An export always covers every matching row

This is the single most expensive thing to misunderstand, so it gets its own article.

An export takes every row your search and filters match. There is no way to export "just these ten".

The export panel says so in a sentence before you confirm — "Every one of the 24,564 rows matching this search and filter set." That number is the whole match set across every page, not the rows you can see.

Which means the count is the price

The figure above the results table, and the same figure in the filters panel, is what the export will bill in credits. One row, one credit, minus anything you already exported inside the last 30 days. So the sequence that keeps you out of trouble is:

1. Narrow first. Types, location, then filters — all of it free.
2. Read the count. Get it to a number you are happy to pay for.
3. Then press Export, and check the number in the panel matches the count you just approved.

Why there is no row picker

A per-row selection sounds useful and is a trap in practice: it silently detaches what you are buying from what you searched for, and every mistake is invisible until the file arrives. Making the export equal the search means there is exactly one number to check, and it is on screen the whole time you are refining.

It also makes re-running safe. Because a business is billed once per rolling 30 days, an export that overlaps one you already ran costs only the genuinely new rows — how credits work.

How to export less

Narrow the search, not the selection. The three levers, roughly in order of how much they move the number:

• Has email or Has phone — usually the biggest single cut, and it removes exactly the rows you would not have contacted.
• A tighter location. One city rather than the division above it.
• Fewer types in the search.
• Minimum reviews — a decent proxy for "still trading".

If the number is bigger than your balance

The panel shows Balance after export, and if that would go negative it says so and blocks the export rather than billing you into a hole. Nothing is charged. Narrow the search or move up a plan — upgrades are prorated to the day and the new allowance is available as soon as payment clears.

Over the API

Same rule, stated the same way: an export request carries the query, not a list of rows, and the response tells you the estimated row count and the credits reserved before any file is written. See creating exports over the API.