API Credits
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To use our API you have to purchase API credits. Every valid API request consumes at least 1 API credit. If details are enabled for vulnerability requests, every item in a response will consume 1 API credit. CTI API requests will consume individual API credits.
Process New Vulnerability Items
ℹ Recommended: 400 or 600 API Credits
The smallest amount of API credits that can be purchased is 200 API credits per day. Therefore, a maximum of 200 new vulnerability entries can be accessed per day.
At the moment on average more than 100 new vulnerability entries are added to the database on a daily basis. You may find current average data in our statistical overview. On certain days there are much more new entries populated. If these must be requested within the same day, an increase of the API credits is recommended. During Microsoft or Oracle patchdays there are sometimes even more than 400 new entries disclosed per day.
You may take a look at our historical data to see when and how such peaks happen. This helps you to decide what level of API credits is necessary for your use-case. Customers establishing a commercial license tend to purchase 400 or 600 API credits for an ongoing vulnerability management only.
Ingest Vulnerability Updates
ℹ Recommended: +200 API Credits
We usually update approx. 100 to 150 vulnerability entries per day. If you want to ingest them as well, then you might have to purchase another package of 200 API credits.
In this case as well our historical data helps you to understand the update availability and requirements.
Vulnerability Analysis and Research
ℹ Recommended: Enterprise License with 10'000 API Credits
Doing vulnerability analysis and research is highly individual. Therefore, we cannot provide a recommendation for all use-cases. Usually an enterprise license with 10'000 API credits is necessary to deploy the expected amount of flexible Vulnerability API queries.
CTI Data Enrichment
ℹ Recommended: Enterprise License with 10'000 API Credits
The usage of the CTI API demands additional API credits. Simple use-cases to analyze specific items might be possible with an elevated commercial license. But to unfold the true advantage of our unique predictive CTI approach you might have to upgrade to an enterprise license to prevent API credit limitation.
Security Vendors and Reseller
ℹ Recommended: Custom API Endpoint
We provide custom, flexible, and efficient API possibilities for security vendors using our data to enrich their products or members of our Global Reseller Network. Please contact us to discuss your individual use-case.