Flexible, scalable pricing

Credits are the fundamental units used to access data and make API calls on IEX Cloud. Every API endpoint has a “data weight” that indicates how many credits are used every time you make that API call.

The credit system allows you to customize how you use your IEX Cloud subscription. You can use a higher volume of lower-weighted endpoints, fewer higher-weighted endpoints, or a combination.

IEX Cloud automatically keeps track of how many credits you have used and how many remain with your plan in your IEX Cloud Console. Before getting started, check out our API documentation to see how many credits are needed for the data you want to use. If you need more credits, you can upgrade your plan or add packages.

Why credits? Read more about our pricing philosophy.

Each plan includes a monthly allocation of credits, tokens for connecting your project or application to your IEX Cloud subscription, and user logins for teammates to join your account. You can then expand and customize your plans by adding packages.

While any customer can choose either the Individual or Business plan, each option is optimized for particular use cases:

The Individual plan: This plan is ideal for the individual end user. Common use cases include personal projects, building basic applications, classwork, testing, and light use. This plan comes with one token and one user login, while providing a base of 5 million credits per month. If you need more credits, you can add packages to your plan to increase your monthly allocation.

The Business plan: This plan provides even more flexibility for growing technology companies and larger enterprises. With more credits, tokens, and user logins, it’s built to help businesses easily scale, support multiple applications and projects, and integrate IEX Cloud into the team’s workflow. You can add packages to your Business plan to increase your monthly allocation of credits, add more tokens, or add more user logins.

Not sure where to begin? Our free Start plan is ideal for new users testing out the platform.

Packages make it easier to customize your IEX Cloud plan according to your use case, so that your plan scales with you as you grow.

With our paid plans, you can add packages to receive more of the following:

• Credits: Use credits to make more API calls and request more data from IEX Cloud. Learn more about credits.
• Tokens (Additional tokens included with Business plan packages only): Tokens connect your project or application to your account. You can track, control, and throttle data usage by token. Examples of when you’ll use multiple tokens include using IEX Cloud to support multiple applications, projects, teams, or user accounts. For instance, if you support three applications, you would likely use a different token for each app. Learn more about tokens.
• User logins (Additional user logins included with Business plan packages only): The number of user logins on your plan refers to the number of seats you have for teammates to log into your IEX Cloud account. Adding user logins to your plan adds room for more people to join your IEX Cloud account and consume data.

You can both add and remove packages from your plan as needed. Once you add a package, by default, it will be added to your plan for each subsequent month. If you remove a package from your plan, it expires at the end of the current month. Packages can be removed or added month to month for any paid plan.

Packages cannot be added to free Start plans.

Tokens are how you connect your application or project to your IEX Cloud account. You can track, control, and throttle platform usage by token.

To use the platform – for instance, to make API calls – you’ll need to have your token on hand.

Depending on your use case, you may want to use multiple tokens rather than just one. You’ll typically want to use multiple tokens when tracking, controlling, and throttling usage for different projects, apps, or end users separately.

Examples include:

• If you have multiple applications or projects using IEX Cloud.
• If multiple teams at your business are sharing your IEX Cloud account.

Each plan includes a monthly allocation of credits. You can then add credits to your subscription by either upgrading your plan or adding packages.

To estimate how many credits you’ll need, get started by using our credit calculator on the pricing page. You can also find which data you would like to use in our API documentation and reference how many credits are used per API call for that endpoint. This is what we refer to as the endpoint’s “data weighting.” We suggest also taking into account how frequently you will request that data.

You can request to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time in the IEX Cloud Console. Upgrades will be applied to your account immediately and are charged for the current month on a prorated basis.

Downgrades and cancellations will be applied to your account at the end of the month for monthly users and at the end of the annual billing cycle for annual users. We are unable to provide prorated refunds for downgrades or cancellations.

Packages can be removed or added month to month for both monthly and annual plans. Once you add a package, by default, it will be added to your plan for each subsequent month. If you remove a package from your plan, it expires at the end of the current month.

Core Data, such as stock, company, cryptocurrency, or forex data, can be accessed using credits allocated each month with your base subscription. If you run out of credits in a given month, you can either upgrade your plan or add packages.

Premium Data is specialized data sourced from curated third-party data partners, made available through the IEX Cloud API, separately from our Core Data. Premium Data is available as an add-on with our paid plans and is accessed using Premium Data credits. Premium Data credits can be purchased in the IEX Cloud Console after you create your account.

To enable access to Premium Data, go to the Premium Data tab in the IEX Cloud Console. Both data weightings for Core Data and Premium Data are noted in our API documentation.

If you purchase a plan, or upgrade mid-month, your credit allocation will be immediately updated to reflect your new plan. You’ll pay a prorated amount based on when you purchased your new plan in the current calendar month, and also receive a prorated number of credits.

At the start of your next calendar month, you'll receive the full allocation typically provided with your plan type.

Packages are not prorated. For example, if you purchase a package mid-month that adds 1 million credits to your plan, you’ll have 1 million more credits available for use until the end of the month.