specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Spider Cloud
providerId: spider-cloud
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
tags:
  - Crawling
  - Scraping
  - Data Extraction
  - URLs
  - AI
  - Markdown
  - MCP
description: Machine-readable plans and pricing for the Spider Cloud API. Spider runs on a pay-as-you-go,
  no-subscription model billed on bandwidth ($1/GB) plus compute ($0.001/minute). Credits never expire and
  failed requests cost nothing. Volume tiers add bonus credits at $500+/$1K+/$2K+ purchases. Enterprise
  pricing is custom-negotiated.
plans:
  - id: spider-cloud-free
    name: Free Credits
    type: freemium
    description: New accounts receive complimentary credits to evaluate the platform — no credit card required.
      Credits are consumed against the same metered model as the paid plan ($1 per GB of bandwidth plus
      $0.001 per compute minute).
    entries:
      - label: Sign-up Credits
        description: One-time credit grant on account creation.
        name: signup_credits
        type: quota
        metric: credits_usd
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: lifetime
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Rate Limit
        description: Core API rate limit applied per account.
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_minute
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: minute
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Public Documentation
      - name: Community Support
      - name: GitHub Discussions
      - name: Spider API
      - name: Spider Cloud MCP Server
  - id: spider-cloud-pay-as-you-go
    name: Pay As You Go
    type: paid
    description: Pure usage-based plan with no subscription. Bandwidth is billed at $1 per GB plus $0.001
      per minute of compute. Failed requests cost nothing. Credits never expire. Top-up packages start at
      $5, $25, and $100; purchases of $500, $1,000, and $2,000 add 5%, 8%, and 12% bonus credits.
    entries:
      - label: Bandwidth
        description: Outbound bandwidth consumed by successful responses.
        name: bandwidth
        type: metered
        metric: bandwidth_gb
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: any
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '1.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Compute
        description: Server-side compute consumed by the request.
        name: compute
        type: metered
        metric: compute_minutes
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: any
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '0.001'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Rate Limit
        description: Up to 10,000 core API requests per minute per account.
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_minute
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: minute
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Top-up $500 Bonus
        description: 5% bonus credits added to top-ups of $500 or more.
        name: bonus_500
        type: quota
        metric: bonus_percent
        limit: 5
        timeFrame: any
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '500.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Top-up $1,000 Bonus
        description: 8% bonus credits added to top-ups of $1,000 or more.
        name: bonus_1000
        type: quota
        metric: bonus_percent
        limit: 8
        timeFrame: any
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '1000.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Top-up $2,000 Bonus
        description: 12% bonus credits added to top-ups of $2,000 or more.
        name: bonus_2000
        type: quota
        metric: bonus_percent
        limit: 12
        timeFrame: any
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: '2000.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: All Core Endpoints
      - name: Residential, ISP, and Mobile Proxies
      - name: Cloud Headless Browsers
      - name: Anti-Bot Bypass
      - name: Failed Requests Free
      - name: Credits Never Expire
      - name: Spider API
      - name: Spider Cloud MCP Server
  - id: spider-cloud-ai
    name: AI Tier
    type: subscription
    description: AI-routed variants of the core endpoints — spider_ai_crawl, spider_ai_scrape, spider_ai_search,
      spider_ai_browser, spider_ai_links — that use Spider's AI fetch system for per-domain configuration
      discovery. Requires the AI subscription on top of pay-as-you-go usage charges. Contact Spider for
      current subscription pricing.
    entries:
      - label: AI Routing Subscription
        description: Subscription required to unlock the AI-routed variants of the core operations.
        name: ai_subscription
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
          - https://mcp.spider.cloud/mcp
        unit: 1
        price: TBD
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: spider_ai_crawl
      - name: spider_ai_scrape
      - name: spider_ai_search
      - name: spider_ai_browser
      - name: spider_ai_links
  - id: spider-cloud-enterprise
    name: Enterprise / Custom
    type: enterprise
    description: Volume pricing and custom scraping engagements negotiated directly with Spider's sales team.
      Includes dedicated capacity, custom rate limits, security review, and named technical contact.
    entries:
      - label: Negotiated Bandwidth
        description: Discounted per-GB bandwidth rate at committed volume.
        name: bandwidth
        type: metered
        metric: bandwidth_gb
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: any
        geo: configurable
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: custom
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Negotiated Compute
        description: Discounted per-minute compute rate at committed volume.
        name: compute
        type: metered
        metric: compute_minutes
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: any
        geo: configurable
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: custom
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Negotiated Rate Limit
        description: Custom rate limits above the default 10,000 RPM ceiling.
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_minute
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: minute
        geo: configurable
        domains:
          - https://api.spider.cloud
        unit: 1
        price: custom
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Volume Discount
      - name: Custom Rate Limits
      - name: Dedicated Capacity
      - name: Custom Scraping Engagements
      - name: Sales Engagement Required
      - name: Spider API
      - name: Spider Cloud MCP Server
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com