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This page is about the Essential plan’s allowance and overage — the Plans and pricing page covers what each plan includes.

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.
Check your workspace’s dashboard Plan & usage page at any time for this month’s usage, whether you’re over either allowance, and the computed charge so far — in both USD and NGN. NGN overage/extra-clinic rates render as their own real numbers once set; if either hasn’t been priced yet in NGN, that figure shows as ”—”, never a converted USD number.

When a call IS refused for usage reasons

Only a contracted Enterprise plan with a hard cap refuses a call outright for usage:
Connecting a clinic beyond a hard-capped contract’s included amount is refused the same way, before the connection is even created:
Essential never returns either of these codes for usage — it always bills instead. See Errors for the full error shape.