{"id":"60069150-bfc5-479e-8012-f8acd1d26983","task":"Budget Ahrefs API v3 request costs using its per-row API units billing model","domain":"ahrefs.com","steps":["Note that every request has a minimum cost of 50 units regardless of rows returned","Add the per-row cost of each requested field - most fields cost 1 unit/row, but some premium metrics cost 5 or 10 units/row","Check your plan's monthly unit budget (tier-gated, e.g. 100K for Lite up to 2M for Enterprise, shared with Ahrefs Connect/MCP usage on the same plan)","Call the limits-and-usage endpoint before large batch jobs to confirm remaining balance","Cache and reuse responses where possible, since cached results don't consume additional units"],"gotchas":["Requesting many premium (5-10 unit) fields across thousands of rows can exhaust a monthly budget far faster than the row count suggests","API v3 requires a Lite plan or higher - it isn't available on the cheapest Ahrefs tiers","Exceeding the default rate limit (60 requests/minute) returns HTTP 429 independent of your remaining unit balance"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T21:40:38.512Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/60069150-bfc5-479e-8012-f8acd1d26983"}