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At Precept, we use a credit-based system to give you the flexibility to pay only for the data you need. This page explains how credits are consumed for our main API features. Credit costs for Leads are based on whether you are enriching existing leads or searching for new ones, and the level of data requested.

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Base Costs

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Optional Contact Details

If you request contact details (emails or phone numbers) during a Lead Search or Decision Maker enrichment, two things happen:
  1. The base lead cost is discounted from 0.5 to 0.1 credits per lead.
  2. Additional credits are charged per lead for successfully found contact details.
You are only charged for contact details that we successfully find and return. The discounted 0.1 base cost applies automatically whenever contact enrichment is requested.

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Advanced Filtering

When using Lead Search, you can optionally filter leads based on their recent LinkedIn activity (e.g. they recently posted about a specific topic).
Credit costs for Companies are based on a base insight fee plus any specific enrichments requested per company.

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Base & Enrichment Costs

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Decision Maker Contact Details

When requesting decision_makers with includeContactDetails: true, the same discount logic applies:
You are only charged for the number of decision-makers actually returned, up to your decisionMakersLimit.

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How Credits Work

When you make an API request, we calculate the total credit cost based on your parameters. If your available credits are sufficient, we process the entire request. If not, we process as much as we can with your remaining credits and return the results for the processed items, indicating any skipped items.

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Checking Your Balance

You can check your remaining credit balance through multiple methods:
  1. Developer Dashboard: View your real-time balance directly on the Precept Developer Dashboard.
  2. API Endpoint: Perform a GET request to the /v1/credits endpoint to programmatically check your balance.
  3. MCP Tool: If you are using our Model Context Protocol server, invoke the precept_check_credits tool.

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Testing Your Webhook

A quick way to check the result endpoint and troubleshoot is to use a webhook URL from webhook.site (a free service).