Some tool calls cost more to run — search APIs, code sandboxes, ML inference. We call those premium tools and price them separately.
What counts as a premium tool?
Search APIs
Composio Search, Perplexity, Exa, SerpAPI
Code execution
Sandboxed runtimes like E2B
Web scraping & data extraction
Crawlers and structured extraction
AI/ML inference
Hosted model calls and embeddings
Document processing & OCR
PDF, image, and document parsing
Compute-intensive operations
Long-running or heavy transforms
Pricing
Premium tools run on paid third-party providers (web search, media generation, browser automation, and similar). Composio passes the provider's price through with a 5% platform fee — there is no markup on top of that. Approximate per-call prices for each provider are listed in the Premium tools section of the pricing page.
- Hobby includes up to $2/month of premium tool usage.
- Pro includes everything in Hobby plus a $29 monthly usage credit, which also covers premium tool calls.
- Prices depend on the provider and can change with advance notice — check the pricing page for current rates.
Rate limits
Premium tools have their own, lower rate limits. These apply to premium tool executions only and are separate from your organization's overall API rate limit — see Rate Limits for that. If you need more, contact us.
| Plan | Premium Tool Calls Rate Limit |
|---|---|
| Hobby | 1,000/hour |
| Pro | 10,000/hour |
| Enterprise | Custom |