diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
index c178f0c8..ac1ab544 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ export async function scrapeController(
         saveScrapeResultToGCS: process.env.GCS_FIRE_ENGINE_BUCKET_NAME ? true : false,
         unnormalizedSourceURL: preNormalizedBody.url,
         useCache: req.body.__experimental_cache ? true : false,
+        bypassBilling: isDirectToBullMQ,
       },
       origin: req.body.origin,
       startTime,
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ export async function scrapeController(
     }
   }
 
+
   return res.status(200).json({
     success: true,
     data: doc,
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/search.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/search.ts
index 68e426da..6f91aa34 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/search.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/search.ts
@@ -40,24 +40,24 @@ export async function searchAndScrapeSearchResult(
   try {
     const searchResults = await search({
       query,
-      num_results: 5
-  });
+      num_results: 5,
+    });
 
-  const documents = await Promise.all(
-    searchResults.map(result => 
-      scrapeSearchResult(
-        {
-          url: result.url,
-          title: result.title,
-          description: result.description
-        },
-        options,
-        logger,
-        costTracking,
-        flags
-      )
-    )
-  );
+    const documents = await Promise.all(
+      searchResults.map((result) =>
+        scrapeSearchResult(
+          {
+            url: result.url,
+            title: result.title,
+            description: result.description,
+          },
+          options,
+          logger,
+          costTracking,
+          flags,
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
 
     return documents;
   } catch (error) {
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ async function scrapeSearchResult(
     );
 
     const doc: Document = await waitForJob(jobId, options.timeout);
-    
+
     logger.info("Scrape job completed", {
       scrapeId: jobId,
       url: searchResult.url,
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ export async function searchController(
   };
   const startTime = new Date().getTime();
   const costTracking = new CostTracking();
+  const isSearchPreview =
+    process.env.SEARCH_PREVIEW_TOKEN === req.body.__searchPreviewToken;
 
   try {
     req.body = searchRequestSchema.parse(req.body);
@@ -199,7 +201,9 @@ export async function searchController(
     });
 
     if (req.body.ignoreInvalidURLs) {
-      searchResults = searchResults.filter((result) => !isUrlBlocked(result.url, req.acuc?.flags ?? null));
+      searchResults = searchResults.filter(
+        (result) => !isUrlBlocked(result.url, req.acuc?.flags ?? null),
+      );
     }
 
     logger.info("Searching completed", {
@@ -226,12 +230,19 @@ export async function searchController(
     } else {
       logger.info("Scraping search results");
       const scrapePromises = searchResults.map((result) =>
-        scrapeSearchResult(result, {
-          teamId: req.auth.team_id,
-          origin: req.body.origin,
-          timeout: req.body.timeout,
-          scrapeOptions: req.body.scrapeOptions,
-        }, logger, costTracking, req.acuc?.flags ?? null, (req.acuc?.price_credits ?? 0) <= 3000),
+        scrapeSearchResult(
+          result,
+          {
+            teamId: req.auth.team_id,
+            origin: req.body.origin,
+            timeout: req.body.timeout,
+            scrapeOptions: req.body.scrapeOptions,
+          },
+          logger,
+          costTracking,
+          req.acuc?.flags ?? null,
+          (req.acuc?.price_credits ?? 0) <= 3000,
+        ),
       );
 
       const docs = await Promise.all(scrapePromises);
@@ -257,17 +268,23 @@ export async function searchController(
     }
 
     // Bill team once for all successful results
-    billTeam(req.auth.team_id, req.acuc?.sub_id, responseData.data.reduce((a,x) => {
-      if (x.metadata?.numPages !== undefined && x.metadata.numPages > 0) {
-        return a + x.metadata.numPages;
-      } else {
-        return a + 1;
-      }
-    }, 0)).catch((error) => {
-      logger.error(
-        `Failed to bill team ${req.auth.team_id} for ${responseData.data.length} credits: ${error}`,
-      );
-    });
+    if (!isSearchPreview) {
+      billTeam(
+        req.auth.team_id,
+        req.acuc?.sub_id,
+        responseData.data.reduce((a, x) => {
+          if (x.metadata?.numPages !== undefined && x.metadata.numPages > 0) {
+            return a + x.metadata.numPages;
+          } else {
+            return a + 1;
+          }
+        }, 0),
+      ).catch((error) => {
+        logger.error(
+          `Failed to bill team ${req.auth.team_id} for ${responseData.data.length} credits: ${error}`,
+        );
+      });
+    }
 
     const endTime = new Date().getTime();
     const timeTakenInSeconds = (endTime - startTime) / 1000;
@@ -277,22 +294,25 @@ export async function searchController(
       time_taken: timeTakenInSeconds,
     });
 
-    logJob({
-      job_id: jobId,
-      success: true,
-      num_docs: responseData.data.length,
-      docs: responseData.data,
-      time_taken: timeTakenInSeconds,
-      team_id: req.auth.team_id,
-      mode: "search",
-      url: req.body.query,
-      scrapeOptions: req.body.scrapeOptions,
-      origin: req.body.origin,
-      cost_tracking: costTracking,
-    });
+    logJob(
+      {
+        job_id: jobId,
+        success: true,
+        num_docs: responseData.data.length,
+        docs: responseData.data,
+        time_taken: timeTakenInSeconds,
+        team_id: req.auth.team_id,
+        mode: "search",
+        url: req.body.query,
+        scrapeOptions: req.body.scrapeOptions,
+        origin: req.body.origin,
+        cost_tracking: costTracking,
+      },
+      false,
+      isSearchPreview,
+    );
 
     return res.status(200).json(responseData);
-
   } catch (error) {
     if (
       error instanceof Error &&
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts
index 24ad28e1..541ee920 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts
@@ -1169,6 +1169,7 @@ export const searchRequestSchema = z
     origin: z.string().optional().default("api"),
     timeout: z.number().int().positive().finite().safe().default(60000),
     ignoreInvalidURLs: z.boolean().optional().default(false),
+    __searchPreviewToken: z.string().optional(),
     scrapeOptions: baseScrapeOptions
       .extend({
         formats: z
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/scrapeURL/index.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/scrapeURL/index.ts
index 2f926a96..bb4e8ed4 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/scrapeURL/index.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/scrapeURL/index.ts
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ export type InternalOptions = {
   unnormalizedSourceURL?: string;
 
   saveScrapeResultToGCS?: boolean; // Passed along to fire-engine
+  bypassBilling?: boolean;
 };
 
 export type EngineResultsTracker = {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts b/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
index efa6b158..262d4015 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ function cleanOfNull<T>(x: T): T {
   }
 }
 
-export async function logJob(job: FirecrawlJob, force: boolean = false) {
+export async function logJob(job: FirecrawlJob, force: boolean = false, bypassLogging: boolean = false) {
   try {
     const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true";
     if (!useDbAuthentication) {
       return;
     }
+    
 
     // Redact any pages that have an authorization header
     // actually, Don't. we use the db to retrieve results now. this breaks authed crawls - mogery
@@ -70,6 +71,10 @@ export async function logJob(job: FirecrawlJob, force: boolean = false) {
       await saveJobToGCS(job);
     }
 
+    if (bypassLogging) {
+      return;
+    }
+
     if (force) {
       let i = 0,
         done = false;
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts b/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts
index afc93b6a..6d419873 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ async function finishCrawlIfNeeded(job: Job & { id: string }, sc: StoredCrawl) {
         scrapeOptions: sc.scrapeOptions,
         crawlerOptions: sc.crawlerOptions,
         origin: job.data.origin,
-      });
+      }, false, job.data.internalOptions?.bypassBilling ?? false);
       logger.info("Logged crawl!");
 
       const data = {
@@ -371,8 +371,10 @@ async function finishCrawlIfNeeded(job: Job & { id: string }, sc: StoredCrawl) {
           origin: job.data.origin,
         },
         true,
+        job.data.internalOptions?.bypassBilling ?? false,
       );
 
+
       // v1 web hooks, call when done with no data, but with event completed
       if (job.data.v1 && job.data.webhook) {
         callWebhook(
@@ -1048,7 +1050,7 @@ async function processKickoffJob(job: Job & { id: string }, token: string) {
 async function billScrapeJob(job: Job & { id: string }, document: Document, logger: Logger, costTracking?: CostTracking) {
   let creditsToBeBilled: number | null = null;
 
-  if (job.data.is_scrape !== true) {
+  if (job.data.is_scrape !== true && !job.data.internalOptions?.bypassBilling) {
     creditsToBeBilled = await calculateCreditsToBeBilled(job.data.scrapeOptions, document, job.id, costTracking);
 
     if (
@@ -1378,6 +1380,7 @@ async function processJob(job: Job & { id: string }, token: string) {
           credits_billed,
         },
         true,
+        job.data.internalOptions?.bypassBilling ?? false,
       );
 
       if (job.data.webhook && job.data.mode !== "crawl" && job.data.v1) {
@@ -1424,7 +1427,7 @@ async function processJob(job: Job & { id: string }, token: string) {
         cost_tracking: costTracking,
         pdf_num_pages: doc.metadata.numPages,
         credits_billed,
-      });
+      }, false, job.data.internalOptions?.bypassBilling ?? false);
     }
 
     logger.info(`🐂 Job done ${job.id}`);
@@ -1523,6 +1526,7 @@ async function processJob(job: Job & { id: string }, token: string) {
         cost_tracking: costTracking,
       },
       true,
+      job.data.internalOptions?.bypassBilling ?? false,
     );
     return data;
   }