Billing happens at the team level. A team is on a plan, and that plan sets how much you can do each month.
What a plan covers
Plans include monthly allowances for the work Trawley does, such as:
- Scrape runs that collect data from sites.
- Search API calls when you query results from your own apps.
- Results API calls when you read results programmatically.
When you reach an allowance, that activity pauses until the next billing period or until you upgrade. Searching from the dashboard and building scrapers are part of normal use; the metered allowances mainly affect heavy or programmatic usage.
Seeing your usage
A team's billing area shows your current plan and how much of each allowance you have used this period. Check it if a scheduled run stops happening or an API call returns a limit error, since you may have reached an allowance.
Upgrading and managing billing
Upgrades and payment details are handled through a secure billing portal. From there you can change plan, update your card, and view invoices.
If you mostly hit limits from frequent schedules, slowing a scraper's cadence can be cheaper than upgrading. Match each scraper's schedule to how often its source actually changes.
For developers
API allowances and what a 429 looks like are covered in
rate limits and quotas.