Billing & Credits
How the credits system works and a guide to pricing tiers.
Credit System
Crowdee uses a pre-paid credit model. Credits are stored as balance_cents on your organization and deducted when pipeline runs complete successfully. Runs that fail before producing a verdict are not charged.
If your organization's balance reaches zero, new verification runs will be blocked until credits are added. In-progress runs are not affected.
Check your current balance at any time by fetching your organization:
curl https://api.crowdee.ai/v2/organizations/{orgId} \
-H "X-API-Key: crw_YOUR_API_KEY"The balance_cents field in the response is the remaining credit in euro cents (e.g. 4250 = €42.50).
Pricing Tiers
Free
1 image verification per IP per 24 hours. No sign-up required — available via the web demo at crowdee.ai. Not available through the API.
Pay-as-you-go
From €0.05 per verification. No commitment required. Top up any amount via PayPal. Ideal for teams starting out or with variable workloads.
Managed
Custom-scoped fixed-fee engagements with dedicated support. Suited for newsrooms and enterprises with predictable monthly volumes.
Enterprise
Annual agreements with negotiated quotas, priority processing, and SLAs. Contact sales@crowdee.ai to discuss.
Crowd Labor Costs
Pipelines that include crowd stages (Tier 2) involve real human workers. These stages are billed separately from the AI-only processing fee, at approximately €15 per worker-hour plus a 40% platform fee.
Actual cost per run varies based on:
- Number of crowd stages in the pipeline
- Minimum required responses per stage (
minResponses) - Whether the pipeline requires expert or general workers
- Crowd availability and response time at the time of the run
Tier 2 pipelines such as verify-video-full can involve up to 120 minutes of crowd labor per run. Estimate costs carefully before running these pipelines at scale. Use the GET /v2/pipelines/catalog/{slug} endpoint to inspect the crowd stage configuration of any pipeline before starting a run.
Indicative Cost by Pipeline Tier
| Tier | Examples | Approx. cost per run |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (AI-only) | verify-image-metadata, verify-audio-technical, verify-video-technical, verify-text-coherence, verify-document-provenance | €0.05 – €0.20 |
| Tier 2 (AI + Crowd) | verify-image-deep, verify-video-full, verify-audio-deepfake, verify-news-article, verify-social-post | €2 – €15 |
| Tier 3 (Context / Multi-file) | verify-url-credibility, verify-identity-claim, verify-multimedia-cross-modal | €0.05 – €8 |
These are estimates. Actual costs depend on crowd response times, pipeline configuration, and the complexity of the material being verified.
Topping Up
Add credits in the dashboard at Settings → Billing → Add Credits via PayPal. Credits are applied to your organization immediately after payment is confirmed.
For invoiced top-ups on Managed or Enterprise plans, contact sales@crowdee.ai.
Transactions API
List all credit transactions for your organization:
curl https://api.crowdee.ai/v2/transactions \
-H "X-API-Key: crw_YOUR_API_KEY"Check the current balance directly:
curl https://api.crowdee.ai/v2/transactions/balance \
-H "X-API-Key: crw_YOUR_API_KEY"Each transaction record includes the amount, a description of what triggered it (top-up, pipeline run, refund), and a timestamp.
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