Billing & Credits
How plans, top-ups, and payment are handled.
SeoGrep runs on monthly credit plans with optional top-ups — see /pricing for the current plans and credit costs. This page covers billing mechanics, not the prices themselves.
Beta note: Checkout is live — plans and top-ups can be bought today. New accounts still start on trial credits.
Plans and top-ups
Paid plans renew your credit balance every month. If you run out mid-month, a top-up adds credits without changing your plan. During beta, unused credits stay in your balance and don't expire.
What trial credits cover
Trial credits run the crawler, the audits that read what the crawl already
stored (audit_onpage, audit_tech, audit_schema, audit_content),
reports, the quick-win finders, the Search Console tools, and the two
non-vendor halves of the rank tracker — track_keywords, which is free, and
keyword_positions, which charges for the analysis but contacts no search
engine. "Covered by trial credits" is not the same as "free": most of these
cost credits, they just do not need a paid balance. Each tool's page states
its own cost.
The exception is every tool that spends money with a third-party data
provider on your behalf: the keyword research and gap tools, the SERP
snapshot, the backlink tools, the AI-visibility tools, and audit_speed —
which despite the family name buys a page-speed run per URL rather than
reading stored measurements. Those need a paid credit balance. On a
trial account they refuse before anything is reserved, so the call spends
no credits and writes no ledger entry at all. Any purchase — a plan or a
top-up — unlocks them, and your trial credits are untouched and stay
spendable on everything else.
Each tool's own page in the Tools Reference states whether it needs a paid balance; that is the list to trust, because it is generated from the same code the gate runs.
Payment provider
Payments are handled by Paddle, our merchant of record, so receipts, tax, and card handling go through their checkout — SeoGrep never stores your card details.
Checking usage
Ask "What's my credit balance?" to run get_credit_balance any time, or
open the dashboard's Usage tab for a full ledger of what each run cost.
Changing or cancelling
Plan changes and cancellations happen from the dashboard's Billing tab, which opens Paddle's billing portal.