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by jjoergensen 4380 days ago
Am I missing something here?. The number of API calls per month seems to be extremely low?

With 100 or 1000 API calls, how can you make a "dynamic" application? This would only be useful for static / stale content.

What good is purchasing more credits, if I only have a very low number of API calls?

http://www.wolfram.com/programming-cloud/pricing/
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carlob 4380 days ago
I'm pretty sure you can purchase more API calls.

However I want to make clear that those API calls are to Wolfram's servers for things like natural language parsing and data. You can write an APIFunction that does not use API calls, but just uses cloud credits to do computation.

I understand it can be confusing, but there is a difference between API calls to your CloudObjects and API calls from your CloudObjects.

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jjoergensen 4380 days ago
Thank you for making this clear! :-)
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IanCal 4380 days ago
Ouch, cloud credits at $180/M. That's 0.18c for 1000, or 100s of compute time. $6.50/hr for computation, and that's buying in bulk, it's almost $11/hr if you buy in blocks of $15.
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taliesinb 4379 days ago
Note that's API and knowledgebase computation time, not notebook computation time, which doesn't cost cloud credits.

Cloud credits come with each plan, as well, so you have some leeway for development and testing before you have to buy additional cloud credits at a base price 0.03 cents per credit.

http://www.wolfram.com/cloud-credits/ has more info.

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