3rd-Party Providers, Waterfall Usage & Your Metered Balance

Enrich Engine’s free in-house tools cover a lot of your finder and validation needs. For the rest, we tap best-in-class providers—only when your recipe calls for them and only when they succeed. This article explains who those providers are, how waterfall logic saves you money, and how the metered balance keeps every penny transparent.

1. Provider Directory

2. Enrichment Catalog & Pricing

* Prices shown are what you pay per successful task. We pass each provider’s fee through with a modest markup to cover gateway and processing.

3. How Waterfall Logic Saves You Money

Email Finder Waterfall

1. LeadEngine (Free) tries first.

2. If nothing found, we try the next finder on your list.

3. The first finder that returns a valid address wins; later finders do not run, so you pay only once.

Email Validation Waterfall

• We validate every new address with our free validator (if selected).

• Only addresses marked invalid flow to paid validators or catch-all scorers—again, charged solely when they run.

Research & Cleaner Waterfalls

• Similar logic applies: paid scrapers, LinkedIn lookups, or AI clean-ups trigger only if earlier (free) steps can’t deliver.

• Each step bills either one plan credit (if internal) or a cash charge from your metered balance (if external).

4. Metered Balance—Real Cash, Real Clarity

Example:

• LeadEngine validates 1,000 emails → $0

• LeadMagic validates 100 invalid emails → $0.10

• ZeroBounce validates 50 invalids → 30 × $0.009 = $0.45

• LeadEngine finds 400 emails → $0

• LeadMagic finds 200 emails LeadEngine couldn’t → $4

• FindyMail finds 100 emails LeadMagic couldn’t → $3

• LeadMagic LinkedIn Profile scrape 200 profiles → $4

• Firecrawl scraped 1000 web pages → $2

• AI First & Last Name clean ran on 1000 leads → $0.50

• AI Job Title clean ran on 1000 leads → $0.50

• AI Company Name clean ran on 1000 leads → $0.50

Total debit: $15.05 against your metered balance.

Total credits: Only 1,000 LeadEngine credits used.

If you’re using your own API key, you’ll consume credits from your provider, instead of incurring charges via the Metered Balance.

5. Bring Your Own API Keys (Optional)

High-volume user? Plug in your own credentials for any supported provider. We’ll route calls through your account—zero markup, zero metered balance impact. Switch on or off per recipe with a single toggle.

6. Key Takeaways

1. Pay only for what sticks. Free first, paid only on success.

2. Waterfall logic protects your budget across finders, validators, and scrapers.

3. Metered balance shows real-time, dollar-denominated spend—no opaque “credits.”

4. Your API keys, your call. Seamlessly swap to your own provider contracts when it makes sense.

Still have questions? Pop into in-app chat or email support@leadengine.ai and we’ll walk you through the best money-saving setup for your workflow.