Plans and Limits

AIVAX has three account plans: Free, Pro, and Max. The current plan is stored on the account and controls model access, commissions, rate limits, RAG quotas, tool limits, storage quota, conversation retention, and subscription-model reserve windows.

For commercial subscription prices and plan packaging, use the AIVAX pricing page. This page documents the technical limits of the API.

How limits are enforced

Limits are enforced at different layers:

• Authentication rejects missing, expired, or unknown API keys.
• Public API keys are restricted to public routes and have key-level and per-IP request and token limits.
• Balance middleware rejects billable requests when the account balance is below the required minimum.
• Storage middleware rejects requests when account storage exceeds the plan quota.
• Inference checks model access, request rate, input-token rate, BYOK rate, and Free-plan context size.
• RAG checks collection count, search rate, insertion rate, and JSONL import size.
• Built-in tools check daily service limits.
• Batch processing checks how many workflow items can be processed per day.

Reference:

Plan limits

An em dash (—) means the plan does not impose a limit. Model, gateway, provider, or endpoint-specific limits may still apply.

Feature	Free	Pro	Max
Inference
Model access	Low-price/basic models	Advanced models	All models
Inference commission multiplier	1.25x	1.05x	1.00x
Integrated model requests	20/min and 500/day	200/min	—
Integrated model input tokens	1,000,000/min	20,000,000/min	—
BYOK requests	30/min	200/min	—
Maximum context	65,536 input tokens	—	—
Subscription model reserve	Not included	250 units/6h and 3,000 units/week	1,000 units/6h and 15,000 units/week
Standalone text-to-speech and audio-transcription requests	3/min and 15/hour	30/min	300/min
RAG and collections
Collections	5	—	—
Semantic searches	20/min	500/min	3,000/min
Text-classification documents	30/min and 300/day	1,000/min	10,000/min
Text-segmentation documents	10/min and 100/day	300/min	2,500/min
Reranking searches	30/min	1,000/min	—
Reflex processing time	30 minutes/day	6 hours/day	—
Document insertions	500/day	10,000/day	—
JSONL documents per import request	1,000	10,000	1,000,000
Compound file processing	Not available	3 files/day	10 files/day
Built-in tools
Web search	15/day	1,000/day	10,000/day
X/Twitter search	Not available	1,000/day	10,000/day
Advanced web search	Not available	100/day	1,000/day
Document and web page generation	5/day	1,000/day	50,000/day
Image generation and editing	5/day	500/day	5,000/day
General service actions	30/day	5,000/day	100,000/day
Bash commands	30/hour	1,500/hour	10,000/hour
Batch processing
Workflow items processed	500/day	100,000/day	—
Files per import request	1,000	1,000	1,000
Total import size	100 MiB/request	100 MiB/request	100 MiB/request
Single imported file size	10 MiB	10 MiB	10 MiB
Account and support
Storage quota	30 MB	2 GB	20 GB
Cost per excess GB	—	$0.50/GB/month	$0.20/GB/month
Conversation retention	2 hours	2 days	30 days
Support level	Email	Priority	Dedicated

Integrated model requests are limited by both request count and input tokens. Model rate-limit groups adjust the request-count thresholds:

Rate-limit group	Threshold multiplier
Common	1.0x
Discounted	0.5x
Low	0.3x
Free	0.1x

For example, a Pro account normally has 200 integrated-model requests per minute. With a Discounted model group, the adjusted threshold is 100 requests per minute.

BYOK uses a provider key configured on the gateway instead of an integrated AIVAX model, but requests still pass through AIVAX infrastructure and use the plan's BYOK limit.

Text-classification and text-segmentation quotas each count every item in the request's documents array, not each HTTP request. A request that would exceed any active window returns 429 Too Many Requests. Text classification uses the default embedding model and is billed for the embedding work performed.

Standalone text-to-speech and audio transcription share the same plan request quota. Voice Sessions use the selected realtime model and are subject to applicable model access, balance, and inference limits instead of this standalone request quota. Input transcription is not currently supported inside Voice Sessions.

The JSONL import endpoint rejects a request when it reaches the plan's per-request document limit. The reranking limit applies to the autonomous reranking endpoint and to RAG searches that use a reranker, including searches performed through AI Gateways and MCP tools.

The Reflex limit counts the time spent processing Reflex requests. It applies to the autonomous reranking endpoint and RAG searches that use Reflex; cached input does not consume the quota separately. Requests that exceed the plan limit return 429 Too Many Requests. See Reflex for request limits, cache behavior, and pricing.

General service actions share the service-action quota shown above. Batch processing is asynchronous; if processing is paused or fails because of quota, retry after the quota window resets or upgrade the account.

Public API keys

Public keys have additional limits independent of the account plan.

Scope	Request limits
Per remote address	3/5s, 20/min, 300/hour, 1,000/day
Global per key	10/5s, 60/min, 1,500/hour, 10,000/day

Scope	Token limits
Per remote address	100,000/5min, 500,000/30min, 2,000,000/6h, 5,000,000/day
Global per key	500,000/5min, 2,000,000/30min, 10,000,000/6h, 25,000,000/day

Public keys can be used for RAG semantic search, RAG answer generation, speech generation, media descriptions, image generation, and chat completions. For chat completions, public keys also require a full AI Gateway UUID, restrict request parameters, and omit server-side tool surfaces. See Authentication.