YepAPI fixed a billing bug — and raised selected API prices the same day

YepAPI disclosed and fixed a billing-layer defect on August 22, 2026. Every endpoint using flat-rate pricing had been falling through to a $0.01-per-call default instead of charging the price listed in its documentation. The company says current requests now bill at the documented rate and that it will not rebill historical usage. Separately, YepAPI published a pricing update the same day that raised list prices on nine flat-rate endpoints and on several keyword, competitor, backlink and content volume tiers. For example, Phone Finder moved from $0.05 to $0.10, Email Finder from $0.02 to $0.04 and Domain Overview from $0.04 to $0.08. The correction and the price increase are distinct changes: the first makes billing match the docs, while the second changes what the docs say selected calls should cost.

For affected customers this is more than a cosmetic documentation correction. A workload that had actually been billed $0.01 per call can now jump to a corrected listed rate, and on selected endpoints that listed rate itself also increased on August 22. Builders who inferred production unit economics from historical invoices can therefore see a sharper cost change than the original billing-defect disclosure alone implied. The no-retroactive-charge decision removes historical liability, while request-level cost visibility and explicit pricing tables make future reconciliation easier.

YepAPI says the billing layer ignored each flat-rate endpoint’s configured price and applied the $0.01 default instead. The company describes the defect as affecting every flat-rate endpoint, not a handful of products or customer accounts. Endpoints priced according to rows returned were billed correctly throughout.

YepAPI also changed documented prices on August 22. Phone Finder doubled from $0.05 to $0.10; Email Finder, Author Finder and LinkedIn Finder moved from $0.02 to $0.04; Domain Overview moved from $0.04 to $0.08; Backlinks Summary from $0.03 to $0.05; Content Summary from $0.02 to $0.05; and Maps Photo from $0.01 to $0.02. Keyword, competitor and domain-keyword endpoints also moved to a higher base-plus-per-100-results schedule, while backlink and content endpoints adopted a new volume schedule.

From August 22, the documented amount is the charged amount. Because some documented amounts also increased on that date, customers whose traffic centered on affected endpoints may be moving from the historical $0.01 defect rate to a newly higher list price in one step. YepAPI is not applying either change retroactively to earlier usage.

YepAPI added explicit tables to volume-priced endpoint pages showing a base request price plus row-based charges with examples at several result sizes. It also exposes request-level cost in API Logs. Those changes give customers stronger tools to reconcile documentation, usage and billing after both the defect correction and the pricing update.