> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.beatapi.io/faq/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.beatapi.io/_mcp/server.

# FAQ

> Answers to the questions that come up most often when connecting to BeatAPI, managing an account, and controlling spend.

# FAQ

#### [Connection and usage](/faq/connection-usage)

Base URLs, authentication failures, timeouts, and requests that return 404.

#### [Account and billing](/faq/account-billing)

Balance, credits, refunds, usage figures, and rate-limit tiers.

#### [API keys and security](/faq/keys-security)

Creating, scoping, rotating, and revoking keys.

#### [Models and capabilities](/faq/models-capabilities)

What is served, which formats work, and how BeatAPI differs from a chat product.

#### [Cost optimization](/faq/cost-optimization)

Where the money actually goes and which levers move it.

## Quick links

#### [Quick Guide](/quick-guide)

First key, first task, first result.

#### [Development Guide](/development)

Polling, webhooks, retries, and error handling.

#### [Integrations](/integrations)

Point an existing tool at BeatAPI.

#### [Pricing](https://beatapi.io/pricing)

Current rates for every model.

## Still stuck

Open a support ticket from the [dashboard](https://beatapi.io/dashboard). Include the `request_id` from the failing response — every BeatAPI error carries one, and it identifies the exact call in the logs. Without it, a report is a description; with it, it is a lookup.

> Answers to the questions that come up most often when connecting to BeatAPI, managing an account, and controlling spend.

## Docs

- [Connection and usage](https://docs.beatapi.io/faq/connection-usage.md): Diagnosing base URLs, authentication failures, 404s, timeouts, and requests that never reach BeatAPI.
- [Account and billing](https://docs.beatapi.io/faq/account-billing.md): Balance, credits, refunds, usage reporting, and how the request-rate allowance grows.
- [API keys and security](https://docs.beatapi.io/faq/keys-security.md): Creating, scoping, rotating, and revoking BeatAPI keys, and where a key must never go.
- [Models and capabilities](https://docs.beatapi.io/faq/models-capabilities.md): Which models BeatAPI serves, which request formats work, what is deliberately not served, and why API output differs from a chat product.
- [Cost optimization](https://docs.beatapi.io/faq/cost-optimization.md): Where the money actually goes on a BeatAPI account and which levers move it, in order of effect.