What is credit expiry?
Credit expiry is the rule for credits you paid for but did not use. Many monthly plans reset their allowance at the end of each billing period, so unused credits are lost; some vendors let part of them roll over, and some sell packs that are kept until spent.
Credit expiry across the APIs we track
| API | What the vendor publishes | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Browse AI | Unused credits reset at the end of the monthly or annual billing cycle and do not roll over. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| Browser Use Cloud | No subscription plans are offered. Credits do not expire. | Oct 5, 2026 |
| cloro | No pay-as-you-go: credits are allocated each billing cycle and unused credits expire; they do not roll over. | Oct 11, 2026 |
| cloro | No refunds; cancelling keeps access until the end of the current billing period. Upgrades prorate and preserve unused credits; downgrades apply at the next cycle. | Oct 11, 2026 |
| Gumloop | Credits do not roll over month to month, except on Enterprise plans. | Oct 12, 2026 |
| HasData | Unused credits expire at the end of the billing period and do not roll over. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| Nimble | Monthly page credits expire rather than roll over; excess usage uses pay-as-you-go rates. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| Octoparse | Plan upgrades are charged at the full price of the new plan; the unused value of the old plan is converted into extra days of the new plan. | Oct 11, 2026 |
| Scavio | Unused monthly credits do not roll over. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| ScrapeBadger | PAYG credits never expire; subscription credits refresh at the start of each billing period and unused ones do not carry over unless rollover is enabled on the plan. | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ScrapeGraphAI | Top-up packs never expire and stack with subscription credits. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| ScraperAPI | Unused credits reset each billing period and do not roll over. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| Scraping Robot | Purchased credits do not expire. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| ScrapingAnt | Monthly credits do not roll over, but a plan can be restarted mid-month to refresh credits immediately. | Sep 2, 2026 |
| Scrappa | Purchased pack credits are valid for 12 months and packs do not auto-renew. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| Serper.dev | Purchased credits expire six months after purchase. | Jul 26, 2026 |
| SERPHouse | The pricing page states that free-plan credits do not roll over. | Sep 2, 2026 |
| Zyte API | The $5 sign-up credit lasts for the first billing month; after it expires the account is suspended until a spending limit is set. | Oct 11, 2026 |
Only vendors that publish the term are listed; a vendor missing here has not published it, which is not the same as having none.
In more detail
The vendor examples below were read on the dates given in the text; the table above holds each vendor's current figure.
Why it changes what a plan costs
A plan’s price per credit assumes you use the whole allowance. If your volume swings from month to month, every month below the allowance raises what you really paid per page, and a reset rule means the quiet months cannot pay for the busy ones. A vendor whose credits roll over, or a pack that does not expire, can be cheaper over a year even when its headline rate is higher.
The table shows the rule each vendor publishes, with the day it was read. A vendor that is not listed has not published one; ask before you buy credits in advance.