# Plans & pricing

> The Firehose subscription tiers from Free to Business plus the API-only plan — what each one includes, its quotas, and who it's the right fit for.

Firehose has four subscription tiers plus a pay-as-you-go **API only** plan. Every new organization
starts on **Free** with a one-time $5 credit.

| | Free | Starter | Advanced | Business | API only |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $0 | $39/mo | $89/mo | $299/mo | Pay-as-you-go |
| Taps | 1 | 5 | 25 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Reviewable matches / mo | 200 | 2,000 | 10,000 | 40,000 | n/a |
| Save matches | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | — |
| URL Watch checks / mo | 1,000 | 25,000 | 75,000 | 200,000 | — |
| Max watched URLs | 5 | 50 | 250 | 1,000 | — |
| Fastest URL Watch | 3 hours | 10 min | 5 min | 5 min | — |
| Web dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | API only |
| Monthly API credit | — | $10 | $50 | $200 | Top-ups |

## Subscription tiers (Free → Business)

Billed monthly via Stripe. They include the web dashboard — the [feed](/dashboard/feed),
[URL Watch](/url-watch/overview), [filters](/dashboard/filters), and (on paid tiers)
[saved matches](/dashboard/feed#saving-matches). Paid tiers also receive a monthly API credit grant
sized to their reviewable-match allowance.

## API only

Free of subscription, but trades the dashboard for **pay-as-you-go** API usage at **$5 per 1,000
matches**, funded by [top-ups](/billing/how-billing-works). Unlimited taps; rules and streaming are
driven entirely through the API. No URL Watch.

<Callout type="info">
  You can move freely between Free and the paid subscription tiers, and between Free and API-only.
  To go from a paid subscription to API-only (or vice versa), step through Free first.
</Callout>

Manage your plan from the [Billing](https://firehose.com/billing) page.

## Next steps

<CardGrid>
  <Card title="How billing works" href="/billing/how-billing-works">
    Prepaid credit, per-match metering, and the three quota buckets.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Errors & limits" href="/api-reference/errors-and-limits">
    What a 402 means and the rate limits that apply.
  </Card>
</CardGrid>