Fair Usage Limits

Stream applies fair-usage limits to API calls and query channel processing on every Chat plan. Your plan band determines the included allowances, and usage above these thresholds is billed as an overage (see Overage pricing below).

Included fair-usage limits by plan

The API limit is the total number of API calls included per month. The QC limit is the included number of query channel API calls per month.

BandACV rangeAPI limitQC limit
$0-$5K$0-$5K2M200K
$5K-$12K$5K-$12K10M1M
$12K-$25K$12K-$25K20M2M
$25K-$50K$25K-$50K100M10M
$50K-$100K$50K-$100K200M20M
$100K-$199K$100K-$199K500M50M
$200K-$299K$200K-$299K1.00B100M
$300K+$300K+CustomCustom

Overage pricing

Overages are billed independently for each resource. You only pay for the resource that exceeds its included allowance.

Messages

Stored messagesFee per 1M messages
0 to 50M$5.00
50M to 100M$4.00
100M to 500M$3.50
500M to 1B$3.50
1B to 2B+$3.50

Channels

Stored channelsFee per channel
0 to 2.5M$0.0006
2.5M to 5M$0.0005
5M to 10M$0.0004
10M to 20M$0.0004
20M and above$0.0004

Bandwidth and API calls

ResourceRate
Bandwidth$0.40 per GB
Total API calls$7 per million
Total query channel API calls$2.50 per 100,000

If you are seeing unexpected overage charges, the fastest path to a fix is to review the common causes of overages and apply the cost-reduction levers on the Storage and Bandwidth page. Reach out to your account team if you want help auditing your traffic patterns.