Subscribe to a paid feed

Your subscriber plan covers the platform and a query budget. Feeds are separate — licensors publish curated knowledge (trending content, AI news, analytics, vertical-specific datasets) and charge a monthly fee on top. This walkthrough covers the end-to-end flow from browsing the marketplace to watching a feed show up in your API results.

Before you start: you need an active subscriber plan (Sign up + pick your plan) and a payment method. Feed subscriptions bill through Stripe — same card system as your plan.

1Open the Marketplace from your dashboard

Free platform feeds appear alongside paid ones — they're labeled "Free" on the card. You don't need to subscribe to those; they're included in every plan.

2Pick a feed and open its detail page

3Read the feed's description and sample entries

Sample entries are real — this is the same shape your API will return once you subscribe. The only thing changing after subscription is that you get the full dataset instead of the preview.

4Click "Subscribe" and review the price

5Complete Stripe Checkout

If checkout fails — declined card, auth required — Stripe surfaces the error and PostGrad keeps you on the marketplace page. The subscription only activates when payment succeeds.

6See the feed in My Feeds

7Query the feed from the API

Each feed has a unique slug you pass in as the feed parameter. You'll find it on the feed detail page under "API details" or by listing your active feeds with GET /v1/feeds.

What's next

Feed subscribed and showing up in API responses. From here:

• Make the calls — Make your first API call has the exact query syntax for filtering by feed.
• Understand what you're getting — Understand the three search modes explains how keyword, semantic, and hybrid behave differently on the same feed.
• Cancel or pause — Cancel a feed or your subscription covers how to end a feed without closing your account.