# What is a query? **URL:** \ **Category:** AeroAPI\ **Created:** [August 10, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368 "2013-08-10T20:39:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Prattcmp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Prattcmp](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/Prattcmp)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368/1 "2013-08-10T20:39:28Z")
Say I did a Search function and had the howmany at 10. Would that be considered one query or 10 queries? Also, say I searched all SWA codes, what exactly would it return? ---
**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368/2 "2013-08-10T21:30:21Z")
> [@Prattcmp](#): > > Say I did a Search function and had the howmany at 10. Would that be considered one query or 10 queries? > > Also, say I searched all SWA codes, what exactly would it return? Up to 15 results are considered 1 query; 15 is also the default max result size. If you increase the max result size to 150, and do a query that returns 120 results, you’re billed for 8 queries. It would return 15 SWA flights with the default max result size. ---
**Author:** ![Prattcmp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Prattcmp](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/Prattcmp)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368/3 "2013-08-10T21:52:35Z")
> [@mduell](#): > > > [@Prattcmp](#): > > > > Say I did a Search function and had the howmany at 10. Would that be considered one query or 10 queries? > > > > Also, say I searched all SWA codes, what exactly would it return? > > Up to 15 results are considered 1 query; 15 is also the default max result size. If you increase the max result size to 150, and do a query that returns 120 results, you’re billed for 8 queries. > > It would return 15 SWA flights with the default max result size. Thank you for the response. So, just to clarify, say I did FlightInfo with a max query of 100 every hour for 100 hours (adds up to 10,000), would it cost about $3.06? ---
**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368/4 "2013-08-10T23:51:47Z")
> [@Prattcmp](#): > > Thank you for the response. So, just to clarify, say I did FlightInfo with a max query of 100 every hour for 100 hours (adds up to 10,000), would it cost about $3.06? 100 results = 7 queries Repeat 100 times, you are billed for 700 queries. 700 \* $0.0079 (FlightInfo is a Class 2 query) = $5.52 ---
**Author:** ![Prattcmp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Prattcmp](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/Prattcmp)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368/5 "2013-08-11T00:15:20Z")
Last question, what is the maximum amount of results at a time that you’d recommend? ---
**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/what-is-a-query/14368/6 "2013-08-11T03:16:20Z")
As many as you’d like. Beyond a few thousand gets a bit silly. You may also notice some queries perform slowly with larger numbers of results.