Question 1

How is the pricing structured?

Accepted Answer

Everything is billed in one unit: credits. A basic API call costs 10 credits, compute-heavy calls 20–30, and composed reports 30–8,000. Every paid plan is usage-based: a fixed monthly credit quota at a published price, plus a transparent per-credit overage rate if you go beyond. Higher tiers include more credits at a cheaper per-credit rate. There is no "unlimited" plan because we don't hide caps behind fair-use policies. You always know what you'll pay.

Question 2

How does your pricing compare to other astrology APIs?

Accepted Answer

Compare what one call costs, not the headline credit count. At the market leader's published rates, a birth chart costs 50 credits in English and 100 in Hindi or other regional languages, a daily horoscope 250, and Western charts 500-800 — so ₹999 buys roughly 1,000-2,000 charts. Here a birth chart is 10 credits in every language, so the same ₹999 (1,25,000 credits) buys ~12,500 chart calls. We never charge a language surcharge, never gate endpoints behind higher tiers, and the price on the page is the price — no strikethrough anchors.

Question 3

How is accuracy guaranteed?

Accepted Answer

Every calculation is backed by a research-grade ephemeris engine and validated against frozen Python golden tests plus real-world sample kundlis. Planetary longitudes are accurate to 1e-9°, tithi/yoga/karana transitions to one second.

Question 4

Do I get all features on every paid plan?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every paid plan — including the cheapest Pro at ₹999 — includes all 311 endpoints (full Vedic with Lal Kitab, Numerology, Small Panoti + Western with Hellenistic Lots, Cosmobiology midpoints, astrocartography, asteroids, 23 house systems), 12 composed JSON report endpoints (Brihad Kundli, Match Making, Sade Sati, Dasha Analysis and 8 more), the 310-tool MCP server for Claude Desktop / Cursor / Codex CLI, our full authored narrative corpus, all 10+ languages, webhooks, and the 99.5% uptime SLA. Plans differ only on call volume, rate limit, and support response time. PDF rendering of the same report data is done client-side by our open-source SDKs (Node.js, Flutter, React Native).

Question 5

What is the MCP server and do I need to pay extra for it?

Accepted Answer

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) server is a small Go binary that adds 310 Vedic + Western astrology tools to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue.dev, Codex CLI, and any MCP-aware AI assistant. Your AI calls panchang, kundli, dasha, match-making, muhurta, eclipses, synastry, progressions and more directly from natural-language prompts — no code, no curl. It runs on your laptop, uses your existing dv_live_… key, and every tool call counts as a normal API call (no MCP surcharge, no extra AI key needed). Free to install from Homebrew, GitHub Releases, or `go install`. Source is open on github.com/ayanshulife/lifeastroapi-mcp (MIT). See /mcp for the full setup guide.

Question 6

What is Brihad Kundli and is it different from the Detailed Kundli?

Accepted Answer

Brihad Kundli (8,000 credits) is our flagship comprehensive report endpoint — returns structured JSON covering planets, houses, divisional charts (D9 Navamsa + D10 Dashamsa), 50+ classical yogas with citations, composite doshas (Mangal / Kaal Sarp / Pitra), Vimshottari dasha, predictions across 6 life areas (career / marriage / wealth / health / education / family), and remedies. The Detailed Kundli (4,000 credits) returns a leaner JSON shape with planet placements, lagna interpretation, and per-planet narratives but without the full divisional + yoga + dosha + prediction depth. Both endpoints return JSON ready for your own templating; our open-source SDKs (Node.js / Flutter / React Native) render branded PDFs from that JSON client-side.

Question 7

Are languages charged separately?

Accepted Answer

No. Every available language is included in every paid plan. We charge for compute volume, not for content you can already build. Available: English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam — 10 languages, all authored (not auto-translated). Roadmap: Sanskrit. New languages roll out to all paid plans automatically as authoring completes.

Question 8

What counts as one request?

Accepted Answer

Every API call is one request. Most endpoints cost 10 credits. Compute-heavy endpoints like Shadbala/Bhavabala cost 30 credits, Ashtakavarga and Vimshottari Dasha cost 20. Meta and health endpoints are free. Composed report endpoints (Brihad Kundli, Match Making, etc.) cost 30 to 8,000 credits depending on report depth — see the per-endpoint cost table.

Question 9

What happens if I go over my monthly quota?

Accepted Answer

Nothing breaks. Usage beyond your plan's monthly credit quota draws from your prepaid wallet balance at your plan's per-credit overage rate (Pro ₹0.007, Growth ₹0.006, Business ₹0.005, Scale ₹0.004 per credit). Top up your wallet at any time; email alerts fire at 80%, 100%, and 120% of quota so there are no surprises.

Question 10

Does unused quota roll over to next month?

Accepted Answer

No. Monthly quota resets at the start of each billing cycle. Underutilizing? Downgrade. Frequently overshooting? Upgrade — overage rates drop on higher tiers.

Question 11

Pay-as-you-go vs a monthly plan — which should I pick?

Accepted Answer

PAYG is a flat ₹0.012 / credit (about $0.0015) at every volume — no tiers, no monthly fee, no commitment. Monthly plans are cheaper per credit (Scale's overage reaches ₹0.004) and include SLAs + priority support. Rule of thumb: Pro (₹999) pays for itself at about 83,000 credits — roughly 8,000+ basic calls a month. Above that, a plan saves money.

Question 12

How does the free plan work?

Accepted Answer

Every new account gets 1,500 free credits per month, renewable monthly, no card required. Daily cap of 500 credits. Rate limited to 13 requests per minute. All 311 endpoints (including the 12 JSON report endpoints) and the MCP server are available within the cap. The free plan exists only to evaluate the API — for production traffic, pick a paid plan.

Question 13

Can I render PDFs from your report endpoints?

Accepted Answer

Yes — two easy paths. (1) Use our open-source SDKs — Node.js, Flutter, or React Native — each renders fully-branded, customer-ready PDFs client-side from the JSON our report endpoints return, using the native stack of each platform (puppeteer, dart-pdf widgets, expo-print); no extra service or fee. (2) Or render PDFs yourself in any backend/tooling that fits your stack (Puppeteer, wkhtmltopdf, ReportLab, browser print) — you own the design, fonts, locale, and branding. Either way the API returns JSON; PDF rendering happens on your side.

Question 14

Does the response format affect pricing?

Accepted Answer

No. Report endpoints always return JSON and charge the same credit cost in every plan. Turning that JSON into a branded PDF happens on your side — either via our free open-source SDKs (Node.js / Flutter / React Native) or your own tooling — so there is no separate PDF fee or per-format surcharge.

Question 15

Which payment methods do you accept?

Accepted Answer

For Indian clients: UPI, NetBanking, Credit/Debit Cards (via Razorpay) — subscriptions auto-renew. For overseas clients: PayPal balance or debit/credit card (via PayPal) — these are one-time payments, so USD plans do not auto-renew; you renew manually to continue. Billing currency is chosen automatically from your account country — enterprise customers can invoice in INR or USD.

Question 16

Can I call the API directly from a mobile or web app?

Accepted Answer

The `dv_live_*` API keys are server-side secrets — do not embed them in mobile apps or public web bundles. Call the API from your own backend, which forwards user-specific parameters. The `dv_test_*` keys are safe for CI and local development only.

Question 17

Is there an SLA?

Accepted Answer

Every paid plan includes a 99.5% uptime SLA. Business and Enterprise upgrade to 99.9% uptime + dedicated support.

Question 18

Can I cancel any time?

Accepted Answer

Indian (INR) subscriptions auto-renew, so you can cancel from your dashboard any time — your plan runs to the end of the current period, then switches to Pay-as-you-go; yearly plans can be canceled with a prorated refund for unused months. International (USD) plans are one-time and do not auto-renew, so there is nothing to cancel — the plan simply ends when its period is over unless you renew it manually.

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