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Fair Use Policy

Unlimited* is intended for normal use. It does not mean that one account can send an unlimited amount of model input or avoid all usage safeguards. Writingmate applies a daily fair-use limit so unusually heavy use does not reduce service quality for other users.

Where Unlimited* applies

On current public plans, Unlimited* appears for:

  • Basic-model use on paid plans
  • Pro-model use on the Ultimate plan

Other model categories can have a visible daily allowance. Legacy, promotional, and AppSumo plans can use different allowances or monthly pools. Check Profile Settings → Subscription and the model usage indicator in chat for the terms that apply to your workspace.

Writingmate does not publish a separate numeric limit for usage marked Unlimited*. If the fair-use limit is reached, the product reports a daily message limit instead of showing the internal limit.

What uses the allowance

Writingmate converts text-model usage into counted messages. A counted message is a unit based on the number of tokens processed. A token is a small piece of text that an AI model reads or writes.

Each request includes:

  • your new message
  • relevant chat history
  • attached file content and other context
  • the model's response

One counted message covers up to 16,000 effective tokens. Longer requests use more than one counted message. Cached prompt tokens receive the discount described in Message Limits.

Writingmate chat and text requests made through the OpenAI-compatible API share the applicable model-category allowance.

This counting rule also applies when the plan shows Unlimited*. Normal conversations usually use the fair-use allowance more slowly than requests with large amounts of repeated context.

Why files and Projects use more

A file adds its extracted content to the model's context. Follow-up requests can include that file content again along with the growing chat history. Large documents can therefore make one request count as several messages.

A chat inside a Project receives the Project's available file content as context. If a Project contains many or large files, each request in that Project can process substantially more text than the same request in a chat without those files.

Attaching a file does not automatically end unlimited access. File size, the amount of extracted text, chat history, the model's response, and repeated requests all affect how quickly usage reaches the fair-use limit.

Use the allowance efficiently

  • Attach only the files and sections needed for the task.
  • Keep unrelated files in separate Projects.
  • Use a chat outside a Project when Project files are not needed.
  • Start a new chat when earlier history is no longer useful. This does not reset usage already recorded, but it reduces the context in later requests.
  • Use a Basic model when the task does not require a Pro or Ultimate model.

If you reach the fair-use limit

The chat shows Daily message limit reached for the affected model category. You can:

  • switch to another model category that still has an available allowance
  • wait for the daily allowance to reset at 00:00 UTC
  • move to a plan with a higher applicable allowance, if one is available

Starting a new chat does not restore an allowance that has already been used.

AppSumo plans use monthly message pools with daily pacing limits rather than the current public-plan allowances. See AppSumo Plan Tiers for those rules.

Why this policy exists

AI requests consume shared processing capacity. The fair-use limit allows Writingmate to offer normal use as Unlimited* while protecting service availability from unusually large or repeated workloads.

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