A credit is a hundredth of a cent of somebody else's bill.
Most tools price a subscription and hide what a lookup costs inside it, because the lookup's cost is not how they bill. netweft bills on it, so it has to show it — before the operation runs, at the price it will reserve, against a unit that means something outside this product.
What happens to a credit
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Reserved
Before anything is called, the operation's price from the rate card is held against the workspace's balance. It is a ceiling, not a guess.
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Called
The provider answers. What it charged for this call is read off its response rather than estimated.
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Settled
The hold settles to what the vendor actually charged, and the entry is written to the record with both numbers.
Refused, before the money is spent
A workspace that cannot cover the hold is turned away with the shortfall named (the API answers 402), and the vendor is never called. Nothing is invoiced after the fact.
A credit is a unit of vendor cost
One credit is $0.0001 of raw vendor cost, so 10,000 credits is exactly $1.00 of vendor spend. The unit is not an invented token with a made-up exchange rate — it is a fixed fraction of a real cost, which is what makes the rate card checkable rather than decorative.
Reserved first, settled after
Before any paid call goes out, credits are reserved at the rate card's price. The reservation is a ceiling: when the vendor's response comes back, the real charge is read off it and the difference is released. You are never charged more than the number you were shown, and often less.
Refused, never invoiced
A workspace that cannot cover a call is refused before the vendor is reached, with the shortfall named. Nothing is bought and nothing is charged. There is no overage line on an invoice because there is nothing to overrun — the failure happens at the point of decision rather than at the end of the month. The one exception is auto top-up, on by default: it buys more credits first, at most $60 a day, and can be switched off in billing.
Two pools, spent in the right order
Plan credits are granted at the start of each billing period and expire at the end of it. Top-up credits are bought with money and never expire, because expiring something somebody paid cash for invites chargebacks. Plan credits are always spent first, so nobody loses credits they could have used.
Reading is free
Reading anything netweft has already stored costs nothing. Past rank checks, audit results, saved keywords, project overviews and every MCP tool are free, because no vendor call and no crawl happens. Credits are spent only when new data is fetched, a page is crawled, or a model is called.
Put your own numbers in it.
Four operations, at the prices the API reserves against. Nothing is sent anywhere — the arithmetic happens in the page, and the rate card it multiplies by was compiled into it at build time.
8,000
2,000
720
2,230
Credits a month$1.10 of raw vendor cost
12,950
- Pro — $50 a month125,000 credits a month
- 10%of the allowance
- Studio — $100 a month280,000 credits a month
- 5%of the allowance
- Agency — $200 a month600,000 credits a month
- 2%of the allowance
The whole rate card — every operation netweft charges for — is on the pricing page, generated from the same module.
Top-ups are credits without the platform.
A dollar buys 2,500 top-up credits, with a $10 minimum. Bought as top-ups, each plan's monthly credits would cost Pro $50 against $50 for the plan, Studio $112 against $100 for the plan and Agency $240 against $200 for the plan. The plan also buys the platform — the projects, tracking, audits and assistant that credits alone do not — so it is never the dearer way to buy credits, and from Studio up its credits alone cost less than top-ups. A top-up is what covers a heavy week rather than a business model.
- Trial
- 3,000–8,000 credits by plan, a tighter rate limit, and no auto top-up
- Pro — $50 a month
- 125,000 credits a month, expiring with it
- Studio — $100 a month
- 280,000 2 times Pro's price, 2.2 times the credits
- Agency — $200 a month
- 600,000 4 times Pro's price, 4.8 times the credits
The rate card is the product's, not the page's.
Every number on this page is read from the same module the API reserves against, so the calculator above cannot quote a price the product does not charge.
There is no free tier. Three plans from $50 a month, each opening with a free trial.