# Paying for the API (/api/pricing)

## Who can use the API [#who-can-use-the-api]

People and teams who pay for Taad: a paid plan (or paid seats, for an organization), or money in the **API wallet**. Free accounts can't make keys.

## What's free [#whats-free]

Everything that reads or changes your own data: recordings, transcripts, notes, speakers, to-dos, calendar events, search, exports, webhooks and the event log. Only rate limits apply.

## What costs money [#what-costs-money]

| Call | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Send audio (transcript, speakers, notes, summary, to-dos, events, all included): a file up to 90 MB, or a link up to 200 MB; up to four hours | $0.90 an hour, by its length |
| Send a transcript instead of audio (notes only) | $0.05 per started hour of talk |
| Transcribe a recording again | as sending audio |
| Rewrite a recording's notes | $0.05 |
| Ask a question about one recording | $0.05 |
| Ask a question across recordings | $0.15 |
| Anything with a test key | free |

The current list is always at [`GET /v1/prices`](/api/reference/wallet), no key needed.

**A heavier call costs a little more.** Some recordings take much more work than usual, a long, dense meeting with many voices, say. When a call costs us more than a normal one of its size, the difference is added at cost, nothing on top. Quiet recordings simply cost the price.

## Where the money comes from [#where-the-money-comes-from]

1. **Your plan's weekly minutes**, for audio sent with a personal key, if you allow it. Your paid plan's minutes come back every Monday at 00:00 UTC; the extra hours you bought for the apps are never touched.
2. **Your API wallet**, in US dollars: yours for a personal key, the organization's for an organization key.

In **Settings › Developers › Usage** you choose: plan minutes first, or the API wallet only (to keep your minutes for recording). Any key can have its own choice too.

## Your API wallet [#your-api-wallet]

- **Add money** in Settings › Developers › Usage: $5 to $500 at a time, on the website. Only an organization's owner adds money to its wallet.
- **Before a paid call runs**, its price is set aside. When it's done, it's charged what it really took and the rest is let go. If something fails on our side, nothing is charged.
- **The wallet can dip below zero**, by the extra of a heavier call only. Your next top-up covers it first.
- **When it runs low** (under $1) and when it's empty, we email you, once a week each, and send the `usage.balance_low` and `usage.exhausted` webhook events.
- **No surprise bills**: the wallet is prepaid. Nothing charges a card by itself.

## Caps [#caps]

Keys have no spending cap unless you set one. In Settings you can give any key a **weekly cap**; once it's spent, that key's paid calls answer `402 key_cap_reached` until Monday.

## Seeing what you spend [#seeing-what-you-spend]

- `GET /v1/usage`: your wallet, what's set aside, your plan's minutes this week, and what this key spent.
- `GET /v1/wallet/entries`: every top-up and charge.
- Every paid answer carries `Taad-Charged-Usd` (or `Taad-Held-Usd` while it runs) and `Taad-Balance-Usd`.