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Use this before a workflow moves from a pilot run to a full file, scheduled play, or customer-facing integration.

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The two billing modes

ModeWhat you payUse when
Bring Your Own KeysYour provider bills you directly. Deepline adds no platform fee.You already have provider accounts or negotiated rates.
Managed creditsDeepline credits pay for supported provider calls.You want one balance and no separate provider setup.
Managed credits are pay as you go. Use Pricing for the current credit price and volume-discount thresholds. There is no managed monthly tier. The only flat monthly add-on documented in Deepline pricing is the Headless / Database platform add-on. Use Pricing for the current monthly price.

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What trips people up

  • BYOK and managed credits are different billing paths. BYOK keeps provider billing in your provider account. Managed credits use your Deepline balance.
  • A waterfall miss is not always free in managed mode. Some upstream providers charge for attempted lookups, so managed misses can consume credits when providers were actually called.
  • Prices can vary by tool, provider, operation, and runtime options. Check the live tool card before a large run.
  • Promo credits add balance. They do not change tool pricing or provider cost semantics.
  • Provider spend is not exposed to customers. Deepline shows customer-facing Deepline credits and Deepline-priced usage.

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Check pricing before a run

Find the tool: 
deepline tools search "work email" --json
Inspect the current pricing for a specific tool: 
deepline tools get name_and_domain_to_email_waterfall --json
For the generated docs table, use the pricing schedule. For operating limits, use Cost Control.

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Pilot before scaling

Run a small row range first. --rows is inclusive, so 0:4 runs five rows. 
deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output pilot.csv --name "email-pilot" --rows 0:4 \
  --with '{"alias":"email","tool":"name_and_domain_to_email_waterfall","payload":{"first_name":"{{first_name}}","last_name":"{{last_name}}","domain":"{{domain}}"}}'
Then check session usage: 
deepline session usage
If the sample is correct, set a limit and run the full file: 
deepline session limit --dollars 10

deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output enriched.csv --name "email-full" \
  --with '{"alias":"email","tool":"name_and_domain_to_email_waterfall","payload":{"first_name":"{{first_name}}","last_name":"{{last_name}}","domain":"{{domain}}"}}'

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When to use each page

Pricing

Short commercial overview: BYOK, managed credits, and rate-card links.

Cost Control

Session limits, monthly caps, usage checks, and safe rollout patterns.

Generated Pricing Schedule

Generated per-tool pricing reference.

Bring Your Own Keys

How BYOK works and when to use it.