Pricing basics

looot is prepaid, per call or per result, with $0 on failure and no subscription. Where to see a price before you run anything.

looot is prepaid. Your workspace has one balance in USD, and every paid run draws from it. There is no subscription and no per-provider bill.

Per call or per result

An endpoint’s price is one of:

• Per call, a flat price for one run.
• Per result, a price for each item returned. The hold reserves for an upper bound on results; you pay for what actually came back, never more than three times the hold.
• See inspect, when the price depends on the input (for example a batch size or a page count). looot inspect (signed in) shows the estimated maximum cost.

Holds

When a run is admitted, looot reserves its estimated cost from your balance (a hold). You see it under reserved in looot balance. When the provider answers, the hold closes: you’re charged the actual cost, and the unused part of the hold goes back to your available balance. See Run your first paid job.

Failures cost $0

A call that fails at the provider is charged $0 and its hold is released. A run refused before it starts, for example an insufficient balance or bad input, never takes a hold and costs nothing either.

No subscription

There’s no monthly fee and no plan tier. You add credit when you want to, and it doesn’t expire on a billing cycle.

Where prices show

• looot search "<task>" and the search/search_catalog MCP tools show estimatedPrice and priceBasis on every row, signed in or not.
• looot inspect <endpoint-id> (signed in) shows the exact price formula and the estimated maximum cost of one run.
• Each endpoint’s card, https://api.looot.ai/catalog/<endpointId>.md, carries the same price formula.
• GET /v1/catalog/overview shows the cheapest per-call and per-result price for every category, platform and job.

Top-up amount

A new workspace starts at $0 and there is no trial credit. There is a minimum top-up amount, but it isn’t fixed here: looot balance (or the balance MCP tool, or GET /v1/balance) always shows the current minimum in topUpLink.minimumUsd, and the top-up form at looot.ai/usage?top_up=1 shows it too. See Before your first run.

Next

Run your first paid job, or read the full picture in Money.