What is a credit quota and how to spend it

Taras Mykhailenko

2 years ago

In this article, you’ll find out how many credits you will be charged for using specific tools and features.

Before we start, here’s a quick glossary of terms you should know about before reading this article.

Term	Definition
Prospect	A lead profile with pre-verified email and other data. Prospects you save will contain pre-verified emails, name, industry, job position, location, social links;
Domain-based emails	Unverified employee or department emails associated with a company. Saved emails will be unverified and will not contain any additional prospect data.
Pre-verified	Verification is included for free.

What is a credit quota

Credit quota refers to the number of credits allocated to your account balance with your plan. You can spend credits by using Snov.io’s tools and features.

Note: Credits are valid for 30 days from the purchase date of a plan.

Unused credits do not roll over to the next month – ensure to use your quota before the end of your current billing period.

To get more credits than your current quota allows, purchase the same plan again or upgrade to a plan with more credits.

Plan	Credit quota
Trial	50 credits
Starter	1,000 credits
Pro 5K	5,000 credits
Pro 20K	20,000 credits
Pro 50K	50,000 credits
Pro 100K	100,000 credits

How to spend your credits

Below we’ll review how many credits you will be charged for using specific tools and features in Snov.io.

You can check your credit spending history in your account settings on the Transactions page.

1) Email Finder

Our prospecting extensions help you find leads anywhere online: on company websites or social network profiles.

A set of web app tools lets you get emails and prospects based on the input data you provide: prospect names, company domains, or social links.

Note: In all Email Finder tools, you will not be charged for invalid prospects and emails (marked as red), duplicates, or searches with no results.

Tool	Use case	Credit cost	Help resource to get started
LI Prospect Finder (Chrome extension) *available on all plans	Collect prospects on LinkedIn pages, individually and in bulk.	Each prospect saved to your list costs 1 credit. Saving companies from LinkedIn to your list is free. Opening a company profile costs 1 credit per company. *You will not be charged for prospects with invalid emails (marked as red) or no emails found, and duplicates.	Install LI Prospect Finder ⇒ Read how to use LI Prospect Finder ⇒
Email Finder (Chrome extension) *available on all plans	Collect emails from company websites, Google search results pages, Twitter and Yelp.	Activating Email Finder on a company website costs 1 credit per website. After this, you can save domain emails from the All domain emails tab for free. Each prospect saved from the Prospects tab costs 1 credit. Saving companies from Google search to your list is free. Viewing a saved company profile costs 1 credit per company. When you save prospects and emails from a company profile, you will be charged according to Domain Search. See the Domain Search tool section below in this table for more details.	Install Email Finder extension ⇒ Read how to use Email Finder extension ⇒
Email Search *available on all plans	Find prospects by entering their name and a company domain.	Each email address found costs 1 credit, except for emails marked as Invalid, duplicates, and searches with no results.	Read how to use Email Search ⇒
Bulk Email Search *available on Starter and Pro plans	Upload a list of prospect names with company domains to find emails in bulk.	Each prospect saved costs 1 credit, except for prospects with invalid emails, duplicates, and searches with no results.	Read how to find prospects from a list of names and domains ⇒
Domain Search *available on all plans	Find prospects and domain-based emails on a specific company domain.	Each domain search costs 1 credit and gives access to a company profile page. In the Prospects tab, each prospect you add to your list costs 1 credit. In the All Domain Emails tab, you can find unverified domain-based emails (50 emails/page). Opening each next page costs 1 credit/per page. Saving unverified domain-based emails is free. Snov.io keeps your search history for 30 days. If you repeat the same search within a 30-days period, it will be free. After this, you will be charged 1 credit again. *You will not be charged for invalid prospects and emails (marked as red), duplicates, or searches with no results.	Read how to find prospects and emails from a domain ⇒
Bulk Domain Search *available on Starter and Pro plans	Find prospects and domain-based emails in bulk from a list of company domains.	For the Prospects search option: each saved prospect costs 1 credit. For the Emails only search option: each domain you search costs 2 credits. You can save up to 100 domain-based emails from each domain. *You will not be charged for invalid prospects and emails (marked as red), duplicates, or searches with no results.	Find prospects and emails from a list of domains ⇒
Social URL Search *available on Starter and Pro plans	Find prospects from a list of links to their social profiles.	Each prospect saved costs 1 credit. *You will not be charged for prospects with invalid emails (marked as red), duplicates, or searches with no results.	Find prospects from a list of social profile links ⇒
Database Search *available on all plans	Find prospects and companies based on your search criteria using a variety of filters: industry, location, company size.	Searching for prospects is free. Each prospect saved costs 1 credit. Searching for companies and saving companies to your list is free. Opening a company profile costs 1 credit. If you proceed to save prospects or emails on the company profile page, you will be charged according to Domain Search tariffs. You will not be charged for prospects with invalid emails (marked as red), duplicates, or those with no email found (Can’t find email).	How to find prospects and companies with Database Search ⇒

2) Email Verifier

Our verification tools help you improve engagement and lower bounce rates by cleaning your email list from invalid emails.

Tool	Use case	Credit cost	Help resource to get started
Individual Email Verification *available on all plans	Verify individual emails to find out their status.	Each verification costs 1 credit per email address.	How to verify individual emails ⇒
Bulk Email Verification *available on Starter and Pro plans	Clean your email list from invalid and undeliverable emails.	Each verification costs 1 credit per email address.	How to use Bulk Email Verification ⇒

3) Deliverability checker

Using Snov.io’s Deliverability check, you can test how well your emails will be delivered to leads’ inboxes and identify various issues that affect your sender reputation.

Tool	Use case	Credit cost	Help resource to get started
Deliverability check *available on all plans	Measure your domain health and email placement. Troubleshoot and fix various issues that affect whether your emails reach the Inbox.	Each deliverability test costs 10 credits.	How to check and improve email deliverability ⇒

4) REST API

Snov.io Email Finder and Email Verifier tools are also available through REST API.

Find all available API methods and their credit cost on the API documentation page.

Tool

Use case

Credit cost

Help resource to get started

Domain search (API)

*available on Starter and Pro plans

Input a domain name to get emails and prospects.

1 credit per 10 emails/prospects

Read how to use Snov.io API ⇒

Add emails for verification