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Confirm API costs and conditions before making requests
Before making requests, confirm API prices, billing conditions, account requirements and request limits in the console, then budget for your expected workload.
Lingli Data · Updated 9 October 2026
Specific Lingli Data API prices, billing conditions, request limits and account requirements are governed by the current console details and terms of service. Check each API separately; do not infer its rules from other platforms or old examples.
Items to confirm
| Item | What to check |
|---|---|
| Billing unit | How charges are calculated and what the unit means |
| Billing conditions | Which requests incur charges and how failures or empty results are handled |
| Request composition | Which APIs one business operation requires, including pagination |
| Request limits | Limits on frequency, concurrency, parameters or result scope |
| Account requirements | Whether the current balance and other usage conditions meet the requirements |
| Reconciliation records | Where to review charges and request records |
If an API’s details do not address an item, clarify it before starting batch tasks.
Budget for the entire business workflow
List the APIs and expected request counts for a business task, then estimate costs using confirmed billing rules. Pagination, retries and repeat queries can change the actual volume and should be tracked separately.
For an API billed per request, estimate its cost as the expected number of billable requests multiplied by the confirmed unit price. Other billing models require their own rules; this formula does not apply universally.
Start with small-scale validation
After confirming the business purpose and authorization scope, validate requests, results and billing rules. Check how the program handles empty results, unexpected responses and stop conditions before expanding the task.
Page examples explain integration structure only. They do not promise free credit, refunds, fixed plans or price validity periods.