Quotas
Every new account gets a free basic monthly subscription. One free account is permitted per application or website.
The non-free contracts are available in the online shop. Create an account and sign in to get there.
Web service requests are limited by time. The limits are defined by your contract:
| Subscription per month | One-time credits | ||||||||||
| Package name | free | 20k | 100k | 1m | 10m | 20k | 100k | 1m | 10m | ||
| Amount of credits | 10'000 | 20'000 | 100'000 | 1'000'000 | 10'000'000 | 20'000 | 100'000 | 1'000'000 | 10'000'000 | ||
| Max. credits per minute | 30 | 60 | 300 | 3'000 | 10'000 | 5'000 | 5'000 | 5'000 | 10'000 | ||
| Max. credits per hour | 300 | 600 | 3'000 | 30'000 | 300'000 | 20'000 | 100'000 | 100'000 | 500'000 | ||
| Max. credits per day | 1'000 | 2'000 | 10'000 | 100'000 | 1'000'000 | 20'000 | 100'000 | 1'000'000 | 10'000'000 | ||
| Max. simultaneous requests | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ||
| Target response time * | 500ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | ||
| Duraton of validity | - | - | - | - | - | 30 days | 60 days | 90 days | 180 days | ||
| Price | free | 10 € | 50 € | 400 € | 3'000 € | 15 € | 75 € | 600 € | 4'500 € | ||
| Price per request | 0 | 0.0005 | 0.0005 | 0.0004 | 0.0003 | 0.00075 | 0.00075 | 0.0006 | 0.00045 | ||
* Target response time
Paid contracts are served with priority, as fast as possible. Free accounts have a minimal response time (computation time), the whole request takes longer because of the network distance.
One-time credits are meant to be used for batch processing, for example to improve the name information in an existing customer database. Subscriptions are meant to be used for ongoing processing, like verifying new customer signups.
The various web services have different prices per request:
| Service Category | Service | Credits | ||
| Parser | parser/personnameparser | 4 | ||
| Genderizer | genderizer/persongenderizer | 3 | ||
| Matcher | matcher/personmatcher | 5 | ||
| Formatter | formatter/personnameformatter | 1 | ||
| email/emailnameparser | 3 | |||
| email/disposableemailaddressdetector | 1 | |||
| System | system/pinger | 0 | ||
| System | system/exceptionthrower | 0 |
Only successfully answered requests are charged.
Computation example: A free subscription can make 2500 personnameparser web service requests per month - each costing 4 credits, totaling the 10'000 free monthly credits.