Manage and Monitor Censys Credits

You can monitor your personal and organizational credit usage on the Credit Management page.

To access the page for your account or organization, hover your cursor over the organization icon in the left side navigation panel. Select your account or organization, then click the credits section to go to the Credit Management page.

All users who belong to an organization will see:

• Organization Usage: Displays consumption and credit information for the organization.
• My Usage: Displays consumption and credit information for the current user.
• Credit Balance: Remaining credits for your account or organization.

Organization admins can see the fields above and the option to download a credit usage log.

Consumption details

On both the Organization Usage and My Usage tabs, the Credit Usage visualization can be filtered to show the different time frames and toggle between a heat map and line plot.

The Consumption box shows the breakdown of credit consumption over the past 30 days. This information is aggregated by entity lookups, Standard Queries, and Advanced Queries.

The Usage by Interface graph shows the breakdown of credit consumption based on whether the credits were used via the UI or API.

The Credit Usage by User table shows your organization's credit consumption broken down by user.

Credit Balance

Your available credit balance is displayed in this section, including daily average consumption and projected usage.

Purchase credits

Follow the instructions below to purchase credits. Core and Enterprise customers must contact their account manager to purchase credits.

1. If you are a Free user, go to My Account > Personal Setings > Plan.
2. Click Buy Credits.
3. Select the appropriate amount of credits.
4. Enter your payment information and accept the Terms and Conditions.

To purchase additional credits, go to My Account > Organization Settings > Billing and select the Buy Credits button.

To update your payment method, go toMy Account > Organization Settings > Billing > Payment Method and select Change Payment Method. The updated payment method will be in effect for all future purchases.

Auto-replenish credits

Censys Starter users can configure their credits to automatically replenish when their credit balance reaches a specific amount.

To enable auto-replenish:

1. Go to My Account > Organization Settings > Billing > Auto-Replenish Settings.
2. In the Status section, click Edit.
3. Click the toggle to enable auto-replenish.
4. Select the credit amount that auto-replenish will trigger at and then select the amount of credits to automatically purchase. You can configure auto-replenish to trigger when your credit balance hits 100, 500, or 1,000 credits.
5. Click Save. When your credit balance hits your defined threshold, your saved payment method will be charged for the credit amount you selected.