What's New at Autobound Signal API — June 2026

TL;DR: Self-serve billing — buy credits and start querying in 2 minutes. Buyer intent exports — unlimited rows at a flat rate, plus company-level scoring. DX improvements — better errors, instant Explorer value, keyword filtering. Reliability — 99.9%+ uptime, faster responses, zero config drift.

Self-Serve Billing & Credits

Gone are the days of scheduling a demo just to test an API. With self-serve billing powered by Stripe, you can buy credits and start pulling signals in under two minutes. Pick a tier that fits your usage — from $19 for 2,000 credits up to enterprise volumes — and you're live. No sales calls, no contract negotiations, no waiting.

The credit system is built around one principle: you only pay for data you actually get back. Zero-result requests cost nothing. Every endpoint displays its credit cost upfront via GET /v1/credits/costs, so there are never surprises on your bill. Bulk exports follow transparent topic-based pricing — 50 credits base plus 5 per topic, unlimited rows. Your balance carries forward indefinitely; credits never expire.

We designed this for teams that want to move fast. Spin up a workspace, grab credits, hit the endpoints. Scale up when you're ready. The pricing tiers reward volume, but there's no commitment required to get started. Just pick a plan and build.

Buyer Intent: Contact Exports & Company Intelligence

Buyer intent just got a whole lot more accessible. Our new contact export endpoint lets you kick off an async job and pull as many rows as you need — 100 or 10 million — for a flat rate of 50 credits plus 5 per topic. No per-row metering, no surprise bills at scale.

# Start a bulk intent export
curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/buyer-intent/contacts/export \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "topic_ids": ["b2b_5141", "b2b_1150", "b2b_2201"],
    "filters": { "employee_range": "51-200", "country": "US" }
  }'

{
  "export_id": "exp_a8f3c91d",
  "status": "processing",
  "estimated_credits": 65,
  "topics_count": 3
}

Poll GET /v1/buyer-intent/exports/exp_a8f3c91d — when it's ready, you get a signed download URL. Pull 100 rows or 1,000,000 for the same 65 credits.

We're also bringing intent up a level with company-stage scoring. The new companies endpoint surfaces which organizations are surging on your topics right now, complete with a composite score and stage label (awareness → consideration → decision). Pair that with the company timeline endpoint to see exactly how a prospect's intent has trended week over week — ideal for timing outreach or flagging accounts that just entered a buying cycle.

Both contact and company exports share a unified status-polling endpoint, making integration straightforward whether you're syncing to a data warehouse or feeding a real-time orchestration layer. 37,000+ topics. Billions of intent signals. One simple API.

Developer Experience & API Improvements

We've been obsessed with making the Signal API feel like it wants you to succeed. Invalid signal types now return strict, machine-readable error codes instead of cryptic failures. URL normalization gives you explicit feedback so you know exactly how we interpreted your input. Pass an unknown parameter? You'll get a warning — not silence. Every response is designed to teach you what happened and what to do next.

The API Explorer now greets first-time visitors by auto-enriching their own domain instantly. No setup, no configuration, no reading docs first — just immediate signal data on a company you actually care about. Pair that with the new content_filters parameter, and you can do keyword-based filtering across LinkedIn, Reddit, and Twitter signals right from the explorer. When a filter query needs more time, you'll get a smart 408 timeout with hints on how to narrow your search — not a dead end.

Cost transparency rounds it out. GET /v1/credits/costs gives you the full price table — know exactly what each endpoint costs before you call it. No surprises, no "check your invoice next month." The DX gap between "just trying it out" and "running in production" has never been smaller.

Reliability & Performance

99.9%+ uptime throughout May and June, verified by daily automated health checks. Response times are significantly faster across all intent endpoints. Configuration state persists correctly across deploys — no more flags resetting after a rollout. We moved critical pipeline jobs to fully managed infrastructure, eliminating single points of failure. The system just works, and it's faster than it was a month ago.

What's Next

We're not slowing down. Here's what's on deck:

• Company intent GA — full production launch with composite scoring across all 37K topics
• Webhook delivery v2 — real-time signal push to your endpoints, circuit-breaker patterns, HMAC-signed payloads
• New signal types — expanding beyond 35 sources with deeper international coverage

Get Started

If you haven't tried Signal API yet, start here: signalapi.autobound.ai. Sign up, grab your API key, and start pulling signals in minutes — no sales call required.

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Questions, feedback, feature requests — hit us up. We're shipping fast and building what you actually need.