Some tool calls cost more to run — search APIs, code sandboxes, ML inference. We call those premium tools and price them separately.
What counts as a premium tool?
Search APIs
Composio Search, Perplexity, Exa, SerpAPI
Code execution
Sandboxed runtimes like E2B
Web scraping & data extraction
Crawlers and structured extraction
AI/ML inference
Hosted model calls and embeddings
Document processing & OCR
PDF, image, and document parsing
Compute-intensive operations
Long-running or heavy transforms
Pricing
Premium tool calls are roughly 3x the cost of a standard tool call. Full pricing is on the pricing page.
| Plan | Included Standard Tool Calls | Included Premium Tool Calls | Usage Based Standard Tool Calls | Usage Based Premium Tool Calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totally Free | 20k | 1k | – | – |
| Ridiculously Cheap | 200k | 5k | $0.299/1k | $0.897/1k |
| Serious Business | 2M | 50k | $0.249/1k | $0.747/1k |
| Enterprise | Flexible | Flexible | Flexible | Flexible |
Rate limits
Premium tools have lower rate limits than standard tool calls. If you need more, contact us.
| Spending Tier | Standard Tool Calls Rate Limit | Premium Tool Calls Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 100/min | 1,000/hour |
| Paid | 5,000/min | 10,000/hour |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |