Why did my Crustdata credit use jump when I ran the same lookups?
The Crustdata help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: Search is charged by the number of results that come back, so a search that matches more companies or people uses more credits.
What causes it?
Search is charged by the number of results that come back, so a search that matches more companies or people uses more credits.
In the Crustdata help:
Search is billed per result returned.
Pricing, read 2026-11-12.Asking for contact details or using live workflows can raise what each record costs.
In the Crustdata help:
Contact data, developer platform data, and enterprise live workflows can raise per-record cost.
Pricing, read 2026-11-12.Background jobs are charged when they run, not when they are submitted, so credits can drop on a later day than the request.
In the Crustdata help:
Asynchronous work is billed when the job runs, not at submission:
Credits, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Check your credit balance before a large batch of lookups, and again after, to see what the batch used.
In the Crustdata help:
Poll it to monitor usage and confirm you have enough credits before a large batch of requests.
Credits, read 2026-11-12.Read your remaining balance whenever you need to, since a single request shows it at no cost.
In the Crustdata help:
Check your remaining Crustdata API credit balance and recurring credit grant with a single free GET request.
Credits, read 2026-11-12.
How does Crustdata work with Feder?
- Connect Crustdata to Feder and it joins your Interest apps.
- When you connect Crustdata, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Crustdata, one of your Interest apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Crustdata.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did my Crustdata company search return a different number of companies?Crustdata
- Why did Crustdata return fewer people than I expected?Crustdata
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Crustdata help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.