Buy credits once. They never expire.
Stargate bills on prepaid lifetime credits — not monthly subscriptions. Every billable request decrements your balance, credits never reset, and you only pay for what you use.
Sign upPrepaid credits
Top up a credit balance and draw it down as you call the API. No monthly reset, no use-it-or-lose-it.
Transparent cost units
Each endpoint has a fixed cost in credits (1–2 units). Every response returns your used, limit and remaining balance in headers.
Field-level entitlements
A bundle defines exactly which fields your key can access, frozen at provisioning so production behaviour never changes underneath you.
What each call costs
Every billable request decrements your prepaid balance by a fixed number of credits.
| Product | Endpoint | Call | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAT Search | Search | GET /vatsearch/v1/search | 1 |
| VAT Search | Verify | GET /vatsearch/v1/verify | 1 |
| Firmographics Data | Search | POST /firmographics/v1/search | 1 |
| Company Financials | Search | POST /financials/v1/search | 2 |
| Company Financials | Detail | GET /financials/v1/company/{id}/{section} | 1 |
Every response returns your balance in headers:
X-Stargate-Credits-Used, X-Stargate-Credits-Limit, X-Stargate-Credits-Remaining.
Two limits, clearly signalled
Burst rate limit
Short-window protection per key and product. Returns 429 with a Retry-After header — back off and retry.
Credits exhausted
When the prepaid balance reaches zero, billable calls return 402. Top up to continue.
Common questions
Do credits expire?
No. Credits are prepaid and never reset — you draw them down as you make billable requests.
How much does a request cost?
Each endpoint has a fixed cost in credits. Most calls cost 1 credit; a Company Financials search costs 2. See the table above.
Can I try before I buy?
Yes. The sandbox returns schema-identical responses so you can build and test your integration before provisioning a production key.
How do I get a production key?
Provisioning is handled by our team: contact sales, we enable the products in your bundle and issue a production key shown once at creation.
What controls which fields I can access?
A field bundle, frozen onto your key at provisioning. Later catalogue changes never silently alter what a production key returns.
Need a quote?
Tell us your expected volume and we’ll size a credit pack and bundle for you.