- Free allowance
- A trial (evaluation) key is free but limited in usage: 'Trial keys (and prod keys on newer Chat model variants) are limited to 1,000 API calls a month.' Chat is 20 req / min per model on a trial key.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate1,000 calls a month binds at any real volume: at 20 rpm the whole month's allowance is spent in 50 minutes of traffic, so the limit rewards one call carrying many items over many calls carrying one.
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | A trial (evaluation) key is free but limited in usage: 'Trial keys (and prod keys on newer Chat model variants) are limited to 1,000 API calls a month.' Chat is 20 req / min per model on a trial key. Embed runs at 2,000 inputs / min on a trial key, the same as production, and Rerank at 10 req / min. The other trial limits are Audio Transcriptions 5 req / min, Embed (Images) 5 inputs / min, EmbedJob 5 req / min, Tokenize 100 req / min and Parse 500 req / min; anything not listed defaults to 500 req / min. The page does not say whether the 1,000 calls are counted per key or across the account. unit requests; metered on wall-clock; recurring-monthly-request-allowance |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 1,000 calls a month binds at any real volume: at 20 rpm the whole month's allowance is spent in 50 minutes of traffic, so the limit rewards one call carrying many items over many calls carrying one. source
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| Identity | email an account created on the sign-up page, which offers Continue with Google, Continue with Github, or an Email and Password; no phone or card field appears on that page. unverified: any step after sign-up |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | the asymmetry is the useful part: Embed on a trial key is 2,000 inputs a minute against a 1,000-calls-a-month cap, so embedding a corpus in batches of 96 inputs is 1,000 calls for 96,000 chunks, which is the only shape where 1,000 calls is not the binding number. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | unverified: whether one counter is shared by Chat, Embed and Rerank, and whether it counts per key or per account; the first-party pages state only 'limited to 1,000 API calls a month' for trial keys. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- request-rate 1000 calls / month
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