What counts against your allowance
- Requests — every LIVE call your key makes that reaches an adapter (passes authentication, verification, scope and plan checks) counts, for the calendar month, once per successful authorize. A call refused before that point — an invalid key, a missing scope, an unverified workspace — never counts.
- Sandbox (test-key) traffic never counts against a billed allowance. It’s tracked separately, for your own visibility only.
- Connected clinics are counted as an average over the month, not a peak or a point-in-time count — a clinic you were connected to for the whole month counts fully; one you connected and disconnected the same day barely moves the number. This is deliberately immune to connecting a burst of clinics right before your bill closes.
Going over
Essential’s allowances are never a hard stop — exceeding either one is billed automatically, and your integration keeps working without interruption:- Extra requests are billed per 1,000 over your included amount.
- Extra connected clinics are billed per clinic, per month, over your included amount.