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This headline is typically misleading.

The first 10k requests a day are free. Previously it was 5k.

Once you pass that threshold (it's not that low) it starts being charged according to your use.

I'd love to hear feedback on what people think about this pricing model. Please feel free to leave a comment here or email me croucher at yarrhoo dot com (remove the pirate misspelling).

Edit: Whoops forgot the disclaimer. I work for Y!



> The first 10k requests a day are free. Previously it was 5k.

The 5K limit you refer to is from the old Yahoo Search API, Yahoo Boss allowed "unlimited queries".


My bad. :)


I should say it's 30 "units"/day not 10k requests. Depending on the number of results you get back.

For all on-peak requests that would be a maximum of 10k search requests.

Off-peak it would be 30k search requests.

If you needed more results per request then the amount of free requests would be less. Spelling requests would also be counted as the same rate as off-peak. You can mix and match as much as you want.




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