Each Oxylabs AI Studio app consumes credits at different rates depending on the complexity of the request. Once you’ve used your free credits, you can purchase additional credits directly through hPanel.
Credit usage overview
Credit costs depend on three components: the scraping job, the output format, and AI processing. The total cost of a single request is the sum of all applicable charges. The tables below show how many credits the Search and Scrape apps consume so you can estimate your usage.
Scraping jobs (credits per request)
| Job type | Search | Scrape |
|---|---|---|
| Scrape without JS rendering | 1 credit | 1 credit |
| Scrape with JS rendering | 4 credits | 4 credits |
| Search | 1 credit | Not applicable |
Output jobs (credits per request)
| Output format | Search | Scrape |
|---|---|---|
| Markdown | Free | Free |
| Screenshot | Not applicable | Enables JS (4 credits) |
| Parsed JSON | Not applicable | 4 credits |
AI processing (credits per request)
| AI task | Search | Scrape |
|---|---|---|
| Generate schema | Not applicable | 1 credit |
What these costs mean
For example, using AI-Scraper to scrape a page without JavaScript rendering and return Markdown output costs 1 credit (1 for scraping + 0 for Markdown). The same request with parsed JSON output would cost 5 credits (1 for scraping + 4 for JSON parsing).
Using AI-Search to run a web search and return results in Markdown costs 2 credits (1 for scraping + 1 for the search query + 0 for Markdown output).