Free Tier Terms

1. What the free tier is

IteraCompute offers selected models with free capacity (for example Qwen3.8-27B with 128K free context) so developers can build without a credit card. Free capacity is listed on the Free Models page and is subject to these Free Tier Terms together with our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.

2. Fair use and rate limits

• Qwen3.8-27B uses account-wide monthly allowances and TPM: Free offers 30M tokens/month, 160,000 TPM and 128K context; cumulative net recharge of $10 unlocks Starter with 100M, 300,000 TPM and 128K, and $50 unlocks Pro with 300M, 600,000 TPM and 256K. There is no daily token quota or additional free-tier RPM limit.
• All API keys share input and output usage, including reasoning. Context includes input and requested maximum output. Allowances reset at 00:00 UTC on the first of each month and do not roll over. Requests reserve their maximum usage, then settle actual usage; requests exceeding remaining allowances are rejected without automatic paid overage.
• Free accounts may queue during busy periods. Recharge tiers receive priority with waiting time considered. Capacity is shared and best-effort; queue length and waiting time are bounded, and full or timed-out queues return HTTP 429 with Retry-After. Infrastructure failures may return HTTP 503.
• Recharge thresholds use completed USD principal less refunds, excluding fees and promotional grants. Recharge remains spendable API balance. Spending does not lower the tier; refunds may change it. Upgrades retain usage already consumed this month.
• No uptime SLA: free capacity carries no uptime, latency or support-response commitment. Production workloads should use serverless paid usage where offered, or reserved / dedicated capacity.

3. Abuse and multi-account limits

• Abuse may lead to suspension: bulk registration, automated farming, quota resale, scraping, or other behavior that degrades shared capacity may result in rate-limit reduction, key revocation, account suspension or termination.
• Multiple-account limit circumvention prohibited: creating or coordinating multiple accounts, keys or devices to evade per-account or per-key limits is prohibited and treated as abuse.
• One natural person or entity is expected to operate within its published free quota; contact us if you need higher evaluation capacity.

4. Availability changes and paid overflow

Models, context limits and free quotas may be added, reduced or discontinued as capacity and upstream licensing allow. Paid overflow pricing for free models, where offered, will be published on the pricing page; until then, usage beyond free capacity may be throttled or rejected rather than billed.

5. Relationship to other terms

In case of conflict between these Free Tier Terms and the general Terms of Service for free capacity, these Free Tier Terms prevail for free capacity. Enterprise agreements prevail for the reserved or dedicated services they cover.