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AI keys, costs and the monthly limit

How to set a monthly AI budget and read task costs.

WooMate AI and Studio run on your own key. You pay the provider for what you use, and WooMate adds nothing on top. Add AI keys explains how to get and save a key. Models and costs covers choosing a model and the cost of a single reply.

AI budget

  1. Open Settings → AI and costs and find AI budget.
  2. Enter a Monthly limit (USD).
  3. Click Save limit.

An empty field means no limit, and zero blocks new calls. Changing the limit doesn't stop a batch that's already running, but further calls need available budget.

When the limit runs out, you'll see: "Your AI cost limit doesn't allow another request. Check costs and reservations in Settings → AI and costs." Raise the limit or wait for the new month.

How to read costs

Above the limit field you'll see This month: and how much of the limit you've used. Cost details shows Cost of whole tasks — last 50: a conversation counts together with all its rounds, and a description, article, post or batch of images counts as one task.

  • The month is counted in UTC, using the model price list stored in WooMate.
  • Text cost comes from token usage. Image cost is an estimate.
  • While a call runs, we reserve the maximum cost of the request, so the reservation can be higher than the final result.
  • A call the provider hasn't confirmed still uses budget.

Call statuses: In progress / reserved, Confirmed, Estimated, Unconfirmed — reservation kept, Rejected, not charged.

The provider's bill is the final settlement.

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