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What is pay-per-lookup pricing?
What is pay-per-lookup pricing?
Pay-per-lookup pricing means you pay when a lookup returns usable contact outcomes – not when you merely call an HTTP endpoint, and not when a seat sits idle. In enrichment, the honest version is found-only: email, phone, or both.
Invenitor is a people search and lookup API, not a sales cloud. Coverage varies – we do not publish hit-rate percentages.
Category: What a Contact Lookup API Actually Does. Credits primer: What Are API Credits in Enrichment Products?. LinkedIn definition: What Is a LinkedIn Profile URL Lookup?.
Pay-per-lookup vs lookalikes
| Model | What you pay for | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Per seat / month | Logins | Quiet seats |
Seat contrast: Seat Subscriptions vs Pay-Per-Lookup Credits. PAYG: Pay-As-You-Go Contact APIs. Free-plan traps: The Hidden Cost of "Free Plan" Enrichment Tools.
What "lookup" means here
A lookup is a profile-URL find – LinkedIn or GitHub person URL in; contact fields out when we have them. Hub: LinkedIn or GitHub Profile URL → Contact Lookup API.
How packs express pay-per-lookup
You buy prepaid INR credits; each found outcome spends one. Pack windows are typically 30 days. Sizing: 25 to 1,000 Credits. Commercial: INR Credit Packs, Razorpay, UPI, Cards, Wallets, /pricing. No-monthly: No Monthly Plan Contact Enrichment.
Product and trust checklist
Layer: Contact Lookup API vs CRM vs Sequencer.
Agents still pay-per-lookup
MCP finds share the same found-only billing pool – /mcp.md, Agent-Readable Docs.
What should you do next?
Read found-only billing aloud to finance. Sample the free signup credits via /docs. Size a pack on /pricing.
Teaching the definition in one slide
Title: Pay-per-lookup (found-only). Spend when email, phone, or both return. Timeouts/errors do not spend. Coverage – no fake %. Found-only billing: 1 credit only when we return an email, a phone, or both. Timeouts and errors do not spend. Primer: What Are API Credits. Trust: Trust Checklist. Packs: 25 to 1,000 Credits. Commercial: INR Credit Packs, Razorpay, UPI, Cards, Wallets. Seat contrast: Seat Subscriptions vs Pay-Per-Lookup Credits. Hub: LinkedIn or GitHub Profile URL → Contact Lookup API. Agents: /mcp.md, Cousins: What Is a LinkedIn Profile URL Lookup?. /docs · /pricing.
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Questions
What is pay-per-lookup pricing?
A pricing model where you pay for lookup outcomes – in the honest form, when email, phone, or both are returned – not for idle seats.
When does a credit spend?
1 credit only when we return an email, a phone, or both. Timeouts and errors do not spend.
Is every API call a lookup spend?
No.
How is this different from seat subscriptions?
Seats tax logins monthly. Pay-per-lookup (found-only) scales with found contact work.
Where do I buy packs?
/pricing; India rails via Razorpay/UPI posts.
Do MCP agents use the same pricing?
Yes – same credit pool and found-only billing rule; start at /mcp.md.
