Why batch pricing should match single-request pricing
A thousand lookups sent one at a time and a thousand lookups sent as a batch are the same amount of work. The price should not depend on how they were packaged.
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#bulk-requests
Why we count bulk requests per item, not per call
A batch call with a thousand addresses still does a thousand separate lookups. Counting it as one request would just hide where the real usage actually went.
How we count a bulk request: one item, one unit
A single call with a hundred addresses inside it counts as a hundred requests, not one. Here is why we count bulk calls by item instead of by call.