Limits and costs

Without signing in

Anyone can ask the Spotfinder, even without an account. Because no account carries these questions, they have daily limits of their own: per visitor, per internet connection and for all visitors together. The chat shows what is left of the day. Whoever wants to ask more signs in – and then finds their conversations again too.

With an account

Signed-in people have a daily budget of tokens and requests, graded by account level. Once it is used up, the question is refused at the door – not after the lookup and the model have been paid for. An answer still being written ends when the budget is reached while it is written, and says so.

Per minute and at once

A per-minute rate limit keeps a script from setting off many answers in a short time, and one person can only have a few answers running at the same time.

The tenant

Above that are the tenant’s ceilings per day and month. They apply to all its agents and accounts together and are checked before every answer and before every further tool round.

Per answer

Every answer has a maximum length and a maximum number of tool rounds. The tools return compact, rounded results, because every character is read and paid for again in the next round.

Traceable

Every round, every lookup and every tool call is booked and logged – with model, tokens and cost. So every answer can be traced and every limit adjusted in operation, without shipping new software.