Below you’ll find answers to the most common questions about Peekalink—why you might use it, how it works, what happens if you exceed usage limits, and more.
Building your own link preview system requires significant development time, ongoing maintenance, and a dedicated infrastructure. You’d have to handle website scraping, asset processing, error cases, constant website changes, and scalability issues. Peekalink takes care of all those complexities with a single API call. We’ve spent years optimizing our system to handle thousands of different website structures. By using Peekalink, you save months of development time and avoid the continuous maintenance burden of an in-house solution.
  • First-time previews: Typically 1–5 seconds, which is similar to loading a webpage in your browser.
  • Subsequent previews: Almost instant, thanks to our background updates that automatically refresh and cache the content.
Your plan’s capacity is based on hourly request limits. Assuming continuous usage at 100% capacity, here’s how many monthly requests you can make:
  • Free: 50 requests/hour (36,000/month included)
  • Startup: 500 requests/hour (360,000/month included, $0.0003 per extra request)
  • Growth: 2,000 requests/hour (1,440,000/month included, $0.0002 per extra request)
  • Enterprise: 10,000 requests/hour (7,200,000/month included, $0.0002 per extra request)

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What happens if I exceed my plan’s request limit?

  • If extra requests are enabled, you’ll pay a small fee for each additional request beyond your plan’s limit.
  • If extra requests are disabled, new requests will be temporarily blocked until the next hour begins.
We recommend monitoring your usage through our Dashboard to avoid any interruptions.

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I’m not sure which plan to choose. What should I do?

Start with our Free plan—it costs nothing and provides 50 requests per hour to test the service with your real-world use cases. Monitor your request usage in our dashboard to see if it meets your needs. When you’re ready, upgrade to the plan that best matches your volume. Still unsure about your requirements? Contact us and we’ll analyze your needs to recommend the right plan.

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How reliable is Peekalink?

Peekalink has been in production for over 4 years, serving millions of preview requests for thousands of customers. We maintain 99.9% uptime and process previews around the clock across all time zones. Our infrastructure automatically scales to handle traffic spikes, and we constantly monitor our systems to ensure reliable performance.
Still have questions?
If you don’t see your question here, feel free to reach out through one of our Support channels or join our Discord community. We’re here to help!