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Valyu pricing
How Valyu shares credits across search, contents, answers, and research, including a conflict buyers need resolved.
one default result set; no fan-out
Fixed for this page; volume is the control.Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.
Your job
What Valyu counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
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Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
Valyu bills failed fetches. This workload assumes none fail, so nothing is added here.
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What the meter counts
150 credits
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Cash per month
$109.00 /mo
Comfortably Pro. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
100,000 standard searches → 150 credit → Comfortably Pro $109.00/mo = $1.09 per 1,000 searches
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every Valyu plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | Not published | n/a | $10.00 | 10 credit | n/a |
| Ridiculously Cheap | $29.00 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Comfortably Pro your job | $89.00 | n/a | n/a | 130 credit | n/a |
| Serious Business | $449.00 | n/a | n/a | 750 credit | n/a |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| search.query | 1.5 credit | 1000 result | source |
| request.basic | 0.001 credit | page | source |
| request.ai_extraction | 0.001 credit | page | source |
What Valyu does not publish
- The marketing pricing page lists 50 monthly credits for Ridiculously Cheap while the pricing documentation lists 36, so included_amount is null. Sources: https://www.valyu.ai/pricing and https://docs.valyu.ai/pricing
- Search and Answer failure billing is not stated on the reviewed pricing pages. Source: https://docs.valyu.ai/pricing
What Valyu is
Valyu is an AI search and data API for knowledge-work applications and agents. Its account balance spans Search, Answer, Contents, and DeepResearch, while higher plans unlock specialized and proprietary sources across finance, academic, health, legal, government, and other datasets. It is for teams that need cited web retrieval and domain datasets through one API family, not only general web links. Sources: Valyu and Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
Tavily, Exa, and Parallel are the three nearest named competitors, and Valyu publishes a comparison page for each. Valyu is easiest to distinguish by its source-class pricing, its plan-gated specialized datasets, and a shared balance that also pays for content processing and research tasks. Sources: Valyu versus Tavily, Valyu versus Exa, Valyu versus Parallel, and Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
How billing works
One unit is a credit shared across the API family. Search consumption is driven by the number of returned results and the selected data class, with different schedules for open web or database material, financial data, and proprietary data. Contents charges per successfully extracted URL and adds another content-processing charge when summarization or structured extraction is requested. Answer combines retrieval charges with token usage, while DeepResearch uses a fixed replacement charge for the selected task tier. The mistake to avoid is budgeting by API-call count alone. Results, source class, content processing, tokens, and research tier can all change consumption. Source: Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
What Valyu does not publish clearly
- One authoritative included allowance for the entry subscription. The marketing pricing page lists 50 monthly credits, while the pricing documentation lists 36. Sources reviewed: Valyu pricing and Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
- A failed-request billing rule for Search and Answer. The documentation says failed Contents URLs are free, but does not extend that statement to those other APIs. Source reviewed: Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
- Whether unused subscription credits roll over. Sources reviewed: Valyu pricing and Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
- Standard retention terms equivalent to the zero-data-retention option advertised for enterprise buyers. Source reviewed: Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
Who it suits
Valyu suits retrieval products that need both public web material and its listed specialist datasets and can record result class, result count, content processing, and tokens. It is less suitable for a buyer expecting one fixed cost per search call or needing an uncontested entry-plan allowance from the public pages. The allowance conflict should be resolved in writing before procurement uses it in a capacity model. Sources: Valyu pricing and Valyu pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
Answer
Valyu costs $109.00 for 100,000 standard searches on its Comfortably Pro offer. Every figure is sourced and dated.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.The published price on this page matched the vendor page when it was rechecked.