API pricing
Start free, pick your plan.
Every account starts with a free 10-call sandbox trial, then picks a plan that scales with usage. All paid tiers include the full endpoint surface; you only pay for higher rate limits and more credits.
Sandbox
- Rate limit
- 10 req/min
- Daily quota
- 10 calls total
- 10 AI calls (one-time, lifetime)
- Sandbox key, never billed
- Cached responses are free
- All endpoints available
Starter
- Rate limit
- 60 req/min
- Daily quota
- 5,000 req/day
- Everything in Sandbox
- 2,500 credits / month
- Recipe generation + caching
- Ingredient substitutions
- Pantry category suggestions
- Weekly discoveries feed
- Tone rewriting
- Budgetify, healthify & adapt-method
- Overage available (1.2¢/credit)
Pro
- Rate limit
- 120 req/min
- Daily quota
- 25,000 req/day
- Everything in Starter
- 5,000 credits / month
- Higher rate limits + daily quota
- Lower overage rate (1.0¢/credit)
What's included
Every plan ships the full toolkit
Rate limits and quotas are the only difference between tiers. No feature paywalls on core endpoints.
- Recipe generation + caching
- Ingredient substitutions
- Pantry category suggestions
- Tone rewriting
- Budgetify, healthify & adapt-method
- Weekly discoveries feed
- Bearer-token auth + API keys
- Sandbox + production keys
Frequently asked
How is usage metered?
We count successful AI-generation and transform calls against your daily quota. Read endpoints (listing saved recipes, pantry) are free and unmetered.
What happens when I hit the limit?
You get an HTTP 402 with a clear error message. For sandbox keys, the trial is one-time — upgrade to a paid plan to continue. For paid plans, enable overage billing to keep going past your monthly credits, or wait for the next billing cycle.
Is there a free tier?
No perpetual free tier. Instead, every account gets a sandbox key with a one-time 10-call allowance to try the API, no card required. When those calls run out, upgrade to Starter ($19/mo). The sandbox key never bills.