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The API is free for general use. This page is the exact definition, so nobody has to guess.

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Free general use

Only certificates generated in live mode (that is, with a prod_ API key) count: reads, status polls, downloads, and everything in test mode are free. The figure is the same one your console shows each cycle. Shipping bill extraction is metered separately, and unlike filing it is split by mode: into two budgets that do not draw on each other. A prod_ key spends the 250; a dev_ key spends its own 50. So integrating never costs you live volume. Test extraction is capped where test filing is not, and the reason is worth stating: a sandbox filing produces no real certificate, so it is worthless and free. A sandbox extraction returns byte-identical, production-usable JSON (there is no degraded sandbox version of a parsed bill), so an uncapped test mode would simply be the product for free. Exporter entities are capped in both modes, and the test ceiling is a flat 10 on every plan. It is not a paywall, since test exporters are never billed, but an abuse guard: an integration needing more than ten test exporters has stopped testing shape and started running a roster. Live is where the roster grows: paid plans raise the live ceiling well past ten. Per-endpoint rate limits apply to every account, free or contracted. They protect the service and are not a pricing lever.
Crossing an allowance does stop the work that draws on it. A live filing past the monthly certificate cap returns 402 with monthly_certificate_limit_reached, an extraction past its ceiling returns 402, and onboarding past the exporter ceiling returns 402 exporter_limit_reached (or sandbox_extraction_limit_reached on a dev_ key). The certificate and exporter refusals carry the figure you hit and what you have used; the extraction refusal names the figure it hit. In every case the fix is a plan change rather than a support ticket. Test filing is the exception and is never refused.

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Beyond the free allowance

Plans, what each one includes, and your usage for the month sit together in one place: the console, under Billing. A plan’s volumes are totals, not increments: the figure a plan includes is the monthly cap, full stop, and it replaces the free allowance rather than stacking on it. Every rung’s totals sit well above the free tier, so subscribing is never a step down. Prices are not published here on purpose. They belong next to your actual usage, where the figure that matters is what your volume costs rather than what a table says. You will have seen them before you are ever asked to choose.

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Committed volume and customisation

For a committed annual arrangement, or anything the plans do not cover, email amin@eximfiles.io with:
  1. Expected certificates per month
  2. Number of exporter entities
  3. Anything custom you need
You get a quote back, and production continues uninterrupted while you talk.

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The eBRC exporter app

The eBRC exporter app at ebrc.in is a separate product, for an exporter filing certificates against their own IEC. It is free at any volume, with no certificate limit, no paid tier for exporters and no card at sign-up. Nothing on this page applies to it: the allowances above are the eBRC API’s, and the two products have separate accounts.

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The fine print

Allowances are published limits under the API Terms and may evolve prospectively with notice.