Plans and limits

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Free and Pro

Pro is billed separately from the consumer AlphaYou plan. Each paid API plan has its own 30 day money-back guarantee. Plans renew automatically until you cancel. The details are in the API terms and the Refund policy. Prices and limits can change. The numbers your key really has are always in the whoami response and the response headers.

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What each call costs

You spend request units. Most calls cost 1. Detailed reads cost 3. The dataset catalog costs 0. The top-traders dataset covers Hyperliquid contracts linked to US stocks. They are derivatives, not shares. The same datasets are available as MCP tools. The tool names are alphayou_search_datasets, alphayou_funds, alphayou_company_disclosures, alphayou_insider_trades, alphayou_insider_clusters, alphayou_fund_holdings, alphayou_fund_changes, alphayou_ticker_holders and alphayou_top_traders. A tool call costs the same as the matching REST call.

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How the limits work

There are 3 kinds of limit.

1. Daily allowance. Your units for the day. It resets at midnight UTC.
2. Per minute. 10 calls a minute on Free and 1,200 on Pro.
3. At the same time. 2 calls at once on Free and 10 on Pro.

There is also a shared ceiling on web traffic: 600 requests a minute for each IP address. Calls made through the hosted MCP server count twice against it. Every response tells you where you stand. When you go over a limit you get a 429. A call refused for going too fast does not use up your day. Wait for Retry-After, then try again. See Errors.

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Need more?

The standard plans are for your own research, your own tools and your own agents. Showing our data to your customers inside a product needs a separate licence. Write to info@alphayou.net about an Enterprise licence.