed for too low max_price",
    ...
}

Pricing Tiers

Data Source Type	Price (per 1k retrievals)	What You Get
Open Databases	$0.50	Full-text content from arXiv, Wikipedia, PubMed, and more
Web Search	$1.50	Fresh, full-text web content
Financial & Market Data	$8.00	Real-time equities, crypto, and market data
Proprietary Databases	$30-50	Licensed journals, books, and premium sources

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Content API Pricing

Pay per successful URL. Simple pricing for content extraction.

Pricing Tiers

Feature	Price per URL	Description
Base Extraction	$0.001	Clean content extraction
AI Processing	+$0.001	Summarisation or structured extraction
Failed URLs	$0.00	No charge for failures

Fair Pricing

Only pay for URLs that are successfully processed.

Examples

Basic Extraction (10 URLs)

• Base extraction: 10 × $0.001 =$0.01
• Total: $0.01

AI Processing (5 URLs with summary)

{"summary": "Summarise key points"}

• Base extraction: 5 × $0.001 =$0.005
• AI processing: 5 × $0.001 =$0.005
• Total: $0.01

Mixed Success (10 URLs, 2 failed)

• Successful: 8 × $0.001 =$0.008
• Failed: 2 × $0.00 =$0.00
• Total: $0.008

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Answer API Pricing

Dual pricing for search data and AI processing.

The Answer API combines search with AI to give you intelligent responses.

Pricing Structure

Search Data Costs

• Same as Search API pricing (see above)
• Controlled by data_max_price parameter (CPM)

AI Processing Costs

• $12 per million tokens for analysis and response generation
• Includes input and output tokens
• Separate from search costs

Calculating Your Cost

Search Data Cost = Number of results × Price per 1k retrievals

AI Processing Cost = Number of tokens × $12/1M tokens

Total Cost = Search Data Cost + AI Processing Cost

Examples

Basic Web Query

{
  "query": "latest AI developments",
  "data_max_price": 20.0
}

• Search data: ~10 results × $1.50/1000 =$0.015
• AI processing: ~2000 tokens × $12/1M =$0.024
• Total: ~$0.039

Research Query (Academic Sources)

{
  "query": "quantum computing applications",
  "search_type": "proprietary",
  "data_max_price": 20.0
}

• Search data: ~5 papers × $1/1000 =$0.005
• AI processing: ~4000 tokens × $12/1M =$0.048
• Total: ~$0.053

Structured Output Query

{
  "query": "tech company earnings",
  "structured_output": {...},
  "data_max_price": 30.0
}

• Search data: ~8 results × $8/1000 =$0.064
• AI processing: ~3000 tokens × $12/1M =$0.036
• Total: ~$0.10

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