Pricing

afriref sells Pan-African government reference data — every value cited to the official government or central-bank source it came from. Buy prepaid credit with a card, or pay per call. Same data, same API.

Free API key, no card: 100 answer calls a month and unlimited public holidays for every country, on every brand. Get a free key with your email.

Prepaid credit — pay by card

A one-time purchase. You receive an API key with prepaid credit, usable immediately. Each call costs the same US-dollar price as over x402. There is no subscription and no recurring charge — when the credit runs out, buy another pack if you want more.

One key, all seven regional services: credit bought here also works on euroref.dev, asiaref.dev, latamref.dev, usaref.dev, mearef.dev and ausref.dev — same key, same balance.

How the two payment rails charge: both rails charge the same US-dollar price per call. By card, prepaid credit is worth $0.005 per credit on the $10, $25 and $100 packs and each successful call debits its endpoint price in credits (a $0.005 call is 1 credit, an alert delivery after the free trial is 20, a $0.25 certified extract is 50); over x402, every call pays the price quoted in its own 402 challenge, $0.005 to $0.25 depending on the endpoint (listed on the pricing page). Failed or refused calls are not charged on either rail. Keys bought before 12 October 2026 keep their original one-credit-per-call terms.

Credit does not expire. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any sales tax or VAT, which is calculated at checkout based on your location. For an invoice, volume pricing or a purchase order, write to [email protected].

Volume & enterprise — invoiced

Higher volumes are billed by invoice or purchase order rather than card, and priced below the standard rate. Published rates, not "contact us for a quote":

Invoiced annually or on purchase order, payable by card or bank transfer. Enterprise includes a named support contact and advance notice of breaking API changes. Volumes above 1,000,000 calls are quoted on request and will not exceed $0.0025 per call. Write to [email protected].

Per-call pricing for automated clients

Machine clients that prefer to settle each request individually, rather than hold a balance, can do so without an account or an API key. Per-call rates are listed below; see the developer documentation for how to authorise a request.

These are the rates the x402 payment challenge actually quotes, settled in USDC on Base. How the two payment rails charge: both rails charge the same US-dollar price per call. By card, prepaid credit is worth $0.005 per credit on the $10, $25 and $100 packs and each successful call debits its endpoint price in credits (a $0.005 call is 1 credit, an alert delivery after the free trial is 20, a $0.25 certified extract is 50); over x402, every call pays the price quoted in its own 402 challenge, $0.005 to $0.25 depending on the endpoint (listed on the pricing page). Failed or refused calls are not charged on either rail. Keys bought before 12 October 2026 keep their original one-credit-per-call terms.

Change feed — free. GET /v1/changes. What moved, and how recently we re-verified every series. Poll this after you have paid once.

Re-verification calendar — free. GET /v1/calendar. reverify_by is derived from last_confirmed + update_cycle_days (the same window that sets stale). next_effective_known appears only when the current value already has effective_to; it is that recorded end, not an MPC, budget, or wage-review date. status: unknown omits the date and is still free. We do not parse notes. Past moves stay on GET /v1/changes; push stays on POST /alerts.

Webhook alerts — register free. POST /alerts. HMAC-signed. First 3 deliveries free; after that one prepaid-key call per delivery ($0.10 ladder). Same endpoint watches official documents by sha256. Unknown URLs refused free.

Answer receipts — included when requested. On a paid answer POST (wage-check, VAT, working-days, settlement-date, income-tax, statutory-interest, payroll), set receipt: true. Statutory interest is included: the signed answer_receipt rides on that $0.05 answer with no extra charge. The paid HTTP 200 then includes an Ed25519-signed answer_receipt, verified at /certified/public-key. No extra charge beyond that answer's listed price. This is not the series certified extract (GET /v1/certified/{country}/{series} at $0.25).

What you are buying

Statutory reference data for the countries afriref covers — central-bank policy rates, VAT and sales-tax rates, statutory minimum wages, income-tax brackets and public holidays — plus computed answers built on it: business-day and settlement-date calculations, VAT breakdowns, income-tax workings, simple statutory interest at the cited series rate (Actual/365), gross-to-net payroll (NG and KE only).

Delivery is instant and entirely digital. Data is monitored against its official source and flagged stale: true when it passes its expected update cycle. See our refund policy before purchasing.

Not what you were looking for?

If the packs above do not fit — you need a different set of countries, a bulk extract, a licence for redistribution, an SLA, or something we do not sell yet — say so here. It goes straight to the person who maintains the data.