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Credits are Leadey’s prepaid usage currency. Actions that draw on external data — finding a contact’s email or phone number, scraping a job signal — consume credits from your workspace’s balance.

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What consumes credits

Credits pay for work Leadey buys from an external provider on your behalf. Everything else — reading, filtering, searching, sending, calling — is included. Four things are worth knowing, because each one saves money:
  • You are charged for results, not attempts. A contact whose mobile number cannot be found does not cost you 33 credits.
  • Anyone who already has the field is skipped. Re-running enrichment over a list you have enriched before costs you only the gaps.
  • A contact already in your workspace is free to rediscover. Contact discovery charges for people it adds.
  • TPS re-screening is cached for 28 days, and non-UK numbers are never sent, so they never cost anything.
Searching is free. Browsing millions of people and companies, filtering them however you like, and counting the matches costs nothing — you only spend when you ask for a contact detail you did not already have. Explore first, buy second.

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Checking your balance

Your current balance is on every GET /v1/me response:
  • balance — spendable credits remaining.
  • included — credits granted by your plan.
  • used — credits consumed this period.

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Running out

If an action would cost more than your balance, the API returns 402 Payment required:
Top up or upgrade in Settings → Credits. To avoid surprises, check balance before kicking off large enrichment jobs, and watch for the 80% and 95% usage warnings in the Cockpit.
Polling GET /v1/me is a cheap way to monitor credit health from your own systems — it doesn’t consume credits.